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

By Liam Vaughan

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

Return to the Olive Farm

By Drinkwater, Carol

All Things Bright and Beautiful

By Herriot, James

Countryfile / Adam's Farm: My Life on the Land

By Adam Henson, Cavan Scott

Colin Chapman: The Wayward Genius

By Lawrence, Mike

Sir William Stanier: A New Biography: B4B (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

By Chackesfield, John E.

My Inventions - The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

By Tesla, Nikola

Guy Martin: My Autobiography

By Martin, Guy

Jeopardy: The Danger of Playing It Safe on the Path to Success

By Emmanuel-Jones, Wilfred

Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess

By Owen, Amanda

Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

By Vance, Ashlee

Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real Life Adventures in an Inner-city Ambulance

By Tom Reynolds, Reynolds, Tom

If Only They Could Talk

By Herriot, James

The Lord God Made Them All: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

By Herriot, James

Every Living Thing: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

By Herriot, James

Zoo Vet

By Matt Brash

The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems

By Petroski, Henry