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  • Brief Answers to the Big Questions
    THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking is a profound exploration of the most compelling questions that have captivated humanity for centuries. As the renowned cosmologist and bestselling author of A Brief History of Time, Hawking leaves us with his final thoughts in this remarkable posthumous work. In this enlightening book, Hawking addresses...
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  • The Criminal Mind
    The extraordinary life and work of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrist - a powerful and unforgettable journey into the true nature of good and evil. A likeable young girl burns her family home to the ground. A man has no memory of the night he killed his wife. A teenager's visions have murderous effect. One question binds the cases of Dr...
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  • Empire of Pain
    The inspiration behind the Netflix TV series Painkillers, starring Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick. Amazon's Top 20 Best Books of the Year 'This is no dense medical tome, but a page-turner with a villainous family to rival the Roys in Succession, and one where every chapter ends with the perfect bombshell.' - Esquire The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of...
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  • Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon
    This is a deeply practical and readable book, which will take you on an expedition through the anatomy of the most fascinating - and mysterious - of organs. World-leading neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial draws on his years of work with patients suffering from the most extreme cases of brain damage, disorders and illnesses to reveal what they can...
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  • Gambling Man
    The real story behind the mercurial Masayoshi Son, who has three times lost and made tens of billions of dollars. Gambling Man is the biography of one of the world's least known but most consequential investors. Japan's Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1 trillion in the past two decades through his media-tech...
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  • Undoctored
    THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW INCLUDING BRAND NEW MATERIAL This Is Going to Hurt was the bestselling non-fiction book of the century – a frank, funny and furious look at the brutal realities of life in the NHS. But it was only part of Adam Kay's story. With his stethoscope now hung up, Adam shares more suture-splitting...
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  • Everything Is Predictable
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics, but with an invigorating sense of greater purchase on the world' – OLIVER BURKEMAN Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound...
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  • Jung's Life and Work
    In 1957, at the age of eighty-one, C. G. Jung began a collaboration with his student and secretary Aniela Jaffe and the legendary publisher Kurt Wolff on a book about his life. Memories, Dreams, Reflections would become a bestseller, yet it draws from less than half of Jaffe's original interviews with Jung. Much of the material from these candid, wide-ranging...
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  • American Prometheus
    NOW A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist...
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  • In a Flight of Starlings
    In In a Flight of Starlings, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Giorgio Parisi embarks on an illuminating journey that intertwines personal anecdotes with a deep dive into the intricacies of scientific practice. This compelling narrative unfolds by examining the mesmerising flight patterns of starlings, which Parisi uses as a metaphor and a foundation to explore the complexities that govern our universe. Through...
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    Just About Coping
    'Like an Adam Kay for psychotherapy' – Frankie Boyle 'I loved this witty, insightful journey into the world of psychotherapy' – Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, and Steph is coping with rejection. Meanwhile, their therapist, Dr. Natalie Cawley, is dealing with...
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  • Gambling Man
    The real story behind the mercurial Masayoshi Son, who has three times lost and made tens of billions of dollars. Gambling Man is the biography of one of the world's least known but most consequential investors. Japan's Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1 trillion in the past two decades through his media-tech...
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  • Unnatural Causes
    Dr Richard Shepherd is one of Britain’s foremost forensic pathologists, with a storied career that has seen him delve into the mysteries of sudden and unexplained deaths. In Unnatural Causes, Shepherd takes readers behind the scenes of his life and work, offering an unfiltered look into the world of forensic pathology. From high-profile cases that have made headlines to the...
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  • Anaximander
    The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics tells the thrilling story of one of the greatest intellectual leaps of all time. Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. Anaximander's legacy includes...
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    And Finally
    From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and what matters in the end. From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an entrancing and uplifting meditation on the gift of life. "A book to treasure and reread" – Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being As a...
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  • Dylan's Pick
    A Life on Our Planet
    The legacy-defining Sunday Times bestseller by Sir David Attenborough - now in paperback. With a new afterword, "Why You Are Here" - A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summit. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our...
