The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot | 
Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel | 
Rocket Men
by Robert Kurson | 
The Invention of Nature
by Andrea Wulf | 
Carrying the Fire
by Michael Collins | 
Apollo 8
by Jeffrey Kluger | 
Failure Is Not an Option
by Gene Kranz | 
Apollo 13
by Jim Lovell |
E=mc2
by David Bodanis |
The Knife Man
by Wendy Moore | 
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
by Mike Brown |
Alan Turing
by Andrew Hodges | 
Vaccinated
by Paul A. Offit | 
Almost Astronauts
by Tanya Lee Stone | 
The Emperor of Scent
by Chandler Burr | 
The Wizard and the Prophet
by Charles C. Mann | 
Charles and Emma
by Deborah Heiligman | 
The Clockwork Universe
by Edward Dolnick |
Brighter than a Thousand Suns
by Robert Jungk | 
The Curve of Binding Energy
by John McPhee |
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of cold war confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the Skunk Works so renowned.