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Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

By R. Angus Buchanan

Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure

By Smil, Vaclav

The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America’s Top Secrets

By Lokhova, Svetlana

An English Car Designer Abroad: Designing for GM, Audi, Porsche and Mazda

By Peter Birtwhistle

The Joy of Sheds: Because a man's place isn't in the home

By Hopkinson, Frank

Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master

By Anna Suh, H., da Vinci, Leonardo

Alfred Nobel

By Fant, Kenne

Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

By Véliz, Carissa

The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome

By Alondra Nelson

Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

By Mundy, Simon

Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of a Lifetime

By Gessen, Masha

Maidens' Trip (Working Waterways)

By Smith, Emma

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Maddox, Brenda

Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity

By Basil Mahon

A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth

By Samantha Weinberg

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

Genius; Great Inventors & their Creations

By Jack Challoner

What Little I Remember

By Otto Robert Frisch

The Bride of Science: A Life of Ada Lovelace

By Benjamin Woolley

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

By Kenneth Miller