Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Kn...

In 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indiesborn Frenchman arrived in New York City, fleeing Napoleons conscription. His work would become inextricabl...

The orphan Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) developed sophisticated measuring instruments and a very precise theory of the movement of the moon around the ...

Born in Italy during World War I, Salvatore Forcina was a young boy who survived all odds by living through his young childhood without any real or...

Many people know Edward Teller as the Father of the H-Bomb. To his supporters he was a hero of the Cold War. To his detractors he was evil personif...

The German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (18401893) occupies a crucial place in linguistic scholarship around the end of ...

An illuminating account of a brilliant neurosurgical career. Henry Marsh, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Do No HarmIn this medical memoir...

In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to public...

On Wednesday, September 2nd, 1998, an international flight carrying 229 souls crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia. There w...

Engaging, funny, and unflinching essays about coming of age as a transplant patient and living each day as a giftAdina Talve-Goodman was born with ...

'Compelling' Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times'A fascinating book' Daily Mail_______________________________________________________________We thi...

A masterful biography of Alfred Wegener (18801930), the German scientist who discovered continental drift.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic...

In 19th-century America, it was assumed that woman patients would be treated by male doctors. The idea of a woman doctor was deemed by many to lie ...

There is probably no woman scientist more famous than Marie Curie (1867-1934). She made one of the most important theoretical breakthroughs of the ...

Volcanologist and natural hazards expert Jess Phoenix has dedicated her life to scientific exploration. Her career path-hard earned in the still ma...

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

In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for ...

In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for ...

Using the plights of twelve very different patients-from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners at Riker's Island, to illegal immigran...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Count Rumford are the greatest minds that America has produc...

'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam KayIn these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of ...

Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Cricks 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every ad...

Authentic and inspiring, Everything that Rises personalizes the realities of climate change by paralleling the relationship we have with our planet...

A rare gift: an inspiring tale about trees, trauma and the very purpose of life. Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Empire of the Beetle Diana Beresford...

*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...

Explores the lives of over 600 Jewish physicians and pharmacists in medieval Muslim lands Offers a unique insight into the life of Jewish physici...

After thyroid cancer, Crohns disease, and a slew of other autoimmune conditions ransacked her body in her twenties and thirties, Francesca was left...

In The Private Science of Louis Pasteur, Gerald Geison has written a controversial biography that finally penetrates the secrecy that has surrounde...

The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks.   When twenty...