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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mollan, Charles ; Davis, William & Finucane, William - Some People and Places in Irish Science and Technology - Pb Published by the RIA in 1985, this is a paperback listing a number of notable practitioners in Irish sciences , giving a brief biography of each as well as details on their main areas of work, research and discovery. We are all aware of Ireland's... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Conor W O'Brien - Life In Ireland : A Short History of a Long Time - PB - BRAND NEW This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mollan, Charles ; Davis, William & Finucane, William - Some People and Places in Irish Science and Technology - Pb Published by the RIA in 1985, this is a paperback listing a number of notable practitioners in Irish sciences , giving a brief biography of each as well as details on their main areas of work, research and discovery. We are all aware of Ireland's... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Conor W O'Brien - Life In Ireland : A Short History of a Long Time - PB - BRAND NEW This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mollan, Charles ; Davis, William & Finucane, William - Some People and Places in Irish Science and Technology - Pb Published by the RIA in 1985, this is a paperback listing a number of notable practitioners in Irish sciences , giving a brief biography of each as well as details on their main areas of work, research and discovery. We are all aware of Ireland's... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Conor W O'Brien - Life In Ireland : A Short History of a Long Time - PB - BRAND NEW This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. Penfold / Test Equipment Construction 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... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17223E John Gribbin / Deep Simplicity Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life brilliantly illuminates the harmony underlying our existence.The world around us can be a complex, confusing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Teyler, TimotheyJ - Altered States of Awareness - Readings from Scientific American - 1972 Contents - ( most of these articles date from the 1950'S and 1960's - and were published in the Scientific American magazine- they were collected in this edition in 1971. A wide range of essys - most ate illustrated, some in colour relating... 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Jimmy's story is one of incredible highs and lows. It's a life that has been lived on the very crest of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9326E Will McCallum / How to Give Up Plastic : Simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x13522E Ian Stewart / Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (Hardback) Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53322H Oliver Sacks / Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Hardback) This memoir from Oliver Sacks is both a departure from and an enhancement of his previous psychologically orientated 'medical' writing. Not only is it a beautifully written account of an English childhood - seasoned by a childish passion for... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lyons, T Pearse ( Editor ) - Biotechnology in the Feed industry - 2 Volume Lot - 1987 & 1988 - Alltech Two hardcover professional scientific publications the proceedings f the annual conferences held in (animal) feeding and nutrition, and edited by T Pearse Lyons, the Irish born founder of Alltech, 1987 - proceedings of Alltech's 3rd... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mollan, Charles ; Davis, William & Finucane, William - Some People and Places in Irish Science and Technology - Pb Published by the RIA in 1985, this is a paperback listing a number of notable practitioners in Irish sciences , giving a brief biography of each as well as details on their main areas of work, research and discovery. We are all aware of Ireland's... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Conor W O'Brien - Life In Ireland : A Short History of a Long Time - PB - BRAND NEW This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. 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Jimmy's story is one of incredible highs and lows. It's a life that has been lived on the very crest of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9326E Will McCallum / How to Give Up Plastic : Simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x13522E Ian Stewart / Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (Hardback) Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Conor W O'Brien - Life In Ireland : A Short History of a Long Time - PB - BRAND NEW This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. Penfold / Test Equipment Construction 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... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mollan, Charles ; Davis, William & Finucane, William - Some People and Places in Irish Science and Technology - Pb Published by the RIA in 1985, this is a paperback listing a number of notable practitioners in Irish sciences , giving a brief biography of each as well as details on their main areas of work, research and discovery. We are all aware of Ireland's... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Conor W O'Brien - Life In Ireland : A Short History of a Long Time - PB - BRAND NEW This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. Penfold / Test Equipment Construction 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... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17223E John Gribbin / Deep Simplicity Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life brilliantly illuminates the harmony underlying our existence.The world around us can be a complex, confusing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Teyler, TimotheyJ - Altered States of Awareness - Readings from Scientific American - 1972 Contents - ( most of these articles date from the 1950'S and 1960's - and were published in the Scientific American magazine- they were collected in this edition in 1971. A wide range of essys - most ate illustrated, some in colour relating... