Autobiography: Science, Technology & Medicine

Now in paperback, the life story of a world-famous astronaut who was a trailblazer for women and is a role model today. Eileen Collins was an aviat...

Uprooted reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener. The Wall Street Journal When Page Dickey moved away from her celebrated ga...

Journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it.   A very special book filled with st...

What does it take to go from imagining a different life to creating one? Entrepreneur and educator Frances Valintine has spent her life trying to u...

Deadly Snakes. Heatstroke. Scorpions. These are just a few of the obstacles that George Zelt encounters as a graduate student in apartheid-era So...

Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boys adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver Sac...

An exciting insiders look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . NASAs internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls by a pioneering...

With a foreword by Bill Bryson'Compelling . . . moving and often startlingly visceral'Times Literary Supplement'Horrifying. But, in the end, inspir...

Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedis lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a ...