Engineer Biographies

Stars of Steam: Classic Locomotives and Their Engineers

By Geoffrey Williams

Remembering Places: A Memoir

By Joseph Rykwert (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Heartbreak Farm: A Farmer and His Farm in Wartime

By Frances Mountford

Charles Darwin: The Man and his Influence

By Peter J. Bowler (Queen's University Belfast), David Knight

Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

By Frank Close

Waystation to the Stars

By Foale, Colin

Brunel: The Man Who Built the World

By Steven Brindle

It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

By Herriot, James, J

Fred Dibnah: The Early Days

By Fred Dibnah, Paul Donoghue

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

By Sobel Dava Staff, Sobel, Dava

Longitude: Millennium Edition

By Dava Sobel

Apollo 13

By James Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger

The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions

By Champkins, Mark, Jones, Peter

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

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

J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science

By Andrew Brown

A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees

By Dave Goulson (University of Southampton)

October Sky

By Hickam, Homer

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

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

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)

Apollo 11: The Inside Story

By David Whitehouse

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

By Jason Fagone

Station Blackout: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Recovery

By Charles A. Casto

Man of the Hour

By Jennet Conant

Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy

By Russell Gold

The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers

By John C. Waugh

Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

By Ken Kocienda

Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete

By Bernard McGinn

The Dogs of Windcutter Down

By David Kennard

The Making of Andrei Sakharov

By George Bailey

365 Reasons to be Proud to be a Dad: The Greatest Dad Moments in History

By Ian Allen