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Biography: science, technology & medicine
Brand: The History Press
Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing.Except When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, people want to know more than the bullet points of his life. They want to know everything was Alan Turing..
14.50£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed eco-warrior and environmentalist chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves.In 1991, twenty-four-yea..
25.02£
Brand: Aurum
Richard Trevithick's ‘Cornish engine' was the world's first self-propelled steam vehicle. His ‘Penydarren engine' was the world's first railway engine. But despite his towering historic achievements, fame and fortune obstinately eluded him. An ofte..
15.77£
Brand: Princeton University Press
By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone ou..
29.30£
Brand: HMH Books
The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single year culminate in the greatest challenge the city's medical first responders have ever faced: COVID-19As a seasoned medical technician and union lead..
29.53£
Brand: BookBaby
The book is a look into the view of how one young man has started trying to conquer his mental illness. ISBN: 9781667840871Publisher: BookBabyImprint: BookBabyPublished date: 15 Jun 2022Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 126Weight: 213gHeight: 228mmW..
21.90£
Brand: AcornScholastic Inc.
Rosalind Franklin: air-raid warden, scientist, pioneer. Uncover fascinating facts about the extraordinary life of trailblazing scientist, Rosalind Franklin. A Life Story: this gripping series throws the reader directly into the lives of modern soc..
10.32£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
The untold story of the woman who helped to make one of humanity's greatest discoveries - DNA - but who was never given credit for doing so.'Our dark lady is leaving us next week.' On 7 March 1953 Maurice Wilkins of King's College, London, wrote to ..
15.65£
Brand: Random House
The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston's homeless community-by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains"I couldn't put Rou..
30.02£
Brand: World Scientific
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate in Physics, was a towering figure in 20th century physics, but remained a highly private man. The many letters and correspondence in this book reveal in Chandrasekhar's own words the depth of his pursuit of..
90.87£
Brand: Center Point
Each year nearly four million people visit Yellowstone National Park -- one of the most popular of all national parks -- but few know the fascinating and complex historical context in which it was established. In late July 1871, the geologist-explor..
51.26£
Brand: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Delve into the lives, inspirations, motivations, and achievements of the greatest scientists in the world and through all time. Explore the stories of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential scientists with this innovative and..
27.09£
Brand: Greystone Books
For the gardener in your life, or for anyone who loved Late Migrations and H is for HawkA stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, "that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere ... Candid, tender, thoughtful and..
32.69£
For Readers of When Breath Becomes Air and Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity, an Intensive Care Doctor Reveals How Everyday Emotions Are Taken to Extremes in the ICU--with a New Afterword Relating to the COVID Pandemic. Dr. Aoife Abbey ..
20.95£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For any..
15.32£
ISBN: 9781952491405Publisher: O'Leary PublishingImprint: O'Leary PublishingPublished date: 09 Sep 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 174gHeight: 127mmWidth: 202mmSpine width: 14mm..
20.67£
Silas Burroughs arrived in London from America in 1878 and proved himself an exceptional entrepreneur, taking the pharmaceutical business by storm. He was the brains and energy behind Burroughs Wellcome & Co. With his business partner Henry Wellcom..
26.26£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
From the author of 'Stuart: A Life Backwards'; a warm and witty portrait of a harmless, eccentric, bona fide genius.Alexander Master's landlord, Simon, lives in the basement of their Cambridge house. Between teetering towers of outdated maps and sla..
10.22£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Who or what is an anaesthetist? That strange individual who attends a patient on the morning of major surgery and says, "Hello, it was you I was looking for." Is that person a technician? Is that person a doctor? As the patient, you are about to put..
15.51£
Brand: Greystone Books
From the beloved author of How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust comes a highly original memoir of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of the garden. In this restorative little book, best enjoyed in a single sitting under a tree, an adventu..
22.73£
Brand: Transworld
In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. Defying all the odds, he died in March 2018 at age seventy-six as the most celebrated scientist in the world. This carefully researched and updated biography and tribute gives a rich picture of Ha..
16.27£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Very few individuals can truthfully say that their work impacts every person on earth. Forrest Galante is one of them. As a wildlife biologist and conservationist, Galante devotes his life to studying, rediscovering, and protecting our planet's amaz..
17.05£
Brand: BookBaby
In this highly anticipated first book from Merlin Bott tells the story of a woman who discovered late in life that she was stricken with an incurable condition that most people have never heard of, Hydrocephalus. She takes readers on her journey fro..
22.73£
Brand: Fordham University Press
An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a body In the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an "eye stroke." A small bit of cholesterol came loose fr..
23.46£