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Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. 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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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change 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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... 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Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: x52062K Brian M. Fagan / Time Detectives : How Scientists Use Modern Technology to Unravel the Secrets of the Past (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62331K Vaclav Smil / Numbers Don't Lie : 71 Things You Need to Know About the World (Hardback) Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy?From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62321K Emanuel Derman / My Life As A Quant: Reflections On Physics And Finance (Hardback) In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this field—analyzing the incompatible personas of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60260K Marc Abrahams / This Is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research (Large Paperback) Often, thinking seriously about outlandish problems is the only way to make progress in science. The rest of the time, it’s hilarious. Marc Abrahams, the founder of the famous Ig Nobel prizes, offers an addictive, wryly funny exposé of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60197K Melvyn Bragg / On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries From Archimedes to DNA (Hardback) The story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of 12 of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincare, Freud, Einstein, Marie Curie and Crick and Watson. Exploring their... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60193K Daniel Smith / How to Think Like Stephen Hawking (Hardback) Undoubtedly the most famous scientist on the planet and the very face of physics over the last half-century, Stephen Hawking is remarkable for many reasons, not least because he has continued to strive to achieve so much while being hamstrung by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60166K Lewis Dartnell / The Knowledge : How to Rebuild our World from Scratch (Hardback) How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change 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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x62331K Vaclav Smil / Numbers Don't Lie : 71 Things You Need to Know About the World (Hardback) Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy?From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62321K Emanuel Derman / My Life As A Quant: Reflections On Physics And Finance (Hardback) In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this field—analyzing the incompatible personas of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60260K Marc Abrahams / This Is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research (Large Paperback) Often, thinking seriously about outlandish problems is the only way to make progress in science. The rest of the time, it’s hilarious. Marc Abrahams, the founder of the famous Ig Nobel prizes, offers an addictive, wryly funny exposé of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60197K Melvyn Bragg / On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries From Archimedes to DNA (Hardback) The story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of 12 of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincare, Freud, Einstein, Marie Curie and Crick and Watson. Exploring their... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60193K Daniel Smith / How to Think Like Stephen Hawking (Hardback) Undoubtedly the most famous scientist on the planet and the very face of physics over the last half-century, Stephen Hawking is remarkable for many reasons, not least because he has continued to strive to achieve so much while being hamstrung by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60166K Lewis Dartnell / The Knowledge : How to Rebuild our World from Scratch (Hardback) How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60063K Viktor Mayer-Schonberger / Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think (Large Paperback) A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59413K Rowan Hooper / Superhuman (Large Paperback) Rowan Hooper, managing editor at the New Scientist, explores the peaks of human attainment. As part of his investigation, he interviews high achievers from a diverse range of fields - from scientists, memory champions and opera stars to polyglots and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change 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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x62321K Emanuel Derman / My Life As A Quant: Reflections On Physics And Finance (Hardback) In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Page by page, Derman details his adventures in this field—analyzing the incompatible personas of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60260K Marc Abrahams / This Is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research (Large Paperback) Often, thinking seriously about outlandish problems is the only way to make progress in science. The rest of the time, it’s hilarious. Marc Abrahams, the founder of the famous Ig Nobel prizes, offers an addictive, wryly funny exposé of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60197K Melvyn Bragg / On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries From Archimedes to DNA (Hardback) The story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of 12 of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincare, Freud, Einstein, Marie Curie and Crick and Watson. Exploring their... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60193K Daniel Smith / How to Think Like Stephen Hawking (Hardback) Undoubtedly the most famous scientist on the planet and the very face of physics over the last half-century, Stephen Hawking is remarkable for many reasons, not least because he has continued to strive to achieve so much while being hamstrung by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60166K Lewis Dartnell / The Knowledge : How to Rebuild our World from Scratch (Hardback) How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60063K Viktor Mayer-Schonberger / Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think (Large Paperback) A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59413K Rowan Hooper / Superhuman (Large Paperback) Rowan Hooper, managing editor at the New Scientist, explores the peaks of human attainment. As part of his investigation, he interviews high achievers from a diverse range of fields - from scientists, memory champions and opera stars to polyglots and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change 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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x60260K Marc Abrahams / This Is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research (Large Paperback) Often, thinking seriously about outlandish problems is the only way to make progress in science. The rest of the time, it’s hilarious. Marc Abrahams, the founder of the famous Ig Nobel prizes, offers an addictive, wryly funny exposé of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60197K Melvyn Bragg / On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries From Archimedes to DNA (Hardback) The story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of 12 of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincare, Freud, Einstein, Marie Curie and Crick and Watson. Exploring their... