Sciences and Technology

Meredith Wadman / The Vaccine Race - How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses (Large Paperback)

  In 1962, Leonard Hayflick created and then froze roughly 800 tiny ampules of what he dubbed WI-38 cells. Each petite glass vial contained between 1.5 million and 2 million cells. Each cell in each...

Bob Reeves / Computing for the Over 50s

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Jill Bailey / Dictionary of Oceanography

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Elizabeth A. Martin / A Dictionary of Biology

Fully revised and updated, this new fifth edition is the perfect guide for those studying biology, either at school or university. Containing many new entries, and with biographical entries on key...

Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh / Descartes Dream - The World According to Mathematics (Large Paperback)

Davis and Hersh write interesting, accessible overviews of pertinent social-mathematical topics and provide a respectable bibliography of reference materials. Topics covered include meta thinking,...

Jay Owens / Dust - The Modern World in a Trillion Particles (Large Paperback)

Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles

Leah Hazard / Womb (Large Paperback)

*WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023**A FINALIST FOR THE 2024 PEN / EO WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD* A landmark book on the womb - its history, its present and the...

Peter Ackroyd / Escape from the Earth - Voyages Through Time (Large Paperback)

Voyages Through Time The astonishing story of mankind's desire to break free from the Earth. Follow dramatic, political power struggles, German scientists switching allegiance and what happened to...

Bill McKibben / Eaarth (Large Paperback)

Making a Life on a Tough New Planet "Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." —Barbara KingsolverTwenty years ago,...

Andrew Lockhart / Network Security Hacks (Large Paperback)

To the uninitiated, the title may seem like an after all, aren't hacks what network security is supposed to prevent? But if you're network administrator, this book's title not only makes sense; it...

Black Ink Books / Is Your Computer Plugged In?? (Large Paperback)

This book has been designed for beginners, to teach them to use computer basics. It can be used by anyone, especially those who know absolutely nothing about computers! We have covered what we...

Michal Levin / Designing Multi-Device Experiences (Large Paperback)

An Ecosystem Approach to User Experiences across Devices Welcome to our multi-device world, a world where a user’s experience with one application can span many devices―a smartphone, a tablet, a...

Ben Bova / Are We Alone in the Cosmos? (Large Paperback)

 with Byron Preiss The Search for Alien Contact in the New Millennium Essays document the long running scientific search for e

Mike Tranter / A Million Things To Ask A Neuroscientist (Large Paperback)

A Million Things To Ask A Neuroscientist

Jacques Dupayrat / Chemical & Technological dictionary of Biological Sciences | Dictionnaire chimique et technologique des Sciences biologiques Anglais-Francais(Large Paperback)

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Jim Brooks / Origins of life (Coffee Table Book)

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Martin Steer - Irish Rivers : Biology and Management - PB - RIA

Paperback, published by RIA , 1991, edited by Martin Steer.  This copy is signed by the former FF Tánaiste ,  John P Wilson, and dated 1991. 

Peter Morville / Ambient Findability (Large Paperback)

What We Find Changes Who We Become How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how...

Rena Bivens / Digital Currents (Large Paperback)

Digital Currents: How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News

Laura DeNardis / The Global War for Internet Governance (Large Paperback)

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Francis Spufford / The Backroom Boys - The Secret Return of the British Boffin (Hardback)

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Mark Raskino / Digital to the Core (Hardback)

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Gregory Zuckerman / A Shot to Save the World - The Inside Story of the Life and Death Race for the Covid 19 Vaccine (Hardback)

Few were ready when a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Politicians, government officials, business leaders, and public-health professionals were unprepared for...

Derrick Jensen & George Draffan / Welcome to the Machine - Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control (Large Paperback)

   

Ken Yarmosh / App Savvy (Large Paperback)

Turning Ideas Into iPhone and iPad Apps Customers Really Want How can you make your iPhone or iPad app stand out in the highly competitive App Store? While many books simply explore the technical...

John T. Lang / What's So Controversial about Genetically Modified Food?

The rampant use of genetically modified food incites fierce and seemingly intractable debates among environmental activists, scientists, government regulators, and representatives of the food and...

