Alembic Rare Books
Alembic Rare Books specialises in rare science books, with special expertise in genetics and evolution, natural history, anatomy, microbiology & epidemiology, nuclear physics, atomic weapons, early computing, diversity in science, and popular science. Our Bookshop storefront sells new, non-fiction books in these and other subjects, as well as fiction titles we particularly like.
The Scientific Life: Biographies & Memoirs
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful & Wonderful: Natural History, Biology, & Evolution.
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The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
Adam Nicolson
Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Science, and the Global Quest for Fossils
Paige Williams
Endless Forms Most Beautiful & Wonderful: Natural History, Biology, & Evolution.
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Now I Am Become Death: The Manhattan Project, Nuclear Weapons, & Nuclear Power
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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Philippe Sands
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E Baptist
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
Our Favourite History Books
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
Shomari Wills
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Shelley Emling
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Deirdre Cooper Owens
Diversity in STEM: Race, Gender, and the History of Science
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
Dava Sobel
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers
Emily Levesque
Stargazing: Beginners Guide to Astronomy
Royal Observatory Greenwich, Radmila Topalovic, et al.
The Heavens: Astronomy & Cosmology
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The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Meredith Wadman
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Cordelia Fine
Blood & Guts: Medicine, Anatomy, and Surgery
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Gaia Vince
The Time is Now: Ecology, Environmentalism, & Climate Change
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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800
Henri-Jean Martin and Lucien Febvre
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
Megan Rosenbloom
Books about Books: Book History and Book Collecting
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Literature: Our Favourite Novels, Poems & Essays
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Babbage and Beyond: The History of Computing & Information Technology
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Land & Sky, Waves, Weather, & Ice
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Simon Winchester
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
Neil Shubin
Terrible Lizards: Fossils, Palaentology & Earth's Deep History
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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
Benjamin Wallace
Taste: The History of Eating & Drinking
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Eric Schlosser
Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter
Charlton D. McIlwain
A Reading List for Tech Workers & Scientists
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