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Biography: science, technology & medicine
Brand: Icon Books
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after. In 1817 - exactly 200 years ago - James Parkinson (1755-1824) defin..
11.51£
Brand: Icon Books
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after. In 1817 - exactly 200 years ago - James Parkinson (1755-1824) defin..
22.74£
Harold Maxwell-Lefroy, the founder of Rentokil, was a maverick and a man of enormous drive and energy. From an early age he was fascinated with the insect world, and his thorough understanding of species' life cycles and habits, in its practical app..
21.67£
Brand: St. Martins Publishing Group
A doctor's powerful and deeply human memoir about the mysteries of the brain and his 40 year quest to find a treatment for MS. Dr. Stephen L. Hauser is an acclaimed physician and neuroimmunologist who has spent his career performing cutting-edge res..
29.02£
Brand: Picador USA
A New York Times Bestseller"Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." --Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the VileLindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butche..
20.70£
As Louise Brown-the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization-celebrates her 30th birthday, Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner tell the fascinating story of the man who first showed that human in vitro fertilization was possible.John Rock spent hi..
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The history of Enigma is of interest to many researchers and authors on an international scale. The capture and unraveling of the most hidden secret of the army of the Third Reich that was decisive for the fate of one of the greatest armed conflicts..
22.74£
WILLA Literary Award Winner in Creative Nonfiction 2022 Spur Award Winner 2022 Top Pick in Southwest Books of the Year Honorable Mention in the At-Large NFPW Communications ContestThe Forgotten Botanist is the account of an extraordinary woman who,..
31.64£
Brand: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Darwin's childhood garden at The Mount in Shrewsbury was the site of some of the great scientist's earli..
13.83£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The Economist#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true st..
13.66£
Brand: Welbeck Publishing
"You must learn to hold in your feelings," Matron said, firmly but not unkindly. "One day it will be your duty to support the family and other staff through this tragedy. You need to be strong." From the first time Vanessa Martin sets foot inside th..
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Brand: Pan Macmillan
Part of the Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf. 70 books, one life-changing collection. View the Five Foot Bookshelf collection. __________________________ With an introduction by author of The Tidal Zone, Sarah Moss Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but ..
14.08£
Brand: OUP Oxford
Through Francesco Bianchini, the 'greatest Italian of his time' this book explores the exciting meeting of science, history, and politics in early modern Europe. Born in a time where entry into the church granted power, privilege, and access to the ..
25.24£
Brand: Charles Scribner's Sons
"A beautiful book...about nature the way Walden was a book about nature. It should be read by everyone who still retains the capacity to feel anything" (The New York Times). Stunningly written and fiercely observed, a new edition of a classic work o..
20.14£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a "riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving" (The Atlantic) story of the people who cre ISBN: 97814767..
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Brand: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and powerful enemy of the deaf community. When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to the world, it was considered miraculous. But few pe..
28.65£
Brand: New York Review Books
Henry David Thoreau's Journal was his life's work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right-one of the most intensive explorations ever made ..
30.35£
Have you ever wondered how you would react if told that you only had two years to live? Join the adventure of a lifetime as you walk this path with a true Southern belle, Jennie Martin, and experience life lived to the fullest with incredible joy, f..
18.11£
Written in 1868, the publication of this memoir (now in the Bodleian Library) acts as prelude to a comprehensive biography of the extraordinary William Nicholson, author, inventor, patent agent and civil engineer, published later in 2018. This is a ..
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Brand: Orion
The new book from the BBC Radio 4 hit series The Life ScientificInside the lives of the scientists who are exploring our world, our universe, our past, ourselves.Based on interviews broadcast on BBC Radio 4's hugely popular series, The Life Scientif..
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Brand: Orion
What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio in the last eight years, there is no simple answer. Mathematicians, electricians, molecular biologists and mechanics can all tran..
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Brand: Orion
BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews make sobering reading, a reminder of all the deadly viruses that have threatened global health, and wh..
12.85£
Brand: Faber & Faber
Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of t..
20.07£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neum..
18.18£