Science

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

By Antonio R. Damasio

Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears

The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist

By Mary H. Manhein

Physics in the 20th Century

The First Sex

By Helen Fisher

Intimate Universe: The Human Body

By Anthony Smith

Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life

By Stephen Jay Gould

For the Time Being

By Annie Dillard

The Illustrated Longitude

Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science

The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey

By Roger Highfield

Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens

By Richard Panek

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