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Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

By Duncan Clark

The Story of Semiconductors

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

Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis

By Laurie Winkless

The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1840-1949

By James Reardon-Anderson

507 Mechanical Movements

By Henry T. Brown

A Brief History of Computing

By Gerard O'Regan

Beyond the Genius: Nobel Stories of Passion and Controversy in Science

By Virginia Shepherd, Charles Brau

Extreme Exploration: Celebrating and Applying Lessons Learned from the Apollo Expeditions

By Pamela Elizabeth Clark

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History: Actium, Battle of

By John B. Hattendorf

The Great Days of the Canals

By Anthony Burton

The Aircraft Book: The Definitive Visual History

By Dorling Kindersley

Lithic Analysis at the Millennium

By Norah Moloney, Michael J. Shott

History of Invention

By Trevor Williams, William E. Schaaf, Arianne E. Burnette

Victorian Farm

By Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman

Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen

By Bee Wilson

The Big Book of Celebrity Inventions

By Champkins, Mark, Jones, Peter

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...

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)

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)

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

By Trevor H. Levere, Gerard L'E Turner

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

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

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

Zeppelin!: Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939

By Guillaume de Syon (Professor, Albright College)