Sciences and Technology

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...

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...

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

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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

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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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John Gribbin / Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Scientists

 Who are the most important men and women whose notions and theories have changed the world? When Isaac Newton claimed that he only saw further because he stood on the shoulders of giants, he alluded to the long list of geniuses that came before him...

Mark Miodownik / Stuff Matters

 Everything is made of something... From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, Stuff Matters reveals the miracles of craft, design, engineering and ingenuity that surround us every day...

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...

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...

Hannah Fry / Indisputable Existence Of Santa Claus - The Mathematics of Christmas(Hardback)

How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list ? Can you predict Her Majesty's Christmas Message? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily thinner - shimmying up and down chimneys for a whole night - or...

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...

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...

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...

Rosie Saunt, Helen West / Is Butter a Carb?: Unpicking Fact from Fiction in the World of Nutrition (Large Paperback)

 This book will empower you to make healthy, sustainable choices, based on facts, not fads. Registered dieticians and qualified nutritionists Rosie Saunt and Helen West are the founders of The Rooted Project, set up to translate the latest research...

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...

Harari Yuval Noah / 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

   FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS**Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present.How can we protect ourselves...

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...

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

 Mankind, scientists agree, is a tiny and insignificant anomaly in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would it even be so vast, without the fact of our...

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...