Science Books from Oxford University Press

Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers

By B. Jack Copeland (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing)

Math Hysteria: Fun and games with mathematics

By Ian Stewart (, Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick)

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (Oxford Landmark Science)

By Dawkins, Richard

Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World

By Nick Lane (Reader in Evolutionary Biochemistry, Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College of London)

Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction: 109 (Very Short Introductions)

By Close, Frank

Statistics: A Very Short Introduction: 196 (Very Short Introductions)

By Hand, David J.

Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking

By Cropper

Cows in the Maze: And other mathematical explorations

By Ian Stewart (Professor of Mathematics, The University of Warwick)

Evolution: A Very Short Introduction

By Brian Charlesworth (Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology at the University of Edinburgh), Deborah Charlesworth (Professor in the ICABP at Edinburgh)

Mathematics For The Curious

By Higgins, Peter M.

Magic Universe: A Grand Tour of Modern Science

By Nigel Calder

Taking Chances: Winning with Probability

By John Haigh (, Reader in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sussex)

The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By Holford-Strevens, Leofranc

Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes

By Kerry Emanuel (Professor, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, Professor, Massachus...

J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science

By Andrew Brown

The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction

By Michael J. Benton (Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology)

Why Evolution is True

By Jerry A. Coyne (Professor of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago)

The Earth: A Very Short Introduction

By Martin Redfern (, Science Producer at the BBC Science Radio Unit)

Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile

By Nettle

Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World

By Dorrik Stow (ECOSSE Chair, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)

Fossils: A Very Short Introduction

By Keith Thomson (Professor and Director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History Museum)

Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction

By Bernard Wood (Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Origins at George Washington University and the Smithsonian Institution in 1997)

The Meme Machine (Popular Science)

By Blackmore, Susan

Personality: What makes you the way you are (Oxford Landmark Science)

By Nettle, Daniel

Math Hysteria: Fun and Games with Mathematics

By Stewart, Ian

THE LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS VSI: PB

By Peter Atkins, Atkins, Peter

The Brain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

By O'Shea, Michael, michael-o-shea

Four Laws That Drive the Universe

By Peter Atkins (Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford and fellow of Lincoln College)

The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition

By Richard Dawkins

Fred Hoyle's Universe

By Jane Gregory (, Lecturer in Science Communication and Science Policy, University College London)