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A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems

By Joseph L Graves Jr

Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death

By Adrian Owen

Schroedinger: Life and Thought

By Walter J. Moore

Six Roads from Newton: Great Discoveries in Physics

By Edward Speyer

Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey

By Ralph Leighton

No Ordinary Genius

By Christopher Sykes

The Man Who Knew Infinity

By Robert Kanigel

A Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein

By John Kerr

The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry: How a Mathmatical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

By Mario Livio

Fred Hoyle's Universe

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

The Inventor of Stereo: The life and works of Alan Dower Blumlein

By Robert Alexander

What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

By Adam Becker

A Beautiful Mind: Genius and Schizophrenia in the Life of John Nash

By Sylvia Nasar

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