Sciences and Technology

Emma Gannon / Disconnected: How to Stay Human in an Online World (Hardback)

OUT The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author, Emma GannonI love Emma Gannon's wise and refreshing perspective on work, and more broadly on the challenges of building a meaningful life in an era of distraction, overwhelm and uncertainty. - Oliver...

Stephen H. Segal / Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture (Hardback)

THE GEEKS HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH.Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, geeks know something about life in the 21st century that other folks...

Ian Wand / Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science (Hardback)

Computer science is no longer just a technology--for nearly all of us, it has become a way of life. Whether we spend our days surfing the Internet, or merely use an automatic teller machine on occasion, computers have affected our lives. This collection...

Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback)

This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a...

Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback)

The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP.     All...

Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback)

To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes...

John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback)

Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of...

Simon Singh / The Code Book: The Evolution Of Secrecy From Mary, Queen Of Scots To Quantum Cryptography (Hardback)

The evolution of codes throughout history and the breaking of them. By the excellent writer of Fermat's Enigma.     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...

John Markoff / What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (Hardback)

An analysis of the political and cultural forces that gave rise to the personal computer chronicles its development through the people, politics, and social upheavals that defined its time, from a teenage anti-war protester who laid the groundwork for...

Paul Dourish / Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction (Hardback)

Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book, Paul Dourish...

Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie A. Nardi / Acting With Technology: Activity Theory And Interaction Design (Hardback)

A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with technology.Activity theory holds that the human mind is the...

Michael Pollan / How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardback)

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousnessWhen LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as...

Gene I. Rochlin / Trapped in the Net (Hardback)

Voice mail. E-mail. Bar codes. Desktops. Laptops. Networks. The Web. In this exciting book, Gene Rochlin takes a closer look at how these familiar and pervasive productions of computerization have become embedded in all our lives, forcing us to narrow...

John R. Anderson / Learning and Memory: An Integrated Approach (Hardback)

From one of the leading researchers in the field of human memory comes the new edition of a truly integrative perspective on learning and memory! Rather than forge a simple synthesis, Anderson integrates learning research on animals and memory research...

Philip E. Agre / Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (Hardback)

Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access to personal information. As laws, policies, and technological design increasingly structure people's relationships with social institutions, individual privacy faces new...

Peter Bogh Andersen / The Computer as Medium (Hardback)

Computers are developing into a powerful medium integrating film, pictures, text, and sound, and the use of computers for communication and information is rapidly expanding. The Computer as Medium brings insights from art, literature, and theater to bear...

David Edgerton / The Shock of the Old - Technology and Global History Since 1900 (Hardback)

The first proper global account of the place of technology in twentieth century history, this brilliant, thought-provoking book will radically revise our understanding of the relationship between technology and society. Whereas standard histories of...

Yrjo Engersrom / Cognition and Communication at Work (Hardback)

This book brings together contributions from researchers within anthropology, psychology, communications, sociology, and cognitive science who are interested in redefining the methods and topics that constitute the study of work. They investigate work...

Abigail J. Sellen, Richard H. R. Harper / The Myth of the Paperless Office (Hardback)

Over the past thirty years, many people have proclaimed the imminent arrival of the paperless office. Yet even the World Wide Web, which allows almost any computer to read and display another computer's documents, has increased the amount of printing...

Marleen Huysman / Communities and Technologies (Hardback)

The book contains 24 research articles related to the emerging research field of Communities and Technologies (C&T). The papers treat subjects such as online communities, communities of practice, Community support systems, Digital Cities, regional...

Richard H.R. Harper / Trust, Computing, and Society (Hardback)

The Internet has altered how people engage with each other in myriad ways, including offering opportunities for people to act distrustfully. This fascinating set of essays explores the question of trust in computing from technical, socio-philosophical,...

Bill Lessard & Steve Baldwin / Net Slaves : True Tales of Working the Web (Hardback)

Exposes the dark side of the booming technology industry in the last decades which has thousands of poorly-paid employees working extended hours in cyber-sweatshops. Originally published 1998.      All of our books are second hand, and...

National Research Council / Flight to the Future: Human Factors in Air Traffic Control (Hardback)

Despite the strong safety record of the national airspace system, serious disruptions occasionally occur, often as a result of outdated or failed equipment. Under these circumstances, safety relies on the skills of the controllers and pilots and on...

Annemarie Schimmel / The Mystery of Numbers (Hardback)

Why is the number seven lucky--even holy--in almost every culture? Why do we speak of the four corners of the earth? Why do cats have nine lives (except in Iran, where they have seven)? From literature to folklore to private superstitions, numbers play a...

Russell Foster / Life Time - The Science of the Body Clock(Hardback)

** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **GIVE THEM THE GIFT OF A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP WITH THIS GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF THE BODY CLOCK!' A superlative guide to some of the most intriguing questions of human existence' Bill Bryson In the twenty-first century, we...

Marshall McLuhan - The Gutenberg Galaxy - Vintage PB 1969

The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man is a 1962 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which he analyzes the effects of mass media, especially the printing press, on European culture and human consciousness. It popularized the term global village,...

