Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

A vibrant graphic adaptation of the classic science memoir Regarded as one of the world's preeminent biologists, Edward O. Wilson spent his boyho...

In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we mus...

'Professor Hao Bailin is one of China's most talented and most versatile theoretical physicists. He has made important contributions to a wide vari...

This volume brings together some of the best recent scholarship on what might be termed Einstein's formative period, that is, the thirty years be...

Wolfgang Pauli referred to him as 'my discovery,' Robert Oppenheimer described him as 'one of the most gifted theorists' and Niels Bohr found him e...

This unique volume is not just an in-depth analysis of Professor Swaminathan's brilliant contributions to basic cytogenetics, radiation biology, mu...

Brutally powerful . . . Totally absorbing Independent A gripping, honest and moving account of healthcare work in a war zone Henry Marsh, author of...

Outstanding Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryThe remarkable untold story of how a group of sixteen determined women used th...

In this compellingly written and meticulously researched new book, Professor Brett Kahr draws upon extensive unpublished archival sources and upon ...

It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, Salim S. Abdool Karim was catapulted into a prominent position in the media and on television as the face of South ...

Forrest Galante, host of Extinct or Alive and the world's #1 rare species expert, takes readers along with him through the deepest wilderness and m...

Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, ...

A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean in this 'thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure' (New York Times)LONGLI...

Doctors have been able to cure some forms of congenital blindness and deafness for decades. But this has created another problem: most people end u...

A captivating, behind-the-scenes account of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on ...

By the New York Timess legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep w...

'A book of marvels, marvellously written' RICHARD DAWKINSA pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminesce...

The discovery of the modern-day coelacanth will forever be linked with the name of JLB Smith. An intense, irascible, eccentric man, JLB (as he was ...

Everyone, at some point, has to get thru their worst possible thing. For Jim Williams, that was losing Kyle, his six-year-old son, to cancer. On...

Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who have recently died. More than standa...

'Vital and heart-wrenchingly intimate' Leah Hazard'Urgent, fascinating and thought-provoking' Julia Bueno'Thoughtfully researched and beautifully w...