Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light ...

A wealthy textile titan from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Frank Masland Jr. was an ardent political conservative and an equally fervent conservationist ...

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make exc...

Inspiring and joyous.PeopleHeartwarming . . . infectious . . . Morillo's The Boy Who Reached for the Stars is every bit the inspiration he means it...

'Endlessly fascinating...meticulously written and thoroughly absorbing book' Financial TimesOut now: *Revised and Updated* The gripping new book by...

The personal diaries of one of Americas best-loved naturalists, revealing his difficult and inspiring path to finding his voice and becoming a writ...

The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grants journey in life has involved detours ...

The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grants journey in life has involved detours ...

THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES'Reminds us that the mind is the greatest mystery in the universe' Yuval Noah Ha...

*An instant New York Times Bestseller*'One of the most exciting tales of our time... It's the next tech frontier, and Vance turns it into a thrille...

'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable char...

Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milkens lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution...

The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement...

A fitting biography of one of the most brilliant, acerbic, and under-appreciated astrophysicists of the twentieth century. John Johnson has delved ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (MAY 2022).An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from 'the father of the iPod and iPhone' and the creato...

In this work, Carl Anthony shares his perspectives as an African-American child in post-World War II Philadelphia; a student and civil rights activ...

Although a young doctor when he volunteered for the Spanish Civil War in late 1936, New Zealander Douglas Jolly swiftly acquired a reputation as on...

This is the illustrated story of the early part of the life of a sick child of a poor divorced mother. After treatment of his Tuberculosis with a n...

Mosquito Warrior tells the engrossing story of General William C. Gorgas (18541920), the once-renowned pioneer in tropical disease research and pub...

Mosquito Warrior tells the engrossing story of General William C. Gorgas (18541920), the once-renowned pioneer in tropical disease research and pub...

On October 28th, hours after completing a $44 billion takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk Tweeted to his millions of followers 'The bird is freed.'Musk'...

So many young people are faced with life-changing hardshipsfrom illness and disease to loss and calamity. What Olivia Goodreau discovers through he...

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 19212 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease. Insu...