Sciences and Technology

Melvyn Bragg / On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and their Discoveries, from Archimedes to DNA

The fascinating story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of twelve of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincaré, Freud, Einstein, Marie Curie and Crick...

James Hamilton / Faraday: The Life

Michael Faraday is one of the giants of the history of science. A self-made, self-educated man, his public life was underpinned by his devout membership of a small Christian sect, whose rigid attitudes shadowed him at every turn, culminating in crises...

Venki Ramakrishnan / Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

From Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan ‘Beyond superb’ Bill Bryson ‘A wonderful book’ Ian McEwan Everyone knows about DNA. It is the essence of our being, influencing who we are and what we pass on to our children. But the...

Steven Levy / Artificial Life

This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war...

Francis Spufford / Backroom Boys : The Secret Return of the British Boffin

Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, The Backroom Boys tells the bittersweet story of modern British engineers and inventors...

Andreas Wagner / The Arrival of the Fittest - How Life Invents Itself (Hardback)

We all know about natural selection and the so-called survival of the fittest, which governs how evolution preserves useful adaptations in each subsequent generation of a species. Unfortunately, random change alone could not have produced life as we know...

Mike Dooley / Life on Earth: Understanding Who We Are, How We Got Here, and What May Lie Ahead (Hardback)

What’s happening in the world lately? ? How can I be happy when so many are not? ? Is life about learning lessons or passing tests? Following your heart or taking what’s served to you? ? What’s real? What matters? Who says? Who cares? ?...

New Scientist (3 Book Box Set)

New Scientist (3 Book Box Set), comprising the following Q&A based books - Does anything eat Wasps? Why don't Penguins' eet freeze? How to fossilise your Hamster     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Sam Kean / The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardback)

Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters?*The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure...

Manjit Kumar / Quantum : Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality (Hardback)

Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you weren’t shocked by quantum theory, you didn’t really understand it. For most people, quantum theory is synonymous with mysterious, impenetrable science. And in fact for many years it was...

Steve Stack / 21st Century Dodos: A Collection of Endangered Objects: and Other Stuff (Hardback)

A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction.We’ve all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever pulled together a list of endangered...

Gabrielle Walker / Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It (Hardback)

Did the Earth once undergo a super ice age, one that froze the entire planet? A global adventure story and a fascinating account of scientist Paul Hoffman's quest to prove his maverick 'Snowball Earth' theory, this is science writing at its most...

Scientific American (4 Magazine Collection)

Scientific American (4 Magazine Collection)     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...

Marcus du Sautoy / The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics (Hardback)

Inthe tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Pi , Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engagingstory of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest tocapture the holy grail of mathematics—the formula to predict prime numbers...

James Gleick / Chaos (Hardback)

      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...

Leonard Mlodinow / The Drunkard's Walk : How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardback)

In 1905, Albert Einstein published a shocking explanation of Brownian Motion, the random movement of particles, likening it to the kind you would observe watching a drunkard stumbling down the road. The Drunkard's Walk became a powerful tool in...

Mario Livio / The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Hardback)

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that phi , or 1...

Matt Ridley / Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Hardback)

      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...

Eric Hansen / Orchid fever: a horticultural tale of love, lust and lunacy (Hardback)

      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...

Oliver Morton / Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet (Hardback)

A story of a world in crisis and the importance of plants, the history of the earth, and the feuds and fantasies of warring scientists — this is not your fourth-grade science class's take on photosynthesis.From acclaimed science journalist...

Amir D. Aczel / Fermat's Last Theorem (Hardback)

Over three hundred years ago, a French scholar scribbled a simple theorem in the margin of a book. It would become the world's most baffling mathematical mystery. Simple, elegant, and utterly impossible to prove, Fermat's Last Theorem captured the...

Marcus du Sautoy / The Number Mysteries (Hardback)

      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...

Reuben Hersh / What Is Mathematics Really (Hardback)

What is Mathematics, Really? Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human...

Jaroslav Bauer / A Field Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Precious Stones (Hardback)

      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...

Mark Bowden / Worm : The First Digital World War (Hardback)

From the author of "Black Hawk Down" comes the story of the battle between those determined to exploit the internet and those committed to protect it--the ongoing war taking place literally beneath our fingertips.The Conficker worm infected its first...

John Brockman / What Are You Optimistic About? (Hardback)J

The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon.   John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org),  asked more than 150...

Timothy Taylor / The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture (Hardback)

This lively and provocative book leaves no stone unturned and no taboo untouched as it pieces together evidence from highly controversial artifacts and human remains to decipher the mysteries of Stone Age sex. Archaeologist Timothy Taylor paints a...

George Smoot, Keay Davidson / Wrinkles In Time Imprint of Creation (Hardback)

In April 1992 astrophysicist George Smoot announced how he and his team of scientists had found "ripples in the fabric of space-time" that were made in the first trillionth of a second after the cataclysmic moment of creation. Their discovery of the...

Cyril Aydon / Charles Darwin (Hardback)

Engaging and accessible, historically accurate and admirably lucid in its scientific exposition, Cyril Aydon's life of the man who fathered the theory of evolution examines Darwin's personal quests and illuminates his revolutionary achievements. It...

Susan A. Greenfield / The Private Life of the Brain (Hardback)

      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...

James Le Fanu / Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves (Hardback)

The imperative to 'know thyself' is both fundamental and profoundly elusive – for how can we ever truly comprehend the drama and complexity of the human experience? In ‘Why Us?’ James Le Fanu offers a fascinating exploration of the...

Mario Beauregard / Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives (Hardback)

In Brain Wars , acclaimed neuroscientist Mario Beauregard reveals compelling new evidence set to provoke a major shift in our understanding of the mind-body research showing that the mind and consciousness are transmitted and filtered through the...

James Shreeve / The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Modern Human Origins (Hardback)

The disappearance of the Neandertals is one of the greatest mysteries and nobody has ever told it better with more spirit, canny curiosity than this author, James Shreave.         All of our books are second hand, and while...

Charles Seife / Alpha and Omega : The Search for the Beginning and the End of the Universe (Hardback)

The astronomical community has been on tenterhooks awaiting the outcome of a set of experiments that should throw light on ultimate questions of the universe. This book unveils the results of these experiments.         All of...

Byron Reese / The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity (Hardback)

“ The Fourth Age not only discusses what the rise of A.I. will mean for us, it also forces readers to challenge their preconceptions. And it manages to do all this in a way that is both entertaining and engaging.” — The New York TimesAs...

Lisa Jardine / INGENIOUS PURSUITS. Building the Scientific Revolution. (Hardback)

      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...

Eric Schmidt , Jonathan Rosenberg / How Google Works (Hardback)

Both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google as seasoned Silicon Valley business executives, but over the course of a decade they came to see the wisdom in Coach John Wooden's observation that 'it's what you learn after you know it all that...

Steve Lohr / Data-ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else (Hardback)

Steve Lohr, a technology reporter for the New York Times , chronicles the rise of Big Data, addressing cutting-edge business strategies and examining the dark side of a data-driven world. Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that...

Pete Davis / Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing (Hardback)

A profoundly inspiring and transformative argument that purposeful commitment and civic engagement can be a powerful force in today’s age of restlessness and indecision.Most of us have had this browsing through countless options on Netflix, unable...

Andrew Burgess / The Executive Guide to Artificial Intelligence: How to identify and implement applications for AI in your organization (Hardback)

This book takes a pragmatic and hype–free approach to explaining artificial intelligence and how it can be utilised by businesses today. At the core of the book is a framework, developed by the author, which describes in non–technical...

Hervé This / The Science of the Oven (Hardback)

Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated, whereas, under the same conditions, solids melt. When meat is roasted, its surface browns and it acquires taste and texture. What...

Peter Cochrane / Tips for Time Travellers: Visionary Insights into New Technology, Life and the Future by One of the World's Leading Technology Prophets (Hardback)

Peter Cochrane, the head of the cutting edge research labs at British Telecommunications, is a leading visionary of the digital age. He takes us on a rollicking tour of the technological advances just ahead. This series of monologues - at once...

Marcus du Sautoy / Finding Moonshine : a Mathematician's journey Through Symmetry (Hardback)

This new book from the author of 'The Music of the Primes' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures in mathematics: the search for symmetry. This is the story of how humankind...

Josh Young / Dino Gangs: Dr. Philip J. Currie's New Science of Dinosaurs (Hardback)

With his groundbreaking findings and extensive research, palaeontologist and dino hunter Dr Phil Currie challenges the very foundations of traditional dinosaur theories. Seventy million years ago the Mongolian desert was home to the world's biggest, most...

Matt Ridley / The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Hardback)

Matt Ridley. acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture. turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves...

Alex Bellos / Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics (Hardback)

      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...

Michael J. Benton / When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Hardback)

Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living.Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe that took place at the end of the Permian period 251...

Raymond Tallis / Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity (Hardback)

In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made for the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture and society.While readily acknowledging the astounding progress...

Frank Close / Neutrino (Hardback)

Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. These tiny, ghostly particles are formed by the billions in stars and pass through us constantly, unseen, at almost the speed of light. Yet half a century after their discovery, we still...

Adam Frank / About Time: From Sundials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes Our Lives (Large Paperback)

  An exhilarating journey into the science of time, from Stonehenge to the big bang and beyond. Weaving cosmology with day-to-day chronicles, Adam Frank tells the story of humanity's invention of time and how we will experience it in the future...

Elizabeth Kolbert / The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Large Paperback)

2015 Pulitzer Prize WinnerOver the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction,...

Susan M. Watkins / What A Coincidence!: The wow! factor in synchronicity and what it means in everyday life (Large Paperback)

  What would we find if, over a period of time, we paid careful attention to the coincidences in our lives? What would clusters of coincidental events reveal? Susan M. Watkins examines, from the inside out, coincidences in her own life and asks,...