Sciences and Technology

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Brian Cox / How to Build a Universe: An Infinite Monkey Cage Adventure (Large Paperback)

 The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to...

Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback)

 The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of...

David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback)

 Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The...

John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback)

 The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing.     All of our...

Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback)

 How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,...

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

 The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online...

John Naughton / A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet (Hardback)

 The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. A millennium from now, historians will look back at it and marvel that a people equipped with such clumsy tools succeeded in creating such a Leviathan. John...

Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback)

 Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to...

Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback)

 A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be...

Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback)

 Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest...

The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff

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Gavin Pretor-Pinney / Wavewatcher's Companion

 One bright February afternoon on a beach in Cornwall, Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching the waves rolling into shore. Mesmerised, he wondered where they had come from, and decided to find out. He soon realised...

Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age

 What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory,  A Life Lived Remotely...

John L. Casti / Paradigms Lost - Images of Man in the Mirror of Science

 Within the forum of a mock trial, an eminent mathematician argues for the defense and prosecution, then renders the verdict on the origin of life, sociobiology, language acquisition, artificial intelligence, extraterrestrial life, and quantum...

Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Science

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Angela Saini / Inferior

   What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were...

Mark Stevenson / An Optimists Tour of the Future

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Frank Ryan / Virolution (Large Paperback)

The extraordinary role of viruses in evolution and how this is revolutionising biology and medicine.Darwin's theory of evolution remains central to biological science and medicine. His explanation of the role of natural selection in driving the evolution...

Giovanni Frazzetto / Together, Closer: Stories of Intimacy in Friendship, Love, and Family (Large Paperback)

A deeply felt book that explores intimacy through the stories of eight relationships, from a leading neuroscientist and author of How We Feel. What is intimacy and why do we need it? Intimacy is that moment when our true identity is revealed to...

Hans Magnus Enzensberger / The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure (Large Paperback)

Twelve year old Robert fears numbers and hates maths. Then, in his dreams, he meets the Number Devil who introduces him to the amazing and magical world of numbers. This international bestseller is an exciting adventure in learning for both adults and...

Charlie McDonnell / Fun Science: A Guide to Life, the Universe and Why Science Is So Awesome (Hardback)

Welcome, fellow humans (and others), to the the world of FUN SCIENCE! I'm Charlie, also known across the internet as charlieissocoollike.In my book, I'll be taking you on an awesome journey through the cosmos, beginning with the Big Bang through to the...

Stephen R. Palumbi / The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change (Hardback)

A critical look at evolution examines the slow process that ruled the rise and fall of the dinosaurs over hundreds of millions of years, the speedy process that causes drugs to fail because a disease evolves too quickly, and how human impact effects our...

Deborah Blum / Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women (Hardback)

A Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer presents a provocative, humorous analysis of the biology of gender, handling such topics as why adolescents males and females gossip differently and why relationships break up.      All of our...

Gerd Kempermann / Adult Neurogenesis - Stem Cells and Neuronal Development in the Adult Brain(Hardback)

The discovery of adult neurogenesis and of stem cells in the brain has changed our view of the mature brain. Though we now know that the adult brain can make new neurons, it normally does so only in two privileged regions, the olfactory bulb and the...

Frank Rose / Into The Heart Of The Mind - A Quest For Artificial Intelligence(Hardback)

An account of the early years of computing and the development of and roots of very limited  'self aware' technology up to the 1990's .      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Guy Croton / Wrinklies' Guide to Home Computing (Hardback)

The Wrinklies' Guide to Home Computing shows that you can teach an old dog new tricks—of the virtual kind. If you think a "hard drive" is a journey beyond the local shop or that "software" is something that your other half puts on before bed at...

Walter Bodmer & Robin McKie / Book Of Man : The Human Genome Project (Hardback)

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Jon Agar / Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone

 Until not very long ago the mobile phone was expensive and the preserve of a rich few. Today the cellphone is everywhere―so common it goes unnoticed. Jon Agar tells the fascinating story behind the rise and rise of this incredible little device...

Bart Kosko / Fuzzy Thinking

 A washing machine that gauges each load to determine how much soap to use An air conditioner that constantly adjusts cooling strength based on room temperature These "smart" products are possible with the advent of "fuzzy logic, " the principle...

Tom Whipple / X and Why: The Rules of Attraction: Why Gender Still Matters (Large Paperback)

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