From the July 2003 Issue The Spy in the Straightjacket The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and Hist Visionary Madness By Mike Jay LR
From the November 2003 Issue Passions of the Mind Fugitive Minds: On Madness, Sleep and other Twilight Afflictions By Antonia Melechi LR
From the December 2003 Issue Ray of Genius Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye - The Biography of a Master Film-Maker By Andrew Robinson LR
From the February 2004 Issue Radical Cures The Herbalist: Nicholas Culpeper, Rebel Physician By Benjamin Woolley LR
From the May 2004 Issue Brain Matters Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain- and How it Changed the World By Carl Zimmer LR
From the July 2004 Issue The Speckled Monster The Life and Death of Smallpox By Ian Glynn, Jenifer Glynn LR
From the April 2007 Issue Hero of the Hernia Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon By Druin Burch LR
From the July 2006 Issue Night of Doom The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Indian Empire By Jan Dalley LR
From the April 2006 Issue Beware of the Water The Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera By Sandra Hempel LR
From the September 2005 Issue Shooting in Crowds On the Streets of Calcutta Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema By Andrew Robinson; photographs by Nemai Ghosh; drawings by Satyajit Ray LR
From the August 2005 Issue Countries Consumed Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East, 1750–1850 By Maya Jasanoff LR
From the April 2012 Issue Getting to Know You Identifying the English: A History of Personal Identification 1500 to the Present By Edward Higgs LR
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