Sciences and Technology

Martin Steer - Irish Rivers : Biology and Management - PB - RIA

Paperback, published by RIA , 1991, edited by Martin Steer.  This copy is signed by the former FF Tánaiste ,  John P Wilson, and dated 1991. 

Peter Morville / Ambient Findability (Large Paperback)

What We Find Changes Who We Become How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to...

Rena Bivens / Digital Currents (Large Paperback)

Digital Currents: How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News Rena Bivens     Social media has irrevocably changed how people consume the news. With the distinction between professional and citizen journalists blurring like...

John D. Barrow / The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Large Paperback)

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle John D. Barrow, Frank J. Tipler     Ever since Copernicus, scientists have continually adjusted their view of human nature, moving it further and further from its ancient position at the...

David Bainbridge / Middle Age - A Natural History (Large Paperback)

  David Bainbridge is a vet with a particular interest in evolutionary zoology - and he has just turned forty. As well as the usual concerns about greying hair, failing eyesight and goldfish levels of forgetfulness, he finds himself pondering some...

Sidarta Ribeiro / The Oracle of Night (Large Paperback)

The history and science of dreams What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use dreams?These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented, astonishing study of the role and significance of dreams, from the beginning of...

Michael Lewis / The Premonition (Hardback)

From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19.    'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons...

Laura DeNardis / The Global War for Internet Governance (Large Paperback)

A groundbreaking study of one of the most crucial yet least understood issues of the twenty-first century - the governance of the Internet and its content. The Internet has transformed the manner in which information is exchanged and business is...

Francis Spufford / The Backroom Boys - The Secret Return of the British Boffin (Hardback)

Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, this text tells the story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got...

Mark Raskino / Digital to the Core (Hardback)

There is no simple strategic method for dealing with the multidimensional nature of digital change. Even the sharpest leaders can become disoriented as change builds on change, leaving almost nothing certain. Yet to stand still is to fail...

Gregory Zuckerman / A Shot to Save the World - The Inside Story of the Life and Death Race for the Covid 19 Vaccine (Hardback)

Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for the most devastating pandemic in a century. Many of the...

Derrick Jensen & George Draffan / Welcome to the Machine - Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control (Large Paperback)

    You could call them the Monkeywrench Gang of the nanotech age. Derrick Jensen and George Draffan are taking down the data mining industry, one converted mind at a time. In the face of RFID chips, consumer tracking strategies, and...

Marcus du Sautoy / The Creativity Code - How AI is Learning (Large Paperback)

Beginning with a rough definition of creativity as the drive to come up with something that is new, surprising and has value, the mathematician Marcus de Sautoy asks: can computers be creative? Discussing the "bottom up" approach to AI which, rather than...

Ken Yarmosh / App Savvy (Large Paperback)

Turning Ideas Into iPhone and iPad Apps Customers Really Want How can you make your iPhone or iPad app stand out in the highly competitive App Store? While many books simply explore the technical aspects of iPhone and iPad app design and development, App...

John T. Lang / What's So Controversial about Genetically Modified Food?

The rampant use of genetically modified food incites fierce and seemingly intractable debates among environmental activists, scientists, government regulators, and representatives of the food and agriculture industries. While some portray GMOs as...

Oliver Sacks / The Mind's Eye (Large Paperback)

The bestselling author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" describes how we experience the visual world. In "Musicophilia", Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in "The Mind's Eye", he writes about the myriad ways in which we...

Brian Madden / The VDI Delusion (Large Paperback)

Why Desktop Virtualization Failed to Live Up to the Hype, and What the Future Enterprise Desktop Will Really Look Like   Brian Madden, Gabe Knuth, Jack Madden For many years we ve been hearing that the future of the desktop is...

Lone Frank / Mindfield

The age of the brain is upon us. The realisation that the fundamental building blocks of our world consist of brains rather than nations, electrons, or even DNA is ushering in a ‘neurocentric’ revolution, challenging how we think about...

John Parrington / The Deeper Genome

Over a decade ago, as the Human Genome Project completed its mapping of the entire human genome, hopes ran high that we would rapidly be able to use our knowledge of human genes to tackle many inherited diseases, and understand what makes us unique among...

Eric Chaisson / Relatively Speaking (Large Paperback)

Lola Judith Chaisson (Drawings) "Beginning with a clear, nontechnical discussion of both the ‘special’ and ‘general’ theories of relativity, astrophysicist Chaisson explores their theoretical and experimental bases and what...

James Gleick / Chaos (Large Paperback)

Making a New Science A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory, one of...

Steven Pinker / The Stuff of Thought - Language as a Window into Human Nature(Large Paperback)

  In The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are. Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the...

John Gribbin / In Search of the Multiverse

John Gribbin's In Search of the Multiverse takes us on an extraordinary journey through the most fundamental questions in science, exploring the frontiers of reality itself. What are the boundaries of our universe? Could there be other worlds - do we...

Susan Denham Wade / A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions (Large Paperback)

In 2015 #thedress captured the world’s imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and black? It inspired the author to ask: if people in the same time and place can see the same thing differently, how did people in distant...

Nessa Carey / Hacking the Code of Life (Large Paperback)

How gene editing will rewrite our futures Over 50 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a...

Kate Cole-Adams / Anaesthesia (Large Paperback)

The Gift of Oblivion and The Mystery of Consciousness A hundred and seventy years ago many people would have chosen to die rather than undergo the ordeal of surgery. Today, even major operations are routine. Anaesthesia has made them possible.But how...

