Biography: science, technology & engineering books

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The Pain Project: A Couple's Story of Confronting Chronic Pain

The Pain Project: A Couple's Story of Confronting Chronic...

Author: Kara Stanley ,  Simon Paradis
ISBN: 9781771648400
Format: Paperback
$34.99

'The Pain Project is ironically full of pleasure: on every page is another generous, original insight into this...  Read More >>

You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life

You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s...

Author: Benji Waterhouse
ISBN: 9781787333185
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from 'the Adam Kay of mental healthcare'...  Read More >>

You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life

You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s...

Author: Benji Waterhouse
ISBN: 9781787333178
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Humane, hilarious and heart-breaking, You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and darkly comic...  Read More >>

Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books

Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books

Author: Sachiko Kusukawa
ISBN: 9781789148527
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A revisionist biography of Andreas Vesalius — the father of modern anatomy — as deeply shaped by Renaissance culture....  Read More >>

The Life of LTC Rolt: Where Engineering Met Literature

The Life of LTC Rolt: Where Engineering Met Literature...

Author: Victoria Owens
ISBN: 9781399056618
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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Red Moon: The Soviet Conquest of Space

Red Moon: The Soviet Conquest of Space

Author: Massimo Capaccioli
ISBN: 9783031547591
Format: Paperback
$100.29

Restrained by the fear of nuclear holocaust, the two great powers that had momentarily divided the government of...  Read More >>

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

Author: Samuel Graydon
ISBN: 9781529372502
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19...

Author: Joe Miller ,  Ugur Sahin
ISBN: 9781802791365
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The story of the Pfizer vaccine discovery. The Vaccine draws back the curtain on one of the most important medical...  Read More >>

Honoring Charlotte Moore Sitterly (IAU S371): Astronomical Spectroscopy in the 21st Century

Honoring Charlotte Moore Sitterly (IAU S371): Astronomical...

Author: David R. Soderblom (Space Telescope Science Institute, USA) ,  Gillian Nave (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland)
ISBN: 9781009351928
Format: Hardback
$284.63

IAU Symposium 371 honors the contributions of Charlotte Moore Sitterly as a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy....  Read More >>

Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot

Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot

Author: Jonathan Alexander
ISBN: 9781531507305
Format: Paperback
$32.99

"An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a body In the...  Read More >>

This Monstrous Obsession: Hard Lessons Learned about Addiction

This Monstrous Obsession: Hard Lessons Learned about...

Author: James L. Baker, M.D. M.P.H.
ISBN: 9781633889446
Format: Hardback
$59.99

In his emotional, thorough, tender, and urgent new book, This Monstrous Obsession, James Baker, M.D., M.P.H. lays...  Read More >>

The Fortune Teller's Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor

The Fortune Teller's Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely...

Author: Lally Pia
ISBN: 9781647427115
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A searing examination of the immigrant experience, The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy is Lally Pia’s tale of resilience...  Read More >>

A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land

A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey...

Author: Dan Chapman
ISBN: 9781642833256
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Readers join the author on a journey through the natural wonders of the South, framed by John Muir's writings on...  Read More >>

Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness

Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous...

Author: Robert Aquinas McNally
ISBN: 9781496227263
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Cast Out of Eden explores John Muir’s role in the dispossession of Native Americans from U.S. wild lands and points...  Read More >>

Kurt Gödel: Metamathematisches Genie

Kurt Gödel: Metamathematisches Genie

Author: William D. Brewer
ISBN: 9783031431500
Format: Hardback
$92.37

Zu seinen Lebzeiten war Kurt Gödel außerhalb der Fachwelt der Mathematiker, Philosophen und theoretischen Physiker...  Read More >>

The Human Battery: Theories into Consciousness

The Human Battery: Theories into Consciousness

Author: Ryan Strachan
ISBN: 9781779416759
Format: Paperback
$39.57

This autobiography delves into the intersection of ancient philosophy and contemporary thought. Exploring profound...  Read More >>

The Human Battery: Theories into Consciousness

The Human Battery: Theories into Consciousness

Author: Ryan Strachan
ISBN: 9781779416766
Format: Hardback
$55.41

This autobiography delves into the intersection of ancient philosophy and contemporary thought. Exploring profound...  Read More >>

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem...

Author: Tom Chivers
ISBN: 9781399604048
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A fascinating intellectual history that takes a comparatively little-known but important idea and shows how it affects...  Read More >>

Faraday as a Discoverer

Faraday as a Discoverer

Author: John Tyndall
ISBN: 9781006326097
Format: Hardback
$91.62

Published in 1868, soon after the death of Michael Faraday (1791–1867), this short but well-informed work by the...  Read More >>

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem...

Author: Tom Chivers
ISBN: 9781399604031
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown

Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How...

Author: Camilla Pang
ISBN: 9780241545331
Format: Hardback
$45.00

What can we learn about the world and ourselves if we think like scientists? A scientist's journey from observation...  Read More >>

Lone Druid: Chronicles of a Reluctant Wilderness Activist

Lone Druid: Chronicles of a Reluctant Wilderness Activist...

Author: Ric Bailey
ISBN: 9781946970183
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"Ric Bailey is a chronic nature lover. He's no scientist or ecologist, in fact, he doesn't even have a college degree....  Read More >>

Golden Scars: How the Death of My Husband Prepared Me to Battle Breast Cancer

Golden Scars: How the Death of My Husband Prepared Me...

Author: Emily (Barry) Zarecki
ISBN: 9798218378004
Format: Paperback
$44.75

"I. Am. The. Storm. When Emily was diagnosed with breast cancer,...  Read More >>

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