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Brief Answers to the Big Questions

By Stephen Hawking

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The Criminal Mind

By Dr Duncan Harding

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Empire of Pain

By Patrick Radden Keefe

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Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon

By Dr Rahul Jandial

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Gambling Man

By Lionel Barber

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Undoctored

By Adam Kay

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Everything Is Predictable

By Tom Chivers

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American Prometheus

By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

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In a Flight of Starlings

By Giorgio Parisi

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Just About Coping

By Natalie Cawley

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Gambling Man

By Lionel Barber

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Unnatural Causes

By Dr Richard Shepherd

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Admissions

By Henry Marsh

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Anaximander

By Carlo Rovelli

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And Finally

By Henry Marsh

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A Life on Our Planet

By David Attenborough

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This is Going to Hurt

By Adam Kay

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Elon Musk

By Walter Isaacson

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The Secret Life of Flying

By Jeremy Burfoot

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Unshrunk

By Laura Delano

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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

By Chris Hadfield

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The Elements of Marie Curie

By Dava Sobel

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Failure Is Not an Option

By Gene Kranz

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Genius Makers

By Cade Metz

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The Code Breaker

By Walter Isaacson

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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field

By Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon

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The Invention of Nature

By Andrea Wulf

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Elon Musk

By Walter Isaacson

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Twelve Patients

By Eric Manheimer

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A Dim Prognosis

By Ivor Popovich

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Source Code

By Bill Gates

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The Place of Tides

By James Rebanks

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Brainstorm

By Richard Scolyer

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On Call

By Ineke Meredith

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Inventor of the Future

By Alec Nevala-Lee

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The Glass Universe

By Dava Sobel

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That One Patient

By Ellen de Visser

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The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code

By Judith Hoare

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The Criminal Mind

By Dr Duncan Harding

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Hour of the Heart

By Benjamin Yalom and Irvin D. Yalom

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Philosophers: Their Lives and Works

By DK

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The Wisdom of Wolves

By Elli H. Radinger

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Annette Kellerman, Australian Mermaid

By Grantlee Kieza

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The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk

By Dennis Kneale

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The Starship and the Canoe

By Kenneth Brower

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A Periodic Tale

By Karl Kruszelnicki

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After Steve

By Tripp Mickle

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The Final Diagnosis

By Cynric Temple-Camp

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A Mind at Play

By Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni

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Voyagers

By Lauren Fuge

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Alan Turing: The Enigma

By Andrew Hodges

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Fermat’s Last Theorem

By Simon Singh

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Einstein

By Walter Isaacson

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Critical

By Dr Matt Morgan

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Elements of Chemistry

By Matt Tweed

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Frog

By Sally Gould

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Banks

By Grantlee Kieza

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Rough Sleepers

By Tracy Kidder

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A Beautiful Mind

By Sylvia Nasar

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An Exquisite Legacy

By George Gibbs

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Soundings

By Doreen Cunningham

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Exact Thinking in Demented Times

By Karl Sigmund

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Battle for the Bird

By Kurt Wagner

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The Strangest Man

By Graham Farmelo

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The Seven Ages of Death

By Dr Richard Shepherd

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The Invisible Kingdom

By Meghan O'Rourke

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The Exceptions

By Kate Zernike

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Spaceman

By Mike Massimino

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Innovators

By Walter Isaacson

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When The Heavens Went On Sale

By Ashlee Vance

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The Man from the Future

By Ananyo Bhattacharya

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Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman

By Richard P Feynman

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Shackleton

By Ranulph Fiennes

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On the Future of Species

By Adrian Woolfson

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The Will to Meaning

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Drawing the Line

By Edwin Danson

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American Journey

By Wes Davis

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The Optimist

By Keach Hagey

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The Man Who Organized Nature

By Professor Gunnar Broberg

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Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo

By Ian Harris

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Science & Technology Biographies

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