Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

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....

Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature...

Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith were the original pioneers of Australian aviation. Together they succeeded in a number of record-breaking f...

With a foreword by Bill Bryson'Compelling . . . moving and often startlingly visceral'Times Literary Supplement'Horrifying. But, in the end, inspir...

An eminent molecular physicist and path-breaking crystallographer, an eloquent and prescient writer on the social implications of science, an early...

This book reveals the life, drama and mystery surrounding the creator of groundbreaking inventions. It posthumously found renewed fame as the subje...

For the last four hundred years, women have played a part far in excess of their numerical representation in the history of astronomical research a...

August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. ...

Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedis lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a ...

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...