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Science Through Literature

Learn about science through reading books that bring the subject alive.


General Science
  • From Atoms to Infinity: 88 Great Ideas in Science (John and Mary Gribbin) UK
  • Q is for Quark: a Science Alphabet Book (David Schwarz)

History of Science
  • Inventing the Future: the Scientists Who Changed Our World (John and Mary Gribbin) - also published as Dazzling Discoveries UK
  • Discovering Dinosaurs (Valerie Wilding) - Scholastic Double Take series UK

Inventions

  • I for Invention: Stories and Facts Behind Everyday Inventions (Meredith Hooper) UK
  • Mistakes that Worked: 40 Familiar Inventions and How They Came to Be (Charlotte Foltz Jones) UK
  • Accidents May Happen: 50 Inventions Discovered by Mistake (Charlotte Foltz Jones) UK

Maths
  • Essential Arithmetricks (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
  • Fractions and Averages: the Mean and Vulgar Bits (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
  • The Phantom X (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
  • Numbers, the Key to the Universe (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
  • Codes: How to Make Them and Break Them (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
  • Desperate Measures (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
  • The Fiendish Angletron (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths)
  • Vicious Circles and Other Savage Shapes (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
  • Do You Feel Lucky? The Secrets of Probability (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
  • The Perfect Sausage and Other Fundamental Formulas (Kjartan Poskitt) - Murderous Maths
  • The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat (Theoni Pappas)
  • Further Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat (Theoni Pappas)
  • The Number Devil (Hans Magnus Enzensberger)
  • G is for Googol: a Math Alphabet Book (David Schwarz)

Physics
  • Archimedes and the Door of Science (Jeanne Bendick)Science Through Literature ‎(The Bookworm‎)
  • Adventures with Electricity: Benjamin Franklin's Story (Beverley Birch)
  • Marconi's Battle for Radio (Beverley Birch)
  • The Time and Space of Uncle Albert (Russell Stannard) UK
  • Uncle Albert and the Quantum Quest (Russell Stannard) UK
  • Black Holes and Uncle Albert (Russell Stannard) UK
  • Time Travel for Beginners (John and Mary Gribbin) UK

Astronomy
  • Our Universe (Russell Stannard) UK

Chemistry
  • The Mystery of the Periodic Table (Ben Wiker)
  • The Periodic Table: Elements with Style (Adrian Birch)
  • Marie Curie's Search for Radium (Beverley Birch

Human Body and Medicine

  • Galen and the Gateway to Medicine  (Jeanne Bendick)
  • Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes (Beverley Birch)