Publication date: 2007-10-30
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £11.40
Price: £5.63
Review Albert Einstein: A Biography / Holiday House:
Creator: Giacomo Agostini
Publication date: 2000-04-17
Dewey code: 796.75092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £79.72
Review Mike Hailwood: A Motorcycle Racing Legend / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 1992-07
Dewey code: 364.135
RRP: £7.95
Price: £4.30
Review Blackbeard the Pirate: A Reappraisal of His Life and Times / John F Blair Publisher:
Publication date: 2001-01-04
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.10
Review Leonardo da Vinci : The First Scientist / Abacus:Though the Mona Lisa may be Leonardo da Vinci's most famous piece of work, some of his other projects have had a far greater impact on the way we live today. It's the scientific inventions that Michael White, who has also written biographies of Darwin, Einstein and Newton, wants to make sure that we don't forget. Leonardo, after all, invented the telescope, flying machine, tank and diving suit among other things. The word scientist wasn't coined until the 19th century but White makes the assertion that Leonardo was not just a gatherer of random conjectures but the world's first scientist. He asserts that the methods used by Leonardo were as important as the discoveries. In describing an experiment for observing the refraction of light, he concluded: "And form your rule from that. " This mirrors the scientific method: "Have your idea, do your experiment, create a hypothesis, develop a rule, repeat the experiment to verify; if not confirmed, then adjust experiment and hypothesis. " Leonardo's scientific ideas take priority in this fascinating book but his life as an artist is also discussed. As White points out, even his art was infused with his understanding of science. "His last and greatest paintings were paeans to his paired skills as an artist and a scientist, celebrations of his twinned talents. [+]" -Alex Gray.
Publication date: 2008-05-30
Dewey code: 508.31520913
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.22
Review Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest / Yale University Press:
Authors
- John, Jr. Micklos
- Time for Kids Magazine
Dewey code: 621.385092
RRP: £2.68
Price: £0.01
Review Alexander Graham Bell: Inventor of the Telephone (Time for Kids Biographies) / HarperTrophy:
Publication date: 2005-04-04
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.65
Review Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication date: 2008-11-05
RRP: £30.00
Price: £19.80
Review Michael Gerzon - Beyond Psychoacoustics / Dora Media Productions:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-08-03
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.76
Review The Farm (CD): The Story of One Family and the English Countryside / Orion:
Publication date: 2000-05-10
Dewey code: 305.9066
RRP: £18.00
Price: £21.57
Review As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl / HarperCollins:
Edition: Film tie-in edition
Publication date: 2005-03-17
Dewey code: 577.64094244
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review The River: A love story, a new life in the country, and one idyllic year filming otters: A Love Story, a New Life in the Country, and One Idyllic Year Filming Otters / Orion:
Authors
- David Hatcher-Childress
- Nikola Tesla
Dewey code: 621.3
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.09
Review The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla (The lost science series) / Adventures Unlimited Press,U.S.:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2002-11-01
Dewey code: 576
RRP: £7.72
Price: £6.17
Review Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution / Riverhead Books:
Authors
- Jeffrey S. Young
- William L. Simon
Publication date: 2006-06-09
Dewey code: 338
Price: £9.99
Review ICon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2000-10-02
RRP: £15.99
Price: £21.31
Review Still Practising: From Country Vet to the "Animal Hospital" / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Creator: Angus Buchanan
Edition: Revised edition
Publication date: 2006-03-02
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £44.99
Review Isambard Kingdom Brunel / Penguin:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-10-11
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.18
Review The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Odyssey / Picador:Surgeon Jonathan Kaplan has flown around the world on medical assignments, but as his terrific debut book The Dressing Station suggests, he never feels more engaged with life than when among the dying. Born in South Africa with medicine in his blood, Kaplan trained firstly in Cape Town before moving to London. Frustrated by spending cutbacks, he fled for America, where he saw for the first time medicine as a booming economic force, and recalls a surgeon sobbing over a patient mid-operation on hearing of a Wall Street Crash. Figuring this was not the life for him, in Zululand and Kurdistan, with a medical intervention group, he watches parasitic worms emerge from a prone child's nostril, feels for the first time someone physically die under his hand and unsurprisingly develops his own symptoms of fever and interminable nightmares. A stint on a cruise ship introduces alcoholic psychosis in passengers reminiscent of Evelyn Waugh's The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, as well as every kind of sexual disease courtesy of South East Asia's fleshpots. Further trips follow, to Mozambique with a film crew, to Burma and to war-ravaged Eritrea, sewing people together whose lives and countries are being ripped apart. Nothing seems to polarise countries more than the demands on its medical practitioners-those that have them. Now working in occupational medicine in London, specialising appropriately in stress, the committal of Kaplan's experiences to paper can make for grisly reading at times, but his resolve and conscience are as undeniable as his expressive, visceral descriptions. While at times bearing out the adage that what's blood and pus to us is bread and butter to doctors, he doesn't shrink from describing his own shocked emotional reactions, for this is not just an exercise in ghost-busting; he admits that he is still "jostled" by looming spectres, and like Fred Huyler's short fiction based on his experiences working in ER, The Blood of Strangers, his unflinching renderings go beyond anecdote to something more fundamental and vital. At the close, in his London surgery, a businessman snaps "what do you know about death?". [+]Rather a lot, as it happens, as this clinical tour de force so stirringly reveals. -David Vincent.
Publication date: 2004-03-19
Dewey code: 641.594571
RRP: £13.50
Price: £8.22
Review Food and Memories of Abruzzo: Italy's Pastoral Land / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-09-11
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £13.50
Price: £9.47
Review Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life / Princeton University Press:
Publication date: 2005-09-01
Dewey code: 796.72092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.29
Review John Force: The Straight Story of Drag Racing's 300-mph Superstar / Motorbooks International:
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