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Biography: science, technology & medicine
Brand: The History Press
The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever. They were an unlikely pair - one the professor son of a banker, the other the only child of an acclaimed poet and a social-reforming mathematician - but p..
22.90£
Brand: Random House
Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his dea..
30.63£
Brand: Welbeck Publishing
The Compact Guide: Charles Darwin reveals the famous scientist's life in compelling detail. From his expedition aboard the Beagle and his legendary research in the Galapagos Islands, to his marriage and illness and the publication of his groundbreak..
12.76£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
An aquatic ecologist and permafrost scientist recalls her captivating adventures across the Arctic studying climate change, her quest to find belonging and family, and her journey of faith in a world of science in this poignant, eye-opening, and hop..
18.00£
Brand: Random House
Aparna Piramal Raje's life looks successful. Hailing from a well-known business family, she is married, has two children, is a published author, a popular columnist with a leading daily and was the CEO of a leading furniture company. However, only a..
21.59£
Brand: Picador USA
This 25th Anniversary Edition of Close to the Machine, featuring a new introduction by Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, resurfaces Ellen Ullman's astonishing account of computing and the ways it shapes our very existence. A Salon Best Book of ..
17.81£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
Code Gray is a narrative-driven medical memoir that places you directly in the crucible of urgent life-or-death decision-making, offering insights that can help us cope at a time when the world around us appears to be falling apart. In the tradition..
27.05£
A writer's witty and surprisingly optimistic account of learning to live with Parkinson's disease. When he was sixty-five, François Gravel was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, upending the old age he had imagined for himself. As a way of contemp..
12.50£
El tema de los extraterrestres es muy debatido, algunas veces a favor y otras en contra. Esta vez, presentamos más de cincuenta comunicaciones bioenergemales (CBELs) que a través de los años presuntamente hemos tenido, entre otros, con el bioenergem..
24.45£
Brand: Henry Holt and Company
A Best Book of 2022 - USA TODAY "Astute, compassionate and lethally funny. Maloney is an exceptionally alert writer on whom nothing is lost, who sees everything with excruciating clarity." --Sarah Manguso, The New York Times The searing intimacy of ..
18.35£
"Cheryl and her partner, Sofie, are thirty-something Angelenos who are excited to become moms. Cheryl is prepared to shoot herself up with fertility drugs, fill out reams of adoption paperwork, whatever it takes. Like so many good middle-class kids,..
21.90£
Brand: The History Press
Many people have written biographies of Charles Darwin, but the story of his family and roots in Shrewsbury is little known. This book, containing original research, fills that gap. The key player is Charles' father, Dr Robert Darwin, a larger-than-..
18.24£
FOREWORD INDIES BRONZE WINNER, ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT "Diverting descriptions of flora and fauna lead into captivating lessons about biological principles, all of which are embellished with humor. A rousing read." —FOREWORD REVIEWS Through personal s..
23.62£
When Catherine is diagnosed with acute leukemia, a deadly form of cancer that attacks the immune system, her life is turned upside down. Young and previously healthy, she now finds herself catapulted into the world of the seriously ill-constantly te..
28.37£
In 1998, Dr Louis J Ignarro was awarded a rare and coveted Nobel Prize for his ground-breaking discovery of nitric oxide (NO) and its many critically important biological actions. But his work goes far beyond the development of Viagra. It has never ..
37.17£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that have spawned new innovations, and how have they shaped modern biology? In Dreamers, Visionaries, and Rev..
46.80£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' - Simon Ings, Spectator'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.' - Literary ReviewFilled with incident, discovery, and ..
16.04£
Brand: Random House
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time Publishers Weekly K..
26.09£
Brand: Polity Press
Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famous for his theory of relativity, which is considered the founding principle of modern physics. He also made enormous contributions to quantum mechanic..
19.16£
Brand: Princeton University Press
An authoritative and richly illustrated biography-published on the centenary of Einstein's general theory of relativity"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility … The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle."-Albert Einstein, 19..
28.57£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagin ISBN: 978074326474..
28.15£
Brand: Yale University Press
A "highly readable" (Wall Street Journal) account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life-first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the Nazis"A vivid look at how the U.K. affected the German-born physici..
23.77£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignor..
12.50£
Brand: PRH Grupo Editorial
"Una magistral historia de la investigación sobre el cáncer" -Publishers WeeklyEsta es la historia más compleja de una de las enfermedades más extendidas de nuestro tiempo una crónica completa del cáncer desde sus orìgenes hasta los modernos tratami..
18.57£