Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family...

Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a poor central Florida ...

Dr. Alla Shapiro was a first physician-responder to the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in ...

An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (17071783), one of the...

It wasnt rockets or artillery that came through the skies one week during the war. It was the horrific force of nature that suddenly put both sides...

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...

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now ab...

Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped river...

As the new chief of the Michigan Department of Conservations Fish Division in 1964, Howard A. Tanner was challenged to do something . . . spectacul...

'I loved this witty, insightful journey into the world of psychotherapy' Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path'Profound and piercing re...

This is a book for the aspiring field biologist in your life New Scientist The story of one womans remarkable work with a trio of charismatic, end...

'Fascinating and vivid' CARLO ROVELLIDROPOUT, PACIFIST, PHYSICIST, CASANOVA, REFUGEE, GENIUS . . . WHO WAS ALBERT EINSTEIN?The Nobel Prize-winning ...