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Methods of Analysis and Detection (Cambridge Advanced Sciences)

By McCarthy, Anne

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

By Bill Bryson

The Sea Inside

By Hoare, Philip

Henry Ford: The wayward capitalist

High Tide in Tucson: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

By Barbara Kingsolver

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

By Graham Farmelo

Gauguin - History and Techniques of the Great Masters

By Bolton, Linda

Einstein in Love

By Dennis Overbye

Pihkal

By Alexander T. Shulgin, Ann Shulgin

My Animals and Other Family

By Clare Balding

30-Second Theories: The 50 Most Thought-provoking Theories in Science

By Martin Rees, Paul Parsons, Susan Blackmore

A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

By Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking

Godfrey Hounsfield: Intuitive Genius of CT

By STEPHEN BATES, LIZ BECKMANN, Adrian Thomas

Hilbert-Courant

By Constance Reid

The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation

By Quentin Reynolds

The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb

By James Kunetka

Mechanics and Radioactivity (Nelson Advanced Science)

By Ellse, Mark, Honeywill, Chris, Mark Ellse, Chris Honeywill

Waves and Our Universe

By Mark Ellse, Chris Honeywill

Chance: The science and secrets of luck, randomness and probability (New Scientist)

By New Scientist, Brooks, Michael

The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon

By Brian Clegg

Infinitesimal

By Amir Alexander

What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

By Erwin Schrodinger, Roger Penrose

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

By Brandon R. Brown (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, University of San Francisco)

Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

By Kitty Ferguson

The Third Man of the Double Helix

By Maurice Wilkins

Einstein: the Life and Times

By Ronald W. Clark

The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works

By Roger Highfield

The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century: Nikola Tesla, Forgotten Genius of Electricity

By Lomas, Robert

Edison: A Biography: A Biography

By Josephson

The Florida Life of Thomas Edison

By Michele Wehrwein Albion