Biography: Science

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Plague of Corruption
Plague of Corruption
Judy Mikovits

#1 on Amazon Charts, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller—Over 100,000 Copies in Print!“Kent Heckenli...

Inferno by Catherine Cho
Inferno by Catherine Cho
Catherine Cho

"Inferno is a disturbing and masterfully told memoir, but it’s also an important one that pushes back against powerful...

A Life on Our Planet
A Life on Our Planet
David Attenborough

In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broad...

Vagina Problems
Vagina Problems
Lara Parker

With unflinching honesty, Lara Parker, the Deputy Director for BuzzFeed, shares her day-to-day challenges of living, wor...

The Beauty in Breaking
The Beauty in Breaking
Michele Harper

The New York Times Bestseller "Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring." --The New York Times Boo...

Hidden Valley Road
Hidden Valley Road
Robert Kolker

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, t...

How to Change Your Mind
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan

'Reminds us that the mind is the greatest mystery in the universe' Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian, Books of the YearCould p...

[Free Download] War Doctor
[Free Download] War Doctor
David Nott

For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with t...

The Language of Kindness
The Language of Kindness
Christie Watson

THE SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER *A Guardian, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, The Times,New StatesmanNetgalley and Reading Agen...

Lion by Saroo Brierley
Lion by Saroo Brierley
Saroo Brierley

NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Br...

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Margot Lee Shetterly

Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians kno...

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Paul Kalanithi

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquis...

Women in Science
Women in Science
Ignotofsky Rachel

Greatest Science Books of 2016, BrainPickings.org "Years ago, I saw a photograph of a young boy in a collection of image...

The Invention of Nature
The Invention of Nature
Andrea Wulf

WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016'A thrilling adventure story'...

Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82...

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
David McCullough

#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-...

Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges
Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges
Andrew Hodges

The official book behind the film, The Imitation Game, this is a dramatic portrayal of the life and work of Alan Turing,...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot

One of the most graceful and moving nonfiction books I've read in a very long time . . . The Immortal Life of Henrietta ...

The Emperor of All Maladies
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee

"Rarely have the science and poetry of illness been so elegantly braided together as they are in this erudite, engrossin...

Failure Is Not an Option
Failure Is Not an Option
Gene Kranz

This New York Times bestselling memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of t...

When the Air Hits Your Brain
When the Air Hits Your Brain
Frank Jr Vertosick

"Dramatic, moving, and utterly fascinating."--"New York Times Book Review" With poignant insight and humor, When the Air...

Einstein : His Life and Universe
Einstein : His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert ...

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
Sylvia Nasar

In this biography, Sylvia Nasar re-creates the life of a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by sch...

Tihkal by Ann Shulgin
Tihkal by Ann Shulgin
Alexander Shulgin

Book I: The Story Continues This is the continuation of the love story from PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story with a blend o...

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, b...

My Family and Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell

When the Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do; ...