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  • Why Fish Don't Exist
    Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025: the profound and life-affirming memoir about finding our way in a chaotic world'A sumptuous, surprising, dark delight' Carmen Maria Machado'Fast-moving, deftly balanced, full of surprises' Guardian's Book of the Day'A bold and original blend of memoir and science' Elizabeth BuchananIf fish don't exist, what else do we have wrong?As a child, Lulu...
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    A Place to Stand
    A Place to Stand by Clare Ward is a profound memoir that delves into the life of a country doctor living and working in the Hokianga Harbour area in the far north of Aotearoa New Zealand. This region is sparsely populated and poses numerous health challenges. This thoughtful account details Clare’s thirty-year career, highlighting the people she works with and...
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  • The Unlikely Doctor
    Born into love but then thrust into violence, and shaped by struggle, Timoti Te Moke was never destined to be a leader. After an early start as a bright boy in the eastern Bay of Plenty, nurtured by his reo Māori-speaking grandparents, Timoti's life changed sharply when his mother took custody of him when he was six. He survived abuse,...
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    This is Going to Hurt
    This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay takes you on an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and often hysterical journey through the gruelling life of a junior doctor working in the NHS. The book is based on Kay's private diaries, penned during endless shifts, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, revealing the raw realities of a profession that is both incredibly demanding and...
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    The Secret Life of Flying
    How does a plane stay up in the air? Does the Mile-High Club actually exist? When you flush the toilet, where does it all go? Buckle up for some turbulence because nothing flies under the radar for Captain Jeremy Burfoot. With more than 35 years of airline experience, the former Qantas pilot presents an Airbus-load of stories about unruly passengers...
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  • Steve Jobs in Exile
    The Untold Story of Steve Jobs's Wilderness Years—and the Creation of a Legend In 1985, Steve Jobs—the brilliant, volatile founder of Apple Computer—walked out of his company's headquarters, driven from the very corporation he had created. What happened next would transform not only his life and career but the future of technology itself. For twelve years, from 1985 to 1997,...
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson is an enthralling exploration of the life and mind of the quintessential Renaissance man. This biography delves into the riveting story of Leonardo da Vinci, seamlessly blending the art, science, and personal life of one of history's most innovative figures. The narrative begins with Leonardo's early years in the small Italian town of Vinci,...
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    Shackleton
    Embark on an unforgettable journey through one of history's most epic tales of survival and leadership in Shackleton by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. This gripping biography delves into the life and trials of Sir Ernest Shackleton, whose doomed 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition remains one of the most remarkable feats of human endurance ever recorded. As his ship, the Endurance, becomes hopelessly...
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    The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
    One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke), dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece and a bestseller in France. In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French Elle and the father of two young children,...
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  • Failure Is Not an Option
    Failure Is Not an Option is an enthralling memoir by Gene Kranz, the charismatic and steely NASA flight director, whose resolve and tenacity helped shape the success of America's space program. The narrative journeys through the spine-tingling challenges and triumphs from the nascent days of the Mercury program, through the iconic Apollo 11 moon landing, and the dramatic Apollo 13...
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  • Tech Bros
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    Tech Bros
    The extraordinary story of Atlassian - how two university friends with a billion-dollar idea created a global tech company. In a cramped share house in inner-city Sydney, university classmates Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar started working together to create a $160 billion company from scratch and revolutionise the way the world works. They couldn't have been more different - Cannon-Brookes...
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  • The Infinity Machine
    A revelatory portrait of the visionary behind Google DeepMind, the race to control the future - and what it means to win. Even in a tech world crowded with visionary leaders, Demis Hassabis is recognised as a special case. Born to working-class, immigrant parents in North London, a chess prodigy by five and wizard coder in his teens, he turned...
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    Life in the Balance
    A moving, frank, and unflinching-yet-witty account of the realities of intensive care medicine from Dr Jim Down, ICU consultant at one of London's top hospitals. In these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit - the hospital section where the sickest patients are brought for emergency care. With honesty, humility, and a...
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    The Final Diagnosis
    The if of death is certain. The when is unknown. It is the why that really gets people's interest... From a rare and deadly amniotic avalanche to a victim of roasted peanuts... The bestselling author of The Cause of Death and The Quick and the Dead returns with more stranger-than-fiction stories of death, disease, and murder - as well as...
