Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

This biography of Andre Lefebvre gives a revealing insight into the work of a practically unknown aeronautic engineer who, after building and racin...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Kn...

In 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indiesborn Frenchman arrived in New York City, fleeing Napoleons conscription. His work would become inextricabl...

The orphan Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) developed sophisticated measuring instruments and a very precise theory of the movement of the moon around the ...

Born in Italy during World War I, Salvatore Forcina was a young boy who survived all odds by living through his young childhood without any real or...

Many people know Edward Teller as the Father of the H-Bomb. To his supporters he was a hero of the Cold War. To his detractors he was evil personif...

The German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (18401893) occupies a crucial place in linguistic scholarship around the end of ...

An illuminating account of a brilliant neurosurgical career. Henry Marsh, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Do No HarmIn this medical memoir...

In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to public...

On Wednesday, September 2nd, 1998, an international flight carrying 229 souls crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia. There w...