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Charles Elliott
Is It a Bird? Is It a Flea?
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
By Jason Roberts
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Piers Brendon
Bones of Contention
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion
By Michael Taylor
September 2023 Issue
Andrew Crumey
An Electromagnetic Personality
Einstein in Time & Space: A Life in 99 Particles
By Samuel Graydon
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May 2023 Issue
Iain Bamforth
Getting High, Tripping Out
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
By Mike Jay
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March 2023 Issue
Daniel Rey
The God in the Machine
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion
By Nicholas Spencer
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February 2023 Issue
A J Lees
When the Surgeon Met the Shrink
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A Story of Science, Sex and Psychoanalysis
By Seamus O’Mahony
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December 2022 Issue
Steven Nadler
Confederacy of Deceivers?
The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy
By Dmitri Levitin
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November 2022 Issue
Patricia Fara
Life’s Building Blocks
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
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September 2022 Issue
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
All in the Genes
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family
By Alison Bashford
May 2022 Issue
Dmitri Levitin
The G Word
Horizons: A Global History of Science
By James Poskett
February 2022 Issue
Wendy Moore
Call the Doctress
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By Helen Rappaport
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July 2021 Issue
Patricia Fara
Tick Tock Travelogue
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
By David Rooney
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November 2020 Issue
Kate Wiles
Stars in Their Eyes
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
By Seb Falk
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October 2020 Issue
Mathew Lyons
Breaking the Spell
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
By Chris Gosden
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July 2020 Issue
Roger Highfield
Smelling a Lab Rat
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
By Stuart Ritchie
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December 2019 Issue
Cathy Gere
All in the Brain?
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
By Anne Harrington
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December 2019 Issue
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Papa Franz’s People
The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture
By Charles King
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December 2019 Issue
Mathew Lyons
In Neptune’s Vast Dominions
Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill 1550–1800
By Margaret E Schotte
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October 2019 Issue
A J Lees
What’s in the 7 Up?
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
By Walter A Brown
August 1999 Issue
Kathryn Hughes
Daughter of a Poet and of a Parallelogram
The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter
By Benjamin Woolley
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