Scientists, Doctors and Thinkers

Stories of a physicist's first marriage and his inquiry into the Challenger disaster.

A life across economics, psychology, organisations and artificial intelligence.

How Linux came to be developed, and how its creator thinks.

Fischer Black's life and ideas, from option pricing on, that shaped modern finance.

An economist's path from young communist in Hungary to analyst of socialism.

Einstein's life and science, from the Bern patent office to relativity.

Computing as a run of collaborations, from Ada Lovelace and Babbage to Google.

From a Dayton bicycle shop to the first powered flights and the 1908 demonstrations.

Thomas Edison's life, told in reverse chronological order.

Richard Stallman, the free software movement and the GPL licence he wrote.

Edison as the first manufactured celebrity.

A neurosurgeon on how medical decisions and hospital incentives actually work

A memoir told through portraits of the people the author knew, from Vienna on.

A physicist's stories, from fixing radios as a boy to Los Alamos and beyond.

Interviews with leading programmers on the forces and traits behind their work.

Information theory as a unifying idea across three scientists' work

A collection of Richard Feynman's best short works.

Boulton, Watt, Wedgwood, Erasmus Darwin and the Midlands friends who experimented.

Paul Farmer, the doctor who co-founded Partners In Health, treating the poor.

The career of Norman Borlaug, the plant scientist who won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Montaigne's life and essays, read as answers to the question of how to live.

A computer pioneer's autobiography: his life in computing and fight for civilisation.