Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

The development of forensic pathology in Britain is told here through the lives of five outstanding medical pioneers. Spanning seventy years, their...

Learn graphic design using Adobe InDesign Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the ba...

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** Future-proof yourself and your business by reading this book * Technological advances have benefited our world i...

The decades-long love story of a NASA commander and the leader of the Astronaut Wives ClubFar Side of the Moon  is the untold, fully authorized sto...

Looking out his porch window one spring morning, Adam Shoalts spotted a majestic peregrine falcon flying across the neighbouring fields near Lake E...

In the summer of 2009 Cameron Dueck and the rest of the crew of the Silent Sound completed a journey made by fewer people than have climbed Mt. Eve...

Did you know that Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of statistics in public health? That Marie Curie is still the only person to have won the ...

In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jeffers...

Robert M. Keating's story is America's story. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1862 to poor Irish immigrants, he was just 13 when his father ...

Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling Cecile Richards, author of Make Trouble At a time where reproductive ri...

When Manda Kalimian began her mission to help America's wild horsesthrough rewildingto regain their rightful place as a native species of the open ...

The follow up memoir to the bestselling FRONTAL MATTER: GLUE GONE WILD. The reader continues on the cancer treatment and recovery journey with Suza...

Winner of: National Science Teachers Foundation/Children's Book Council, Outstanding Science Trade Book Award Against all oddsthe paths forged by t...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The compelling story of a legendary artist and an eternal American hero.In 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indiesborn Frenchman arrived in New York...

Award-winning author, Thom Hatch presents the definitive biography of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), who was recognized in his time as The Fathe...

Award-winning author, Thom Hatch presents the definitive biography of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), who was recognized in his time as The Fathe...

'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable [...] There is an energy and drama to Rorys writing which nonetheless leaves space for us, the read...