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  • Elon Musk
    From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. Australian Financial Review Top 20 Read for 2023​ Elon...
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    Einstein
    Einstein by Walter Isaacson offers a gripping and insightful portrayal of one of history's most esteemed scientists. Delving into the complexities of Albert Einstein's life, Isaacson masterfully chronicles the journey of a man whose ideas shattered centuries of scientific tradition and reshaped our understanding of the universe. From his curious and inquisitive youth, through his personal and professional trials, to...
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    Post-Mortem
    Death is a certainty, but what happens in the lead-up—and in its aftermath—is anything but predictable. Nobody knows this better than those who work with death every day. There's no time for an existential crisis when your 9-to-5 involves responding to fatal plane accidents, transporting organs for urgent surgery, or fending off a dying man's request for Nickelback. In this...
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  • Periodic Bitch
    Every twenty-nine days, Emma Hardy becomes angry, monstrous and out of control. Then it passes, and she forgets about it. Until it cycles around again, of course. When a doctor diagnoses her with PMDD, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, she begins to question when a mood is just a mood, and when a mood becomes an illness. Searching for truth between the...
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  • A Dim Prognosis
    This compelling tell-all reveals the realities of working as a doctor in New Zealand. Fast-paced and darkly funny, it chronicles ten years of working in medicine - treating the victims of the Whakaari White Island eruption, being on the frontline during the pandemic, dealing with chronic understaffing - and sheds a light on where and why the health system is...
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  • The Thinking Machine
    The explosive story of the tech giant Nvidia - the producer of the only chip anyone involved in AI wants - and its charismatic, uncompromising, complicated CEO, Jensen Huang. The riveting account of Nvidia, the tech company that has exploded in value for its artificial intelligence computing hardware, and Jensen Huang, Nvidia's charismatic, uncompromising CEO. In June of 2024, spurred...
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    The Place of Tides
    A story of friendship, history and redemption on a remote Norwegian island. We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old...
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    Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
    The story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men - separated in age by...
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    The Invention of Nature
    The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf is an astonishing and captivating biography that retraces the epic life of Alexander von Humboldt, a visionary scientist whose ideas have had a profound impact on our modern understanding of nature. This page-turner takes readers on a journey through Humboldt's thrilling explorations and his enduring legacy. From scaling the heights of the Andes...
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    Alan Turing: The Enigma
    The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges is a riveting biography that delves into the life of one of the most exceptional minds of the 20th century. This meticulously researched biography presents a comprehensive and humanising portrayal of Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician...
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  • I Swear
    A mass-market tie-in edition to the major biopic, I Swear, produced by Kirk Jones - this is John Davidson MBE's astonishingly moving memoir of growing up and learning to live with Tourette's Syndrome. The funny and moving autobiography offers extraordinary insight into what it is like to live with a severe form of Tourette's Syndrome. From the award-winning Scottish campaigner....
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  • Letters
    Oliver Sacks, one of the great humanists of our age—who describes himself in these pages as a 'philosophical physician' and an 'astronomer of the inward'—wrote to an eclectic array of family and friends. Most were scientists, artists, and writers, even statesmen: Francis Crick, Antonio Damasio, Jane Goodall, W. H. Auden, Susan Sontag, Stephen Jay Gould, Björk, and his first cousin,...
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  • Elements of Chemistry
    What makes a quark? How many quarks make a proton? How many protons make an oxygen atom? How many oxygen atoms make a carbon dioxide molecule? How many carbon atoms make you? In this accessible little book, packed with helpful diagrams and interesting information, science writer Matt Tweed takes us on a whirlwind tour into the tiny realms, the stuff...
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    Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America’s mass graves
    ONE OF The New Yorker's BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY Financial Times' READERS FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2023 A New York Times BOOKS EDITOR'S CHOICE "Has the makings of a classic." - The TLS "Chilling and vital... sensitive and thought-provoking." - The Times "Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility...
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  • The Invention of Nature
    WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MERLIN SHELDRAKE WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson 'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express 'Extraordinary and gripping' New Scientist 'A superb biography' The Economist 'An exhilarating armchair voyage' GILES MILTON, Mail on Sunday Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the...