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107381c Stephen Dealler / Lethal Legacy : BSE - The Search for the Truth An examination of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), which discusses the characteristics of the disease and the possibilities of widespread infection, and considers the mistakes the British Government made in their early denial of the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45197E Dara Ó Briain / Beyond the Sky : You and the Universe (Hardback) So you want to go into space? WHY?! (No, really - it's sort of aterrible idea. We humans are perfectly designed for life on Earth.We can walk around, breathe, drink water, eat vegetables, readbooks, not get poisoned or crushed to death when we go... 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Jimmy's story is one of incredible highs and lows. It's a life that has been lived on the very crest of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9326E Will McCallum / How to Give Up Plastic : Simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x13522E Ian Stewart / Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (Hardback) Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53322H Oliver Sacks / Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Hardback) This memoir from Oliver Sacks is both a departure from and an enhancement of his previous psychologically orientated 'medical' writing. Not only is it a beautifully written account of an English childhood - seasoned by a childish passion for... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lyons, T Pearse ( Editor ) - Biotechnology in the Feed industry - 2 Volume Lot - 1987 & 1988 - Alltech Two hardcover professional scientific publications the proceedings f the annual conferences held in (animal) feeding and nutrition, and edited by T Pearse Lyons, the Irish born founder of Alltech, 1987 - proceedings of Alltech's 3rd... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32821H Matthew Walker / Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams 'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening StandardTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21855H Michio Kaku / Physics of the Impossible : A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8950M Bill Gates / Business at the Speed of Thought : Succeeding in the Digital Economy Most companies have a sizeable investment in technology but are realising only 20 per cent of its potential benefit. "Business @ the Speed of Thought" introduces the concept of the digital nervous system which unites all systems and processes under... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8862E Richard Robinson / Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down etc The frustrating component of life known as Murphy's (or Sod's) Law is no respecter of persons. The more you aredesperate for things to go right, the more they go wrong. But,is that really the case, and, if so, is there a rational explanation?So:... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 12468E The Universe Next Door : A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31715H NewScientist / Nothing Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8573M Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8419M Patrick Dixon / Futurewise This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21257H Peter Coveney / The Arrow of Time : The Quest to Solve Science's Greatest Mysteries In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29751H,29963H Tim Peake / Ask an Astronaut The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... 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Quick view sku: BN535 Rosemary Roberts - What would the Buddha Recycle ? - The Zen of Green Living-PB - BRAND NEW If the Buddha were alive today, he'd be the living embodiment of green living. He'd be collecting cans on the freeway, riding his bike to work, and replacing all his light bulbs-one little satori at a time. In this book you can channel His Holiness,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x54647H Mary Roach / Packing for Mars (Large Paperback) The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA's new space capsule, Mary Roach takes us on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x54943H Richard Dawkins / River Out of Eden (Hardback) The information system contained in DNA is so powerful and so elegant that it far outstrips anything that has been invented by way of computers. Dawkin's description of it aims to bring out the inspirational quality of our understanding of... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 11249E Joe Humphreys / Unthinkable : Great Ideas for Now 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mollan, Charles ; Davis, William & Finucane, William - Some People and Places in Irish Science and Technology - Pb Published by the RIA in 1985, this is a paperback listing a number of notable practitioners in Irish sciences , giving a brief biography of each as well as details on their main areas of work, research and discovery. We are all aware of Ireland's... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Conor W O'Brien - Life In Ireland : A Short History of a Long Time - PB - BRAND NEW This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. Penfold / Test Equipment Construction 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... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17223E John Gribbin / Deep Simplicity Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life brilliantly illuminates the harmony underlying our existence.The world around us can be a complex, confusing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Teyler, TimotheyJ - Altered States of Awareness - Readings from Scientific American - 1972 Contents - ( most of these articles date from the 1950'S and 1960's - and were published in the Scientific American magazine- they were collected in this edition in 1971. A wide range of essys - most ate illustrated, some in colour relating... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107381c Stephen Dealler / Lethal Legacy : BSE - The Search for the Truth An examination of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), which discusses the characteristics of the disease and the possibilities of widespread infection, and considers the mistakes the British Government made in their early denial of the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45197E Dara Ó Briain / Beyond the Sky : You and the Universe (Hardback) So you want to go into space? WHY?! (No, really - it's sort of aterrible idea. We humans are perfectly designed for life on Earth.We can walk around, breathe, drink water, eat vegetables, readbooks, not get poisoned or crushed to death when we go... 