Sciences and Technology

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...

Edward O. Wilson / The Future of Life

A magisterial accomplishment: both a moving description of our biosphere and a guidebook for the protection of all its species, including humankind.From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author)...

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...

Steve Stack / 21st Century Dodos: A Collection of Endangered Objects: and Other Stuff (Hardback)

A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction.We’ve all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever pulled together a list of endangered...

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...

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...

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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Steve Lohr / Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else (Hardback)

Steve Lohr, a technology reporter for the New York Times , chronicles the rise of Big Data, addressing cutting-edge business strategies and examining the dark side of a data-driven world. Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that...

John Mannion / Very Like a Whale (Hardback)

An anthology of science writing specifically selected for the classroom. This unique collection introduces pupils to a fascinating but hard-to-resource area of non-fiction and supports the Framework for Teaching English. A wide-ranging and fascinating...

Hervé This / The Science of the Oven (Hardback)

Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated, whereas, under the same conditions, solids melt. When meat is roasted, its surface browns and it acquires taste and texture. What...

Peter Cochrane / Tips for Time Travellers: Visionary Insights into New Technology, Life and the Future by One of the World's Leading Technology Prophets (Hardback)

Peter Cochrane, the head of the cutting edge research labs at British Telecommunications, is a leading visionary of the digital age. He takes us on a rollicking tour of the technological advances just ahead. This series of monologues - at once...

Greg Jenner / A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life (Hardback)

Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock?Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our...

James E. Lovelock / The Revenge of Gaia (Hardback)

James Lovelock, originator of the idea of Gaia, makes an argued plea that we must change our way of life - before it is too late. Illustrated with examples drawn from his experiences around the world, he draws many radical conclusions, most...

Josh Young / Dino Gangs: Dr. Philip J. Currie's New Science of Dinosaurs (Hardback)

With his groundbreaking findings and extensive research, palaeontologist and dino hunter Dr Phil Currie challenges the very foundations of traditional dinosaur theories. Seventy million years ago the Mongolian desert was home to the world's biggest, most...

Raymond Tallis / Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity (Hardback)

In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made for the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture and society.While readily acknowledging the astounding progress...

Darrell Huff / How to Lie with Statistics (Large Paperback)

Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of...

Susan M. Watkins / What A Coincidence!: The wow! factor in synchronicity and what it means in everyday life (Large Paperback)

  What would we find if, over a period of time, we paid careful attention to the coincidences in our lives? What would clusters of coincidental events reveal? Susan M. Watkins examines, from the inside out, coincidences in her own life and asks,...

Dwight Spivey / MAC OS X Snow Leopard Portable Genius (Large Paperback)

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Dave Levitan / Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science (Large Paperback)

An eye-opening tour of the political tricks that subvert scientific progress.In 1980, Ronald Reagan created one of the dumbest talking points of all time:“I’m not a scientist, but . . .”Since then, politicians have repeatedly committed...

Robert Brockway / Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead (Large Paperback)

Just when you thought you’d accepted your own mortality . . . Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody is bringing panic back. Twenty illustrated, hilariously fear-inducing 
essays reveal the chilling and very real experiments,...

David B. Agus / The Lucky Years - How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health(Large Paperback)

Bestselling author David Agus unveils the brave new world of medicine, one in which we can take control of our health like never before and doctors can fine-tune strategies and weapons to prevent illness. In his first bestseller, The End of Illness,...

Albert-László Barabási / The Formula (Large Paperback)

In this pioneering examination of the scientific principles behind success, a leading researcher reveals the surprising ways in which we can turn achievement into success.Too often, accomplishment does not equate to success. We did the work but didn't...

Robert Winston / Bad Ideas ? : An Arresting History of Our Inventions (Large Paperback)

We are born with the instinct to create and invent. Indeed our ability to do so is what separates we humans from the rest of the animal world. The moment man first converted a stone to a useful tool set him on a relentless path toward greater control and...

Antony Latham / The Naked Emperor : Darwinism Exposed (Large Paperback)

This book questions some of the foundation stones of Darwinism, which have become almost scientific 'givens' in recent years. Using detailed biological arguments and his own intricate knowledge of anatomy, Antony Latham challenges the suggestion that the...

Steven Mithen / The Singing Neanderthals - The Origins of Music, Language , Mind and Body (Large Paperback)

A long overdue book... intriguing as well as entertaining - Times Literary SupplementAlong with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while the evolutionary...

Scientific American / Understanding Nanotechnology (Large Paperback)

Taken from the Greek, nano means 'one billionth part of' a whole; or very, very small. Nanotechnology is the next step after miniaturization. This book explores the cutting edge of a new technology that will find usage in almost every single aspect of...

Eric Lonergan , Corinne Sawers / Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster (Large Paperback)

Almost everyone agrees on the need to transition the global economy to net zero. But how do we do it? And how do we do it faster ? If you feel demoralized, depressed or confused about the climate crisis this book will provide answers – and ones...