Free Science Books

Address of Professor Benjamin Peirce, President of the American Association for the Year 1853, On Retiring from the Duties of President by Benjamin Peirce (page images at Cornell)
A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (1987 edition) by Amy C. Edmondson (illustrated HTML at angelfire.com)
Amphibians: Guidelines for the Breeding, Care, and Management of Laboratory Animals by National Research Council Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources Subcommittee on Amphibian Standards (HTML at ulib.org)
An Assessment of International Science and Technology Center: Redirecting Expertise in Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Former Soviet Union by National Research Council Office of International Affairs (page images at NAP)
An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (1982 edition), ed. by Lyle V. Jones, Gardner Lindzey, and Porter E. Coggeshal (HTML at ulib.org)
An Assessment of the National Science Foundation's Science and Technology Centers Program by Engineering and Public Policy Committee on Science (HTML and page images at NAP)
An Introduction to Cybernetics (London: Chapman and Hall, 1957) by William Ross Ashby (PDF with commentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
Aphorisms and Reflections From the Works of T. H. Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, ed. by Henrietta A. Huxley (illustrated HTML at clarku.edu)
A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier by Marcia Bartusiak, Andrew Chaikin, Addison Greenwood, T. A. Heppenheimer, Michelle Hoffman, David Holzman, Elizabeth J. Maggio, and Anne Simon Moffat (page images at NAP)
Autobiography and Selected Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley, ed. by Ada L. F. Snell (Gutenberg text)
Bits of Power: Issues in Global Access to Scientific Data by Mathematics, and Applications National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences (HTML and page images at NAP)
Building a Federal Science and Technology Strategy by Industry Canada (text in Canada)
Careers in Science and Technology: An International Perspective by National Research Council Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel and National Research Council Office of International Affairs (page images at NAP)
Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought and Reality From the Perspective of Complex Systems Science by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)
Climbing the Ladder: An Update on the Status of Doctoral Women Scientists and Engineers by National Research Council Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel (page images at NAP)
Collected Essays (9 volumes) by Thomas Henry Huxley (illustrated HTML at clarku.edu)
Daedalus: or, Science and the Future by J. B. S. Haldane (HTML at Santa Fe Institute)
Education and Training in the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: A Guide for Developing Institutional Programs by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images at NAP)
From Analysis to Action: Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology by Mathematics, and Engineering Education National Research Council Center for Science (page images at NAP)
Headline News, Science Views II, ed. by David Jarmul (page images at NAP)
Icarus: or, The Future of Science by Bertrand Russell (HTML at Santa Fe Institute)
Improving Indicators of the Quality of Science and Mathematics Education in Grades K-12, ed. by Richard J. Murnane and Senta A. Raizen (page images at NAP)
Improving the Recruitment, Retention, and Utilization of Federal Scientists and Engineers, ed. by Alan K. Campbell, Stephen J. Lukasik, and Michael G. H. McGeary (page images at NAP)
Indicators of Precollege Education in Science and Mathematics: A Preliminary Review, ed. by Senta A. Raizen and Lyle V. Jones (preliminary HTML at ulib.org)
Industry-University Research Collaborations: Report of a Workshop (page images at NAP)
Issues in Science and Technology (partial serial archives)
Laboratory Animal Management: Dogs by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images at NAP)
Laboratory Animal Management: Rodents by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images at NAP)
Lawsonomy (3 volumes) by Alfred Lawson (HTML at lawsonomy.org)
Lo! by Charles Hoy Fort (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
Machine Learning, Neural and Statistical Classification, ed. by D. Mitchie, D. J. Spiegelhalter, and C. C. Taylor (zipped Postscript and PDF at Leeds)
Machine Learning, Neural and Statistical Classification, ed. by Donald Michie, D. J. Spiegelhalter, and Charles C. Taylor (PDF and gzipped Postscript in the UK)
Major Award Decisionmaking at the National Science Foundation by Engineering, and Public Policy Committee on Science (page images at NAP)
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
National Collaboratories: Applying Information Technology for Scientific Research by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images at NAP)
National Science Education Standards by National Research Council (page images at NAP)
New Lands by Charles Hoy Fort (HTML with commentary at resologist.net)
On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research (second edition) by Engineering, and Public Policy National Research Council Committee on Science (text and HTML at NAP)
On Time to the Doctorate: A Study of the Increased Time to Complete Doctorates in Science and Engineeering by Howard Tuckman, Susan Coyle, and Yupin Bae (page images at NAP)
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (partial serial archives)
Physics by Aristotle, trans. by R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye (HTML at Internet Classics)
Precollege Science and Mathematics Teachers: Monitoring Supply, Demand, and Quality, ed. by Dorothy M. Gilford and Ellen Tenenbaum (page images at NAP)
Preserving Scientific Data On Our Physical Universe: A New Strategy for Archiving the Nation's Scientific Information Resources by Mathematics, and Applications National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences (page images at NAP)
Recruitment, Retention, and Utilization of Federal Scientists and Engineers, ed. by Alan K. Campbell and Linda S. Dix (page images at NAP)
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes by Charles Babbage (Gutenberg text)
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (electronic edition) by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barton (HTML at UMass)
Research Briefings, 1986 by Engineering, and Public Policy Committee on Science (page images at NAP)
Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers by Engineering, and Public Policy Committee on Science (HTML at NAP)
Responsible Science: Ensuring the Integrity of the Reearch Process by Engineering, and Public Policy National Research Council Committee on Science
volume I: page images at NAP
volume II: page images at NAP
Science and Technology Leadership in American Government: Ensuring the Best Presidential Appointments by Engineering, and Public Policy Committee on Science (page images at NAP)
Science Teaching Reconsidered: A Handbook by Committee on Undergraduate Science Education (HTML and page images at NAP)
Science, Technology, and the Federal Government: National Goals for a New Era by Engineering, and Public Policy Committee on Science (HTML and page images at NAP)
Science, Technology, and the Federal Government: National Goals for a New Era by Engineering, and Public Policy National Research Council Committee on Science (HTML at NAP)
Scientific Communication and National Security by Engineering, and Public Policy National Research Council Committee on Science (page images at NAP)
Scientists and Human Rights in Syria by National Academy of Sciences Committee on Human Rights (HTML at NAP)
State of the Art: Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning Science by Mary Lewis Sivertsen (HTML at ed.gov)
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (electronic edition) by R. Buckminster Fuller and E. J. Applewhite (HTML at servtech.com)
The Book of the Damned (third printing, 1931) by Charles Hoy Fort (HTML at resologist.net)
The Fairy-Land of Science (1898) by Arabella Burton Buckley (page images at canadiana.org)
The Phenomenon of Science (1977) by Valentin Fedorovich Turchin (illustrated HTML with commmentary at Principia Cybernetica Web)
Theory of Symmetry and Ornament by Slavik V. Jablan (illustrated HTML at emis.de)
Women Scientists and Engineers Employed in Industry: Why So Few? by National Research Council Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel (page images at NAP)