Sciences and Technology

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...

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...

Steve Parker / The Concise Human Body Book (Large Paperback)

An illustrated guide to its structure, function and disorders Discover all there is to know about human anatomy in DK's latest concise visual guide to the human body. Fully updated to reflect the latest medical information, The Concise Human Body...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

James Kakalios / The Physics of Everyday Things (Large Paperback)

The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science. Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught Everything I Needed to Know...

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...

Gerd Gigerenzer / Calculated Risks - How to Know When Numbers Decieve You (Large Paperback)

How to Know When Numbers Deceive You At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first...

Charles Hepworth Holland & Ian S. Sanders - The Geology of Ireland ( 2nd Edition) - 2009

The Geology of Ireland is the definitive guide to the geology of the island of Ireland as a whole. This completely revised edition has been updated to reflect the ten years of research undertaken since the last edition was published. For the first time...

W.I Mitchell - The Geology of Northern Ireland - 2nd Edition - PB - 2004

Large format paperback, illustrated in colour throughout, published by GSNI ( Geological Survey of Northern Ireland ) 2nd edition. 

Daniel J. Fairbanks / Evolving (Large Paperback)

The Human Effect and Why It Matters This persuasive, elegantly written book argues that understanding evolution has never mattered more in human history. The author uses evidence from archaeology, geography, anatomy, biochemistry, radiometric dating,...

Glyn Moody / Rebel Code - Linux And The Open Source Revolution (Large Paperback)

Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution Glyn Moody     "Open source" began as the mantra of a small group of idealistic hackers and has blossomed into the all-important slogan for progressive business and computing. This...

Stephen W. Hawking / Brief Answers to the Big Questions: Puzzle Edition (Hardback)

Stephen Hawking was recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time and a figure of inspiration after defying his ALS diagnosis at age twenty-one. He is known for both his breakthroughs in theoretical physics as well as his ability to make complex...

Eugenia Cheng / Beyond Infinity (Large Paperback)

An expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical universe The brilliant and charismatic Eugenia Cheng takes us on a dizzying journey through what's bigger than infinity and smaller than its oppositeEvery child had a schoolyard fight that ended with...

Henry N. Pollack / Uncertain Science ... Uncertain World (Large Paperback)

Scientific uncertainty puzzles many people. The confusion arises when scientists have more than one answer, and disagree among themselves. By acquainting readers with the ways that uncertainty arises in science, how scientists accommodate and make use of...

John Pethick / An Introduction to Coastal Geomorphology (Large Paperback)

This is an introduction to wave and tidally dominated landforms, including beaches, cliffs, dunes, estuaries, mudflats and salt-marshes. Working from basic principles the author discusses the physical mechanisms by which this wide variety of landforms is...

Don Ihde / Bodies In Technology (Volume 5) (Large Paperback)

New technologies suggest new ideas about our "reach" extends to global sites through the Internet; we enter cyberspace through the engines of virtual reality. In this book, a leading philosopher of technology explores the meaning of bodies in...

Peter-Paul Verbeek / Moralizing Technology (Large Paperback)

Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure...

Gary A. Thibodeau / Structure and Function of the Body (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...

Anita Ganeri / From Sextant to Sonar (Coffee Table Book)

From Sextant to Sonar looks at the history of maps and navigation, from the oldest known map of the world which was carved in clay, to medieval sea maps complete with monsters, to the maps that resulted from the great age of European exploration. It...