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Biography: science, technology & medicine
What happens when you get a shattering diagnosis, receive devastating news or experience a life-altering event? Far too often we let the circumstances of our life dictate our happiness, our fruitfulness. We all-too-quickly give up our confidence, jo..
22.95£
Brand: Smithsonian
The extraordinary autobiography of astronaut Fred Haise, one of only 24 men to fly to the moonIn the gripping Never Panic Early, Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13, offers a detailed firsthand account of when disaster struck three days int..
31.67£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Gareth Steel wants you to understand vets in a way you never could have before.How it feels to watch a healed dog bound into their owner's arms. The joy of breathing life into the fluid-filled lungs of a newborn calf after a difficult labour. The sa..
19.54£
In 1936, following the sale of Newton's unpublished manuscripts at auction, the scientific world was shocked: it turned out that Newton's writings in physics and mathematics, often considered the foundations of modern science, were only a fragment o..
19.50£
Brand: OUP Oxford
Niels Bohr, who pioneered the quantum theory of the atom, had a broad conception of his obligations as a physicist. They included not only a responsibility for the consequences of his work for the wider society, but also a compulsion to apply the ph..
11.33£
Brand: Icon Books
'[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and failures...and the hopeful thrum of an era before world wars.' - NatureNikola Tesla is one of the most enigmatic, curious and controversial figures in..
12.65£
An exhilarating and uncensored account of the maverick tech titan's wild life, a breakneck journey from Silicon Valley to his sudden, mysterious death in a Barcelona prison."This is the only possible book that could have been written about John McAf..
24.97£
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Few people have changed the world like the Nobel Prize winners. Their breakthrough discoveries have revolutionised medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. Nobel Life consists of original interviews with twenty-four Nobel Prize winners. Each of t..
27.91£
Brand: Atria Books
Discover the "road map to changing your life by changing the lives of others" (Jillian Michaels, New York Times bestselling author) with the eye-opening and inspirational story of how one person-a film producer by trade and an optimist by nature-acc..
13.67£
Brand: Steerforth Press
Go behind the scenes inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where good people fight the good fight amid the tragedies and absurdities of our agePerfect for fans of David Simon (Homicide, The Corner, The Wire, We Own Thi..
17.93£
Brand: Indiana University Press
In this book, Rudolf A. Raff reaches out to the scientifically queasy, using his life story and his growth as a scientist to illustrate why science matters, especially at a time when many Americans are both suspicious of science and hostile to scien..
34.10£
Brand: Chelsea Green Publishing
One-Straw Revolutionary represents the first commentary on the work of the late Japanese farmer and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 - 2008), widely considered to be natural farming's most influential practitioner. Mr. Fukuoka is perhaps most know..
19.82£
As a young doctor working in the middle of the HIV epidemic in the early '90s, Alicia Blando feels unsure of the effectiveness of the medical profession. To gain insight into her life's path, she seeks advice in some unconventional places, and lands..
14.77£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic wea..
39.09£
In Ordinary Deaths, Dr. Samuel LeBaron reminds us of our need for human connection when experiencing death and loss. Based on more than thirty years of working with children and adults dying from cancer, LeBaron's memoir contains stories of longing,..
28.15£
Brand: Author Solutions Inc
What's the number one nightmare for every loving parent? Most would say "to outlive my child." One spring break, a middle-aged dad and mom suddenly face a 50/50 chance of survival prognosis for their twenty-two-year-old daughter. They quickly realiz..
14.86£
Brand: Greystone Books
"Out of the Woods is a brave and beautiful book, electrifying on sex and nature, religion and love. No one is writing quite like this."- Olivia Lang, author of The Lonely CityIn this highly original work of nature writing and memoir, a young man exp..
30.63£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
When he was twenty-seven, Henry Molaison underwent surgery for his epilepsy. He awoke with part of his brain destroyed, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment, unable to remember anything for more than a few seconds. For nearly ..
17.45£
Brand: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
An illuminating celebration of more than 80 of the world's most important thinkers, this book explores the fascinating stories of their lives, their loves, and their pioneering ideas.Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured philosopher, ..
28.48£
Brand: Amberley Publishing
Women have played a vital role in the development of computing, although at times their participation has gone unrecognised. Their scholarly inventiveness and discoveries have provided a rich tapestry to add to the evolution of computer science in t..
22.74£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
'Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated'Jenny Uglow, New York Review of BooksA bold new history of how bota..
15.33£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
He was the dominant intellectual figure of his age. His published works, including the Principia Mathematica and Opticks, reached across the scientific spectrum, revealing the degree of his interdisciplinary genius. His renown opened doors throughou..
27.29£
Brand: C Hurst Co Publishers Ltd
A fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who launched modern computing. As the Cold War began, America's race for tech supremacy was taking off. Experts rushed to complete the top-secret computing research started during World War I..
28.39£
Brand: Princeton University Press
A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and sout..
34.12£