Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed hi...

A highly readable (Wall Street Journal) account of the role Britain played in Einstein''s life-first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics...

Most historians recognise the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, in...

The essential book on how not to be a doctor - and how to be a better one. Drawn from his popular medical columns over the years, John Launer shar...

Explore the wonders of wild Mongolia through the eyes of a distinguished field biologist   Mongolia became a satellite of the Soviet Union in the m...

A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2017 His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was Washington Roebling who built this iconic feat o...

Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.This was the great rallying cry of the ...

The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever. They were an unlikely pair one the professor son of...

Robert F Christy was a legendary physicist, one of the key players in some of the most dramatic events of the 20th century. He was a student of Opp...

* Published on the 70th anniversary of LSD''s discovery * A history of science, consciousness research and psychedelic studies. * LSD an...

Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed ...

Her goal: to become a world-renowned biomedical engineer working with scientific societies to improve the role of women in scientific fields and th...

A Life Force in Life Science tells the extraordinary story of Ida Smedley MacLean. Clever and charismatic, Ida was born in Birmingham in1877 but we...

The games of Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion from 1948 to 1963, have been studied by players around the world for decades. But little has b...

Flint Dille wrote your childhood. From his work on 80s cartoon classics like Transformers, G.I. Joe, the Garbage Pail Kids, and Inhumanoids to the ...

Dont miss this inspiring look inside the life of Esther M. Wilkins, RDH, DMD, the pioneering author, teacher, advocate, and mentor affectionately k...

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), mathematician and physicist, is one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. This fully illustrated, access...

Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the...

However much his work has been reviled or contested, Sigmund Freud remains one of the most significant thinkers of the last 150 years. He founded p...

One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nomin...

When you''ve been decorated as a doctor by a learned society in the United States for your research on novel gene therapy for Cancer, it seems ludi...