Your shopping cart is empty!
Welcome visitor you can login or create an account.
Biography: science, technology & medicine
Brand: University of Chicago Press
"Marvelous. . . . Wonderfully imaginative. . . . Sparkling."-Wall Street Journal "Stunning. . . . Read this book: in equal measure it will give you hope and trouble your dreams."-Laura Dassow Walls, author of Henry David Tho..
50.56£
Brand: The History Press
From poverty to immense wealth, from humble beginnings to international celebrity, George and Robert Stephenson's was an extraordinary joint career. Together they overshadow all other engineers, except perhaps Robert's friend Isambard Kingdom Brunel..
26.26£
Brand: BookBaby
Jane Bavoso was born in Brooklyn where she and her husband met as teenagers.They married in 1968 and in 1975 moved to Massapequa Park LI N.Y. with their two children, Peter and Lauren. Jane still resides there today.Jane started writing during the l..
15.97£
Brand: Xulon Press
ISBN: 9781662852305Publisher: Xulon PressImprint: Xulon PressPublished date: 03 Sep 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 313gHeight: 198mmWidth: 129mmSpine width: 16mm..
21.88£
Brand: Rare Bird Books
God of Sperm tells the remarkable story of Dr. Cappy Miles Rothman, the son of notorious gangster Norman "Roughhouse" Rothman, who went on to become a trailblazer in the field of reproductive medicine. ISBN: 9781644282946Publisher: Rare Bird BooksIm..
22.73£
Brand: Charles Scribner's Sons
"In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir-iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher-meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before ..
30.02£
Brand: Beacon Press
The inspiring story of a mother who took unimaginable tragedy and used her grief as a force to do good by transforming the lives of others.When Maria Kefalas's daughter Calliope was diagnosed with a degenerative, uncurable genetic disease, the last ..
19.55£
Brand: First Second
A biography of Stephen Hawking, one of the most important scientists of our time, in graphic novel form. ISBN: 9781250777942Publisher: First SecondImprint: St. Martin's PressPublished date: 15 Jun 2021DEWEY: 530.092DEWEY edition: 23Language: English..
23.81£
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other ..
19.45£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual life. Best known for his achievements in physiology and physics, he also contributed to other disciplines such as ophthalmology, psychology, mathematics, c..
89.89£
Beware the pronouncements from medical authorities on high... The good, the bad, and the ugly of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine are explored in these entertaining biographies of the worlds most highly recognized scientists. From unapolog..
24.09£
Brand: University of Texas Press
Sir John Herschel, one of the founders of Southern Hemisphere astronomy, was a man of extraordinarily wide interests. He made contributions to botany, geology, and ornithology, as well as to astronomy, chemistry, and mathematics. Throughout his scie..
64.28£
Brand: Profile
With over fifty patents to his name and innumerable awards and accolades, James Lovelock was a distinguished and original thinker, widely recognized by the international scientific community. In this inspiring book, republished in the year of his 10..
15.96£
Brand: World Scientific
'Michael Day’s insightful ‘philosophical biography’ of J Robert Oppenheimer stands out from other works on the so-called ‘father of the atomic bomb’ by its focus on the post-war period and by the depth of its philosophical engagement with ..
32.11£
Brand: Good Books
Medical technology meets rural, Amish values of simplicity, home health remedies, and unwavering faith in divine providence when a country-boy-turned-country doctor returns to his roots in Ohio. **This new edition is updated with a new preface and n..
20.02£
Brand: Greystone Books
In this evocative and heart-wrenching memoir, a hard-working Welsh molecatcher reveals his double life as a poet and a dreamer "A wonderful memoir … hands down the most charming book I read last year."-Margaret Renkl, The New York Times"How to Cat..
18.58£
Hugh Miller was born in 1802 in Cromarty, Ross-shire. He started his working life as a stonemason's apprentice, he later became a social commentator and crusader. With the benefit of research for the 2002 conferences, this biography looks at the sel..
18.45£
Brand: The History Press
Born in Penzance in 1778, Humphry Davy's scientific reputation grew with his pioneering discoveries of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), sodium, calcium and the invention of the miners' Davy lamp. ISBN: 9781845883829Publisher: The History PressImprint: ..
19.80£
In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghda..
35.28£
In the span of just a few years, Barbara Rae-Venter went from researching her family history as a retiree to finding a serial killer who had baffled law enforcement for decades. I Know Who You Are tracks her improbable journey to becoming the nation..
25.59£
Brand: World Scientific
This book tells the incredible story of George Gamow, one of the most brilliant and extravagant physicists of the past century. Gamow was born in Russia in 1904 and died in the USA in 1968. He lived his life in a time between the twenties and the si..
39.56£
ISBN: 9781942923565Publisher: Our Written LivesImprint: Our Written LivesPublished date: 24 Jun 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 136gHeight: 216mmWidth: 140mmSpine width: 6mm..
20.46£
Brand: Reaktion Books
Isaac Newton is one of the greatest scientists in history, yet the spectrum of his interests was much broader than that of most contemporary scientists. In fact, Newton would have defined himself not as a scientist, but as a natural philosopher. He ..
23.46£
One of the leading figures in the Scottish Enlightenment, and the acknowledged founder of modern geology, James Hutton spent most of his life in active research. This book presents an accessible introduction to his life and work. ISBN: 9781910682449..
20.43£