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Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

By Duncan Clark

Brunel's Britain

By Beckett, Derrick

Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton

By Richard S. Westfall

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

By George Dyson

Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters

By Freeman Dyson

The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry

By Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis

The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity and the Men Who Invented Modern America

By Maury Klein

Man of the Hour

By Jennet Conant

The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-playing Machine That Fooled the World

By Tom Standage

High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945-1999

By Erik M. Conway

Discussing Chemistry and Steam: The Minutes of a Coffee House Philosophical Society 1780-1787

By Trevor H. Levere, Gerard L'E Turner

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)

Ideas That Shaped Our World

By Robert Stewart

Ivo Peters' Classic Steam

By Ivo Peters, Mac Hawkins

The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery

By Abraham Pais

Zeppelin!: Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939

By Guillaume de Syon (Professor, Albright College)

Block by Block: The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics

By Robert T. Hanlon (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering Practice, MIT, Massachusetts, USA)

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

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

Big Ben: the Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster

By Chris McKay (Horologist)

The Story of Semiconductors

By John W. Orton (Department of Physics, University of Nottingham, UK)

The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

By James C. Whorton (Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle)

Innovation: A Very Short Introduction

By Mark Dodgson (Professor of Innovation Studies, University of Queensland), David Gann (Professor and Vice-President (Innovation) at Imperial College London)

An Introduction to Narrative Generators: How Computers Create Works of Fiction

By Rafael Perez y Perez (Full Professor, Full Professor, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana at Cuajimalpa, Mexico City), Mike Sharples (Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology, Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology, Institute of Educational Te...