History of Science

The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026“A truly remarkable achievement.” —Jill Lepore“A gorgeous story of hum...

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A Guess at the Riddle: Essays on the Physical Underpinnings of Quantum Mechanics

From the celebrated author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience comes a “provocative” (Nature) an...

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The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics

After Einstein and Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr was the most influential physicist of the 20th century. H...

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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

Winner of the 2015 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology Winner of the 2015 I...

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The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England

Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine… and how not to die in the Renaissance ‘An ente...

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This Is for Everyone: The Inventor of the World Wide Web

A Waterstones, Observer and Financial Times Book of the Year, 2025The instant Sunday Times bestselle...

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Hawking: His Life and Work

When one is faced with the possibility of early death, it makes one realise that life is worth livin...

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The Powerful Primate: How Homo Sapiens Came to Dominate the Planet

Why are humans the most feared predator in the world? Over five million years ago, a group of pr...

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A History of Science in 21 Women

From Ada Lovelace to Florence Nightingale, Rosalind Franklin to Tu Youyou – discover the women who c...

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Alexander von Humboldt: A Concise Biography

In this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeu...

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Crick: A Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain

The first major biography of Francis Crick, by the Baillie-Gifford shortlisted author of The Idea of...

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Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

In Against the Machine, “furiously gifted” (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul K...

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Darwin: A Biography

Janet Browne’s award-winning, two-volume biography of Charles Darwin has been described by many revi...

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The Language of Mathematics: The Stories Behind the Symbols

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Galileo famously wrote that the book of natu...

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The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics

The Story of Proof investigates the evolution of the concept of proof—one of the most significant an...

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