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  • Twelve Patients
    Using the plights of twelve very different patients—from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners at Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons—Dr. Eric Manheimer offers far more than remarkable medical dramas: he blends each patient's personal experiences with their social implications (Publishers Weekly). Manheimer is not only the medical director of the country's oldest public hospital,...
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  • When The Heavens Went On Sale
    Bestselling author of Elon Musk—over 1.5 million copies sold—returns with an incredible, untold new story of the renegade space race and the new wild west above the clouds. An instant New York Times Bestseller 'One of the most exciting tales of our time... It's the next tech frontier, and Vance turns it into a thriller' - Walter Isaacson, author of...
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  • There's a Cure for This: A Memoir
    The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Espiner. "I don't know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking about how the tohu, once awarded, can never be taken back. There are few things in life that emphatic. Better not fuck it up." From award-winning writer Dr Emma Espiner comes...
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  • The Criminal Mind
    The Criminal Mind is the harrowing memoir of forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding. As a forensic psychiatrist, Duncan Harding has worked on some of the most harrowing cases one can imagine, spending time in the prison service, the Old Bailey and at Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital. His is a life spent working with serial killers, psychopaths, and children who kill their...
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  • Hour of the Heart
    After some six decades of therapeutic practice and writing, I learned in a new and meaningful way how we humans—whether we're in the cool, distanced medium of Zoom, or in the heat of real life—can create a startlingly honest and heartfelt connection that in a single hour can change one's life. What does "the father of group therapy" do at...
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  • The Right Stuff
    The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's early space programme. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY 'What is it,' asks Tom Wolfe, 'that makes a...
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  • Frog
    Frog, a term of endearment for intensive care paramedics, derives from the notion that everything they touch croaks. Sally Gould delivers a gripping and heartfelt memoir that dives into the unpredictable, often absurd, and sometimes heartbreaking reality of life as a paramedic. Life as a paramedic, writes Sally Gould in this candid, witty memoir, can be traumatic, gross, dull, hilarious,...
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  • The Starship and the Canoe
    The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know it, live it, and consult it thereafter simply by name." --Chicago Sun-Times "In the tradition of Carl Sagan and John McPhee, a bracing...
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  • A Periodic Tale
    How did a shy Polish immigrant kid - Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki - evolve into the fabulously eccentric Dr Karl? The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, Karl has always forged his own destiny in an idiosyncratic way. Before he became one of the world's favourite scientific storytellers, he ambled through a...
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  • Source Code
    The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age. Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code, he takes us back to his beginnings. He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family—his close relationship with his card-playing grandmother and...
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  • After Steve
    From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants—Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO—and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul. Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner...
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  • The Elements of Marie Curie
    Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science – and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory. ‘A luminous and illuminating contribution to the cause’ Literary Review For decades, Marie Curie was the only woman in the room at international...
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  • A Mind at Play
    A Mind at Play by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni is a captivating biography chronicling the life and brilliance of Claude Shannon, a figure often hailed as the father of the Information Age. This engaging book delves into Shannon’s groundbreaking contributions to science and technology, insights that spark the creativity behind every computer, email, and application today. The authors masterfully...
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  • Voyagers
    From the award-winning science writer Lauren Fuge comes Voyagers, an expansive narrative that weaves together personal journey, historical recount, and urgent environmental commentary. This compelling book takes you from the rugged fjords of the Pacific Northwest to the ancient geology of Australia's outback, and even to the far reaches of the cosmos. Fuge delves deep into humankind's intrinsic desire to...
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  • Genius Makers
    Genius Makers: A ground-breaking account of the race to create Artificial Intelligence. This colourful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective . . . Metz explains this transformative technology and makes the quest thrilling. — Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs This is the inside story of a small group of mavericks, eccentrics, and geniuses who turned Artificial Intelligence...
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  • Against the Odds
    In 2025, the year in which the Otago medical school celebrates 150 years, 50 per cent of graduates are women. Back in 1891 when Emily Seideberg, who would go on to become the school’s first woman graduate, applied for entrance, it was not at all clear that it would be granted. There was active hostility in many quarters to the...
