Sciences and Technology

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

Natalie Angier / The Canon : The Beautiful Basics of Science (Hardback)

 Unless we are brilliant at science in our teenage years, many of us put off childish things - science museums, an interest in palaeontology - in favour of art galleries, museums and concert halls. A cultured person, Natalie Angier argues, should...

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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Dick Ahlstrom / Flashes of Brilliance: The Cutting Edge of Irish Science (Large Paperback)

 This is an illustrated collection of articles by award-winning journalist Dick Ahlstrom, science editor of the 'Irish Times', on the men and women who are transforming Irish science. It serves as an anthology of Irish science, accessibly...

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

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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...

Essential Computers: Building A Website

   Master state-of-the art computer skills quickly and confidently with the Essential Computers series. These clear and concise step-by-step visual guides are designed to help beginners acquire all the techniques necessary to use today's...

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...

June Furnival / Suck, Don't Blow (Hardback)

 Launched in 1906, the "Puffing Billy" was an elaborate machine and the equivalent would cost #2000 to buy in the 1990s. This text follows the chain of false starts and ingenious ideas which have evolved around the modern-day vacuum cleaner...

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...

Lawrence M. Krauss / The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far (Large Paperback)

 A great educator as well as a great physicist ' Richard DawkinsIn the beginning there was lightbut more than this, there was gravity.After that, all hell broke loose...This is how the story of the greatest intellectual adventure in history should...

Iwona Abrams / Introducing Chaos (Large Paperback)

 Providing an introduction to the controversial field of chaos theory, this text shows how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market. It also...

Muiris Houston / Psychiatrist in the Chair : The Official Biography of Anthony Clare (Hardback)

 Born in Dublin in 1942, Anthony Clare was the best-known psychiatrist of his generation. His BBC Radio 4 show, In the Psychiatrist's Chair, which ran from 1982 to 2001, brought him international fame and changed the nature of broadcast interviews...

John Brokman / What is Your Dangerous Idea? : Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (Hardback)

 The history of science is replete with ideas that were considered socially, morally or emotionally dangerous in their time. The Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are obvious examples -- radical, brilliant insights that did not so much push the...

Arnold Thomas Fanning / Mind on Fire

 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019'[A] painfully intense, courageous and gripping account of [Fanning's] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is a brave and instructive book.' Irish Times'Extraordinary. An account of mental...

David Attenborough / A Life on Our Planet (Large Paperback)

 See the world. Then make it better.I am David Attenborough. At time of writing, I am 93 years old. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing...

Stephen Hawking / Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardback)

 THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty' GUARDIANThe world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A...

Dara O'Briain / Is There Anybody Out There? (Hardback)

 Science fiction meets science fact in thisfully illustrated hilarious book from one of the UK and Ireland'sbest-loved comedians.Genuinely qualifiedspace expert, Dara O Briain, is here with allthe answers to help you sort your science fiction from...

Tim Flannery / We are the Weather Makers : The Story of Global Warming

  Tim Flannery's international bestseller The Weather Makers has sold over a million copies and influenced politicians, movie stars, even business leaders - after reading it, Sir Richard Branson pledged more than 3 billion dollars towards...

Michael Blastland / The Tiger That Isn't : Seeing Through a World of Numbers

  Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most maths is really simple - as easy as 2+2 in fact. Better still it can be understood without any...

Richard Preston / First Light

  At seven storeys high and with a two-hundred-inch mirror which took fourteen years to cast, the Hale telescope is the biggest and heaviest working instrument of its kind in the world. It can peer into the farthest recesses of space and may hold...

Louise Curtis / A Nurse's Story

 Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's true story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis.Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical...

Don Tapscott / Wikinomics

 An International Bestseller.An Economist Book of the Year.A Financial Times Book of the Year.Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year.Wikinomics shows how businesses can collaborate creatively with their customers to succeed in...

John Gribbin / The Future Now : Predicting the 21st Century

  Written in the late 1990's - distinguished academics and writers offer their predictions for the world's future across a range of social economic, political, geographical and technological subjects. Contributors include: John Gribbin with an...

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

 THE SINGLE HELIX is a miscellany of a hundred easy pieces about science. It brings to life a vast diversity of subjects, united under the banner of scientific truth - the universal solvent that brings clarity to almost all the mysteries of the...

Colin Black / Gas Man (Large Paperback)

 10... 9... 8... 7... 6...That's about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin - and that's all most people know about what I do.But what happens between you conking out and waking up? And what does the anaesthetist...

Randall Stross / Planet Google

 Google has a dream: to manage the entire world's information. The company wants to access every single bit of it it can - from news, to financial and historical data; from the content of books, films and TV, to a complete record of the Earth's...