November 2024 Issue Henry Gee Neanderthal Resources Human Peoples: On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation By Lluís Quintana-Murci (Translated from French by Howard Curtis) LR
September 2024 Issue Stuart Jeffries I, Algorithm Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI By Yuval Noah Harari LR
April 2022 Issue Lee Jackson Liquid Assets The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good – A History of London’s Water By Nick Higham LR
July 2021 Issue Patricia Fara Tick Tock Travelogue About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks By David Rooney LR
April 2001 Issue Brenda Maddox He Promised Her the Nobel Prize Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance By Dennis Overbye
November 2016 Issue Manjit Kumar Clocking On Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time By Simon Garfield LR
June 2015 Issue Patricia Fara Cloud Atlases The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future By Peter Moore
October 2008 Issue John Cornwell And God Created… Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism By Steve Fuller LR
October 2007 Issue Sujit Saraf The Shock of the Bomb The Shock of the Old: Technology in Global History since 1900 By David Edgerton LR
August 2007 Issue Lucy Lethbridge Upstairs, Downstairs Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service By Alison Light LR
June 2012 Issue David Bodanis Conductors of Progress The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation By Jon Gertner LR
April 2014 Issue Adrian Tinniswood Read All About It The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself By Andrew Pettegree LR
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