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The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome

By Robin Lane Fox

Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math

By Alex Bellos

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, Fromour Brains to Black Holes

By Charles Seife

Einstein

By Jeremy Bernstein

Einstein Lived Here

By Abraham Pais

Einstein: A Life

By Denis Brian

Fred Hoyle: A Life in Science

By Simon Mitton

Albert Einstein: A Biography

By Albrecht Folsing

Einstein: The Passions of a Scientist

By Barry R. Parker

I Am a Mathematician

By Norbert Wiener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth

By Norbert Wiener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The Hot Zone

By Richard Preston

Out of My Later Years: The Scientists, Philosophe, and Man Portrayed through His Own Words

By Albert Einstein

Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By Joel Greenberg

Adventures of a Mathematician

By S. M. Ulam, Daniel Hirsch, William G. Mathews, Francoise Ulam, Jan Mycielski

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

By Richard P. Feynman

The Most Explosive Science Book in the Universe... By the Brainwaves

By Ralph Lazar, Lisa Swerling, Lisa Burke, DK

Breakthrough: Spectacular stories of scientific discovery from the Higgs particle to black holes

By Marcus Chown

Mathematics and Logic: Retrospect and Prospects

By Mark Kac

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

By Rebecca Stott

Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other, ‘Magical and transporting’ Helen Macdonald

By James Aldred

Letters to Camondo: 'Immerses you in another age' Financial Times

By Edmund de Waal

Exploring Science : How Science Works Year 9 Student Book with ActiveBook with CDROM

By Mark Levesley, Penny Johnson, Steve Gray

Schaum's Outline of Essential Computer Mathematics (Schaum's Outlines)

By Lipschutz, Seymour

Gaia - The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine

By Lovelock, James

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

By Leslie Berlin

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By Keefe, Patrick Radden

Discover Science: Solar System

By Mike Goldsmith

Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine

By Antonio Garcia Martinez

Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

By Brenda Maddox