Sciences and Technology

June Furnival / Suck, Don't Blow (Hardback)

 Launched in 1906, the "Puffing Billy" was an elaborate machine and the equivalent would cost #2000 to buy in the 1990s. This text follows the chain of false starts and ingenious ideas which have...

John Carey / The Faber Book of Science (Hardback)

 Covering hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos, this anthology plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to chaos theory. It...

James Watson / DNA : The Secret of Life

 James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and author of the international bestseller The Double Helix, tells the story of the amazing molecule since its discovery fifty years ago,...

Aoife Abbey / Seven Signs of Life : Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor (Hardback)

 'A sensitive, honest, unsentimental and, yes, brave piece of writing that makes for compulsive reading' Nigella Lawson

Lawrence M. Krauss / The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far (Large Paperback)

 A great educator as well as a great physicist ' Richard DawkinsIn the beginning there was lightbut more than this, there was gravity.After that, all hell broke loose...This is how the story of the...

Iwona Abrams / Introducing Chaos (Large Paperback)

 Providing an introduction to the controversial field of chaos theory, this text shows how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the...

John Brokman / What is Your Dangerous Idea? : Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (Hardback)

 The history of science is replete with ideas that were considered socially, morally or emotionally dangerous in their time. The Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are obvious examples -- radical,...

David Attenborough / A Life on Our Planet (Large Paperback)

 See the world. Then make it better.I am David Attenborough. At time of writing, I am 93 years old. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.As a young man, I...

Stephen Hawking / Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardback)

 THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty' GUARDIANThe...

Dara O'Briain / Is There Anybody Out There? (Hardback)

 Science fiction meets science fact in thisfully illustrated hilarious book from one of the UK and Ireland'sbest-loved comedians.Genuinely qualifiedspace expert, Dara O Briain, is here with allthe...

Tim Flannery / We are the Weather Makers : The Story of Global Warming

  Tim Flannery's international bestseller The Weather Makers has sold over a million copies and influenced politicians, movie stars, even business leaders - after reading it, Sir Richard Branson...

Michael Blastland / The Tiger That Isn't : Seeing Through a World of Numbers

  Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most maths is really simple - as easy as 2+2 in fact...

Richard Preston / First Light

  At seven storeys high and with a two-hundred-inch mirror which took fourteen years to cast, the Hale telescope is the biggest and heaviest working instrument of its kind in the world. It can...

Louise Curtis / A Nurse's Story

 Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's true story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis.Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was...

Don Tapscott / Wikinomics

 An International Bestseller.An Economist Book of the Year.A Financial Times Book of the Year.Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year.Wikinomics shows how businesses can...

John Gribbin / The Future Now : Predicting the 21st Century

  Written in the late 1990's - distinguished academics and writers offer their predictions for the world's future across a range of social economic, political, geographical and technological...

Steve Jones / The Single Helix : A Turn Around the World of Science

 THE SINGLE HELIX is a miscellany of a hundred easy pieces about science. It brings to life a vast diversity of subjects, united under the banner of scientific truth - the universal solvent that...

Karl Sabbagh / The Hair of the Dog : And Other Scientific Surprises

 Science is full of surprises: the peculiar peepshow beginnings of baby incubators; the unexpected positive fallout from the H-bomb; the dinosaurs that caused sonic booms; the irrational nature of...

Colin Black / Gas Man (Large Paperback)

 10... 9... 8... 7... 6...That's about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin - and that's all most people know about what I do.But what happens between you conking...

Randall Stross / Planet Google

 Google has a dream: to manage the entire world's information. The company wants to access every single bit of it it can - from news, to financial and historical data; from the content of books,...

Dean Burnett / The Idiot Brain : A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head is Really Up To

 'Compelling and wise and rational.' - Jon RonsonMotion sickness.Nightmares.Forgetting people's names.Why did I walk into this room??For something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced,...

Martin Ford / The Rise of the Robots

 Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors,...

Simon Winchester / The Map That Changed the World

 THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first...

S. M. H. Collin / Dictionary of Computing: Over 10,000 Terms Clearly Defined

  The dictionary's definitions in clear, simple English are easy to understand for readers without a background in computing and for native and non-native English speakers alike. Each entry...

Klaus-Dieter John / I Have Seen God

 Klaus-Dieter and Martina John had a vision; to build a top quality health facility for the Indians of the Peruvian Andes. Neglected and marginalised, these people suffer appallingly from the...

Patrick Moore / Teach Yourself Astronomy

  Patrick Moore aims to give the reader a thorough working knowledge of astronomy, one of the few sciences in which the amateur can play a useful role, and may even make important discoveries. He...

