November 2015 Issue
Patrick Wilcken
Conqueror of Chimborazo
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
By Andrea Wulf
October 2015 Issue
Patricia Fara
What Tycho Brahe Saw
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
By David Wootton
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October 2015 Issue
Robert Mayhew
Engineering the Skies
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
By Oliver Morton
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September 2015 Issue
Shane Harris
Is It Safe to Go Online?
Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet
By Edward Lucas
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September 2015 Issue
Henry Gee
1953 and All That
Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
By Matthew Cobb
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August 2015 Issue
Simon Parkin
Only Connect
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
By Laurence Scott
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August 2015 Issue
Heather Brooke
What the Refrigerator Saw
Future Crimes: A Journey to the Dark Side of Technology – and How to Survive It
By Marc Goodman
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July 2015 Issue
Matthew Green
‘Find, Fix, Finish’
Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars
By Chris Woods
July 2015 Issue
Andrew Crumey
Don’t Get Sucked in…
Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved
By Marcia Bartusiak
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July 2015 Issue
Alan Judd
Cloak & Data
The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror
By Stephen Grey
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June 2015 Issue
Scott Timberg
Dire Straits
How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?
By Stephen Witt
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June 2015 Issue
Patricia Fara
Cloud Atlases
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
By Peter Moore
May 2015 Issue
Tori Herridge
Shaggy Elephant Story
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
By Beth Shapiro
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May 2015 Issue
Will Wiles
Corrode to Hell
Rust: The Longest War
By Jonathan Waldman
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A C Grayling
Objectively Speaking
Truth And Truthfulness: An Essay In Genealogy
By Bernard Williams
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March 2003 Issue
Christopher Bray
A Visionary Victorian
Motion Studies: Time, Space and Eadweard Muybridge
By Rebecca Solnit
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May 2003 Issue
A C Grayling
Evolutionary Minds
A Devil's Chaplain
By Richard Dawkins
DNA: The Secret of Life
By James D Watson
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April 2015 Issue
Steve Fuller
Experimenting in Tongues
Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English
By Michael D Gordin
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April 2015 Issue
Patricia Fara
God in the Machine
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
By Steven Weinberg
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April 2015 Issue
David Bodanis
A Few Nice Men
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
By Walter Isaacson
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
By Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli
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