Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

Uprooted reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener. The Wall Street Journal When Page Dickey moved away from her celebrated ga...

Journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it.   A very special book filled with st...

John Godfrey Parry Thomas - J.G Thomas - was by any standards an extraordinary man, in both life and in his tragic death. From a conventional upbri...

Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs rooting thro...

World-leading natural and social scientists shed light on their discoveries and lives in conversation with an award-winning science writer. When a...

What does it take to go from imagining a different life to creating one? Entrepreneur and educator Frances Valintine has spent her life trying to u...

In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood...

A compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industrys quest to connect everythingand who hoped f...

From the Wall Street Journals Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his t...

Deadly Snakes. Heatstroke. Scorpions. These are just a few of the obstacles that George Zelt encounters as a graduate student in apartheid-era So...

He was the dominant intellectual figure of his age. His published works, including the Principia Mathematica and Opticks, reached across the scient...

Women have healed since the beginning of time, but accessing a formal degree in medicine was impossible for them in Britain until the late 19th cen...

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

Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boys adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver Sac...

'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the Week'Extraordin...

**A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023**Out now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company behind the blueprint ...

An exciting insiders look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . NASAs internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls by a pioneering...

From poverty to immense wealth, from humble beginnings to international celebrity, George and Robert Stephensons was an extraordinary joint career....