Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

Now in paperback, the life story of a world-famous astronaut who was a trailblazer for women and is a role model today. Eileen Collins was an aviat...

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...