Sciences and Technology

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...

David R. Hamilton / Why Woo-woo Works - The Surprising Science Behind Alternative Practices (Large Paperback)

   Why should we meditate? How can crystals heal the mind and body? Why is visualization so powerful - and so effective?Alternative therapies, healing modalities, and spiritual practices are often referred to as 'woo-woo,' - but many of these...

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...

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

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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...

Mark Stevenson / An Optimists Tour of the Future

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

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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)

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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...

Richard A. Cohen / Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life

 The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. This book is a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life...

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...

John Lloyd, John Mitchinson / QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance

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Collins Wild guide / Weather

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Thomas Crump / Brief History of Science

   From earliest pre-history, with the dawning understanding of fire and its many uses, up to the astonishing advances of the twenty-first century, Thomas Crump traces the ever more sophisticated means employed in our attempts to understand...

Jeremy Stangroom / Einstein's Riddle: Riddles, Paradoxes, and Conundrums to Stretch Your Mind (Hardback)

 Riddles, paradoxes, and conundrums have been confusing and confounding people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. The eponymous riddle, according to legend, was devised by Albert Einstein as a child. He claimed that only about 2% of the...

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...

Jeremy Narby / The Cosmic Serpent, DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

 Whilst living amongst Peruvian Indians, anthropologist Jeremy Narby learned of their phenomenal knowledge of plants and biochemical interactions, gained under the influence of the hallucinogen ayahuasca. Despite his initial scepticism, Narby found...

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...