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A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees

By Dave Goulson (University of Southampton)

Atoms, Mechanics, and Probability: Ludwig Boltzmann's Statistico-Mechanical Writings - An Exegesis

By Olivier Darrigol (Research Director, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique: SPHERE)

The Wonderful World of Relativity: A precise guide for the general reader

By Andrew Steane (Department of Physics, University of Oxford)

The Joy of Statistics: A Treasury of Elementary Statistical Tools and their Applications

By Prof Steve Selvin (University of California, Berkeley)

Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Really Know?

By E. Brian Davies (Department of Mathematics, King's college, London)

Stripes: A non-fiction picture book that takes a photographic look at all sort of stripes.: Band 00/Lilac (Collins Big Cat)

By Hughes, Monica, Collins Big Cat, Moon, Cliff

Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939

By Aitor Anduaga (Research Fellow at the Basque Museum of Science and Medicine History, Basque Country, Spain)

Voodoo Science

By Robert Park

Managing Science: Developing your Research, Leadership and Management Skills

By Ken Peach (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford)

Special Relativity: A First Encounter: 100 years since Einstein

By Domenico Giulini (, Department of Physics, University of Freiburg, Germany)

The New Quantum Age: From Bell's Theorem to Quantum Computation and Teleportation

By Andrew Whitaker (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland)

New York Scientific: A Culture of Inquiry, Knowledge, and Learning

By Istvan Hargittai (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Magdolna Hargittai (Research Professor, Research Professor

Celestial Tapestry: The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics

By Nicholas Mee (Director, Virtual Image Publishing Ltd and Quantum Wave Publishing Ltd)

Seven Tales of the Pendulum

By Gregory L. Baker (Bryn Athyn College of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, USA)

The Story of Light

By Ben Bova

Reflections on Kurt Goedel

By Hao Wang

Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project

By Spencer Wells

The Music of the Primes

By Marcus Du Sautoy

Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers

By Dan Rockmore

The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe

By Eric Lerner

The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On

By Julian Havil

Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

By Julian Jaynes

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

By Leonard Susskind

The Quantum Story: A history in 40 moments

By Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)

The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

By Gary Marcus, Jeremy Freeman, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser

Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo

By Birut e Marija Filomena Galdikas

The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead

By Heather Pringle

Scott of the Antarctic: The Definitive Biography

By David Crane

Apollo 11: The Inside Story

By David Whitehouse