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Man of the Hour

By Jennet Conant

Station Blackout: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Recovery

By Charles A. Casto

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

By Jason Fagone

Apollo 11: The Inside Story

By David Whitehouse

Thus Spoke Galileo: The great scientist's ideas and their relevance to the present day

By Andrea Frova (, Dipartimento di Fisica, 1niversita di Roma "La Sapienza"), Mariapiera Marenzana (, Retired Professor of Italian and Latin Literature from Liceo Coreutico at the National Dance Academy)

Light is a Messenger: The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg

By Graeme K. Hunter (, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada)

October Sky

By Hickam, Homer

A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees

By Dave Goulson (University of Southampton)

J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science

By Andrew Brown

Time Restored: The Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything

By Jonathan Betts (Royal Observatory, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions

By Champkins, Mark, Jones, Peter

Apollo 13

By James Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger

Longitude: Millennium Edition

By Dava Sobel

Longtitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time

By Sobel Dava Staff, Sobel, Dava

Fred Dibnah: The Early Days

By Fred Dibnah, Paul Donoghue

It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

By Herriot, James, J

Brunel: The Man Who Built the World

By Steven Brindle

Waystation to the Stars

By Foale, Colin