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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

Charles Darwin, Geologist

By Sandra Herbert

Brunel

By Adrian Vaughan

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

By Mario Livio

I Bought a Mountain: The Re-discovered Nature Classic

By Thomas Firbank

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

By Ellen Ullman

How to be Idle

By Hodgkinson, Tom, T. Hodkinson

The Monk of Mokha

By Dave Eggers

American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Carroll Shelby: The Authorised Biography

By Rinsey Mills

Lightning Strikes: Timeless Lessons in Creativity from the Life and Work of Nikola Tesla

By John F. Wasik

The Secret Life of John Logie Baird

By Tom McArthur, Peter Waddell

Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life

By Leonard Mlodinow