Sciences and Technology

Collins Gem: Basic Facts Biology

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Stephen Baker / They've Got Your Number: Data, Digits and Destiny

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

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Peter Cope / Teach Yourself Digital Video and PC Editing

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Kieron O'Hara, Nigel Shadbolt / The Spy In The Coffee Machine: The End of Privacy as We Know it

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John Gribbin / The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measure the Age of the Universe

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Sam Harris / The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to...

Stephen Jay Gould / Dinosaur in a Haystack

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Stephen Jay Gould / Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time

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Dylan Jones / iPod, Therefore I Am - A Personal Journey Through Music

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

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

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

James D. Watson / Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science (Hardback)

Watson looks back on his extraordinary an

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

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Luke O'Neill / To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science (Hardback)

Science is a serious business, right? Wrong.Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any show on telly...

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

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

Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in External Data (Hardback)

Internal data won't cut it. In a world where a company's future performance is increasingly explained by external rather than internal factors, without the tools to look beyond your industry and act...

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

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

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

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

John Mannion / Very Like a Whale (Hardback)

An anthology of science writing specifically selected for the classroom. This unique collection introduces pupils to a fascinating but hard-to-resource area of non-fiction and supports the Framework...

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

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

James E. Lovelock / The Revenge of Gaia (Hardback)

James Lovelock, originator of the idea of Gaia, makes an argued plea that we must change our way of life - before it is too late. Illustrated with examples drawn from his experiences around the...

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

With his groundbreaking findings and extensive research, palaeontologist and dino hunter Dr Phil Currie challenges the very foundations of traditional dinosaur theories. Seventy million years ago the...

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

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Darrell Huff / How to Lie with Statistics (Large Paperback)

Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from...

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

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

Dwight Spivey / MAC OS X Snow Leopard Portable Genius (Large Paperback)

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Robert Brockway / Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead (Large Paperback)

Just when you thought you’d accepted your own mortality . . . Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody is bringing panic back. Twenty illustrated, hilariously fear-inducing 
essays reveal the chilling...

David B. Agus / The Lucky Years - How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health(Large Paperback)

Bestselling author David Agus unveils the brave new world of medicine, one in which we can take control of our health like never before and doctors can fine-tune strategies and weapons to prevent...

James Ball / The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us (Large Paperback)

The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by...

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi / The Formula (Large Paperback)

In this pioneering examination of the scientific principles behind success, a leading researcher reveals the surprising ways in which we can turn achievement into success.Too often, accomplishment...

Robert Winston / Bad Ideas ? : An Arresting History of Our Inventions (Large Paperback)

We are born with the instinct to create and invent. Indeed our ability to do so is what separates we humans from the rest of the animal world. The moment man first converted a stone to a useful tool...

John M. Ziman / An Introduction to Science Studies: The Philosophical and Social Aspects of Science and Technology (Large Paperback)

Professor Ziman provides a coherent account of the different perspectives on science and technology that are normally studied under various disciplinary heads such as philosophy of science, sociology...

Richard Grossinger / Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life (Large Paperback)

Why is the universe conscious? What kindles mind inside matter? Why do fundamentalist sciences and religions never ask these questions? This sequel to Embryogenesis deals with the theoretical issues...

David Toolan / At Home in the Cosmos (Large Paperback)

The author brings science and spirituality together to reveal a universe with Christ at the center, and an environment caught in the balance.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Richard Rhodes / Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health (Large Paperback)

In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals...

Edward Tenner / Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Large Paperback)

In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward...

Mary Blocksma / Uncle John's Presents Necessary Numbers: An Everyday Guide to Sizes, Measures, and More (Large Paperback)

Do numbers leave you feeling -- well, numb? This compendium of fascinating data will bring figures to life while answering lots of questions you've wondered about. Discover which is higher in sodium:...

David Salsburg / The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century (Large Paperback)

An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. The Lady Tasting Tea is not a book of dry facts and figures, but the history of great individuals who dared to...

Andrew Keen / The Internet Is Not the Answer (Large Paperback)

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives.By tracing the history of the...

Daniel Smith / Go Figure: The Marvellous Maths Workbook (Large Paperback)

Maths is one of those tricky subjects that continues to throw us problems, even after our school days. From splitting the bill in a restaurant, to counting out change at a till or working out...

Ian Wilmut , Roger Highfield / After Dolly: The Uses And Misuses Of Human Cloning (Large Paperback)

This text provides a timely and important discussion of the potential value of cloning and of the ethical choices that this radical new technology has raised, including the issues surrounding the...

Dava Sobel / Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Large Paperback)

Dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion.Inspired...

Pat Thomas / What's in This Stuff? (Large Paperback)

What's In This Stuff?' reveals that many widely-used products contain a cocktail of cheap, poorly-tested chemicals that are implicated in long-term health problems. The book examines everything from...

James R Weidlein / Networking Personal Computers in Organizations (Large Paperback)

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Brendan P. Kehoe / Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide (Large Paperback)

Critics agree-this is still the best introductory guide to the Internet. This national bestseller includes a new section on using the World Wide Web and an appendix on HTMLs (with a pull-out...

Jacob Palme / Electronic Mail (Hardback)

This work provides a thorough overview of the technical and social aspects of electronic mail. It analyzes the problems, solutions and effects of e-mail and includes coverage of the market for...

New Scientist / How Long is Now?: And 191 Other Questions You Never Thought to Ask

How long is 'now'? The short answer is 'somewhere between 2 and 3 seconds'. The long answer involves an incredible journey through neuroscience, our subconscious and the time-bending power of...

Carl Djerassi / This Man's Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill

On October 15, 1951, in a small laboratory in Mexico City, one of the key episodes in 20th century social history the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive--an event that triggered the...

Jones Steve / Almost Like a Whale — The Origin of Species Updated

 Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Before The Origin, biology was a set of unconnected facts. Darwin made it into...