Oliver Sacks / The Mind's Eye (Large Paperback)

The bestselling author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" describes how we experience the visual world. In "Musicophilia", Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in "The Mind's...

Brian Madden / The VDI Delusion (Large Paperback)

Why Desktop Virtualization Failed to Live Up to the Hype, and What the Future Enterprise Desktop Will Reall

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John Parrington / The Deeper Genome

Over a decade ago, as the Human Genome Project completed its mapping of the entire human genome, hopes ran high that we would rapidly be able to use our knowledge of human genes to tackle many...

Eric Chaisson / Relatively Speaking (Large Paperback)

Lola Judith Chaisson (Drawings) "Beginning with a clear, nontechnical discussion of both the ‘special’ and ‘general’ theories

James Gleick / Chaos (Large Paperback)

Making a New Science A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole...

John Gribbin / In Search of the Multiverse

John Gribbin's In Search of the Multiverse takes us on an extraordinary journey through the most fundamental questions in science, exploring the frontiers of reality itself. What are the boundaries...

Susan Denham Wade / A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions (Large Paperback)

In 2015 #thedress captured the world’s imagination. Was the dress in the picture white and gold or blue and black? It inspired the author to ask: if people in the same time and place can see the same...

Nessa Carey / Hacking the Code of Life (Large Paperback)

How gene editing will rewrite our futures Over 50 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and...

Greg Milner / Pinpoint - How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds (Large Paperback)

Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls,...

Wally Wang / Visual Basic 3 for Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

Employing a non-threatening, conversational style, this guide to the programming language for non-programmers covers programming concepts, writing your first program, and programming examples using...

Hayley Birch / The Big Questions in Science (Coffee Table Book)

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Ian Graham / Science Enyclopaedia (Coffee Table Book)

This 256 page book takes a comprehensive look at the very beginnings of science and what science is. Several Sections Matter and Chemicals; Energy, Motion and Machines; Electricity and Magnetism;...

Veronica O'Keane / The Rag and Bone Shop (Hardback)

A leading psychiatrist shows how the mysteries of the brain are illuminated at the extremes of human experienceA twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have...

Rachel Swaby / Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World (Hardback)

Florence Nightingale. Sally Ride. Ada Lovelace. These names and others are etched in history and included here as part of an awe-inspiring collection of profiles of thirty-three of the most...

Edward Yourdon / Death March (Large Paperback)

The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving 'Mission Impossible' Projects Author provides technology and management insights to the worst IS projects, demonstrating how to maximize your...

Simon Monk / Programming Arduino (Large Paperback)

Getting Started with Sketches, Second Edition Program Arduino with ease! This thoroughly updated guide shows, step by step, how to quickly program all Arduino models. Programming Getting Started with...

E.C. Rollason / Metallurgy for Engineers (Large Paperback)

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Chris Chatfield / Statistics for Technology (Large Paperback)

A Course in Applied Statistics One of the most popular introductory texts in its field, Statistics for Technology: A Course in Applied Studies presents the range of statistical methods commonly used...

James Kakalios / The Physics of Everyday Things (Large Paperback)

The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day A complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science. Since 2001,...

Adam Gopnik / The Real Work - On the Mystery of Mastery(Large Paperback)

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our...

Dan Gookin / Nexus 7 For Dummies (Large Paperback)

Friendly advice on leveraging the power of the new Nexus 7 Google tablet! The arrival of the new Nexus 7 Google tablet is eagerly awaited, thanks to its cutting-edge software, top-notch hardware,...

Kevin Robins / Times of the Technoculture (Large Paperback)

From the Information Society to the Virtual Life Frank Webster This book explores the debates surrounding technological change, from the politics of education to

Toru Ishida / Community Computing and Support Systems (Large Paperback)

Social Interaction in Networked Communities Jörg H. Siekmann

Lynne Hamill & Amparo Lasen (Editors)/ Mobile World - Past, Present and Future (Large Paperback)

There is a growing body of interesting research exploring the social shaping of mobile phones, covering a wide range of topics, from new forms of communication, to the changes in time organization,...

Thomas K. Landauer / The Trouble with Computers (Large Paperback)

Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity