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Cartography: The Ideal and Its History

By Matthew H Edney

Glorious Years of Steam Railways

By Julian Holland

Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

By George Dyson

Tests of Character

By Don Middleton

Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World

By Vaclav Smil

Yorkshire: A lyrical history of England's greatest county

By Richard Morris

The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life

By I. Bernard Cohen (Harvard University)

Past and Present Journal: A Nostalgic Look at Five Decades of Change: v. 1, No. 3

Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb

By David C. Cassidy

The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War

By Malcolm Gladwell

Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story

By Jeffrey Quill

De Havilland Vampire: The Complete History

By David Watkins, John Wilson

Super Blue

By Katsuhiko Tokunaga

Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

By Paul Kennedy

Le Mans: The Bentley and Alfa Years, 1923-39

By R. M. Clarke, Anders Clausager

Titanic:

By Anton Gill

Thomas Telford

By L T C Rolt, Neil Cossons

Truth, Lies and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle 'Challenger' Disaster

By Allan J. McDonald, James R. Hansen

The Civils: Story of the Institution of Civil Engineers

By J. Garth Watson

The Realistic Empiricism of Mach, James, and Russell: Neutral Monism Reconceived

By Erik C. Banks (Wright State University, Ohio)

The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe

By Sue Colledge, James Conolly

Brunel: The Man Who Built the World

By Dan Cruickshank, Steven Brindle

Aga: The Story of a Kitchen Classic

By Tim James

On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren

By Lisa Jardine

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

By Walter Isaacson

British Military Rifles

By Peter Duckers

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

By Tom Standage

R.R.Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary, 1753-1755: Industry in England and Wales from a Swedish Perspective

By R.R. Angerstein, Torsten Berg, Peter Berg

Captain Swing

By Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude

The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

By Langdon Winner