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But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mollan, Charles ; Davis, William & Finucane, William - Some People and Places in Irish Science and Technology - Pb Published by the RIA in 1985, this is a paperback listing a number of notable practitioners in Irish sciences , giving a brief biography of each as well as details on their main areas of work, research and discovery. We are all aware of Ireland's... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Conor W O'Brien - Life In Ireland : A Short History of a Long Time - PB - BRAND NEW This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. Penfold / Test Equipment Construction 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... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17223E John Gribbin / Deep Simplicity Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life brilliantly illuminates the harmony underlying our existence.The world around us can be a complex, confusing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Teyler, TimotheyJ - Altered States of Awareness - Readings from Scientific American - 1972 Contents - ( most of these articles date from the 1950'S and 1960's - and were published in the Scientific American magazine- they were collected in this edition in 1971. A wide range of essys - most ate illustrated, some in colour relating... 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Jimmy's story is one of incredible highs and lows. It's a life that has been lived on the very crest of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9326E Will McCallum / How to Give Up Plastic : Simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x13522E Ian Stewart / Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (Hardback) Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern... 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But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31715H NewScientist / Nothing Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8573M Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8419M Patrick Dixon / Futurewise This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21257H Peter Coveney / The Arrow of Time : The Quest to Solve Science's Greatest Mysteries In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29751H,29963H Tim Peake / Ask an Astronaut The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Mollan, Charles ; Davis, William & Finucane, William - Some People and Places in Irish Science and Technology - Pb Published by the RIA in 1985, this is a paperback listing a number of notable practitioners in Irish sciences , giving a brief biography of each as well as details on their main areas of work, research and discovery. We are all aware of Ireland's... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Conor W O'Brien - Life In Ireland : A Short History of a Long Time - PB - BRAND NEW This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. Penfold / Test Equipment Construction 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... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17223E John Gribbin / Deep Simplicity Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life brilliantly illuminates the harmony underlying our existence.The world around us can be a complex, confusing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Teyler, TimotheyJ - Altered States of Awareness - Readings from Scientific American - 1972 Contents - ( most of these articles date from the 1950'S and 1960's - and were published in the Scientific American magazine- they were collected in this edition in 1971. A wide range of essys - most ate illustrated, some in colour relating... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107381c Stephen Dealler / Lethal Legacy : BSE - The Search for the Truth An examination of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), which discusses the characteristics of the disease and the possibilities of widespread infection, and considers the mistakes the British Government made in their early denial of the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45197E Dara Ó Briain / Beyond the Sky : You and the Universe (Hardback) So you want to go into space? WHY?! (No, really - it's sort of aterrible idea. We humans are perfectly designed for life on Earth.We can walk around, breathe, drink water, eat vegetables, readbooks, not get poisoned or crushed to death when we go... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21296H Fritjof Capra / Web of Life The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought. In his international bestsellers "The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28300H John Carreyrou / Bad Blood : Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill Gates, '5 books I loved in 2018'WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018The full inside story of the breathtaking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9542M Jimmy Buchan / Trawlerman : Life at the Helm of the Toughest Job in Britain TRAWLERMAN is the memoir of Jimmy Buchan - skipper of the Amity II, a fishing vessel based in Peterhead, Europe's largest fishing port. Jimmy's story is one of incredible highs and lows. It's a life that has been lived on the very crest of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9326E Will McCallum / How to Give Up Plastic : Simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x13522E Ian Stewart / Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (Hardback) Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53322H Oliver Sacks / Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Hardback) This memoir from Oliver Sacks is both a departure from and an enhancement of his previous psychologically orientated 'medical' writing. Not only is it a beautifully written account of an English childhood - seasoned by a childish passion for... