Sciences and Technology

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...

Stephen Jay Gould / Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (Hardback)

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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...

Steven Pinker / The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

 From bestselling author Stephen Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature shatters the myths surrounding human behaviour and ‘nature versus nurture’. Recently many people have assumed that we are shaped by...

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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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...

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...

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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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...

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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Ben Hammersley / Approaching the Future: 64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then (Large Paperback)

 From a Wired technology an “astute” and “easy-to-read” primer on the vast technological and cultural changes shaping tomorrow’s world ( Financial Times ). In Approaching the Future , Editor-at-Large for Wired magazine...

Steven Pinker / The Language Instinct : The New Science of Language and Mind

 Simply by making noises with our mouths, we can reliably cause precise new combinations of ideas to arise in each other's minds. The ability comes so naturally that we are apt to forget what a miracle it is. Pursuing the ideas of Darwin and...

Robert Matthews / Q&A: Cosmic Conundrums and Everyday Mysteries of Science

 What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Which properties give you the best chance of winning at Monopoly? Why is it always difficult to get ketchup to come out of a full bottle? From the farthest reaches of the universe to the mysterious...

Chad Orzel / How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

 When Quantum Physics expert Dr Chad Orzel went to adopt a dog he never imagined he would end up with one as inquisitive as Emmy. Could she use quantum tunnelling to get through the neighbour's fence and chase bunnies? What about quantum...

Battelle John / The Search - How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transfo (Hardback)

 The rise of Google is one of the most amazing stories of our time. Jumping into the search industry long after Yahoo!, AltaVista, Lycos, and other competitors, Google offered a radical new approach to search, redefined the idea of viral marketing,...

Steve Jones / The Single Helix: A Turn Around the World of Science (Hardback)

 Steve Jones’ barnstorming survey is science writing at its best, veering nimbly from the chemistry of gold to the failures of funding, the chaos in the heavens to the fight against creationism, the optical illusions of tartan plaid to the...

Randall Munroe / What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Hardback)

 Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now...

Marcus Chown / Tweeting the Universe: Very Short Courses on Very Big Ideas (Hardback)

 In 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets per page. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what is essential on each subject into sentences of...

Richard Dawkins / The Greatest Show on Earth (Hardback)

 Charles Darwin, whose 1859 masterpiece "On the Origin of Species" shook society to its core, would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy over evolution still raging 150 years later. "The Greatest Show on Earth" is a stunning...

Judy Cannato / Field of Compassion: How the New Cosmology Is Transforming Spiritual Life (Large Paperback)

 The best-selling author of Radical Amazement articulates a transforming vision of spirituality that examines the intricate connectedness of the physical and spiritual worlds, a phenomenon she calls the "field of compassion." In the tradition of...

David H. Levy / Comets: Creators and Destroyers (Large Paperback)

 David Levy brings these "ghostly apparitions" to life. With fascinating scenarios both real and imagined, he shows how comets have wreaked their special havoc on Earth and other planets. Beginning with ground zero as comets take form, we track the...

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

 Reveals scientific principles behind familiar objects and activities, rendering the scientific process accessible through explanations of how such activities as shopping, boiling an egg, throwing a boomerang, and sports are connected to key...

Marty Jopson / The Science of Everyday Life (Hardback)

 Have you ever wondered why ice floats and water is such a freaky liquid? Or why chillies and mustard are both hot but in different ways? Or why microwaves don't cook from the inside out? In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects,...

James Felton / You Don't Want to Know (Hardback)

   JAMES FELTON'S "ASSHOLES" IS OUT NOW With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you'll then wish you could forget.Ever wondered why the chainsaw was...

Erwin Brecher / How Do You Survive on an Iceberg? (Hardback)

 Astound your friends! Impress party guests! Annoy your relatives! This book contains 101 fascinating science puzzles. The answer to each problem explains a scientific principle in easy-to-understand terms, so not only are you solving puzzles, you...

Mark Ward / Virtual Organisms (Hardback)

   This text is a "tour d'horizon" of who is developing what artificial life around the world today. The author has interviewed the leading researchers and developers of artificial life and has some scary predictions for the directions in...

Brian Chen / Always On (Large Paperback)

 Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"- an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store...

Karl Sabbagh / Dr. Riemann's Zeros

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John J. May / The Origin of Specious Nonsense (Large Paperback)

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Brian Clegg / Big Data : How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives

 Is the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks get it wrong so often? How does big data enable Netflix to forecast a hit, CERN to find the Higgs boson and medics to discover if...

Lawrence Anthony / The Elephant Whisperer : Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

 When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his reserve at Thula Thula, his commonsense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival - notorious escape artists, they...

John Gribbin / Galileo in 90 Minutes

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Robin Scagell / Philip's Stargazing with a Telescope

   Many people dream about exploring the heavens with a telescope but are often disappointed because they do not know how to use one properly. This guide reveals what to expect from a telescope and how to choose the right one, and gives...

Robert Winston / The Human Mind (Hardback)

 Where does our personality come from? Can we explain love at first sight? What do me mean by "intelligence" or "genius"? Can science explain intuition or de-ja-vu? Do we all have the potential to be a Tolstoy, Einstein or Mozart? Focusing on our...

Gemma Elwin Harris / Big Questions from Little People . . . Answered by Some Very Big People (Hardback)

 Children have a knack of asking great, but challenging, questions: Why is the sea salty? How far away is space? Why can't I tickle myself? What makes me me? But how are we supposed to answer them? Imagine if we could turn to a leading expert and...

John Carey / The Faber Book of Science (Hardback)

 Covering hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos, this anthology plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to chaos theory. It consists of accounts by scientists themselves -...

Bill Bryson / The Body : A Guide for Occupants (Hardback)

 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019_______'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' - The...

James Watson / DNA : The Secret of Life

 James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and author of the international bestseller The Double Helix, tells the story of the amazing molecule since its discovery fifty years ago, following modern genetics from his own Nobel...

Simon Garfield / Timekeepers : How the World Became Obsessed With Time (Hardback)

 Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to...

Aoife Abbey / Seven Signs of Life : Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor (Hardback)

 'A sensitive, honest, unsentimental and, yes, brave piece of writing that makes for compulsive reading' Nigella LawsonGrief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope. All emotions we expect to encounter over our lifetime.But what if this was...

Gerd Leonhard / Technology vs. Humanity : The coming clash between man and machine (Large Paperback)

 Futurist Gerd Leonhard breaks new ground again by bringing together mankind     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...