Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

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...

The book looks at the life of one of India's foremost scientists, Dr R. Chidambaram, who served as principal scientific advisor (PSA) to the Govern...

Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew no limits and his incredible sense...

We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exceptio...

'I think you have something here' I said, 'This could lead to a whole new way of understanding criminal behaviour. As far as I know no one's ever t...

'I think you have something here' I said, 'This could lead to a whole new way of understanding criminal behaviour. As far as I know no one's ever t...

'Beautifully written, passionate and moving, this is the book everyone should read about COVID-19' Kate Mosse'Hard to put down' Rachel Clarke'Gripp...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERNOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA'The next Mr Bates v the Post Office poised to shake up Britain' Big Issue'If you're wonderi...

Edmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the nature of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery is...

In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace afte...

Dr. Bonnie Henry has been called 'one of the most effective public health figures in the world' by The New York Times. But in 2019, when the first ...

_Stone Breaker_ is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American polymath, James Gates Percival. A poet, linguist, and unstable savant, Perc...