Sciences and Technology

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Adam Rutherford / A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived : The Stories in Our Gene

 A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian CoxThis is a story about you.It is the history of who you are and how you came to be...

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...

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...

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...

Karl Sabbagh / Dr. Riemann's Zeros

      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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?...

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...

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,...

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 Lawson

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Karl Sabbagh / The Hair of the Dog : And Other Scientific Surprises

 Science is full of surprises: the peculiar peepshow beginnings of baby incubators; the unexpected positive fallout from the H-bomb; the dinosaurs that caused sonic booms; the irrational nature of...

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...

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,...

Dean Burnett / The Idiot Brain : A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head is Really Up To

 'Compelling and wise and rational.' - Jon RonsonMotion sickness.Nightmares.Forgetting people's names.Why did I walk into this room??For something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced,...

Martin Ford / The Rise of the Robots

 Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors,...

Simon Winchester / The Map That Changed the World

 THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first...

S. M. H. Collin / Dictionary of Computing: Over 10,000 Terms Clearly Defined

  The dictionary's definitions in clear, simple English are easy to understand for readers without a background in computing and for native and non-native English speakers alike. Each entry...

Klaus-Dieter John / I Have Seen God

 Klaus-Dieter and Martina John had a vision; to build a top quality health facility for the Indians of the Peruvian Andes. Neglected and marginalised, these people suffer appallingly from the...

Patrick Moore / Teach Yourself Astronomy

  Patrick Moore aims to give the reader a thorough working knowledge of astronomy, one of the few sciences in which the amateur can play a useful role, and may even make important discoveries. He...

Extinction Rebellion / This Is Not A Drill

 Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown.Now you can become part of the movement - and together, we can make history.It's time. This is our last...

Rachel Clarke / Your Life In My Hands

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, held the hand of a young woman dying of cancer, scuttled down miles of dim...

Chas Newkey-Burden / 64 Geeks: Meet the Brains Who Changed the World (Hardback)

 We wouldn't have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi today without the ingenuity of an actress once described as "the most beautiful woman in the world."And we might have had mobile messaging as early as 1901, were...

Richard Fortey / Life: an Unauthorized Biography

 A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers.What do any of us know about...

C.O Carter - Human Heredity - Vintage Pelican PB 1972 ( Originally 1962)

Condition - crease to front cover, tanning to page block and previous owners name written neatly in pen on front endpaper. Pelican blue spine and cover.  Carter provides the reader with a basic...

New Scientist: Does Anything Eat Wasps : And 101 Other Questions

  Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the 'Last Word' column -...

Jonathan Nossiter / Liquid Memory : Why Wine Matters (Hardback)

 Jonathan Nossiter had his first taste of wine at the age of three in Paris, from his father's finger. For him, wine is 'memory in its most liquid and dynamic form,' as essential an expression of...

Viktor Mayer-Schonberger / Big Data

  A New York Times bestseller. Longlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Since Aristotle, we have fought to understand the causes behind everything. But...

Erwin Brecher / How do you Build a Time Machine? (Hardback)

  Astound your friends! Impress party guests! Annoy your relatives! This book contains 100 fascinating science puzzles. The answer to each problem explains a scientific principle in...

Ken Auletta / Googled : The End of the World as We Know It (Large Paperback)

 There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. This is a ride on the Google wave, and the fullest account of how it formed and crashed into traditional media...

Henry Marsh / Admissions : A Life in Brain Surgery (Large Paperback)

 Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered...

Dara Ó Briain / Secret Science: The Amazing World Beyond Your Eyes (Hardback)

 The second hilarious book for curious kids from the UKand Ireland's best-loved comedian, Dara O Briain!So you think everyday life is boring?! WHAT?! Hoo-ee,are you wrong!No, seriously. There's so...