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lyons, T Pearse ( Editor ) - Biotechnology in the Feed industry - 2 Volume Lot - 1987 & 1988 - Alltech Two hardcover professional scientific publications the proceedings f the annual conferences held in (animal) feeding and nutrition, and edited by T Pearse Lyons, the Irish born founder of Alltech, 1987 - proceedings of Alltech's 3rd... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32821H Matthew Walker / Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams 'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening StandardTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21855H Michio Kaku / Physics of the Impossible : A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8950M Bill Gates / Business at the Speed of Thought : Succeeding in the Digital Economy Most companies have a sizeable investment in technology but are realising only 20 per cent of its potential benefit. "Business @ the Speed of Thought" introduces the concept of the digital nervous system which unites all systems and processes under... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8862E Richard Robinson / Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down etc The frustrating component of life known as Murphy's (or Sod's) Law is no respecter of persons. The more you aredesperate for things to go right, the more they go wrong. But,is that really the case, and, if so, is there a rational explanation?So:... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 12468E The Universe Next Door : A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31715H NewScientist / Nothing Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8573M Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8419M Patrick Dixon / Futurewise This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual,... 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With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. Penfold / Test Equipment Construction 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... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17223E John Gribbin / Deep Simplicity Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life brilliantly illuminates the harmony underlying our existence.The world around us can be a complex, confusing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Teyler, TimotheyJ - Altered States of Awareness - Readings from Scientific American - 1972 Contents - ( most of these articles date from the 1950'S and 1960's - and were published in the Scientific American magazine- they were collected in this edition in 1971. A wide range of essys - most ate illustrated, some in colour relating... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107381c Stephen Dealler / Lethal Legacy : BSE - The Search for the Truth An examination of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), which discusses the characteristics of the disease and the possibilities of widespread infection, and considers the mistakes the British Government made in their early denial of the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45197E Dara Ó Briain / Beyond the Sky : You and the Universe (Hardback) So you want to go into space? WHY?! (No, really - it's sort of aterrible idea. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lyons, T Pearse ( Editor ) - Biotechnology in the Feed industry - 2 Volume Lot - 1987 & 1988 - Alltech Two hardcover professional scientific publications the proceedings f the annual conferences held in (animal) feeding and nutrition, and edited by T Pearse Lyons, the Irish born founder of Alltech, 1987 - proceedings of Alltech's 3rd... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32821H Matthew Walker / Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams 'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening StandardTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21257H Peter Coveney / The Arrow of Time : The Quest to Solve Science's Greatest Mysteries In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29751H,29963H Tim Peake / Ask an Astronaut The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... 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Quick view Mollan, Charles ; Davis, William & Finucane, William - Some People and Places in Irish Science and Technology - Pb Published by the RIA in 1985, this is a paperback listing a number of notable practitioners in Irish sciences , giving a brief biography of each as well as details on their main areas of work, research and discovery. We are all aware of Ireland's... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Merrion Press Conor W O'Brien - Life In Ireland : A Short History of a Long Time - PB - BRAND NEW This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. Penfold / Test Equipment Construction 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... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17223E John Gribbin / Deep Simplicity Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life brilliantly illuminates the harmony underlying our existence.The world around us can be a complex, confusing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Teyler, TimotheyJ - Altered States of Awareness - Readings from Scientific American - 1972 Contents - ( most of these articles date from the 1950'S and 1960's - and were published in the Scientific American magazine- they were collected in this edition in 1971. A wide range of essys - most ate illustrated, some in colour relating... 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Jimmy's story is one of incredible highs and lows. It's a life that has been lived on the very crest of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9326E Will McCallum / How to Give Up Plastic : Simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x13522E Ian Stewart / Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (Hardback) Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53322H Oliver Sacks / Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Hardback) This memoir from Oliver Sacks is both a departure from and an enhancement of his previous psychologically orientated 'medical' writing. Not only is it a beautifully written account of an English childhood - seasoned by a childish passion for... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lyons, T Pearse ( Editor ) - Biotechnology in the Feed industry - 2 Volume Lot - 1987 & 1988 - Alltech Two hardcover professional scientific publications the proceedings f the annual conferences held in (animal) feeding and nutrition, and edited by T Pearse Lyons, the Irish born founder of Alltech, 1987 - proceedings of Alltech's 3rd... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32821H Matthew Walker / Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams 'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening StandardTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21855H Michio Kaku / Physics of the Impossible : A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein... 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But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31715H NewScientist / Nothing Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8573M Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8419M Patrick Dixon / Futurewise This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7895E Rob Eastaway / Why Do Buses Come in Threes? : The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life With a foreword by Tim Rice, this book will change the way you see the world. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And what's the connection between a rugby player taking a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32212H Steve Jones / The Language of the Genes Commissioned by the BBC to deliver the Reith Lectures in 1991, Steve Jones has used them as the basis for this book which argues that the evolution of our genes may be compared to the evolution of language. Genetics, argues the author, can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21257H Peter Coveney / The Arrow of Time : The Quest to Solve Science's Greatest Mysteries In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29751H,29963H Tim Peake / Ask an Astronaut The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... MSRP: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28127H Desmond Morris / Peoplewatching : The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Merrion Press Conor W O'Brien - Life In Ireland : A Short History of a Long Time - PB - BRAND NEW This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before... MSRP: Now: €16.95 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107641c R. A. Penfold / Test Equipment Construction 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... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 17223E John Gribbin / Deep Simplicity Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life brilliantly illuminates the harmony underlying our existence.The world around us can be a complex, confusing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Teyler, TimotheyJ - Altered States of Awareness - Readings from Scientific American - 1972 Contents - ( most of these articles date from the 1950'S and 1960's - and were published in the Scientific American magazine- they were collected in this edition in 1971. A wide range of essys - most ate illustrated, some in colour relating... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107381c Stephen Dealler / Lethal Legacy : BSE - The Search for the Truth An examination of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), which discusses the characteristics of the disease and the possibilities of widespread infection, and considers the mistakes the British Government made in their early denial of the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45197E Dara Ó Briain / Beyond the Sky : You and the Universe (Hardback) So you want to go into space? WHY?! (No, really - it's sort of aterrible idea. We humans are perfectly designed for life on Earth.We can walk around, breathe, drink water, eat vegetables, readbooks, not get poisoned or crushed to death when we go... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21296H Fritjof Capra / Web of Life The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought. In his international bestsellers "The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28300H John Carreyrou / Bad Blood : Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill Gates, '5 books I loved in 2018'WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018The full inside story of the breathtaking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9542M Jimmy Buchan / Trawlerman : Life at the Helm of the Toughest Job in Britain TRAWLERMAN is the memoir of Jimmy Buchan - skipper of the Amity II, a fishing vessel based in Peterhead, Europe's largest fishing port. Jimmy's story is one of incredible highs and lows. It's a life that has been lived on the very crest of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9326E Will McCallum / How to Give Up Plastic : Simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x13522E Ian Stewart / Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (Hardback) Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53322H Oliver Sacks / Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Hardback) This memoir from Oliver Sacks is both a departure from and an enhancement of his previous psychologically orientated 'medical' writing. Not only is it a beautifully written account of an English childhood - seasoned by a childish passion for... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lyons, T Pearse ( Editor ) - Biotechnology in the Feed industry - 2 Volume Lot - 1987 & 1988 - Alltech Two hardcover professional scientific publications the proceedings f the annual conferences held in (animal) feeding and nutrition, and edited by T Pearse Lyons, the Irish born founder of Alltech, 1987 - proceedings of Alltech's 3rd... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32821H Matthew Walker / Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams 'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening StandardTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21855H Michio Kaku / Physics of the Impossible : A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein... 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Quick view sku: 17223E John Gribbin / Deep Simplicity Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life brilliantly illuminates the harmony underlying our existence.The world around us can be a complex, confusing... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Teyler, TimotheyJ - Altered States of Awareness - Readings from Scientific American - 1972 Contents - ( most of these articles date from the 1950'S and 1960's - and were published in the Scientific American magazine- they were collected in this edition in 1971. A wide range of essys - most ate illustrated, some in colour relating... 