Sciences and Technology

Kevin Ashton / How To Fly A Horse - The Secret History of Creation, Inventory and Discovery

In the vein of Susan Cain's Quiet and Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath, How to Fly a Horse is a smart, empowering book that dispels the myths around genius and creativity.There is a myth about how something new comes to be;...

Tim Guest / Second Lives - A Journey Through Virtual Worlds

Every day, millions of people abandon reality for virtual worlds — building houses, making and selling works of art, getting married. On ebay, people sell virtual clothes and rent virtual cars. Tim Guest takes us into the bizarre culture of virtual...

Terry Burrows / Your Life Online

"YourLifeOnline" is a practical handbook to the 'new' internet. Relying increasingly on web-based solutions and removing the need for purchased software, sites in Web 2.0 as it is known are usually based around a single, simple idea and usually encourage...

M. Chapple / Wave Motion: Light & Sound (Vintage Paperback)

Vinatge A- Level Physics - Volume 2     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.

Ian Miller - A History of Ireland in Ten Body Parts - HB - BRAND NEW

FREE TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST Skulls, heads, hands, height, legs, sex organs, blood, brains, stomachs, ears and corpses – discover Irish history through the prism of the body. From the brutal beheading of the...

Howard Rheingold / The Virtual Community - Finding Connection in a Computerized World (Hardback)

Written in the mid 1990's,  just before the internet launched incomparable change across all society.  The author of Virtual Reality explores the network that is redefining the social fabric, discussing the full weight of this phenomenon as it...

Mark W. Doll / Defending the Digital Frontier: A Security Agenda (Hardback)

"The charge of securing corporate America falls upon its business leaders. This book, offered by Ernst & Young and written by Mark Doll, Sajay Rai, and Jose Granado, is not only timely, but comprehensive in outlook and broad in scope. It addresses...

Terry Grossman / Fantastic Voyage : How to Benefit from Cutting Edge Science and Add Years to Your Life (Hardback)

Live long enough to live for ever! Immortality is within our grasp. We are in the early stages of multiple profound revolutions spawned by the intersection of biology, information science and nanotechnology. With the decoding of the genome and our...

Sam Berry / 2020: Twenty Years of Amazing Things That Have Changed Our World (Hardback)

• Can you recall the year that the Dracula fish was discovered?• Do you know the height and location of the world’s tallest building?• Remember the company that discovered a way to convert water and CO2 into fuel?This unique trivia...

Dan Schreiber / The Theory of Everything Else (Large Paperback)

Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited by extraterrestrials? Will we ever talk to animals? Are we being told the truth? Are mysterious creatures roaming the Earth? And why, when you’re in the...

Michael Allaby / Facing the Future : The Case for Science

This work seeks to provide a positive picture of science, depicting it as a real hope for the future. Covering 100 topics such as global warming, nuclear power, food additives, pesticides in farming and environmental pollution, it attempts to alleviate...

Michael Frayn / The Human Touch : Our Part in the Creation of a Universe

What would that universe be like if human beings were not here to observe it? Would there be still be numbers, or scientific laws? Would the universe even be vast, without our tininess to give it scale?The author of award winning novels (such...

Lisa Randall / Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World (Hardback)

The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the its make-up, its evolution and the fundamental forces that determine its operation. Knocking on Heaven's Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of...

Dr. K. / Hacker's Tales: Stories from the Electronic Front Line (Large Paperback)

The Complete Hacker's Everything You Wanted to Know About Hacking in the Age of the Web (Carlton 2000, 2002), written by the same author sold over 60,000 copies to date. ( The information is more so on the early days of the internet, so almost a...

Bennie Mols, Nieske Vergunst / Hallo Robot: Meet Your New Workmate and Friend (Large Paperback)

How robots will revolutionise our worldSome fear that robots could do half our jobs and even wipe us out. But is that likely? Hallo Robot reveals how robots see, feel, and act -- and what they can and can't do.Instead of harming humans, artificial...

Oliver James / Not in Your Genes: The Real Reasons Children Are Like Their Parents (Large Paperback)

Professor Robert Plomin, the world’s leading geneticist, said in 2014 of his search for genes that explain differences in our psychology: ‘I have been looking for these genes for fifteen years. I don’t have any’.Using a mixture of...

Daniel M. Berman, John T. O'Connor / Who Owns the Sun?: People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy (Large Paperback)

In Who Owns the Sun? Daniel Berman and John O'Connor argue that democratic control of solar energy is the key to revitalizing America -- putting power back into the hands of local people. A decentralized solar energy economy will bring thousands of new...

Allan H. Ropper, Brian David Burrell / Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain

What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping an illuminating book, a leading neurologist reveals some of the astonishing ways in which a damaged brain can radically alter our lives.Like Alice in Wonderland, Dr...