Extinction Rebellion / This Is Not A Drill

 Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown.Now you can become part of the movement - and together, we can make history.It's time. This is our last...

Rachel Clarke / Your Life In My Hands

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, held the hand of a young woman dying of cancer, scuttled down miles of dim...

Chas Newkey-Burden / 64 Geeks: Meet the Brains Who Changed the World (Hardback)

 We wouldn't have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi today without the ingenuity of an actress once described as "the most beautiful woman in the world."And we might have had mobile messaging as early as 1901, were...

Richard Fortey / Life: an Unauthorized Biography

 A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers.What do any of us know about...

C.O Carter - Human Heredity - Vintage Pelican PB 1972 ( Originally 1962)

Condition - crease to front cover, tanning to page block and previous owners name written neatly in pen on front endpaper. Pelican blue spine and cover.  Carter provides the reader with a basic...

New Scientist: Does Anything Eat Wasps : And 101 Other Questions

  Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the 'Last Word' column -...

Jonathan Nossiter / Liquid Memory : Why Wine Matters (Hardback)

 Jonathan Nossiter had his first taste of wine at the age of three in Paris, from his father's finger. For him, wine is 'memory in its most liquid and dynamic form,' as essential an expression of...

Viktor Mayer-Schonberger / Big Data

  A New York Times bestseller. Longlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Since Aristotle, we have fought to understand the causes behind everything. But...

Erwin Brecher / How do you Build a Time Machine? (Hardback)

  Astound your friends! Impress party guests! Annoy your relatives! This book contains 100 fascinating science puzzles. The answer to each problem explains a scientific principle in...

Ken Auletta / Googled : The End of the World as We Know It (Large Paperback)

 There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. This is a ride on the Google wave, and the fullest account of how it formed and crashed into traditional media...

Henry Marsh / Admissions : A Life in Brain Surgery (Large Paperback)

 Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered...

Dara Ó Briain / Secret Science: The Amazing World Beyond Your Eyes (Hardback)

 The second hilarious book for curious kids from the UKand Ireland's best-loved comedian, Dara O Briain!So you think everyday life is boring?! WHAT?! Hoo-ee,are you wrong!No, seriously. There's so...

Michael Cunningham / How to (Almost) Make Friends on the Internet (Hardback)

 'Will have you in stitches' The Irish Times'He's almost certainly not the hero you ordered, but he's the hero we need right now' Dave Gorman'I nearly stopped breathing twice as I was laughing so...

Nick Arnold / Blood Bones and Body Bits and Chemical Chaos (Hardback)

  In "Blood, Bones and Body Bits", the reader can test theories of brain power, discover the secrets of strange scientists, and learn how to diagnose diseases. "Chemical Chaos" describes...

John Brenkus / The Perfection Point (Large Paperback)

 The Perfection Point is a pacy and fascinating look at the science behind the extremes of human performance, which identifies the absolute limits the human body can go to, whether it is running,...

Robert Kunzig / Fixing Climate (Large Paperback)

 With Broeker as his guide, award-winning science writer Robert Kunzig looks back at Earth's volatile climate history so as to shed light on the challenges ahead. Ice ages, planetary orbits, a giant...

Michael Brooks / At the Edge of Uncertainty (Large Paperback)

 The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here,...

Bill Bryson / The Body (Large Paperback)

 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019_______'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an...

Rodney Castleden / Discoveries That Changed the World (Hardback)

  As it is impossible to rank them in order of importance, they are listed chronologically from as far back as 35,000 BC to the discovery of Oetzi, the Ice Man in 1991. Each article goes into...

Brad Smith / Tools and Weapons (Hardback)

 *THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM BOOK CLUB PICK*'A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today.' Bill Gates, from the foreword'The...

Steve Jones / Y: The Descent Of Men (Hardback)

  Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been dispensed with. Dolly the Sheep - conceived...

New Scientist: Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? and 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions (Hardback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Christopher Booker / The Real Global Warming Disaster (Hardback)

  Booker focuses his attention on the mother of all environmental scares: global warming. This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time:...

Mark O'Connell / To Be a Machine (Large Paperback)

 Shortlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2017What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to fundamentally change the human condition, to...

John Naisbitt / High Tech (Large Paperback)

  This text offers perspectives and insights on the interplay between technology and people. It is a compelling tour of our contemporary "technology immersion", and the author sets out to explain...

Paul Hymers / Converting to an Eco-friendly Home (Large Paperback)

  For a large number of homeowners, the importance of the environment has been highlighted as issues such as global warming becomes big news. With 7 chapters covering elements including Light,...