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Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

By Kenneth Miller

The Elizabethan World Picture

By Tillyard, E M W

Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

By Dr. Michael du Preez, Jeremy Dronfield

Amateurs Can Do it: The MTL Story

By Ian Hutcheon, Tony Benn

Vet in Harness

By Herriot, James, James Herriot

iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

By Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith

Tesla: Man out of Time

By Margaret Cheney

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

By Leslie Berlin

Breakthrough: Spectacular stories of scientific discovery from the Higgs particle to black holes

By Marcus Chown

Fred Hoyle's Universe

By Jane Gregory (, Lecturer in Science Communication and Science Policy, University College London)

Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters

By Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity

By Basil Mahon

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

The Genius in My Basement

By Alexander Masters

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

By W. Bernard Carlson

Edison and the Electric Chair

By Mark Essig

Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought

By A. Rupert Hall

Bull's Eye

By James Adams

Vets Might Fly

By Herriot, James

The Man Who Ran the Moon: James Webb, JFK and the Secret History of Project Apollo

By Bizony, Piers

Vet in a Spin

By James Herriot, Herriot, James

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

By Pirsig, Robert

Foolish to be Wise: A Scientist Comes Face to Face with the Miraculous

By Roy Peacock

The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

By Ousby, Ian.

No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden

By Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer

Longitude

By Dava Sobel

The Heat of the Moment: Life and Death Decision-Making From a Firefighter

By Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton

What Little I Remember

By Otto Robert Frisch

The Bride of Science: A Life of Ada Lovelace

By Benjamin Woolley

Henry Ford: pocket GIANTS

By David Long