Michael White / Rivals : Conflict As the Fuel of Science

In this book, author Michael White examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in all of which the stress of rivalry played a pivotal role. Whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists,...

Aoife Barry / Social Capital: Life online in the shadow of Ireland’s tech boom (Large Paperback)

A David and Goliath story about Ireland’s role as prime real estate for the world’s largest tech multinationals, and the considerable impact it has had on us as individuals. At the start of the millennium, the Tech giants landed on...

Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback)

Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking...

Melvyn Bragg / On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries From Archimedes to DNA (Hardback)

The story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of 12 of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincare, Freud, Einstein, Marie Curie and Crick and Watson. Exploring their...

Viktor Mayer-Schonberger / Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think (Large Paperback)

A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nicholas Carr / The Glass Cage: Where Automation is Taking Us (Large Paperback)

 In The Glass Cage, Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author Nicholas Carr shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical effect this is having on our ability to learn and solve problems.In...

David Ewing Duncan / The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with My DNA: . . . And Other Masterminds from the Frontiers of Biotech (Hardback)

 Combining myth, biography, and wit -- a highly originaldepiction of cutting-edgescience -- told through thescientists who are rewritinglife on earth While the future of human existence is literally being forged by today's genetic scientists and...

Harold Varmus / The Art and Politics of Science (Hardback)

 A Nobel Prize-winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and veteran of science policy wars reflects on his remarkable career. Jeffrey Sachs has called Harold Varmus a “global scientist-statesman who bridges science...

Frederik Pohl / Chasing Science: Science as a Spectator Sport (Hardback)

 Part memoir, part travel guide, and part science primer, Chasing Science is Pohl's way of sharing the thrills and excitement of his life-long love affair with science. With the skill and storytelling zest that has made his award-winning science...

John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid / The Social Life of Information (Hardback)

 To see the future we can build with information technology, we must look beyond mere information to the social context that creates and gives meaning to it. For years, pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate the need for...

Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not To Liberate The World (Large Paperback)

 Does free information mean free people? At the start of the twenty-first century we were promised that the internet would liberate the world. We could come together as never before, and from Iran's 'twitter revolution' to Facebook 'activism',...

Julian Huxley - Evolution in Action ( Vintage Pelican PB 1963)

Tanning to page block, scuffing and shelfwear. Previous owner's name to title page.  'The story of the evolutionary process as seen by eminent biologist Julian Huxley. Discusses heredity, natural selection, adaptation, species formation.  

Heather Brooke / The Revolution Will Be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War (Large Paperback)

 There is more information in the world than ever before - but who is in control? At the centre is the governments, corporations andpowerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than at any other time in history. Circling...

Keith Barnham / Burning Answer - A User;s Guide to the Solar Revolution

 Our civilisation stands on the brink of catastrophe. Our thirst for energy has led to threats from global warming, nuclear disaster and conflict in oil-rich countries. We are running out of options. Solar power, Keith Barnham argues, is the answer...

Joel Levy / Universe in Your Pocket: 3 999 Essential Facts (Hardback)

      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...

Gary Rimmer / Number Freaking - The Surreal Sums Behind Everyday Life (Hardback)

This isn't a book of statistics and it isn't a book of science. It has nothing whatsoever to do with actuaries or accountants. Number Freaking is a book of surreal sums and absurd arithmetic: it's doodling with numbers, doing sums in your head...

Bill McKibben / Enough : Genetic Engineering and the End of Human Nature

 Sometime in the next few years, scientists may reprogramme a human egg or sperm cell, make a change in the genetic instructions carried by that cell, a change that will be passed on down into eternity. The scientific expertise exists to do this, as...

Paul Strathern / The Big Idea Series - Scientists Who Changed The World (4 Book Collection)

Paul Strathern / The Big Idea (4 Book Collection) Contains:   Darwin & Evolution Einstein & Relativity Newton & Gravity Galileo & the Solar System

Brian M. Fagan / Time Detectives : How Scientists Use Modern Technology to Unravel the Secrets of the Past (Large Paperback)

 From Simon & Schuster, Time Detectives is Brian Fagan's exploration of how archeologists use technology to recapture the past.University of California Professor of Anthropology Brian Fagan offers a fascinating look at how the key archaeological...

Hamish McKenzie / Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil (Large Paperback)

 The first account of one of the 21st century's greatest business stories, Tesla and Elon Musk.     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...

John Brockman / What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty (Hardback)

 What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? This was the question posed by John Brockman to a group of leading scientists and thinkers via his Edge.org website. The subsequent answers created a media storm and prompted a fiery...

Trevor J. Cox / Now You're Talking: The Story of Human Communication from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence (Hardback)

 Being able to speak is what makes us human. If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity. We judge others – and whether we trust them...