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But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21257H Peter Coveney / The Arrow of Time : The Quest to Solve Science's Greatest Mysteries In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29751H,29963H Tim Peake / Ask an Astronaut The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... 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Quick view Teyler, TimotheyJ - Altered States of Awareness - Readings from Scientific American - 1972 Contents - ( most of these articles date from the 1950'S and 1960's - and were published in the Scientific American magazine- they were collected in this edition in 1971. A wide range of essys - most ate illustrated, some in colour relating... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 107381c Stephen Dealler / Lethal Legacy : BSE - The Search for the Truth An examination of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), which discusses the characteristics of the disease and the possibilities of widespread infection, and considers the mistakes the British Government made in their early denial of the... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X45197E Dara Ó Briain / Beyond the Sky : You and the Universe (Hardback) So you want to go into space? WHY?! (No, really - it's sort of aterrible idea. We humans are perfectly designed for life on Earth.We can walk around, breathe, drink water, eat vegetables, readbooks, not get poisoned or crushed to death when we go... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21296H Fritjof Capra / Web of Life The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought. In his international bestsellers "The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28300H John Carreyrou / Bad Blood : Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill Gates, '5 books I loved in 2018'WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018The full inside story of the breathtaking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9542M Jimmy Buchan / Trawlerman : Life at the Helm of the Toughest Job in Britain TRAWLERMAN is the memoir of Jimmy Buchan - skipper of the Amity II, a fishing vessel based in Peterhead, Europe's largest fishing port. Jimmy's story is one of incredible highs and lows. It's a life that has been lived on the very crest of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9326E Will McCallum / How to Give Up Plastic : Simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x13522E Ian Stewart / Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (Hardback) Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53322H Oliver Sacks / Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Hardback) This memoir from Oliver Sacks is both a departure from and an enhancement of his previous psychologically orientated 'medical' writing. Not only is it a beautifully written account of an English childhood - seasoned by a childish passion for... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lyons, T Pearse ( Editor ) - Biotechnology in the Feed industry - 2 Volume Lot - 1987 & 1988 - Alltech Two hardcover professional scientific publications the proceedings f the annual conferences held in (animal) feeding and nutrition, and edited by T Pearse Lyons, the Irish born founder of Alltech, 1987 - proceedings of Alltech's 3rd... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32821H Matthew Walker / Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams 'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening StandardTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21855H Michio Kaku / Physics of the Impossible : A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8950M Bill Gates / Business at the Speed of Thought : Succeeding in the Digital Economy Most companies have a sizeable investment in technology but are realising only 20 per cent of its potential benefit. "Business @ the Speed of Thought" introduces the concept of the digital nervous system which unites all systems and processes under... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8862E Richard Robinson / Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down etc The frustrating component of life known as Murphy's (or Sod's) Law is no respecter of persons. The more you aredesperate for things to go right, the more they go wrong. But,is that really the case, and, if so, is there a rational explanation?So:... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 12468E The Universe Next Door : A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31715H NewScientist / Nothing Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8573M Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8419M Patrick Dixon / Futurewise This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7895E Rob Eastaway / Why Do Buses Come in Threes? : The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life With a foreword by Tim Rice, this book will change the way you see the world. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And what's the connection between a rugby player taking a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32212H Steve Jones / The Language of the Genes Commissioned by the BBC to deliver the Reith Lectures in 1991, Steve Jones has used them as the basis for this book which argues that the evolution of our genes may be compared to the evolution of language. Genetics, argues the author, can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21257H Peter Coveney / The Arrow of Time : The Quest to Solve Science's Greatest Mysteries In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29751H,29963H Tim Peake / Ask an Astronaut The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... MSRP: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28127H Desmond Morris / Peoplewatching : The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: X45197E Dara Ó Briain / Beyond the Sky : You and the Universe (Hardback) So you want to go into space? WHY?! (No, really - it's sort of aterrible idea. We humans are perfectly designed for life on Earth.We can walk around, breathe, drink water, eat vegetables, readbooks, not get poisoned or crushed to death when we go... