Here is a list of science ebooks, updated every week or so. For titles that we have reviewed, links are provided. (Note that here at Download the Universe we focus on works about science that are unique to the digital realm. This list does not include electronic clones of print books.)
Book titles are linked to the most popular available format. See reviews for links to additional formats.
Addicted to Food: Understanding the Obesity Crisis, by James Ehrlichman
Angel Killer, by Deborah Blum. Review.
Artificial Epidemics: How Medical Activism Has Inflated the Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer and Depression, by Stewart Justman. Review
Battle at the End of Eden, Amanda R. Martinez
Be Not Content, by William Craddock. Review
Before the Swarm, by Nicholas Griffin. Review
Bats: Furry Fliers of the Night, by Mary Kay Carson. Review
Blazing My Trail: Living and Thriving with Autism, by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg. Review
Blindsight, by Chris Colin. Review.
The Case of the Missing Moon Rocks, by Joe Kloc. Review
Cassini HD, published by Thinx Media. Review.
Chasing the Higgs Boson, by Dennis Overbye. Review
The Chemical History of a Candle, by Michael Faraday. Review
City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There.
Cold Blooded, by Jere Longman. Review.
Color Uncovered. Exploratorium. Review.
Controlling Cancer: A Powerful Plan for Taking On the World's Most Daunting Disease, by Paul Ewald. Review
Dead or Alive, by Erika Hayasaki. Review
Deep Water: As Polar Ice Melts, Scientists Debate How High Our Oceans Will Rise, by Daniel Grossman. Review
Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It, by Phil Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan. Review
The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of, by Lisa Song and Elizabeth McGowan
Do No Harm, by Anil Ananthaswamy. Review
The Electric Mind, by Jessica Benko. Review
Electric Shock: How Electricity Could Be The Key To Human Regeneration, by Cynthia Graber. Review
The Elements: A Visual Exploration, by Theodore Gray. Review.
Farthest North: America's First Arctic Hero and His Horrible, Wonderful Voyage to the Frozen Top of the World, by Todd Balf. Review.
Flatland, by Edwin Abbott. Review.
The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, by Charles Darwin. Review.
Fragile Earth. Published by HarperCollins Review
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. Review.
Going to Extremes. James Powell. Review
Gutenberg the Geek, Jeff Jarvis. Review
Half-Life: Reflections from Jerusalum on a Broken Neck, by Joshua Prager
Half-Safe: A Story of Love, Obsession, and History's Most Insane Around-the-world Adventure by James Nestor.
I Heard the Sirens Singing: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks. Laurie Garrett. Review
I’m Starved For You, by Margaret Atwood. Review.
Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post-Earthquake Japan, by William T. Vollmann. Review
Island of Secrets by Matt Power. Review.
John McAfee’s Last Stand by Joshua Davis. Review.
Journey to the Exoplanets. Edward Bell and Ron Miller. Review.
The Kalinka Affair by Joshua Hammer. Review.
Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy. Touch Press. Review
Life on Earth. E.O. Wilson. Review
Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives, by Rachel Armstrong. Review
March of the Dinosaurs, published by Touch Press. Review.
Meandering Mississippi, by Mary Leonard and Robert Koenig. Review
A Medieval Bestiary. published by eBook Treasures. Review.
The Mind of a Madman: Norway's struggle to understand Anders Breivik, by Richard Orange. Review
Micrographia, by Robert Hooke. Review
Minds of Modern Mathematics, published by IBM. Review
Natural History: Mammals. Published by DK Books. Review
The Origin of Darwinism. (Essays from The Guardian.)
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, by Al Gore. Review
Planet Killers: A Spine-Tingling Look at Near-Earth Objects, Mass Extinctions, and the Controversial Science of Planetary Defense , by Tad Friend, Review
Rockets and People. Boris Chertok. Review
Rough Beasts: The Zanesville Zoo Massacre, One Year Later by Charles Siebert. Review
Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists , by Ainissa Ramirez
Science at the Olympics. The staff of Scientific American. Review.
The Science of Optimism: Why We're Hard-Wired for Hope, by Tali Sharot
Shooting Star: The Brief and Brilliant Life of Frank Ramsey, by Karl Sabbagh
Skulls. Simon Winchester. Review.
A Small Dose of Toxicology, by Steven Gilbert. Review
Smile: the Astonishing Powers of a Single Act, by Ron Gutman. Review
The Solar System, by Marcus Chown. Review.
Space Nutrition, by Scott Smith et al. Review
The Stir of Waters: Radiation, Risk, and the Radon Spa of Jachymov, by Paul Voosen. Review
Symbolia (A comics journalism magazine) Review
Titanic: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Greatest Shipwreck , from the staff of National Geographic. Review
An Unexpected Twist, by Andy Borowitz. Review
Uprising: How a Community College Drop-out Revealed the Climate Hazard Beneath Our Feet, by Phil McKenna. Review
What’s Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems, by Alanna Shaik. Review.
What Technology Wants, by Kevin Kelly. Review.
When I’m 164: The New Science of Radical Life Extension, and What Happens if it Succeeds, David Duncan. Review.
Why the Net Matters: How the Internet Will Save Civilization, by David Eagleman. Review.
Wonders of Geology: An Aerial View of America's Mountains , by Michael Collier. Review.
Wonders of the Universe, by Brian Cox. Review
