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The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. 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The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... 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The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... 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Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... 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The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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As part of his investigation, he interviews high achievers from a diverse range of fields - from scientists, memory champions and opera stars to polyglots and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: x57606H Professor Luke O'Neill / What Makes Us Human: A Scientist’s Guide to our Amazing Existence (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59413K Rowan Hooper / Superhuman (Large Paperback) Rowan Hooper, managing editor at the New Scientist, explores the peaks of human attainment. As part of his investigation, he interviews high achievers from a diverse range of fields - from scientists, memory champions and opera stars to polyglots and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x59413K Rowan Hooper / Superhuman (Large Paperback) Rowan Hooper, managing editor at the New Scientist, explores the peaks of human attainment. As part of his investigation, he interviews high achievers from a diverse range of fields - from scientists, memory champions and opera stars to polyglots and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 30180K Mary Roach / Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... 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The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. 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Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27112K Frank Ryan / Virusphere - EBOLA, AIDS, Influenza and the Hidden World of the Virus A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history. What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: x56160K Mike Green / The Nearly Men - A Chronicle of Scientific Failure (Large Paperback) Though most know the name of Isaac Newton, few would recognize that of Robert Hooke, a contemporary scientist who postulated the concept of planetary motion before Newton. Throughout the pages of scientific history, a long list of unsung heroes... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26703K Lawrence Hill / Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: 26701K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56096K Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56091K Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions (Large Paperback) Nature's creations are more sophisticated and elegant than anything humans have created. Geckos can run upside down along ceilings. Termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning. Adapt explores how we can harness such ideas... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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