Recommendations from our site
“Science historian Patricia Fara’s powerful book looks at the socio-political ferment around women’s suffrage through a scientific lens. We walk the walk with scores of women in science from the nineteenth century, through the war years and into the early twentieth century, when sexism was pervasive and blatant.” Read more...
The Best Science Books of 2018
Barbara Kiser, Science Writer
“Fara looks at the sometimes forgotten history of women who took up ‘men’s work’ in science and industry during the First World War. It’s a book that I think fills an important gap in our understanding of the history of suffrage.” Read more...
The best books on Scientific Differences between Women and Men
Angela Saini, Science Writer
Our most recommended books
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
by Andrew H Knoll -
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin & James Costa -
The Blind Watchmaker
by Richard Dawkins -
The First Three Minutes
by Steven Weinberg -
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes -
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean