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60193K Daniel Smith / How to Think Like Stephen Hawking (Hardback) Undoubtedly the most famous scientist on the planet and the very face of physics over the last half-century, Stephen Hawking is remarkable for many reasons, not least because he has continued to strive to achieve so much while being hamstrung by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60166K Lewis Dartnell / The Knowledge : How to Rebuild our World from Scratch (Hardback) How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60063K Viktor Mayer-Schonberger / Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think (Large Paperback) A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59413K Rowan Hooper / Superhuman (Large Paperback) Rowan Hooper, managing editor at the New Scientist, explores the peaks of human attainment. As part of his investigation, he interviews high achievers from a diverse range of fields - from scientists, memory champions and opera stars to polyglots and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change 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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change 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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60063K Viktor Mayer-Schonberger / Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think (Large Paperback) A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59413K Rowan Hooper / Superhuman (Large Paperback) Rowan Hooper, managing editor at the New Scientist, explores the peaks of human attainment. As part of his investigation, he interviews high achievers from a diverse range of fields - from scientists, memory champions and opera stars to polyglots and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change 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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x60166K Lewis Dartnell / The Knowledge : How to Rebuild our World from Scratch (Hardback) How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x60063K Viktor Mayer-Schonberger / Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think (Large Paperback) A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59413K Rowan Hooper / Superhuman (Large Paperback) Rowan Hooper, managing editor at the New Scientist, explores the peaks of human attainment. As part of his investigation, he interviews high achievers from a diverse range of fields - from scientists, memory champions and opera stars to polyglots and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change 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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x59207K Christopher Joseph / A Measure of Everything: An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Measurement (Large Paperback) A comprehensive reference and history book on what is measured and why. Measurement is one of humankind's oldest and most vital activities. By measuring height, speed, size, temperature, strength and many other factors, humans can compare, improve and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... 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She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change 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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x59200K Lawrence Lessig / Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (Large Paperback) There’s a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated—that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government’s (or anyone else’s) control.Code argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. She explains that nearly every one of us is a team of personalities, working together, for the most part, to give the impression of a unified self. All of... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31246K Alexander Woodcock & Monte Davis / Catastrophe Theory: A Revolutionary way of Understanding how thing Change 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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 31244K Daniel Tammet / Embracing the Wide Sky Daniel Tammet captivated readers with his bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, Embracing the Wide Sky, Daniel combines the latest scientific... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58300K George Friedman / The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Hardback) “Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman In his long-awaited... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58224K Paul Heiney / Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 249 Other Questions on the World of Science (Hardback) A companion volume to Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? looks at the scientific facts behind everyday life as it answers 250 entertaining questions that range from "Do dogs only see in black and white?" to "Why don't the oceans overflow?" or "How do we know... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30079K Pedro G. Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 31635K Len Fisher / Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life: Strategies For Co-operation Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “the man who put the fizz into physics,” Dr. Len Fisher turns his attention to the science of cooperation in his lively and thought-provoking book. Fisher shows how the modern science of ga All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58768K Tobias Rose-Stockwell / Outrage Machine (Large Paperback) The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x58733K Rita Carter / Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality (Large Paperback) In 'Multiplicity', Rita Carter offers a new and vital understanding of personality. 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Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. 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Ferreira / The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity The first complete biography of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, revealing the personal feuds and ideological battles, the decades of neglect, the resurgence, and now, the deep questioning of a theory that has given us black holes, dark... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59697K Ziauddin Sardar / Introducing Learning and Memory (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 we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59695K Joanna Buick / Introducing Cyberspace for Beginners (Large Paperback) A graphic tracing of the development of the communication technologies leading to the cybernet revolution. 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 30002K Timandra Harkness / Big Data From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over thirty thousand years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces forty million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x57891K Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback) The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N68K Peter Atkins / Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Large Hardback) Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: N65K Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback) In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them:Do we have... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x59707K Stephen Macknik / Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains (Large Paperback) This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 27720K George Dyson / Darwin Among the Machines "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machine. I am firmly on the side of nature," writes George Dyson, "but nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines." In his challenging book,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x56895K Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback) Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning until the time we switch the light off at... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view
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