Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

A gripping exposé of how Bluebird Bio sabotaged affordable sickle cell and thalassemia treatment worldwide.Healthcare Criminals is the inside story...

How do you build a scientifically and technologically strong modern nation with limited means and resources? Indian scientists faced this challenge...

The book gives researchers, scientists, academicians, technocrats, and CEOs of technology-based and energy-related businesses a global platform to ...

L.T.C. Rolt played a crucial role in the revival of Britains inland waterways and pioneered the first preserved narrow-gauge railway. He is still a...

Foreword by Tia Newcomer, CEO of CaringBridge When Cris Ross and Ed Marx were diagnosed with cancer, they thought they knew what to do next. They w...

The first biography - 'a stunning achievement' (Kai Bird, American Prometheus) - of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist ...

L.A. Coroner: Thomas Noguchi and Death in Hollywood is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial Coroner to the Sta...

This is the 16th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and ...

Featured in Kristen Hannahs new book The Women What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer th...

Henry Lilley Smith (1788-1859) was born and bred in Southam, Warwickshire. After an apprenticeship to a surgeon-apothecary, he attended Guys Hospit...

An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct an...

You'll know the name Noble. Ever since the M10 and M12 wowed the press in 1999, the marque has taken its place within the British sports car landsc...

Early English clock and watchmaking documenting the development of clock and watch movements and case styles from the early 1670s to the mid-1720s....