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21296H Fritjof Capra / Web of Life The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought. In his international bestsellers "The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28300H John Carreyrou / Bad Blood : Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill Gates, '5 books I loved in 2018'WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018The full inside story of the breathtaking... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9542M Jimmy Buchan / Trawlerman : Life at the Helm of the Toughest Job in Britain TRAWLERMAN is the memoir of Jimmy Buchan - skipper of the Amity II, a fishing vessel based in Peterhead, Europe's largest fishing port. Jimmy's story is one of incredible highs and lows. It's a life that has been lived on the very crest of... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 9326E Will McCallum / How to Give Up Plastic : Simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x13522E Ian Stewart / Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (Hardback) Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X53322H Oliver Sacks / Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Hardback) This memoir from Oliver Sacks is both a departure from and an enhancement of his previous psychologically orientated 'medical' writing. Not only is it a beautifully written account of an English childhood - seasoned by a childish passion for... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lyons, T Pearse ( Editor ) - Biotechnology in the Feed industry - 2 Volume Lot - 1987 & 1988 - Alltech Two hardcover professional scientific publications the proceedings f the annual conferences held in (animal) feeding and nutrition, and edited by T Pearse Lyons, the Irish born founder of Alltech, 1987 - proceedings of Alltech's 3rd... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32821H Matthew Walker / Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams 'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening StandardTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER,... 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But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lyons, T Pearse ( Editor ) - Biotechnology in the Feed industry - 2 Volume Lot - 1987 & 1988 - Alltech Two hardcover professional scientific publications the proceedings f the annual conferences held in (animal) feeding and nutrition, and edited by T Pearse Lyons, the Irish born founder of Alltech, 1987 - proceedings of Alltech's 3rd... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32821H Matthew Walker / Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams 'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening StandardTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7895E Rob Eastaway / Why Do Buses Come in Threes? : The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life With a foreword by Tim Rice, this book will change the way you see the world. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And what's the connection between a rugby player taking a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32212H Steve Jones / The Language of the Genes Commissioned by the BBC to deliver the Reith Lectures in 1991, Steve Jones has used them as the basis for this book which argues that the evolution of our genes may be compared to the evolution of language. Genetics, argues the author, can... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... MSRP: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28127H Desmond Morris / Peoplewatching : The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: X53322H Oliver Sacks / Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Hardback) This memoir from Oliver Sacks is both a departure from and an enhancement of his previous psychologically orientated 'medical' writing. Not only is it a beautifully written account of an English childhood - seasoned by a childish passion for... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lyons, T Pearse ( Editor ) - Biotechnology in the Feed industry - 2 Volume Lot - 1987 & 1988 - Alltech Two hardcover professional scientific publications the proceedings f the annual conferences held in (animal) feeding and nutrition, and edited by T Pearse Lyons, the Irish born founder of Alltech, 1987 - proceedings of Alltech's 3rd... 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But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... MSRP: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28127H Desmond Morris / Peoplewatching : The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 32821H Matthew Walker / Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams 'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening StandardTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTLS, OBSERVER,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21855H Michio Kaku / Physics of the Impossible : A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein... 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But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31715H NewScientist / Nothing Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8573M Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8419M Patrick Dixon / Futurewise This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21257H Peter Coveney / The Arrow of Time : The Quest to Solve Science's Greatest Mysteries In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29751H,29963H Tim Peake / Ask an Astronaut The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... 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Quick view sku: 21855H Michio Kaku / Physics of the Impossible : A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8950M Bill Gates / Business at the Speed of Thought : Succeeding in the Digital Economy Most companies have a sizeable investment in technology but are realising only 20 per cent of its potential benefit. "Business @ the Speed of Thought" introduces the concept of the digital nervous system which unites all systems and processes under... 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It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8573M Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8419M Patrick Dixon / Futurewise This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... 