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(Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. 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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... 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Clugston / The New Penguin Dictionary of Science MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52676K Joel Levy / Universe in Your Pocket: 3 999 Essential Facts (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52669K Gary Rimmer / Number Freaking - The Surreal Sums Behind Everyday Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34089K Stephen Jay Gould / The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34022K Michael Brooks / The Secret Anarchy of Science For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.This... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34018K Michael White / Rivals : Conflict As the Fuel of Science In this book, author Michael White examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in all of which the stress of rivalry played a pivotal role. Whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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... 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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
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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... 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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
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Clugston / The New Penguin Dictionary of Science MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52676K Joel Levy / Universe in Your Pocket: 3 999 Essential Facts (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52669K Gary Rimmer / Number Freaking - The Surreal Sums Behind Everyday Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34089K Stephen Jay Gould / The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34022K Michael Brooks / The Secret Anarchy of Science For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.This... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34018K Michael White / Rivals : Conflict As the Fuel of Science In this book, author Michael White examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in all of which the stress of rivalry played a pivotal role. Whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... 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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... 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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
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Clugston / The New Penguin Dictionary of Science MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52676K Joel Levy / Universe in Your Pocket: 3 999 Essential Facts (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52669K Gary Rimmer / Number Freaking - The Surreal Sums Behind Everyday Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34089K Stephen Jay Gould / The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34022K Michael Brooks / The Secret Anarchy of Science For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. 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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... 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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
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But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.This... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34018K Michael White / Rivals : Conflict As the Fuel of Science In this book, author Michael White examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in all of which the stress of rivalry played a pivotal role. Whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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... 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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: 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
Quick view Details sku: x53981K Bruce R. Gilson / The Fibonacci Sequence and Beyond (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 30840H Keith Barnham / Burning Answer - A User;s Guide to the Solar Revolution MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 23760K M.J. Clugston / The New Penguin Dictionary of Science MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52676K Joel Levy / Universe in Your Pocket: 3 999 Essential Facts (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52669K Gary Rimmer / Number Freaking - The Surreal Sums Behind Everyday Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34089K Stephen Jay Gould / The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34022K Michael Brooks / The Secret Anarchy of Science For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.This... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34018K Michael White / Rivals : Conflict As the Fuel of Science In this book, author Michael White examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in all of which the stress of rivalry played a pivotal role. Whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view Details sku: 30840H Keith Barnham / Burning Answer - A User;s Guide to the Solar Revolution MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 23760K M.J. Clugston / The New Penguin Dictionary of Science MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52676K Joel Levy / Universe in Your Pocket: 3 999 Essential Facts (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52669K Gary Rimmer / Number Freaking - The Surreal Sums Behind Everyday Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34089K Stephen Jay Gould / The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view Details sku: 23760K M.J. Clugston / The New Penguin Dictionary of Science MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52676K Joel Levy / Universe in Your Pocket: 3 999 Essential Facts (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52669K Gary Rimmer / Number Freaking - The Surreal Sums Behind Everyday Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34089K Stephen Jay Gould / The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34022K Michael Brooks / The Secret Anarchy of Science For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.This... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34018K Michael White / Rivals : Conflict As the Fuel of Science In this book, author Michael White examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in all of which the stress of rivalry played a pivotal role. Whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view Details sku: x52676K Joel Levy / Universe in Your Pocket: 3 999 Essential Facts (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x52669K Gary Rimmer / Number Freaking - The Surreal Sums Behind Everyday Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34089K Stephen Jay Gould / The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34022K Michael Brooks / The Secret Anarchy of Science For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.This... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34018K Michael White / Rivals : Conflict As the Fuel of Science In this book, author Michael White examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in all of which the stress of rivalry played a pivotal role. Whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view Details sku: x52669K Gary Rimmer / Number Freaking - The Surreal Sums Behind Everyday Life (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34089K Stephen Jay Gould / The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34022K Michael Brooks / The Secret Anarchy of Science For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.This... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34018K Michael White / Rivals : Conflict As the Fuel of Science In this book, author Michael White examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in all of which the stress of rivalry played a pivotal role. Whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view sku: 34089K Stephen Jay Gould / The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34022K Michael Brooks / The Secret Anarchy of Science For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.This... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34018K Michael White / Rivals : Conflict As the Fuel of Science In this book, author Michael White examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in all of which the stress of rivalry played a pivotal role. Whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view sku: 34022K Michael Brooks / The Secret Anarchy of Science For more than a century, science has cultivated a sober public image for itself. But as bestselling author Michael Brooks explains, the truth is very many of our most successful scientists have more in common with libertines than librarians.This... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 34018K Michael White / Rivals : Conflict As the Fuel of Science In this book, author Michael White examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in all of which the stress of rivalry played a pivotal role. Whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view sku: 34018K Michael White / Rivals : Conflict As the Fuel of Science In this book, author Michael White examines eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world, in all of which the stress of rivalry played a pivotal role. Whether between individual scientists, groups of scientists,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view sku: x61675K Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar / The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma (Large Paperback) Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view sku: x61640K Alex Bellos / Alex Through the Looking Glass : How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life (Hardback) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view sku: x62620K Jeff Jarvis / What Would Google Do? (Hardback) Eye-opening, thought-provoking, and enlightening.” —USA Today “An indispensable guide to the business logic of the networked era.” —Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody “A stimulating exercise in thinking... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view sku: x62613K Clive Thompson / Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Hardback) Smarter Than You Think It's undeniable--technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." The Internet age has produced a radical new style of human intelligence,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view sku: x62593K James E. Lovelock / Novacene : The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence (Hardback) James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view sku: x62584K Mark Lynas / Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong on GMOs (Hardback) Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
Quick view sku: x62509K Bryan Sykes / From Wolf to Woof : A Genetic History of Man's Best Friend (Large Paperback) The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special... 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: 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
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: 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
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: 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
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: 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
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: 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
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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
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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
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