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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth

By Hoffman, Paul

Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis, A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey

By Joseph Warren Dauben

Edison: A Biography: A Biography

By Josephson

The Florida Life of Thomas Edison

By Michele Wehrwein Albion

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Brenda Maddox

My Farming Life: Tales from a shepherdess on a remote Northumberland farm

By Emma Gray

Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet

By Crane, Nicholas

Make Hay While the Sun Shines: A Year on the Farm

By Tom Pemberton

The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir

By Sarah Beeny

The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World

By James Ashton

A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess

By Amanda Owen

Water and Peace: A journey through the world's most explosive conflict zones in search of deep water

By Dr Alain Gachet

Power Up: An Engineer's Adventures into Sustainable Energy

By Yasmin Ali

The Life of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall (Indiana University)

The Making of Andrei Sakharov

By George Bailey

Beyond Business: An Inspirational Memoir From a Remarkable Leader

By John Browne

These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East

By Sabrina Mahfouz

Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition: Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of 2022

By Lulu Yilun Chen

The Sty's the Limit: When Middle Age Gets Mucky

By Simon Dawson

Stephenson Power: The Story of George and Robert Stephenson

By Ken Smith

In Stitches

By Nick Edwards

The Skipper: A Fisherman's Tale

By Roger Nowell, Jeremy Mills

The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People

By Susan Orlean

Industrializing Africa

By Makonnen Alemayehu

The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire

By Joe Jackson

Telling the Truth: British Honduran Forestry Unit in Scotland, 1941-44

By Ford, Amos A.

Banvard's Folly Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck

By Collins, Paul

The Bad Beekeepers Club: How I stumbled into the Curious World of Bees - and became (perhaps) a Better Person

By Bill Turnbull

ISAAC NEWTON: The Last Sorcerer

By White

Thomas Telford