Deborah Cadbury

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Deborah Cadbury is an award-winning British author and BBC television producer specialising in fundamental issues of science and history, and their effects on modern society.

She has been making documentary programs for the BBC for over 20 years and has received numerous awards, including an Emmy, for her work on the BBC's Horizon strand.

Her film Assault On The Male launched a world-wide scientific research campaign into the hormone-mimicking chemicals that are harming human health.

Her 2000 book The Dinosaur Hunters that examined the bitter rivalry between the early fossil hunters who pieced together the evidence of a prehistoric world was turned into a TV film by Granada Productions

She produced the ground-breaking 2003 docudrama Seven Wonders of the Industrial World for which she also wrote the companion book.

Her latest book The Lost King Of France telling the tragic story of Marie Antoinette’s

favourite son is to be developed as a film by Lynda La Plante.

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Altering Eden: The Feminisation of Nature, 1999, St Martins Press, ISBN 0-312-24396-0
The Dinosaur Hunters: : A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World, 2001, HarperCollins,
The Lost King of France: Revolution, revenge and the search for Louis XVII, St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (October 23, 2003), ISBN 0312320299
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, 2003, Fourth Estate, ISBN 0-00-716304-5
Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Nineteenth Century, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal, 2004, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-716306-1
Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space, 2006, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-084553-8