Book Reviews
- Amir D. Aczel: God's Equation
Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
- Amir D. Aczel: The Mystery of the Aleph
Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
- John D. Anderson Jr: Inventing Flight
The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors
- William Brown, Andrew C. Fabian: Darwin
- lectures on Darwin's influence, cultural and scientific
- Janet Browne: Charles Darwin
Voyaging; The Power of Place
- Frederick Burkhardt: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin*
Origins; Evolution
- Helen Bynum: Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis
- the social and medical history of a disease
- Kenneth J. Carpenter: Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B
A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure
- Raymond Corbey, Wil Roebroeks: Studying Human Origins*
Disciplinary History and Epistemology
- Richard Corfield: Lives of the Planets
A Natural History of the Solar System
- Geoff Coyle: The Riches Beneath Our Feet
How Mining Shaped Britain
- Thomas M. Daniel: Pioneers in Medicine and Their Impact on Tuberculosis
- an introduction to the disease, and six lives
- Gavan Daws, Marty Fujita: Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia
From the Nineteenth-Century Discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Fate of Forests and Reefs in the Twenty-First Century
- Adrian Desmond, James Moore: Darwin*
- a narrative biography, in the context of social and scientific change
- Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes: Celestial Encounters
The Origins of Chaos and Stability
- Steven J. Dick: Life on Other Worlds
The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
- Leo Donner, et al.: The Development of Atmospheric General Circulation Models
Complexity, Synthesis and Computation
- Apostolos Doxiadis, Barry Mazur: Circles Disturbed
The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative
- Paul N. Edwards: A Vast Machine**
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
- Larrie D. Ferreiro: Ships and Science
The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800
- Stephen Jay Gould: Ontogeny and Phylogeny**
- the history of recapitulation; developmental timing and evolution
- Stephen Jay Gould: Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
- Hugh Gusterson: Nuclear Rites
A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
- Sandra Hempel: The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump
John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
- George F. Hourani: Arab Seafaring
In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
- Annette Imhausen: Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
A Contextual History
- Ian Johnston: Measured Tones*
The Interplay of Physics and Music
- John Keay: The Great Arc
The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
- Helge Kragh: Higher Speculations
Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
- Edward J. Larson: Trial and Error
The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
- Armand Marie Leroi: The Lagoon*
How Aristotle Invented Science
- Roger Lewin: Bones of Contention*
Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
- Syukuro Manabe, Anthony J. Broccoli: Beyond Global Warming
How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change
- Eli Maor: Music by the Numbers
From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
- Ernst Mayr, William B. Provine: The Evolutionary Synthesis
Perspectives on the Unification of Biology
- Roy McCleod, Philip F. Rehbock: Darwin's Laboratory
Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific
- Benno Müller-Hill: Murderous Science
Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany, 1933-1945
- Michael P. Murphy, Luke A.J. O'Neill: What is Life? The Next Fifty Years
Speculations on the Future of Biology
- Joseph Needham: The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: 3*
- nautical technology and the compass
- Ronald L. Numbers: Darwinism Comes to America
- creationism and religion in the United States
- Patrick O'Brian: Joseph Banks*
- a biography of the botanist, explorer, and natural historian
- Piergiorgio Odifreddi: The Mathematical Century*
The 30 Greatest Problems of the Last 100 Years
- Abraham Pais, et al.: Paul Dirac
The Man and His Work
- Asya Pereltsvaig, Martin W. Lewis: The Indo-European Controversy
Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics
- Clara Pinto-Correia: The Ovary of Eve*
Egg and Sperm and Preformation
- David Quammen: The Song of the Dodo*
Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
- Paul Rabinow: Making PCR
A Story of Biotechnology
- David Reimer: Count Like An Egyptian
A Hands-On Introduction to Ancient Mathematics
- Siobhan Roberts: King of Infinite Space
Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
- Bruce Schechter: My Brain Is Open*
The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös
- Steven Shapin: The Scientific Revolution*
- science in 17th century Europe
- Suzie Sheehy: The Matter of Everything: A History of Discovery
- from Röntgen to the Large Hadron Collider
- Irwin W. Sherman: The Elusive Malaria Vaccine: Miracle or Mirage?
- a century of immunological research
- Ruth Lewin Sime: Lise Meitner*
A Life in Physics
- John Stillwell: Mathematics and Its History*
- core ideas of mathematics, in their historical context
- Alfred Russel Wallace: Infinite Tropics*
An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology
- Gareth Williams: Angel of Death
The Story of Smallpox
- Andrea Wulf: The Invention of Nature
The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
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