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  • Things I remember, or was told
    Things I remember, or was told is the memoir of outspoken Wellington GP Carol Shand, who since the early 1960s has spent her life fighting for change in medical, social and legal issues that she considered important: maternity care, access to contraception, abortion law change, and improved response to sexual assault complaints. Carol is the daughter of Claudia and Tom...
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  • Engineering in changing times
    In 1966, engineers had a mainly technical role. Fast forward to 2016, and advancing technology had revolutionised the profession, allowing more comprehensive and sophisticated investigations, testing, and analyses. In addition, changes in legislation and the expectations of society have meant that civil engineers are now expected to become involved in public consultation and consider the environmental impacts of projects. Engineering...
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  • I, Vera
    Princess Vera Giedroytz was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian Princess who habitually wore a man’s suit, played billiards with brilliance, and regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery, while on occasion forcibly ejecting an inquisitive Rasputin from her operating theatre by throwing him down the stairs. In 1909, already lauded as a genius, Vera had been appointed by the doomed Tsarina...
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    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction A New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award Winner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic...
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    Even the tragic and negative aspects of life, such as unavoidable suffering, can be turned into a human achievement by the attitude which a man adopts toward his predicament... to transform despair into triumph. Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl is known as the founder of logotherapy, a mode of psychotherapy based on our desire to search for meaning in our...
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  • The Secret Midwife
    For fans of One Born Every Minute. The Secret Midwife is a heart-breaking, engrossing and important read. At once joyful and profoundly shocking, this is the story of birth, straight from the delivery room. Strongest supporter, best friend, expert, cheerleader and chief photographer... Before, during and after labour the role of a midwife is second to none. The Secret Midwife...
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    Little Miracles Everywhere invites you to join holistic veterinarian Marcie Fallek as she embarks on an unconventional healing path that prioritises love for animals and their wellness. In this funny, honest, and illuminating memoir, Marcie Fallek, a sceptical New Yorker and animal lover, shares her journey to becoming a veterinarian. She begins her quest at an Italian veterinary school where...
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  • Elon Musk
    From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. Australian Financial Review Top 20 Read for 2023​ When...
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  • My Steve
    My Steve is a deeply personal and moving tribute to a man adored by millions of people who never met him, and cherished by those who did. I’d never, ever believed in love at first sight. But I had the strangest, most overwhelming feeling that it was destiny that took me into that little wildlife park that day. Here, Terri...
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  • The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code
    The true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionised how we see the defining problem of our era—anxiety. Panic, depression, sorrow, guilt, disgrace, obsession, sleeplessness, low confidence, loneliness, agoraphobia... Dr Claire Weekes knew how to treat them but was dismissed as underqualified and overly populist by the psychiatric establishment. In a radical move, she had gone directly to the...
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  • The Wisdom of Wolves
    What wolves can teach us about being human The Wisdom of Wolves highlights the values of love, family, and resilience as taught by these remarkable creatures. Wolves teach us to love our families, care for those around us, never give up, and always find time to have fun. These golden rules of wolves show their remarkable intelligence and empathetic care....
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    One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 A really moving and heart-rending story. Unshrunk will help and empower so many people. JOHANN HARI, author of Stolen Focus and Lost Connections Unshrunk is the story of a young woman who dared to be herself, and a potent reminder of why human suffering can never be reduced to a diagnostic...
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  • Annette Kellerman, Australian Mermaid
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  • Banks
    Lust, science, adventure — Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge. Fabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific...
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  • Rough Sleepers
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains “I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better.”...
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  • A Beautiful Mind
    A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar is a deeply moving narrative that explores the enigmatic life of John Nash, a mathematical prodigy whose groundbreaking work laid the foundations for game theory. Set against the backdrop of mid-20th century academia, the biography delves into Nash's extraordinary intellectual prowess and his eventual descent into schizophrenia. With an unparalleled talent that saw him...
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Science & Technology Biographies

Explore groundbreaking discoveries and innovations in our Science and Technology Biographies, featuring the brilliant minds who revolutionised our understanding of the world and shaped the future.