Sciences and Technology

Terry Grossman / Fantastic Voyage : How to Benefit from Cutting Edge Science and Add Years to Your Life (Hardback)

Live long enough to live for ever! Immortality is within our grasp. We are in the early stages of multiple profound revolutions spawned by the intersection of biology, information science and...

Tim Harford / How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whether it could really be true? Statistics are vital in helping us tell stories - we see them in the...

Ian Sample / Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle

Now fully updated -- this is the dramatic and gripping account of the greatest scientific discovery of our time.     In the early 1960s, three groups of physicists, working independently in different...

Bennie Mols, Nieske Vergunst / Hallo Robot: Meet Your New Workmate and Friend (Large Paperback)

How robots will revolutionise our worldSome fear that robots could do half our jobs and even wipe us out. But is that likely? Hallo Robot reveals how robots see, feel, and act -- and what they can...

Daniel M. Berman, John T. O'Connor / Who Owns the Sun?: People, Politics, and the Struggle for a Solar Economy (Large Paperback)

In Who Owns the Sun? Daniel Berman and John O'Connor argue that democratic control of solar energy is the key to revitalizing America -- putting power back into the hands of local people. A...

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,...

Aoife Barry / Social Capital: Life online in the shadow of Ireland's tech boom (Large Paperback)

A David and Goliath story about Ireland’s role as prime real estate for the world’s largest tech multinationals, and the considerable impact it has had on us as individuals. At the start of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

David Wallace-Wells / The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future

The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are...

Rupert Sheldrake / The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (Large Paperback)

  The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert...

Daniel Franklin / Megatech: Technology in 2050 (Large Paperback)

  Please Read Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name,...

Professor Luke O'Neill / Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today (Large Hardback)

 In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us...

Harry Oliver / Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps : The Origins of Objects in Our Daily Lives (Hardback)

  Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? From the moment the alarm clock wakes us up in the morning...

Nicholas Carr / The Glass Cage: Where Automation is Taking Us (Large Paperback)

 In The Glass Cage, Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author Nicholas Carr shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical effect this is...

David Ewing Duncan / The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with My DNA: . . . And Other Masterminds from the Frontiers of Biotech (Hardback)

 Combining myth, biography, and wit -- a highly original

Frederik Pohl / Chasing Science: Science as a Spectator Sport (Hardback)

 Part memoir, part travel guide, and part science primer, Chasing Science is Pohl's way of sharing the thrills and excitement of his life-long love affair with science. With the skill and...

John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid / The Social Life of Information (Hardback)

 To see the future we can build with information technology, we must look beyond mere information to the social context that creates and gives meaning to it. For years, pundits have predicted that...

Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not To Liberate The World (Large Paperback)

 Does free information mean free people? At the start of the twenty-first century we were promised that the internet would liberate the world. We could come together as never before, and from Iran's...

Gary Rimmer / Number Freaking - The Surreal Sums Behind Everyday Life (Hardback)

This isn't a book of statistics and it isn't a book of science. It has nothing whatsoever to do with actuaries or accountants. Number Freaking is a book of surreal sums and absurd arithmetic: it's...

Bill McKibben / Enough : Genetic Engineering and the End of Human Nature

 Sometime in the next few years, scientists may reprogramme a human egg or sperm cell, make a change in the genetic instructions carried by that cell, a change that will be passed on down into...

Kit Yates / The Maths of Life and Death: Why Maths is (Almost) Everything (Large Paperback)

 A brilliant and entertaining mathematician illuminates seven mathematical principles that shape our lives.From birthdays and birth rates to how we perceive the passing of time, to overpopulation,...

Brian M. Fagan / Time Detectives : How Scientists Use Modern Technology to Unravel the Secrets of the Past (Large Paperback)

 From Simon & Schuster, Time Detectives is Brian Fagan's exploration of how archeologists use technology to recapture the past.University of California Professor of Anthropology Brian Fagan offers a...

Hamish McKenzie / Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil (Large Paperback)

 The first account of one of the 21st century's greatest business stories, Tesla and Elon Musk.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture,...

Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback)

 How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels...

Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback)

 Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join...

Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback)

 A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it...

Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback)

 Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling...

Brian Cox / How to Build a Universe: An Infinite Monkey Cage Adventure (Large Paperback)

 The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up...

Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback)

 How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp,...

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

 The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our...

John Naughton / A Brief History of the Future: The Origins of the Internet (Hardback)

 The Internet is the most remarkable thing human beings have built since the Pyramids. A millennium from now, historians will look back at it and marvel that a people equipped with such clumsy tools...

Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback)

 Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those...

Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback)

 A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten...

Jo Hoare / You're On Mute: 101 Tips to Add Zip to your Zoom

 If life on is Zoom getting you down and you’re dreading the next inevitable invite to a Teams meeting, don’t panic, help is at hand. With 101 top tips explaining the dos and don’ts of virtual...

The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff

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Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age

 What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part...

John L. Casti / Paradigms Lost - Images of Man in the Mirror of Science

 Within the forum of a mock trial, an eminent mathematician argues for the defense and prosecution, then renders the verdict on the origin of life, sociobiology, language acquisition, artificial...

Mark Stevenson / An Optimists Tour of the Future

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Andrew Keen / How to Fix the Future - Staying Human in the Digital Age (Large Paperback)

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Ben Goldacre / I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That (Large Paperback)

The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the...

Eddie O' Connor / Supergrid - Super Solution: The Key to Solving the Energy Crisis and Decarbonising Europe (Large Paperback)

As we live through the throes of an energy crisis this timely book sets out how electricity can finally get the world off fossil fuels, and accelerate moves to a zero-carbon world. The essential...

Stephen R. Palumbi / The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change (Hardback)

A critical look at evolution examines the slow process that ruled the rise and fall of the dinosaurs over hundreds of millions of years, the speedy process that causes drugs to fail because a disease...

Giles Whittell / Snow : The Biography (Hardback)

Brimming with interesting facts and surprising anecdotes, this scientific and cultural history opens our eyes to the wonders of one of nature’s most delicate, delightful, and deadly phenomena: SNOW!...

Len Fisher / How to Dunk a Doughnut - The Science of Everyday Life (Hardback)

In 1998 Len Fisher attracted world-wide attention with his experiments on the physics of biscuit dunking. These won him a spoof IgNobel Prize, a letter of commendation from the royal society and a...

Frank Rose / Into The Heart Of The Mind - A Quest For Artificial Intelligence(Hardback)

An account of the early years of computing and the development of and roots of very limited  'self aware' technology up to the 1990's .      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Guy Croton / Wrinklies' Guide to Home Computing (Hardback)

The Wrinklies' Guide to Home Computing shows that you can teach an old dog new tricks—of the virtual kind. If you think a "hard drive" is a journey beyond the local shop or that "software" is...

Walter Bodmer & Robin McKie / Book Of Man : The Human Genome Project (Hardback)

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Tim Peake / Limitless: Soldier Pilot Parent Astronaut

 ‘I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My gloved hands gripped the handrail as tightly as I could. I had been on my spacewalk for over an...

John N. Gray / False Dawn; the Delusions of a Global Capitalism

 Back in the 1980s, capitalism seemed ready to finally inherit the earth. According to the likes of Francis Fukuyama, in his infamous book The E