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Brunel: pocket GIANTS

By Eugene Byrne

Henry Ford: pocket GIANTS

By David Long

The Bride of Science: A Life of Ada Lovelace

By Benjamin Woolley

What Little I Remember

By Otto Robert Frisch

Genius; Great Inventors & their Creations

By Jack Challoner

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

By Kenneth Miller

Bull's Eye

By James Adams

Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought

By A. Rupert Hall

Edison and the Electric Chair

By Mark Essig

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

By W. Bernard Carlson

The Genius in My Basement

By Alexander Masters

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

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity

By Basil Mahon

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

By Oliver Franklin-Wallis

Fred Hoyle's Universe

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

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

By Marcus Chown

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

By Leslie Berlin

Tesla: Man out of Time

By Margaret Cheney

iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

By Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith

Vet in Harness

By Herriot, James, James Herriot

Amateurs Can Do it: The MTL Story

By Ian Hutcheon, Tony Benn

Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

By Dr. Michael du Preez, Jeremy Dronfield

The Elizabethan World Picture

By Tillyard, E M W

Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History

By Liam Vaughan

A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth

By Samantha Weinberg

Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess: Farming, Family and Delicious Recipes to Share

By Amanda Owen

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

Maps of My Life

By Guy Browning

In Black and White

By Peter Williams

Theatre of the World: The Maps That Made History

By Thomas Reinertsen Berg, Alison McCullough