Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

For over four decades, Dr. Antonia Novello has served the nation in various capacities, including serving as Deputy Director of the National Instit...

'Comprehensive . . . a definitive history' The Times 'Battle For The Bird is an absolute triumph of reporting and storytelling.' Ashlee Vance, best...

This open access book is both a memoir and a biography. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1924, Herwig Schopper is one of the few people able to bear witne...

This book remembers and commemorates many brave radiation scientists, most of whom are no longer with us. These scientists published findings that ...

From 1994 to 2023, Professor Drife wrote an entertaining column in the journal of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. His sole a...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one womans cells have saved countless liv...

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

This is a street level view of Syria from 1965 that is far more nuanced than most reports in the US media. Tarif Bakdash, MD, was born and raised i...

The story of a man who brought his own personal style to the world of industrial design, from automobiles to powerboats. Some 50 years after his de...

Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose 'She Blinded Me With Science' reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982, appeared in Br...

Our love of gorillas has long been reflected in literature and filmsTarzan, King Kong, The Jungle Book, Gorillas in the Mistand their popularity co...

The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth centuryand a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on rep...

A remarkable account of Kurt Gödel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil...

The revealing, compelling memoir of one of Australia's foremost cardiothoracic surgeons, Dr Nikki Stamp.Raw, honest and compelling, Scrubbed is Dr ...

Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living exp...

Take Your Baby and Run is Carol Youngson's first-hand account of the shocking ineptitude and misogynistic behaviour that led to the death of twelve...

Hawking explores the life and work, explaining the breakthroughs at the cutting edge of cosmology, from the Big Bang to black holes, and the ups an...

Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictionsher family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her fathers alcoholism, and the...

A woman's fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accident In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three...

This book presents a compact personal biography and a collection of works by Gabriele F. Giuliani - a distinguished condensed matter theorist who m...

As the first Chinese female scientist to win a Nobel prize (in physiology or medicine) in 2015, what were Tu Youyous formative experiences and the ...

Stephen L. Hauser is an acclaimed physician and neuroimmunologist who has spent his career performing cutting-edge research on multiple sclerosis (...

The story of maverick scientist Candace Pert, whose groundbreaking research introduced the world to the mind-body connection, opioid receptors, and...

From butcher's daughter in Communist Hungary to winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023, this is the story of one woman's extraordinary determin...