J. E. Gordon / Structures : Or Why Things Don't Fall Down - PB

In "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains the importance and properties of different structures. Pelican PB 1980, originally 1978      

Philip J. Davis / Mathematical Encounters of the 2nd Kind (Hardback)

"Davis' message is that an interest in mathematics can, like any activity of the human mind, bring people into contact with each other over centuries, over oceans, and over cultural separations. He came to realize that mathematics goes beyond the...

Jerome R. Ravetz / The No-Nonsense Guide to Science

In this No-Nonsense Guide Jerome Ravetz introduces a new way of thinking about science, moving away from simplistic ideas of perfect certainty and objectivity. The book gives a fresh look at science's history, with a guide to the key theories, and...

Alex Boese / Psychedelic Apes: From Parallel Universes to Atomic Dinosaurs – the Weirdest Theories of Science and History

What if we’re living inside a black hole? What if we’ve already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ was actually a mushroom? Psychedelic Apes delves into the curious scientific...

Anil Ananthaswamy / The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology

In this deeply original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the biggest questions in modern cosmology. Why is the universe expanding at an ever faster rate? What is the...

Simon Singh / The Code Book (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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John Allen Paulos / Innumeracy - Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences

Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large...

Stephen Jay Gould / The Mismeasure of Man

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Arno Karlen / Plague's Progress - A Social History of Man and Disease

A disturbing report of the global crisis of new and resurgent diseases. This account investigates how and why diseases such as AIDS, Legionnaires' disease, Ebola, TB, and new forms of cholera and malaria occur. Karlen charts humanity's relationship with...

New Scientist Instant Expert: The End of Money (Large Paperback)

The story of the development of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain 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 very good condition. Removing...

Margaret K Sands / Problems in Plant Physiology (Large Paperback)

Published by Hodder, 1988 ( originally 1983)  Plant biology.      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...

David Peak / Chaos Under Control: The Art and Science of Complexity (Large Paperback)

Chaos Under Control introduces the rich concepts driving the new science of complexity. Here you will discover the principles behind some of the most talked-about research findings of our time and see some astonishing examples and applications. Their...

Marvin Minsky / The Society of Mind (Coffee Table Book)

Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old "How does the mind work?"Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny...

John Fauvel / Let Newton Be! - A New Perspective on his Life and Works(Coffee Table Book)

Over the three hundred years since the publication of his Principia Mathematica , Newton has come to symbolize the ideal of scientist and mathematician par excellence . Let Newton Be! (the title comes from a famous couplet by Alexander Pope) explores the...

Paul Parsons / Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs (Coffee Table Book)

Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs presents a series of clear and concise essays that explain the fundamentals of some of the most exciting and important science concepts you really need to know. Paul Parsons profiles the important, ground-breaking, and...

Roy Porter / Hutchinson DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY (Coffee Table Book)

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Roger D. Launius / NASA and the Exploration of Space: With Works from the Nasa Art Collection (Coffee Table Book)

Chronicles the history of NASA and the U.S. space program in a definitive study featuring sidebar narratives from some of the most famous American astronaunts, analyses of the origins and growth of the program, and full-color illustrations from...

A.W.F. Edwards / Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams (Coffee Table Book)

Used today in spheres of life as diverse as business strategy, creative writing, medicine, computer science, and theoretical physics, Venn diagrams possess fascinating properties. The basic Venn diagram is both elegantly simple―three overlapping circles...

Joanne Baker / Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know (Coffee Table Book)

In this, the latest volume in the best selling 50 Ideas series, author Joanne Baker unravels the complexities of the universe for a general readership. From Heliocentrism to dark matter, and from Kepler’s laws of planetary motion and orbits to...

Chris Eliasmith / How to Build a Brain: A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition (Coffee Table Book)

One goal of researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence is to build theoretical models that are able to explain the flexibility and adaptiveness of biological systems. How to build a brain provides a detailed guided exploration...

Bernard Golden / Amazon Web Services For Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

Create dynamic cloud-based websites with Amazon Web Services and this friendly guide! As the largest cloud computing platform in the world, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides one of the most popular web services options available. This easy-to-understand...

David McCandless / Knowledge is Beautiful (Coffee Table Book)

In this mind-blowing follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless uses spectacular visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works. We are living in the Information Age, in which...

Frank Swain / How to Make a Zombie : The Real Life (and Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control

The search for the means to control the bodies and minds of our fellow humans has been underway for millennia, from the sleep-inducing honeycombs that felled Pompey’s army to the Voodoo potions of Haiti. Now, Frank Swain, the force behind Science...

Richard Dawkins / The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Coffee Table Book)

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Carl Zimmer / EVOLUTION :The Triumph of an Idea (Coffee Table Book)

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Esther Dyson / Release 2.0 - A Design for Living in the Digital Age(Hardback)

Published 1997 - at the very early days of the internet becoming a mass use technology.  So this reads more like ' what the author got right, from the perspective of nearly 3-0 years on'  Written with an insider's knowledge and a ready wit, and...