Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 509.2
Price: £14.95
Review Man Who Loved China, THE / Harper:
Creator: Benjamin Soames
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-10
Dewey code: 609.22
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.16
Review Great Inventors and Their Inventions: Archimedes, Gutenberg, Franklin, Nobel, Bell, Marconi, The Wright Brothers, Edison (Junior Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Jonathan Raban
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-06
Dewey code: 797
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.21
Review The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (Sailor's Classics) / McGraw-Hill Contemporary:
Creator: Thomas Fogarty
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-10-28
Dewey code: 910.45
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.94
Review Sailing Alone Around the World (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Authors
- William L. Simon
- Jeffrey S. Young
Dewey code: 338.76100416092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.19
Review Icon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-10-12
Dewey code: 500
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.16
Review Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea / Souvenir Press Ltd:
Authors
- Phil Jackson
- Hugh Delahanty
Publication date: 2007-03-30
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.62
Review Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons as a Hardwood Warrior / Hyperion:
Edition: 10th Anniversary Ed
Publication date: 2005-09-05
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.92
Review Longitude / HarperPerennial:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-10-02
Dewey code: 636
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.39
Review The Man Who Listens to Horses / Arrow Books Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-09-10
Dewey code: 636
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.18
Review All Creatures Great and Small: "If Only They Could Talk" and "It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet" / Pan Books:
Publication date: 2008-03-27
Dewey code: 580.922
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.07
Review Flower Hunters / Oxford University Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2001-02-08
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £9.85
Price: £3.46
Review What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Authors
- Ralph Leighton
- Richard P. Feynman
Edition: First Vintage edition
Publication date: 1992-06-07
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.56
Review Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character / Vintage:A series of anecdotes, such as are included in Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, shouldn't by rights add up to an autobiography, but that's just one of the many pieces of received wisdom that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) cheerfully ignores in this engagingly eccentric book. Fiercely independent (read the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers"), intolerant of stupidity even when it comes packaged as high intellectualism (check out "Is Electricity Fire?"), unafraid to offend (see "You Just Ask Them?"), Feynman informs by entertaining. It's possible to enjoy Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman, a bestseller ever since its initial publication in 1985, simply as a bunch of hilarious yarns with the author as know-it-all hero. At some point, however, attentive readers realise that underneath all the merriment simmers a running commentary on what constitutes authentic knowledge: learning by understanding, not by rote; refusal to give up on seemingly insoluble problems, and total disrespect for fancy ideas that have no grounding in the real world. Feynman himself had all these qualities in spades, and they come through with vigour and verve in his no-bull prose. No wonder his students-and readers around the world-adored him. -Wendy Smith.
Publication date: 2008-04-15
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.20
Review Deniers, THE / Richard Vigilante Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-05
Dewey code: 512.73
RRP: £8.36
Price: £4.65
Review Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics / Plume Books:Bernhard Riemann was an underdog of sorts, a malnourished son of a parson who grew up to discover one of the greatest problems in mathematics. In Prime Obsession, John Derbyshire deals brilliantly with both Riemann's life and that problem, which was to find proof of the conjecture "all non-trivial zeros of the zeta function have real part one-half". That statement may be nonsense to anyone but a mathematician but Derbyshire walks the reader through the decades of reasoning that led to the Riemann Hypothesis in a way that makes it perfectly clear. Riemann never proved the statement and it remains unsolved to this day. Prime Obsession offers alternating chapters of step-by-step maths and a history of 19th-century European intellectual life, letting readers take a breather between chunks of well-written information. Derbyshire's style is accessible but not dumbed-down, thorough but not heavy-handed. This is among the best popular treatments of an obscure mathematical idea and allows readers to explore the theory without insisting on page after page of formulae. In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who could prove the Riemann Hypothesis, but luminaries like David Hilbert, GH Hardy, Alan Turing, André Weil and Freeman Dyson have all tried before. Will the Riemann Hypothesis ever be proved? "One day we shall know," writes Derbyshire and he makes the effort seem very worthwhile. -Therese Littleton, Amazon. [+]com.
Authors
- Francis French; Colin Burgess
Dewey code: 629.4500922
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.29
Review Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight) / University of Nebraska Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-09-24
Dewey code: 621.3092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.51
Review Wizard: Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (Citadel Press Book) / Citadel Press:
Edition: 1st Anchor Books Ed
Publication date: 1993-01-01
Dewey code: 510.092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.82
Review Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb / Anchor Books,U.S.:
Publication date: 2008-03-25
Dewey code: 133.9092
RRP: £12.20
Price: £7.16
Review Life Among the Dead / Simon Spotlight Entertainment:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-03-01
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.36
Review Great Scientists and Their Discoveries (Junior Classics) (Junior Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
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