Biography: science, technology and medicine

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeThe Top Ten BestsellerWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the MonthA Sunday Times Paperback of the Year 'If you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sentence and the quality of language and with the emotional depth of its subject matter, then A Fortunate Woman is definitely the book you should be reading' - Samanth Subramanian, Baillie Gifford judgeWhen Polly Morland is clearing out her mother's house she finds a book that will lead her to a remarkable figure living on her own doorstep: the country doctor who works in the same remote, wooded valley she has lived in for many years.

This is not a new book but a specially adapted version of Adam Kay's bestseller This is Going to Hurt for Quick Reads.

The number one Sunday Times bestseller, Adam Kay's festive hospital diaries, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, is the perfect stocking filler from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt - now a major BBC TV series.

A heartbreaking account of a medical miracle: how one woman's cells - taken without her knowledge - have saved countless lives.

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Francis Bacon is considered the father of modern science.

Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelical lecturer.

Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American.

In 'The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature', Dr.

Anyone who had read "e;The Greatest Thing in the World"e; could not help but desire to see and hear its author; and, when Professor Drummond visited Boston in the spring of 1893, the capacity of lecture halls was taxed to the utmost.

During his life time George Washington Carver was referred to as the black Leonardo da Vinci.

No class of works is received with more suspicion, I had almost said derision, than those which deal with Science and Religion.

Nikola Tesla has been called the most important man of the twentieth century.

Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer.

Collected here are three gnostic writings from Thomas, Mary, and John.

In The Changed Life, Henry Drummond instructs us on how we may change our lives to be more like Christ.

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#1Wall Street Journalbestseller!

Known as the original Snakemaster from his various television shows, Austin Stevens is one of the most famous herpetologists in the world.

The ThinkPad notebook computer has been at the center of the digital revolution that has transformed millions of lives around the world, allowing users to obtain access to their documents, pictures and other personal data from virtually anywhere at any time.

Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact and, speculationfrom the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov's seminal robot masterpiece, I, Robot, to the 2050 Singularity when artificial and human intelligence are predicted to merge.

One word strikes more fear into a person's mind than any other: cancer.

Thomas Edison closely following the alternative physics work of Albert Einstein and Max Planck, convincing him that there was an entire reality unseen by the human eye.

Unehelich, Vegetarier, homosexuell, Linkshänder, leicht ablenkbar und durchaus ketzerisch – Leonardo da Vinci verlangte der Gesellschaft des 15.

'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon.

'Enchanting to the point of escapism.

The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards, now a major BBC comedy-drama starring Ben Whishaw.

A deeply personal memoir of late autism diagnosis.

A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances.

Joe Inglis, star of BBC 1's award-winning series Vets in Practice has written his diary for a year.

Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain and what is at stake in this debate?

Timed to coincide with the release of Walter Isaacson's latest biography on the famous painter and inventor, as well as the latest thriller in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code series, this book includes 101 in-depth facts about Leonardo Da Vinci.

Learn everything you need to know about Albert Einstein, the genius who created the Theory of Relativity and calculated mass-energy equivalence.

From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B.

A ';beautifully written' (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have take to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system.

A compelling memoir about trying to live meaningfully with illness and triumph beyond it, by breast cancer survivor Alana Somerville, a teacher and mother of two young children.

In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Helen MacDonald's H Is for Hawk, Karen Auvinen, an award-winning poet, ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life's big questions with ';candor [and] admirable courage' (Christian Science Monitor).

';An engrossing microcosm of the internet's Wild West years' (Kirkus Reviews), award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.

By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies.

Aware that her youth is slipping by, Mary Beth Baptiste decides to escape her lackluster, suburban life in coastal Massachusetts to pursue her lifelong dream of being a Rocky Mountain woodswoman.

In turn heartbreaking, irreverent, movingand at times raucously humorousone of the nation's leading pediatric researchers recounts his first years as a newly minted, stuggling, and insecure doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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Handbook of Digital Forensics and Investigation builds on the success of the Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation, bringing together renowned experts in all areas of digital forensics and investigation to provide the consummate resource for practitioners in the field.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, premio Nobel de Medicina y el mayor genio científico español de todos los tiempos, es retratado por fin en toda su complejidad en esta emocionante biografía.

From one of America's best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows ';why, in light of our origins, humans are still special' (Edward J.

';Grippingan outstanding portrait' (The Wall Street Journal) of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B.

*Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter.