Sciences and Technology

The Universe Next Door : A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures

 A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just...

Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback)

   The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer...

Gavin Francis / Shapeshifters : A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change

Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity... inspiring' Hilary Mantel 'A wonderful series of meditations - clinical, anthropological, literary and deeply humane - on his patients and their illnesses.' Henry Marsh...

Gerd Gigerenzer / Reckoning with Risk : Learning to Live with Uncertainty (Large Paperback)

    In the beginning of the 20th century, the father of modern science fiction, H.G. Wells, predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. Yet, a century...

Stephen Hawking / The Grand Design (Large Paperback)

   In the last thirty years of his life Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory - a theory which could describe all the forces of nature in a single framework. But the time was not right for such a discovery in Einstein's day. Neither...

Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity

   Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking,...

Patrick Dixon / Futurewise

   This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual,...

New Scientist / Why Can't Elephants Jump? : and 113 more science questions answered

   Well, why not? Is it because elephants are too large or heavy (after all, they say hippos and rhinos can play hopscotch)? Or is it because their knees face the wrong way? Or do they just wait until no one's looking? Read this brilliant new...

Hugh Aldersey-Williams / Anatomies

   The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of bestseller Periodic Tales, is a splendidly entertaining journey through the art, science, literature and history of the human body.'Magnificent,...

Brendan McWilliams - Weather Eye - PB 1994 Irish Times Column - Meteorology

Weather Eye is a selection from the famous column in The Irish Times, which over the years from the first essay in 1988 has described and evoked all aspects of that most perennial of subjects for exchange and conversation – the lingua franca...

Steve Jones / The Language of the Genes

   Commissioned by the BBC to deliver the Reith Lectures in 1991, Steve Jones has used them as the basis for this book which argues that the evolution of our genes may be compared to the evolution of language. Genetics, argues the author, can...

Tim Peake / Ask an Astronaut

 The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's...

Steve Jones / Y: The Descent Of Men

Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been dispensed with. Dolly the Sheep - conceived without male assistance - had arrived. Her birth reminded at...

Mayer Hillman / How We Can Save the Planet

 Mayer Hillman, one of Britain's most original and influential thinkers, here offers the reader both a stunning analysis of the looming environmental catastrophe and a blueprint for avoiding it. The blueprint is practical at a personal level but the...

Desmond Morris / The Naked Eye

    Since his groundbreaking book THE NAKED APE in 1967, in which he portrayed the human species in a way that caused enormous controversy and broke many religious and sexual taboos, Desmond Morris has become one of the world's best known...

Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans...

Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier

    In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of...

Matt Ridley / Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

   The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue.The genome is our 100,000 or so genes. The genome is the...

Derek Rowntree / Statistics without Tears - An Introduction for Non Mathematicians

    This book is written for anyone who needs or wants to know how statistics work. It assumes no expert knowledge, and teaches through words and diagrams rather than through figures, formulae and equations - providing the perfect approach...

Lawrence Potter / Mathematics Minus Fear

    "Every school classroom has a special flavor. And of all these flavors, it is often that of the mathematics classroom that has left the bitterest taste. In here, you face the ordeal of quick-fire questions designed to expose and...

Fritjof Capra / The Tao of Physics

    Here is the book that brought the mystical implications of subatomic physics to popular consciousness for the very first time--way back in 1975. This special edition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of this early Shambhala best...

Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking-Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life

   From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a...

Greene Brian / The Hidden Reality : Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

   Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos explores our most current scientific understanding of the universe, the 'string theory' that might hold the key to unifying nature's laws, and our...

New Scientist / Will We Ever Speak Dolphin? : and 130 other science questions answered

   Why do birds sing at dawn? What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?, the eagerly-awaited new 'Last Word' collection, has the...

Question Everything : 132 science questions - and their unexpected answers

   The latest in the bestselling New Scientist Last Word seriesAll science begins with questions...- Why is the night sky black, even though it's full of stars? - How do pebbles skim on water? - Why doesn't your own snoring wake you...

