Sciences and Technology

Mike Berners-Lee / There Is No Planet B (Large Paperback)

  Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what...

Carole Hay / Computers (Hardback)

  A 1990's era explanation of the jargon encountered when using computers. The book explains programming computers, computer languages, operating systems, artificial intelligence, chips and codes,...

Bea Johnson / Zero Waste Home

 Zero Waste Home is the ultimate guide to simplified, sustainable living from Bea Johnson, 'the priestess of waste-free living' (The New York Times).Bea Johnson transformed her family's health,...

P. C. W. Davies / Superstrings : A Theory of Everything? (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...

Julien Evans / Is it on Autopilot? (Large Paperback)

  Written by an airline pilot, this book explains to the reader how aeroplanes fly, how air space and air traffic control work, and all the technical detail behind airliners and aviation in the...

Stephen Dealler / Lethal Legacy : BSE - The Search for the Truth

  An examination of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), which discusses the characteristics of the disease and the possibilities of widespread infection, and considers the mistakes the British...

Dara Ó Briain / Beyond the Sky : You and the Universe (Hardback)

 So you want to go into space? WHY?! (No, really - it's sort of aterrible idea. We humans are perfectly designed for life on Earth.We can walk around, breathe, drink water, eat vegetables, readbooks,...

Hans Rosling / Factfulness

 'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts...

Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment : How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind

 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...

Fritjof Capra / Web of Life

 The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical...

John Carreyrou / Bad Blood : Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

 'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill Gates, '5 books I loved in 2018'WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR...

Jimmy Buchan / Trawlerman : Life at the Helm of the Toughest Job in Britain

  TRAWLERMAN is the memoir of Jimmy Buchan - skipper of the Amity II, a fishing vessel based in Peterhead, Europe's largest fishing port. Jimmy's story is one of incredible highs and lows. It's a...

Marc Abrahams / This is Improbable : Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens and Other WTF Research

 Marc Abrahams, the mind behind the internationally renowned Ig Nobel Prizes, is on a mission: to gather the bizarre, the questionable, the brilliant, the downright funny, the profound - everything...

Will McCallum / How to Give Up Plastic : Simple steps to living consciously on our blue planet

 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David AttenboroughAround 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By...

Dava Sobel / Longitude (Hardback)

  First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude. The thorniest scientific problem of the day had occupied scientists and their patrons for...

Hilary Rose / Alas, Poor Darwin : Escaping Evolutionary Psychology (Hardback)

  At the beginning of the 21st century genes are used to explain almost every aspect of human life, from social inequalities to health, sexuality and criminality. This book offers a crticism of...

Oliver Sacks / Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Hardback)

  This memoir from Oliver Sacks is both a departure from and an enhancement of his previous psychologically orientated 'medical' writing. Not only is it a beautifully written account of an English...

T Pearse Lyons ( Editor ) - Biotechnology in the Feed industry - 2 Volume Lot - 1987 & 1988 - Alltech

Two hardcover professional scientific publications the proceedings fo the annual conferences held in (animal) feeding and nutrition, and edited by T Pearse Lyons, the Irish born founder of Alltech...

Matthew Walker / Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

 'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening...

Michio Kaku / Physics of the Impossible : A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel

 From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction...

Natalie Angier / Woman : An Intimate Geography (Hardback)

 This book brings to the understanding of the female body the talents of one of the most gifted science writers in English. Beginning with the egg & ending with the love of the female body is the...

Nate Silver / The Signal and the Noise : The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardback)

 Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date, or set aside money for a rainy day, we are making a prediction about the future. Yet from the global financial crisis to...

Richard Robinson / Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down etc

 The frustrating component of life known as Murphy's (or

The Universe Next Door : A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures

 A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very...

P.C.W. Davies / The Fifth Miracle : Search for the Origins of Life(Hardback)

    Reveals the new theories and discoveries that seem set to transform our understanding of life's role in the cosmos. Davies examines the evidence suggesting that the first organisms lived deep...

James Gleick / Chaos

   Uncover one of the most exciting frontiers of modern physics in this fascinating, insightful and accessible overview of Chaos theory.'An exceedingly readable introduction to a new intellectual...

Stephen Hawking / The Grand Design (Large Paperback)

   In the last thirty years of his life Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory - a theory which could describe all the forces of nature in a single framework. But the time was not right for...

