Publication date: 1999-08-27
RRP: £18.99
Price: £18.99
Review The Bride of Science : Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter / Macmillan:Ada Lovelace, the result of Lord Byron's short- lived marriage to Annabella Milbanke, is an extraordinary figure in 19th-century society. Not only was she the daughter of a celebrity, but she was the first computer programmer the world has known. From the moment she was born, in 1815, Ada was a controversial figure. Her mother, a woman known for her piety and intellect, had fled the marital home taking her three-week-old baby with her. In this first comprehensive biography of Lovelace, Benjamin Woolley contends that the child embodied a chasm between Romanticism as represented by her father, and Reason as represented by his wife. He examines how, as an adult, she struggled to reconcile these opposites by creating a "poetical science". But first he deals with her childhood. We learn of Annabella's ferocious educational regime, and a young girl who, understandably, took refuge in the imagination. Woolley's achievement is in making accessible the scientific theories that absorbed Lovelace and that led to her breakthrough in computer science. His approach to her work is grounded in her domestic setting which he portrays as oppressive, and as hastening her early death in 1852 from cervical cancer. [+]The Bride of Science is a powerful piece of work, entirely appropriate for a revolutionary woman. -Lilian Pizzichini.
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 192
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.53
Review Francis Bacon, Herald of the New Age / Francis Bacon Research Trust:
Authors
- Robert Schulmann
- Albert Einstein
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2002-09-20
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.30
Review Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children / Prometheus Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1995-11
Dewey code: 510.92
RRP: £7.95
Price: £3.34
Review Archimedes and the Door of Science (Living History Library) / Bethlehem Books,U.S.:
Authors
- Jenny Uglow
- Jennifer S. Uglow
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 609
Price: £12.29
Review The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World / Farrar Straus Giroux:
Publication date: 1977-12
Dewey code: 941.070924
RRP: £44.00
Price: £64.31
Review Dr. Woodward's Shield: History, Science and Satire in Augustan England / University of California Press:
Creator: Ralph Thompson
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2005-06-28
Dewey code: 591.96711
Price: £7.50
Review A Zoo in My Luggage / Penguin Books:
Publication date: 2004-05-12
Dewey code: 629.13009034
RRP: £12.50
Price: £8.24
Review Inventing Flight: The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors / John Hopkins University Press:
Creator: Jeremy Hooker
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-10-24
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.95
Price: £2.31
Review The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography / Green Books:
Creator: Alison Richards
Publication date: 1997-09-25
Dewey code: 509.22
RRP: £20.00
Price: £10.96
Review Passionate Minds: Inner World of Scientists / OUP Oxford:
Creator: Tony Morris
Publication date: 1997-04-24
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.60
Review Henry Ford: The People's Car-maker (What's Their Story?) / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2007-11-06
Dewey code: 929.20973
RRP: £13.38
Price: £3.08
Review The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA / Simon & Schuster:
Creator: Adam Hart-Davis
Publication date: 1999-05-20
Dewey code: 363.72840942109034
Price: £19.99
Review The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis / Sutton Publishing Ltd:Stephen Halliday describes the writing of this book as "a labour of love", but it would take a strong stomach to love some of the material he includes about the 19th- century Thames. Two million people poured their sewage directly into the river, "more filth was continuously adding to it," noted a contemporary, "until the Thames became absolutely pestilential". In the 1850s the river was black, and in the hot summer of 1858 the stink was so unbearable that the Houses of Parliament were driven from the chamber. But a hero emerges from this smelly mess, Sir Joseph Bazalgette, a Victorian engineer of prodigious energy and foresight, who "turned the Thames from the filthiest to the cleanest metropolitan river in the world, which it remains. " Halliday is indeed a little in love with his subject, Bazalgette, but it is easy to see why. The construction of the system of sanitation on which London still relies an enormous undertaking, but Bazalgette saw it through with tenacity and a kind of engineering genius. He saved more lives (by freeing the city from cholera) than any single Victorian public official. This book is a small marvel, elegantly written, generously illustrated and a fascinating insight into the guts of London. -Adam Roberts.
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-05-28
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.89
Review My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla / www.bnpublishing.com:
Publication date: 2001-06-30
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.89
Review My Life in Science (Lives in Science) / Biomed Central Ltd:
Creator: Daniel Jo Kevles
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-08-30
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £9.95
Price: £5.66
Review Rosalind Franklin and DNA / W W Norton & Co Ltd:
Authors
- Martin J. Sherwin
- Kai Bird
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2007-02
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £26.88
Price: £18.18
Review American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Peggy Vance
Edition: First Edition
Publication date: 2002-08-31
Dewey code: 508
RRP: £12.99
Price: £18.00
Review A Countrywoman's Journal : The Sketchbooks of a Passionate Naturalist / Constable & Robinson Ltd., London:
Publication date: 1999-07-10
Price: £20.00
Review The Real James Herriot: The Authorized Biography / Michael Joseph Ltd:The name of Alf Wight may not ring too many bells, but as James Herriot-an author who brought the countryside into millions of homes-he certainly made an impressive mark. Wight grew up in Glasgow, enjoying a boisterous childhood before deciding to embark on many years of training at the Glasgow Veterinary College. He finally qualified as a vet in 1939 and moved to the Yorkshire town of Thirsk to accept a position as assistant vet to Donald Sinclair-the man known to millions as Siegfried Farnan. The story of the young vet travelling to Thirsk (aka Darrowby) was immortalised in Herriot's best selling books, bringing him further fame through television and film. But The Real James Herriot, Jim Wight's affectionate biography of his father, tells the story of the man behind the nom-de- plume who remained with the same practice for over 50 years and was relatively untouched and unimpressed by his fame as an author. Jim Wight, who followed in his father's footsteps and later joined the practice in Thirsk to work alongside him, is undoubtedly the best person to reveal the depths of a man whose public persona was as respected and trusted as the real man who tended animals in and around the small Yorkshire village where he lived and loved until the day he died. Written with a tenderness that does nothing to detract from the honesty of the book, The Real James Herriot is a fitting, poignant and often gently humorous portrait of a man who brought so much pleasure through his writing while remaining consistently faithful to the profession that was, ultimately, his first and last love. -Susan Harrison.
Publication date: 1999-03-04
Dewey code: 510.92
RRP: £23.99
Price: £17.99
Review Euler : The Master of Us All / The Mathematical Association of America:
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The Bride of Science : Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter, Francis Bacon, Herald of the New Age, Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children, Archimedes and the Door of Science (Living History Library), The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World, Dr. Woodward's Shield: History, Science and Satire in Augustan England, A Zoo in My Luggage, Inventing Flight: The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors, The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography, Passionate Minds: Inner World of Scientists, Henry Ford: The People's Car-maker (What's Their Story?), The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA, The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, My Life in Science (Lives in Science), Rosalind Franklin and DNA, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, A Countrywoman's Journal : The Sketchbooks of a Passionate Naturalist, The Real James Herriot: The Authorized Biography, Euler : The Master of Us All |
