Sciences and Technology

Storm Dunlop / Night Sky

The first true beginner's guide to astronomy, Night Sky provides an introduction to the subject that is both colorful and accessible. Containing all the information you need to be able to recognize each constellation, this is the ideal companion to...

D.T. Max / The Family That Couldn't Sleep : Unravelling a Venetian Medical Mystery

For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a...

Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life

Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life...

Oliver Sacks / Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Oliver Sacks's luminous memoir charts the growth of a mind. Born in 1933 into a family of formidably intelligent London Jews, he discovered the wonders of the physical sciences early from his parents and their flock of brilliant siblings, most notably...

Peter MacBride / Teach Yourself Windows Vista

Don't get vexed by Vista! Written especially for the newuser at home or in the office, Teach Yourself Windows Vista helps you maximize thisnext generation of Windowswith confidence. The user-friendlyguide explains everythingfrom getting online...

Robert M. Youngson / Collins Dictionary of Human Biology

Human Biology is a key subject of study in all the subjects related to medicine from radiology to pharmacology. This is the first student dictionary devoted to the subject. In over 6,000 entries, this dictionary covers the topics necessary in...

James A. Coleman / Relativity for the Layman

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Karolyn Shindler / Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate

In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists. For the determined Dorothea Bate, however, this was the first step in an...

Collins Gem: Basic Facts Chemistry

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Collins Gem: Basic Facts Biology

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Stephen Baker / They've Got Your Number: Data, Digits and Destiny

In a world teeming with data, we ourselves become the maths gurus' most prized specimens. In "They've Got Your Number", Stephen Baker takes us on a guided tour (no maths required) through an unprecedented new era, in which mathematicians are starting...

Gregory Chaitin / Meta Math! : The Quest for Omega

Gregory Chaitin, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory.Chaitin’s revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely...

Robert Axelrod / The Evolution of Co-Operation

How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central authority to police their actions? The author explores this central question, and its implications in an age...

Simon Conway-Morris / The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals

In The Crucible of Creation , paleontologist Simon Conway Morris describes the marvelous finds of the Burgess Shale--a fantastically rich deposit of bizarre and bewildering Cambrian fossils, located in Western Canada.Conway Morris is one of the few...

Stuart Hollingdale / Makers of Mathematics

This is an account of the history of mathematics as it is revealed in the lives and writings of the most distinguished practitioners of the art, such as Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Gauss, Hamilton and Einstein. In...

Peter Cope / Teach Yourself Digital Video and PC Editing

Desktop video or PC-based digital video is regarded as the next big thing for desktop computers in the consumer market. Following on from the adoption of personal computers for DTP and digital photography, desktop video offers the general consumer...

Kieron O'Hara, Nigel Shadbolt / The Spy In The Coffee Machine: The End of Privacy as We Know it

What do you know about the new surveillance state that has been created in the wake of pervasive computing – that is, the increasing use of very small and simple computers in all sorts of host – from your computer to your coat? Well,...

Matt Ridley / Francis Crick : Discoverer of the Genetic Code

Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life. Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubrey's ‘Brief Lives’, Dr Johnson's...

Neil Shubin / The Universe Within

In The Universe Within, with his trademark clarity and exuberance, Shubin takes an even more expansive approach to the question of why we look the way we do. Starting once again with fossils, he turns his gaze skyward, showing us how the...

Martin Rees / Before the Beginning : Our Universe and Others

One of the most creative and original of contemporary scientists draws together recent advances in astrophysics and up-to-the-minute research to cast a piercing light on man's place in the cosmos.         All of our books are...

Sam Harris / The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists - agree on one point: science has...

Stephen Jay Gould / Dinosaur in a Haystack

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Stephen Jay Gould / Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time

Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust...

L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson

The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,...

Dylan Jones / iPod, Therefore I Am - A Personal Journey Through Music

Dylan Jones takes the reader on an incredible journey through his lifelong musical infatuation - a thirty-year binge of glam rock, punk, disco, and rap that coalesced with the iPod's miraculous ability to put all of a person's meticulously hoarded...

Rolt / Thomas Telford

The son of a shepherd from the Scottish borders, Thomas Telford rose to be the greatest engineer in Victorian Britain, whose bridges, aqueducts, roads and canals combined aesthetic grace with brilliant engineering. His life spanned one of the most...

Francis Spufford / Backroom Boys : The Secret Return of the British Boffin

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, The Backroom Boys tells the bittersweet story of modern British engineers and inventors...

Andreas Wagner / The Arrival of the Fittest - How Life Invents Itself (Hardback)

We all know about natural selection and the so-called survival of the fittest, which governs how evolution preserves useful adaptations in each subsequent generation of a species. Unfortunately, random change alone could not have produced life as we know...