Jane Hawking / Travelling to Infinity

   Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in...

Richard Dawkins / The Magic of Reality

 Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth. These are...

David Attenborough / The First Eden : The Mediterranean World and Man

     Chronicles the history of the Mediterranean, examining how the region became the source of Western society and revealing man's changing attitudes toward the natural world All of our books are...

D.S Pugh / Organization Theory

 As consumers, clients, customers or, perhaps most significantly, as employers or employees, everyone depends on formal organizations. This resource book explains how such organizations work and why...

Patrick Dixon / Futurewise

   This is an extraordinary time to be alive. The world is being transformed before our eyes from a technological 21st century society into something altogether new and different. Everyone wants to...

Brendan McWilliams - Weather Eye - PB 1994 Irish Times Column - Meteorology

Weather Eye is a selection from the famous column in The Irish Times, which over the years from the first essay in 1988 has described and evoked all aspects of that most perennial of subjects for...

Steve Jones / The Language of the Genes

   Commissioned by the BBC to deliver the Reith Lectures in 1991, Steve Jones has used them as the basis for this book which argues that the evolution of our genes may be compared to the evolution...

Sean B. Carroll / Remarkable Creatures : Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

    In 1809, when Darwin was born, much of the world was an unexplored wilderness. Our knowledge of the past was nonexistent, and our picture of our species' history little more than a set of...

Simon Singh / The Code Book : The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking

 The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum CryptographyFrom the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from...

Steve Jones / Y: The Descent Of Men

Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been dispensed with. Dolly the Sheep - conceived without...

Mayer Hillman / How We Can Save the Planet

 Mayer Hillman, one of Britain's most original and influential thinkers, here offers the reader both a stunning analysis of the looming environmental catastrophe and a blueprint for avoiding it. The...

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

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each...

Fred Moody / I Sing the Body Electronic : Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier

    In the computer software world, Microsoft is a colossus. In a quest to uncover the key to its dominance, Fred Moody spent a year with the design team of Explorapedia, and in this text, he...

Derek Rowntree / Statistics without Tears - An Introduction for Non Mathematicians

    This book is written for anyone who needs or wants to know how statistics work. It assumes no expert knowledge, and teaches through words and diagrams rather than through figures, formulae...

Fritjof Capra / The Tao of Physics

    Here is the book that brought the mystical implications of subatomic physics to popular consciousness for the very first time--way back in 1975. This special edition celebrates the...

Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking-Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life

   From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories...

Question Everything : 132 science questions - and their unexpected answers

   The latest in the bestselling New Scientist Last Word seriesAll science begins with questions...- Why is the night sky black, even though it's full of stars? - How do pebbles skim on water? - Why...

World Travel Guides (Irish Independent) (Complete 15 Book Set) Blue Covers

Travel Guides: 1 Florida & the Bahamas 2 Australia 3 Caribbean 4 Thailand 5 USA - West Coast 6 South Africa 7 Western Canada 8 Croatia 9 China 10 Cuba 11 Egypt 12 Mexico 13 Majorca &...

Richard Wiseman / Quirkology : The Curious Science Of Everyday Lives

 Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected?You need some Quirkology in your life.While other scientists beaver away on obvious...

Robert P. Crease / A Brief Guide to the Great Equations : The Hunt for Cosmic Beauty in Numbers

 Here are the stories of the ten most popular equations of all time as voted for by readers of Physics World, including - accessibly described here for the first time - the favourite equation of all,...

Alex Bellos / Alex's Adventures in Numberland

 The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our...

Yuval Noah Harari / Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow

 THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLERSapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus...

Stephen Hawking / The Grand Design

 When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another...

Phyllis Clinch & R. Charles Mollan ( Editors) - A Profit and Loss Account of Science in Ireland - HB RDS 1983

A collection of essays on industrial and resource development in Ireland, published by the RDS , 1983, with cover design by Brian ó Nualláin , heavy sun fade to spine, some closed tears to dustjacket...

Dawkins Richard / River Out of Eden : A Darwinian View of Life (Hardback)

   The information system contained in DNA is so powerful and so elegant that it far outstrips anything that has been invented by way of computers. Dawkin's description of it aims to bring out the...