Sciences and Technology

Melvyn Bragg / On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and their Discoveries, from Archimedes to DNA

The fascinating story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of twelve of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincaré, Freud, Einstein, Marie Curie and Crick...

Gregory Chaitin / Meta Math! : The Quest for Omega

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

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

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

Peter Cope / Teach Yourself Digital Video and PC Editing

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

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

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

John Gribbin / The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measure the Age of the Universe

This is a tale of false leads, blind alleys and groping in the semi-dark, all of which lead to the discovery of the elusive evidence of the age of the universe. The author, as a research astronomer, was involved in the work with the Hubble Space...

Stephen Jay Gould / Dinosaur in a Haystack

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

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

Rom Harré / Great Scientific Experiments: Twenty Experiments that Changed Our View of the World

Depicts the investigations and important discoveries of scientists, such as Isaac Newton, Galileo, Louis Pasteur, Michael Faraday, and Konrad Lorenz         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact...

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

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

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

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

Rolt / Thomas Telford

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

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

Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, The Backroom Boys tells the bittersweet story of modern British engineers and inventors...

New Scientist (3 Book Box Set)

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

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

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

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

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

Luke O'Neill / To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science (Hardback)

Science is a serious business, right? Wrong.Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any show on telly today. From Luke O'Neill - the science teacher you wish...

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

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

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

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

Eric Schmidt , Jonathan Rosenberg / How Google Works (Hardback)

Both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google as seasoned Silicon Valley business executives, but over the course of a decade they came to see the wisdom in Coach John Wooden's observation that 'it's what you learn after you know it all that...

John Mannion / Very Like a Whale (Hardback)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alex Bellos / Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics (Hardback)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Albert-László Barabási / The Formula (Large Paperback)

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

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

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

John M. Ziman / An Introduction to Science Studies: The Philosophical and Social Aspects of Science and Technology (Large Paperback)

Professor Ziman provides a coherent account of the different perspectives on science and technology that are normally studied under various disciplinary heads such as philosophy of science, sociology of science, and science policy. It is intended for...

Richard Grossinger / Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life (Large Paperback)

Why is the universe conscious? What kindles mind inside matter? Why do fundamentalist sciences and religions never ask these questions? This sequel to Embryogenesis deals with the theoretical issues brought up by Embryogenesis, the relationship between...

David Toolan / At Home in the Cosmos (Large Paperback)

The author brings science and spirituality together to reveal a universe with Christ at the center, and an environment caught in the balance.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture,...

Richard Rhodes / Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health (Large Paperback)

In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain...

Edward Tenner / Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Large Paperback)

In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward Tenner offers a virtual encyclopedia of what he calls...

Rudy Rucker / Mind tools: the mathematics of information (Large Paperback)

Mathematics. Highly readable book on the relation between computers and space, logic, number and infinity.     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...

Mary Blocksma / Uncle John's Presents Necessary Numbers: An Everyday Guide to Sizes, Measures, and More (Large Paperback)

Do numbers leave you feeling -- well, numb? This compendium of fascinating data will bring figures to life while answering lots of questions you've wondered about. Discover which is higher in sodium: fast food french fries, the hamburger, or cherry pie;...

John Allen Paulos / Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories (Large Paperback)

What two things could be more different than numbers and stories? Numbers are abstract, certain, and eternal, but to most of us somewhat dry and bloodless. Good stories are full of they engage our emotions and have subtlety and nuance, but they lack...

William H. Brock / Case of the Poisonous Socks: Tales from Chemistry (Large Paperback)

Light in style, this collection of essays about chemists and their discoveries will interest scientists, teachers, historians and laypeople.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture,...

Daniel Smith / Go Figure: The Marvellous Maths Workbook (Large Paperback)

Maths is one of those tricky subjects that continues to throw us problems, even after our school days. From splitting the bill in a restaurant, to counting out change at a till or working out exchange rates, maths can still send us into a sweat in our...

Ian Wilmut , Roger Highfield / After Dolly: The Uses And Misuses Of Human Cloning (Large Paperback)

This text provides a timely and important discussion of the potential value of cloning and of the ethical choices that this radical new technology has raised, including the issues surrounding the current status of stem-cell research.     All of...

Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback)

Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the...

Pat Thomas / What's in This Stuff? (Large Paperback)

What's In This Stuff?' reveals that many widely-used products contain a cocktail of cheap, poorly-tested chemicals that are implicated in long-term health problems. The book examines everything from food additives, beauty products & household...

James R Weidlein / Networking Personal Computers in Organizations (Large Paperback)

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Brendan P. Kehoe / Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide (Large Paperback)

Critics agree-this is still the best introductory guide to the Internet. This national bestseller includes a new section on using the World Wide Web and an appendix on HTMLs (with a pull-out reference card to HTML). Places special emphasis on child...

Jacob Palme / Electronic Mail (Hardback)

This work provides a thorough overview of the technical and social aspects of electronic mail. It analyzes the problems, solutions and effects of e-mail and includes coverage of the market for e-mail, the ethical and legal aspects of it, recent research...

Carl Djerassi / This Man's Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill

On October 15, 1951, in a small laboratory in Mexico City, one of the key episodes in 20th century social history the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive--an event that triggered the development of the Pill. Carl Djerassi has been honored...

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...

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...