Masha Gessen / Perfect Rigour: A Genius And The Mathematical Breakthrough Of The Century (Hardback)

In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In...

Charles J. Murray / The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer (Hardback)

The SUPERMEN"After a rare speech at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1976, programmers in the audience had suddenly fallen silent when Cray offered to answer questions. He stood there for several minutes, waiting for...

David Gale / Tracking the Automatic ANT: And Other Mathematical Explorations (Hardback)

For those fascinated by the abstract universe of mathematics, David Gale's columns in The Mathematical Intelligencer have been a prime source of entertainment. Here Gale's columns are collected for the first time in book form...

New Scientist (3 Book Box Set)

New Scientist (3 Book Box Set), comprising the following Q&A based books - Does anything eat Wasps? Why don't Penguins' eet freeze? How to fossilise your Hamster     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Carole Jahme / Beauty and the Beasts : Woman, Ape and Evolution (Hardback)

What motivates them? What drives perfectly sane middle-class women away from husbands and home and a nice steady career job to study unruly primates in damp, dangerous, uncomfortable, unforgiving environments?When Louis Leakey first sent Jane Goodall out...

Gabrielle Walker / Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It (Hardback)

Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet? A global adventure story and a fascinating account of scientist Paul Hoffman's quest to prove his maverick 'Snowball Earth' theory, this is science writing at its most...

Scientific American Library (7 Book Collection)

Scientific American Library (7 Book Collection) drugs and the brain island the solar system dicsovering enzymes sand chemical communication eye, brain, and vision     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Scientific American (4 Magazine Collection)

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James D. Watson / Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science (Hardback)

Watson looks back on his extraordinary and varied career - from its beginnings as a schoolboy in Chicago's South Side to the day he left Harvard 50 years later, world-renowned as the co-discoverer of DNA - and considers the lessons he has learnt...

Ian Ayres / Super Crunchers: How Anything Can Be Predicted (Hardback)

Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never...

John Brockman / When We Were Kids : How a Child Becomes a Scientist (Hardback)

When We Were Kids is a book of original essays by celebrated third culture thinkers - scientists who, through their work and writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives,...

Peter Miller / Smart Swarm : Using Animal Behaviour to Organise Our World (Hardback)

How Understanding Flocks, Schools and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making and Getting Things Done. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first century humans actually have much to learn from...

David Owen / Copies in Seconds - Chester Carlson and the birth of the Xerox Machine(Hardback)

The first plain-paper office copier -- which was introduced in 1960 and has been called the most successful product ever marketed in America -- is unusual among major high-technology inventions in that its central process was conceived by a single person...

Giles Whittell / Snow: A Scientific and Cultural Exploration (Hardback)

Brimming with interesting facts and surprising anecdotes, this scientific and cultural history opens our eyes to the wonders of one of nature’s most delicate, delightful, and deadly SNOW! Perfect for fans of The Hidden Life of Trees and Rain .Go on...

Nicholas Negroponte / Being Digital (Hardback)

One of the founding fathers of the information age discusses the impact of digital technology on the modern world, discussing such topics as multimedia, the effects of digital transmission on copyright, and virtual reality. Negroponte was involved in a...

Eric Hansen / Orchid fever: a horticultural tale of love, lust and lunacy (Hardback)

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Reuben Hersh / What Is Mathematics Really (Hardback)

What is Mathematics, Really? Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human...

Mark Bowden / Worm : The First Digital World War (Hardback)

From the author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the story of the battle between those determined to exploit the internet and those committed to protect it--the ongoing war taking place literally beneath our fingertips.The Conficker worm infected its first...

John Brockman / What Are You Optimistic About? (Hardback)J

The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon.   John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org),  asked more than 150...

George Smoot, Keay Davidson / Wrinkles In Time Imprint of Creation (Hardback)

In April 1992 astrophysicist George Smoot announced how he and his team of scientists had found "ripples in the fabric of space-time" that were made in the first trillionth of a second after the cataclysmic moment of creation. Their discovery of the...

Mario Beauregard / Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives (Hardback)

In Brain Wars , acclaimed neuroscientist Mario Beauregard reveals compelling new evidence set to provoke a major shift in our understanding of the mind-body research showing that the mind and consciousness are transmitted and filtered through the...

Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in External Data (Hardback)

Internal data won't cut it. In a world where a company's future performance is increasingly explained by external rather than internal factors, without the tools to look beyond your industry and act on data from outside you're just trying to grow in the...

Charles Seife / Alpha and Omega : The Search for the Beginning and the End of the Universe (Hardback)

The astronomical community has been on tenterhooks awaiting the outcome of a set of experiments that should throw light on ultimate questions of the universe. This book unveils the results of these experiments.         All of...

Lisa Jardine / INGENIOUS PURSUITS. Building the Scientific Revolution. (Hardback)

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