Sciences and Technology

The Periodic Table (3 Book Collection)

The Periodic Table (3 Book Collection) A guide to elements and their uses - ( ex library )  Aluminium Fluorine & the Halogens Hydrogen

Georgina Ferry / Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (Large Paperback)

Few scientists have thought more deeply about the nature of their calling and its impact on humanity than Max Perutz (1914–2002). Born in Vienna, Jewish by descent, lapsed Catholic by religion, he...

Nick Harkaway / The Blind Giant - Being Human in a Digital World (Large Paperback)

David E.Y. Sarna / Evernote For Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

Organize your life the simple, painless way with Evernote! Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small using your computer, smartphone, or the web. If you can see it or think of it,...

Martin J. Siegert / Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change (Coffee Table Book)

Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change provides a detailed account of the temporal and spatial distribution of ice sheets during the last ice age, and how these ice masses interacted...

Manuel Castells & Peter Hall / Technopoles of the World (Large Paperback)

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Matthys Levy / Why Buildings Fall Down (Large Paperback)

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Michael Gardiner / Bakhtin and the Human Sciences (Large Paperback)

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Michio Kaku / Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives

Welcome to the future, where you'll be able to take an elevator hundreds of miles into space, the internet will be in your contact lens, nanobots will scan your DNA for signs of disease and you'll be...

Natalie Angier / The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science

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Chris Waring / From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries: The Extraordinary Story of Maths

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Ian Stewart / The Great Mathematical Problems

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Turlough O'Riordan & Jane Grimson ( Editors) - Irish Stem Lives - PB - BRAND NEW

Across artificial intelligence, climate change, food safety, transport and communication, the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are integral to modern society. Through...

Claire L. Evans / Broad Band : The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet(Large Paperback)

If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls , you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet--written out of history, until now."This is a...

David E. Sanger / The Perfect Weapon - War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age (Large Paperback)

From the premiere New York Times Washington correspondent, a stunning and incisive look into how cyberwarfare is influencing elections, threatening international security, and bringing us to the...

H.C. Moolenburgh / As Chance Would Have It: A Study in Coincidences (Coffee Table Book)

Coincidences happen to everyone on a regular basis. Usually we shrug them off and forget them.However, when we start to catalogue coincidences we are in for a surprise. They begin to grow more...

Idan Ben-Barak / Why Aren't We Dead Yet? - The Survivor's Guide to the Immune System (Large Paperback)

 

David E. Nye / Consuming Power - A Social History of American Energies(Large Paperback)

Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities. How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that...

Lucy A. Suchman / Human-Machine Reconfigurations (Large Paperback)

This 2007 book considers how agencies were figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects...

Robert A. Weinberg / One Renegade Cell: The Quest For The Origins Of Cancer (Hardback)

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Andrew McAfee / Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (Hardback)

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Daniel Miller, Don Slater / The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (Large Paperback)

This pathbreaking book was the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption in the early 2000's. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a...

Brenda Laurel / Computers As Theatre (Large Paperback)

Presents a new theory of human-computer activity. Building on Aristotle's analysis of the form and structure of drama, Laurel shows how similiar principles can help us understand what people...

Charles Perrow, Charles Perron / Normal Accidents (Large Paperback)

A noted Yale sociologist examines how and why catastrophic accidents occur in high-tech industries—nuclear power, petrochemical, and aerospace—and argues that they are becoming nearly inevitable in...

Philip E. Agre, Douglas Schuler / Reinventing Technology (Large Paperback)

This book addresses how computers affect people's everyday lives. Using actual situations and problems that people have encountered with current software applications, this book offers academics ways...

Albert Borgmann / Holding On to Reality (Large Paperback)

Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets...

Anna Wiener / Uncanny Valley (Large Paperback)

The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital ageIn her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and...

Juilie Lloyd / A Concise Guide to Weather (Large Paperback)

A conprehensive guide to all aspects of the weather illustrated throughout with superb colour photographs diagrams and maps.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Paul McFedries / iPad 2 Portable Genius (Large Paperback)

Everything you need to know about the iPad 2! Finally decided to get the hottest device on the planet? If so, don't go far without the iPad's must-have accessory—your own copy of iPad 2 Portable...

Rohit Talwar / A Very Human Future (Large Paperback)

A Very Human Future: Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World

Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green / Vaxxers (Hardback)

A gripping, inspirational account of the race to create a functioning vaccine to combat the spread of Covid-19, Vaxxers is the story of two scientists who have accomplished something truly remarkable...

Edward Lucas / Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Kevin Warwick / I, Cyborg (Hardback)

An account of an artificial intelligence experiment in humans.Computer chips will be inserted into the nervous systems of both the author, a professor of Cybernetics, and his wife. The experiment is...

Bryan Appleyard / Brave New Worlds (Hardback)

Offers a review of modern-day scientific

Michael D. West / The Immortal Cell: One Scientist's Quest to Solve the Mystery of Human Aging (Hardback)

The extraordinary story of the breakthrough discoveries in cell aging, stem cell research, and therapeutic cloning, and the tremendous promise they hold for dramatically extending human life.Dr...

Keith Whittles / Concise Dictionary of Science (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

John Horgan / The End of Science (Hardback)

As a writer for "Scientific American", the author is regularly afforded the opportunity of interviewing comtemporary scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking and Noam...

Grady Booch / Best of Booch: Designing Strategies for Object Technology (Large Paperback)

No one can dispute the impact Grady Booch's writings have had on object-oriented technology. Best of Booch contains articles on various object-oriented topics published since Grady Booch's book...

William J. Clancey / Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations (Large Paperback)

This text deals with recent changes in the design of intelligent machines. New computer models of vision and navigation in animals suggest a different way to build machines. Cognition is viewed not...

Paul Stratern / Curie and Radioactivity

Revealing the intensity, dedication, and

Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe / Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing (Large Paperback)

In March 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the electronic computer. Computers are everywhere: in our cars, our homes, our supermarkets, at the...

John Naughton / A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime (Large Paperback)

A look at the communications revolution examines the history of the Internet and what it means for society and the future, celebrating the the engineers and scientists who contributed to its...

Steve Woolgar / Virtual Society? Get Real!: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality (Large Paperback)

This book investigates the precise effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). All aspects of our social, cultural, economic, and political life stand to be...

Giuseppe Mantovani / New Communications Environments: From Everyday To Virtual (Large Paperback)

This multi-disciplinary book develops three intertwined the perspective of situated action from cognitive science, a model of social context as a framework for inspiring artifact use and starting...

Bruce Sterling / Shaping Things (Large Paperback)

A guide to the next great wave of technology--an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Shaping Things is about created objects...

Evan Selinger / Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality (Large Paperback)

". . . an original, quirky, and illuminating collection of material concerning the relatively new and exciting field of technoscience studies. . . . [T]he editors' choice of multiple approaches to...

Beth E. Kolko / Virtual Publics (Large Paperback)

How does virtuality affect reality? Fourteen experts consider this question from the perspective of law, architecture, rhetoric, philosophy, and art. Nearly all of the contributors have been online...

Paul Ramsey / Fabricated Man (Exact Copy)

The Ethics of Genetic Control, originally 1970.  "Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control" explores the ethical implications of advancements in genetic technology, including birth control,...

Kristin Braa / Planet Internet (Large Paperback)

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Adam Greenfield / Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing (Large Paperback)

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Arnold Pacey / The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology (Large Paperback)

From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of future...

Robert M. Drake / Science: The Stars in Me are the Stars in You (Large Paperback)

This book employs the comparative method