Sciences and Technology

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...

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...

Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation

Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga     All...

Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback)

A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know...

David Wallace-Wells / The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future

The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are...

Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback)

  The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative...

Daniel Franklin / Megatech: Technology in 2050 (Large Paperback)

  Please Read Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edition...

Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback)

 In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have...

Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback)

  Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at...

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...

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...

Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not To Liberate The World (Large Paperback)

 Does free information mean free people? At the start of the twenty-first century we were promised that the internet would liberate the world. We could come together as never before, and from Iran's 'twitter revolution' to Facebook 'activism',...

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...

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...

Professor Luke O'Neill / What Makes Us Human: A Scientist’s Guide to our Amazing Existence (Hardback)

 What makes us human? Ireland’s favorite scientist is here to tell you!What do you have in common with the 7.75 billion other people on the planet? This is the question that Professor Luke O’Neill attempts to answer in this exciting new...

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...

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...

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...

Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback)

 Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form   The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,...

The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff

      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...

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...

Mark Stevenson / An Optimists Tour of the Future

      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...

Andrew Keen / How to Fix the Future - Staying Human in the Digital Age (Large Paperback)

      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...

Ben Goldacre / I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That (Large Paperback)

The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists...

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...

Giles Whittell / Snow : The Biography (Hardback)

Brimming with interesting facts and surprising anecdotes, this scientific and cultural history opens our eyes to the wonders of one of nature’s most delicate, delightful, and deadly phenomena: SNOW! Perfect for fans of The Hidden Life of...

Terry Breverton / Breverton’s Encyclopedia of Inventions (Hardback)

An extraordinary guide to the greatest feats of ingenuity and innovation.• Who flew before the Wright brothers?• How was plastic surgery invented?• Did Leonardo da Vinci design the first robot?• When was the first e-mail sent?•...

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...

Len Fisher / How to Dunk a Doughnut - The Science of Everyday Life (Hardback)

In 1998 Len Fisher attracted world-wide attention with his experiments on the physics of biscuit dunking. These won him a spoof IgNobel Prize, a letter of commendation from the royal society and a nomination as an enemy of the people by the Times...

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)

      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...

Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut

 ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an hour. I had trained for this moment for years...

John N. Gray / False Dawn; the Delusions of a Global Capitalism

 Back in the 1980s, capitalism seemed ready to finally inherit the earth. According to the likes of Francis Fukuyama, in his infamous book The End of History, history was coming to an end with the triumph of western capitalism, witnessed by the...