SCIENCE / History

Art of the Grimoire

An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells

by Owen Davies

A Lab for All Seasons

The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology

by Sharon E. Kingsland

The Seven Measures of the World

by Piero Martin

Translated by Gregory Conti

In the Herbarium

The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants

by Maura C. Flannery

Psychonauts

Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

by Mike Jay

Invisibility

The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen

by Gregory J. Gbur

Pathologies of Motion

Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

by Kevis Goodman

The American Phage Group

Founders of Molecular Biology

by William C. Summers

A Beautiful Ending

The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World

by John Jeffries Martin

Ancient DNA

The Making of a Celebrity Science

by Elizabeth D Jones

Generations of Reason

A Family’s Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England

by Joan L. Richards

The Science of Abolition

How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress

by Eric Herschthal

Minerva's French Sisters

Women of Science in Enlightenment France

by Nina Rattner Gelbart

Celestial Mirror

The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II

by Barry Perlus

Epidemics and Society

From the Black Death to the Present

The Open Yale Courses Series

by Frank M. Snowden

The Clock Mirage

Our Myth of Measured Time

by Joseph Mazur