World Travel Guides (Irish Independent) (Complete 15 Book Set) Blue Covers

Travel Guides: 1 Florida & the Bahamas 2 Australia 3 Caribbean 4 Thailand 5 USA - West Coast 6 South Africa 7 Western Canada 8 Croatia 9 China 10 Cuba 11 Egypt 12 Mexico 13 Majorca & Minorca 14 USA - East Coast 15 Tenerife

Richard Wiseman / Quirkology : The Curious Science Of Everyday Lives

 Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected?You need some Quirkology in your life.While other scientists beaver away on obvious problems, Richard Wiseman has been busy...

Robert P. Crease / A Brief Guide to the Great Equations : The Hunt for Cosmic Beauty in Numbers

 Here are the stories of the ten most popular equations of all time as voted for by readers of Physics World, including - accessibly described here for the first time - the favourite equation of all, Euler's equation. Each is an equation that...

Alex Bellos / Alex's Adventures in Numberland

 The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece...

Stephen Hawking / The Grand Design

 When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, the most recent...

Desmond Morris / The Naked Ape

 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORHere is the Naked Ape at his most primal - in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relative to the apes, stripped of his veneer as we see him courting, making love,...

Phyllis Clinch & R. Charles Mollan ( Editors) - A Profit and Loss Account of Science in Ireland - HB RDS 1983

A collection of essays on industrial and resource development in Ireland, published by the RDS , 1983, with cover design by Brian ó Nualláin , heavy sun fade to spine, some closed tears to dustjacket edges.  Large format hardcover,...

Patterson, Austin M - German English Dictionary for Chemists 3rd ED HB 1963

A hardcover third edition, 1963, of the German to English Dictionary for Chemists ( does not include English to German)  Published by Wiley USA, the first edition had been 1917, and was revised and added to greatly in the two later editions...

Ben Goldacre / Bad Science (Large Paperback)

 Full of spleen, this will be a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science. How do we know if a treatment works, or if something causes cancer? Can the claims of homeopaths ever be as true - or as interesting as...

James Gleick / Faster : The Acceleration of just about everything

 Time rules our lives. The frenetic purpose - more than we want to admit, is to save time. Think of one of those conveniences that best convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds: the microwave oven. In your hurry sickness,...

Tom Forester - The Mircoelectronics Revolution - Vintage 1980 Technology & Predictions

A collection of 1980's essays on the 'silicon chip revolution' - an examination from 1980 on how the industry and technology would alter society and the world of work. A collection of essays from academics, journalists and industry insiders. Some , given...

George Newnes: Aeroplane Maintenance & Operation Magazine Parts 33 - 40 (8 Book Collection)

George Newnes: Aeroplane Maintenance & Operation Magazine Parts 33 - 40

Iain Carson / Zoom : The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

   If oil is a problem, it seems that cars are the solution. Working on innovative, environmental technologies and entirely new business models, the car industry could be launching society's greatest leap forward in a hundred years. "Zoom"...

Charles Darwin / On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today as when it was first published. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by William Bynum, and...

Paul Strathern / Hawking And The Black Holes

At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...Black holes have long been a topic of fascination, from pop culture to science fiction. Stephen Hawking's discoveries and research on black holes and cosmology have made him an academic...

Dava Sobel / Longitude

First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude. The thorniest scientific problem of the day had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries until John Harrison dared to...

Ben Goldacre / Bad Science

Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations. Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy...

Stephen Hawking / Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time. Now in his first collection of essays and other pieces - on subjects that range from warmly personal to the wholly scientific-...

Desmond Morris / Babywatching (Hardback)

Paperback edition to this guide to the first 12 months of human life. In a revealing portrait of life, from the baby's point of view, Desmond Morris answers the questions parents ask: Do babies dream? What makes them cry, or smile? How well can they...

Richard Dawkins / The Greatest Show on Earth : The Evidence for Evolution (Large Paperback)

Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the...

Robert Winston / The Human Mind

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Dava Sobel / Galileo's DaughterA Drama of Science, Faith and Love

From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost...

Stephen Hawking / A Brief History of Time

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Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? - and 114 other questions

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