Sciences and Technology

Peter Buckley / The Rough Guide to the iPhone (5th)

      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...

Jones Steve / Almost Like a Whale — The Origin of Species Updated

 Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Before The Origin, biology was a set of unconnected facts. Darwin made it into a science, linked by the theory of evolution, the...

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

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

Tim Guest / Second Lives - A Journey Through Virtual Worlds

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

Terry Burrows / Your Life Online

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

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

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

John Maddox / What Remains to Be Discovered? (Large Paperback)

Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race  What wonders of science will the 21st century bring? John Maddox takes up this challenge by describing precisely what remains to be discovered. Building on...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Luke O'Neill / Humanology: A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence (Coffee Table Book)

Taking us on an incredible journey across centuries and galaxies, accompanied by his characteristic wit, Professor Luke O’Neill explains how it all began, how it all will end and everything in between. Readers will benefit from Luke’s...

Michael Allaby / Facing the Future : The Case for Science

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

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

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

Ian Sample / Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle

Now fully updated -- this is the dramatic and gripping account of the greatest scientific discovery of our time.     In the early 1960s, three groups of physicists, working independently in different countries, stumbled upon an...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback)

Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the...

Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback)

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

Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback)

The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special...

Rowan Hooper / Superhuman (Large Paperback)

Rowan Hooper, managing editor at the New Scientist, explores the peaks of human attainment. As part of his investigation, he interviews high achievers from a diverse range of fields - from scientists, memory champions and opera stars to polyglots and...

Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback)

There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace...

Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback)

In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self.     All of...

Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky

Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific...

Amina Khan / Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions

 Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money...

Merritt Roe Smith / Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Large Paperback)

 These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Susskind & Daniel Susskind / The Future of the Professions : How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts (Hardback)

 This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 The first account of one of the 21st century's greatest business stories, Tesla and Elon Musk.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good...

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

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

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

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

Andrew Keen / The Internet is Not the Answer (Hardback)

 The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware...

Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback)

 Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback)

 How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the...

Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback)

 Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep...

Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback)

 Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological...

Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback)

 Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore...

Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback)

 In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism...

Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback)

 A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction...

Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback)

 Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be...