Bernard Marr / Big Data : Using SMART Big Data, Analytics and Metrics To Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance (Large Paperback)

  Convert the promise of big data into real world results There is so much buzz around big data. We all need to know what it is and how it works - that much is obvious. But is a basic understanding of the theory enough to hold your own in strategy...

Greg Milner / Pinpoint - How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds (Large Paperback)

Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipate earthquakes, predict weather, locate oil deposits,...

Wally Wang / Visual Basic 3 for Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

Employing a non-threatening, conversational style, this guide to the programming language for non-programmers covers programming concepts, writing your first program, and programming examples using Visual Basic 3. Original.   This book is second...

Hayley Birch / The Big Questions in Science (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Ian Graham / Science Enyclopaedia (Coffee Table Book)

This 256 page book takes a comprehensive look at the very beginnings of science and what science is. Several Sections Matter and Chemicals; Energy, Motion and Machines; Electricity and Magnetism; Light and Sound; Earth and Life; Space and Time; and...

Bill Bryson / A Really Short History of Nearly Everything. Bill Bryson (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Geoffrey Miller / Spent - Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior (Large Paperback)

Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior Geoffrey Miller     A leading evolutionary psychologist probes the unconscious instincts behind American consumer cultureIlluminating the hidden reasons for why we buy what we do,...

Veronica O'Keane / The Rag and Bone Shop (Hardback)

A leading psychiatrist shows how the mysteries of the brain are illuminated at the extremes of human experienceA twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a...

Rachel Swaby / Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World (Hardback)

Florence Nightingale. Sally Ride. Ada Lovelace. These names and others are etched in history and included here as part of an awe-inspiring collection of profiles of thirty-three of the most influential women in science—women whose vision,...

Edward Yourdon / Death March (Large Paperback)

The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving 'Mission Impossible' Projects Author provides technology and management insights to the worst IS projects, demonstrating how to maximize your chances of success, and/or how to make sure your career...

Simon Monk / Programming Arduino (Large Paperback)

Getting Started with Sketches, Second Edition Program Arduino with ease! This thoroughly updated guide shows, step by step, how to quickly program all Arduino models. Programming Getting Started with Sketches , Second Edition, features easy to follow...

R. C. Stephens / Mechanics Machines (Large Paperback)

Elementary Theory & Examples For the fourth edition the text has been revised throughout and outdated examples and problems have been replaced by a greater number of more recent ones. These revisions have been especially significant in the chapters...

E.C. Rollason / Metallurgy for Engineers (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Chris Chatfield / Statistics for Technology (Large Paperback)

A Course in Applied Statistics One of the most popular introductory texts in its field, Statistics for Technology: A Course in Applied Studies presents the range of statistical methods commonly used in science, social science, and engineering.The...

Ian Stewart / Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Large Paperback)

Some years ago, "new math" took the country's classrooms by storm. Based on the abstract, general style of mathematical exposition favored by research mathematicians, its goal was to teach students not just to manipulate numbers and formulas, but to...

Adam Gopnik / The Real Work - On the Mystery of Mastery(Large Paperback)

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of...

Dan Gookin / Nexus 7 For Dummies (Large Paperback)

Friendly advice on leveraging the power of the new Nexus 7 Google tablet! The arrival of the new Nexus 7 Google tablet is eagerly awaited, thanks to its cutting-edge software, top-notch hardware, unprecedented abilities, and nine-hour battery life. This...

Kevin Robins / Times of the Technoculture (Large Paperback)

From the Information Society to the Virtual Life Frank Webster This book explores the debates surrounding technological change, from the politics of education to questions of identity centred around the figure of the cyborg. This book is second hand, and...

Toru Ishida / Community Computing and Support Systems (Large Paperback)

Social Interaction in Networked Communities Jörg H. Siekmann (Editor), Jaime G. Carbonell (Editor) This article discusses the community metaphor as the next stage of network computing. The first meeting in Kyoto was blessed with...

Peter G. Neumann / Computer-Related Risks (Large Paperback)

This book is much more than a collection of computer mishaps; it is a serious, technically oriented book written by one of the world's leading experts on computer risks. The book summarizes many real events involving computer technologies and the people...

Terry Winograd / Bringing Design to Software (Large Paperback)

 John Bennett (Editor), Laura De Young (Editor), Bradley Hartfield (Editor) The book contains essays contributed by prominent software and design professionals, interviews with experts, and profiles of successful projects...

Lynne Hamill & Amparo Lasen (Editors)/ Mobile World - Past, Present and Future (Large Paperback)

There is a growing body of interesting research exploring the social shaping of mobile phones, covering a wide range of topics, from new forms of communication, to the changes in time organization, the uses of public places, the display of emotions and...

Theodore Roszak / The Cult of Information- A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking (Large Paperback)

  As we devote ever-increasing resources to providing, or prohibiting, access to information via computer, Theodore Roszak reminds us that voluminous information does not necessarily lead to sound thinking. "Data glut" obscures basic questions of...

Thomas K. Landauer / The Trouble with Computers (Large Paperback)

Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity Despite enormous investments in computers over the last twenty years, productivity in the very service industries at which they were aimed virtually stagnated everywhere in the world. If computers are not...

Aphra Kerr / The Business and Culture of Digital Games (Large Paperback)

Gamework and Gameplay This book explores the lifecycle of digital games. Drawing upon a broad range of media studies perspectives with aspects of sociology, social theory, and economics, Aphra Kerr explores this all-pervasive, but under-theorized, aspect...

Starr Roxanne Hiltz / Network Nation -Human Communication via Computer Revised Edition (Large Paperback)

  A visionary book when it was first published in the late 1970s, The Network Nation has become the defining document and standard reference for the field of computer mediated communication (C.M.C.). This revised edition adds a substantial new...