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Quick view sku: 8950M Bill Gates / Business at the Speed of Thought : Succeeding in the Digital Economy Most companies have a sizeable investment in technology but are realising only 20 per cent of its potential benefit. "Business @ the Speed of Thought" introduces the concept of the digital nervous system which unites all systems and processes under... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8862E Richard Robinson / Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down etc The frustrating component of life known as Murphy's (or Sod's) Law is no respecter of persons. The more you aredesperate for things to go right, the more they go wrong. But,is that really the case, and, if so, is there a rational explanation?So:... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 12468E The Universe Next Door : A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31715H NewScientist / Nothing Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8573M Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8419M Patrick Dixon / Futurewise This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7895E Rob Eastaway / Why Do Buses Come in Threes? : The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life With a foreword by Tim Rice, this book will change the way you see the world. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And what's the connection between a rugby player taking a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32212H Steve Jones / The Language of the Genes Commissioned by the BBC to deliver the Reith Lectures in 1991, Steve Jones has used them as the basis for this book which argues that the evolution of our genes may be compared to the evolution of language. Genetics, argues the author, can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21257H Peter Coveney / The Arrow of Time : The Quest to Solve Science's Greatest Mysteries In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29751H,29963H Tim Peake / Ask an Astronaut The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... MSRP: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28127H Desmond Morris / Peoplewatching : The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 8862E Richard Robinson / Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down etc The frustrating component of life known as Murphy's (or Sod's) Law is no respecter of persons. The more you aredesperate for things to go right, the more they go wrong. But,is that really the case, and, if so, is there a rational explanation?So:... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 12468E The Universe Next Door : A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31715H NewScientist / Nothing Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8573M Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8419M Patrick Dixon / Futurewise This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7895E Rob Eastaway / Why Do Buses Come in Threes? : The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life With a foreword by Tim Rice, this book will change the way you see the world. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And what's the connection between a rugby player taking a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32212H Steve Jones / The Language of the Genes Commissioned by the BBC to deliver the Reith Lectures in 1991, Steve Jones has used them as the basis for this book which argues that the evolution of our genes may be compared to the evolution of language. Genetics, argues the author, can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21257H Peter Coveney / The Arrow of Time : The Quest to Solve Science's Greatest Mysteries In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29751H,29963H Tim Peake / Ask an Astronaut The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... MSRP: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28127H Desmond Morris / Peoplewatching : The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 12468E The Universe Next Door : A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57715H Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking (Hardback) The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is an enthralling history of codes and code-breaking from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 24392H Paul Hoffman / The Man Who Loved Only Numbers : The Story of Paul Erdoes and the Search for Mathematical Truth The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject - he... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31715H NewScientist / Nothing Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8573M Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physicsIn this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 8419M Patrick Dixon / Futurewise This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to know what the future holds. On an individual,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7895E Rob Eastaway / Why Do Buses Come in Threes? : The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life With a foreword by Tim Rice, this book will change the way you see the world. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And what's the connection between a rugby player taking a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 32212H Steve Jones / The Language of the Genes Commissioned by the BBC to deliver the Reith Lectures in 1991, Steve Jones has used them as the basis for this book which argues that the evolution of our genes may be compared to the evolution of language. Genetics, argues the author, can... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 21257H Peter Coveney / The Arrow of Time : The Quest to Solve Science's Greatest Mysteries In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 29751H,29963H Tim Peake / Ask an Astronaut The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 7482E Randall Munroe / What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 106389c Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he lays bare the visionary and turbulent process of... MSRP: €2.00 Was: €2.00 Now: €0.25 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 28127H Desmond Morris / Peoplewatching : The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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