Creator: Don Bolognese
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1997-09
Dewey code: 629.1300922
RRP: £2.14
Price: £0.01
Review First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers (I Can Read Books: Level 4 (Harper Paperback)) / HarperTrophy:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-08-01
Dewey code: 578.770922
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.56
Review Reflections on a Summer Sea / Arrow Books Ltd:Trevor Norton's Reflections on a Summer Sea is partly his scientific autobiography and partly the scientific biography of a remarkable tidal inlet from the Atlantic. Professor of marine biology at the University of Liverpool, Norton cut his teeth as a young research student in the mid-1960s at Lough Ine, a small sea loch in county Cork, Ireland. Since 1923 Lough Ine has been probed and prodded by countless generations of students from Ireland and Britain who have counted, identified and wondered about the extraordinary diversity of life that inhabits it. Their published results have made Lough Ine famous amongst ecologists and marine biologists the world over. Reflections on a Summer Sea provides a wonderful evocation of this little corner of Ireland, the scientists who have worked there and how it has changed over the decades. Norton writes with ease and charm and a particular familiarity engendered over many years. Ireland and the Irish tend to lure the English into an overly romantic and nostalgic paternalism which Norton generally manages to keep at bay. He is aware of "the harsh unyielding land that wears a man down and into an early grave in soil too shallow to dig". But his constant obsevations of quaint advertisements "Cahirsiveen Gun Club-Shooting Strictly Prohibited" still add a pervasive note of whimsy. Norton remarks on the efforts of Jack Kitching, one of the founders of the research station, to maintain the spirit of the 1950s, "when joints were for carving not smoking , when students were 'good chaps' and 'grand girls'", who were "content to Swallows-and-Amazons away their summers". [+]Here he hits just the right note and his true story could well be about what Arthur Ransome's young heroes got up to when they went to university. A good read for all natural scientists of a certain age and fans of Arthur Ransome. -Douglas Palmer.
Publication date: 2003-08-22
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £11.36
Review The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell / John Wiley & Sons:
Creator: Josephine Bailey
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-03-10
Dewey code: 576.82092
RRP: £25.49
Price: £15.32
Review Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) / Tantor Media, Inc:
Publication date: 1994-09-01
Dewey code: 609.2
RRP: £70.00
Price: £38.64
Review An Inventor in the Garden of Eden / Cambridge University Press:
Publication date: 2007-05-28
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.48
Review My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla / www.bnpublishing.com:
Publication date: 1999-12-01
Dewey code: 621.3092
RRP: £35.00
Price: £34.92
Review The Life and Times of Alan Dower Blumlein (IEE History of Technology) (IEE History of Technology)PBHT0240 (IEE History of Technology) / Institution of Engineering and Technology:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-09-19
Dewey code: 615.2723
RRP: £24.95
Price: £15.95
Review The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug / Harmony:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1996-10
Dewey code: 526.6209
Price: £13.00
Review Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time / Penguin Books:The thorniest scientific problem of the 18th century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of lives had been lost at sea over the centuries due to the inability to determine an east-west position. This is the engrossing story of the clockmaker, John "Longitude" Harrison, who solved the problem that Newton and Galileo had failed to conquer, yet claimed only half the promised rich reward. -Amazon. com.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-10-28
Dewey code: 790
Price: £7.99
Review The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-playing Machine That Fooled the World / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-08-16
Dewey code: 540.922
RRP: £18.99
Price: £9.66
Review The Curies: A Biography of the Most Controversial Family in Science / John Wiley & Sons:
Creator: Frederick Burkhardt
Publication date: 2008-09-04
Dewey code: 590
RRP: £25.00
Price: £18.51
Review Charles Darwin: The Beagle Letters / Cambridge University Press:
Publication date: 2003-03-18
Dewey code: 510.92
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.98
Review John Napier: Logarithm John / NMSE - Publishing Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1996-01-22
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £11.17
Price: £8.35
Review No Ordinary Genius / W W Norton & Co Ltd:
Creator: Carl Freedman
Publication date: 2008-11
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.21
Review Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (Literary Conversations) / University Press of Mississippi:
Creator: Thomas E. Lovejoy
Publication date: 2002-08-01
Dewey code: 500
RRP: £11.99
Price: £21.95
Review Science at the Extreme: Scientists on the Cutting Edge of Discovery / McGraw-Hill Inc.,US:
Publication date: 2005-03
Dewey code: 610.73092
RRP: £2.52
Price: £0.01
Review Florence Nightingale (Rookie Biographies) / Children's Press (CT):
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-04-02
Dewey code: 507.2
RRP: £12.95
Price: £5.84
Review Advice for a Young Investigator / MIT Press:Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was an incredible scientist-he made invaluable contributions to neuroanatomy, including some of the most beautiful scientific illustrations since Vesalius. He was also a popular author and above all a dedicated teacher, offering fatherly advice to students and young researchers on a wide range of topics. After he achieved success as a scientist, he wrote the first edition of Reglas y Consejos sobre Investigación Biológia (los tonicos de la voluntad) (1916). That work has been retranslated and presented by MIT Press as Advice for a Young Investigator. Although the wisdom contained in this slim, elegant volume is almost a century old, it's as fresh and useful today as it no doubt was then. What student or researcher wouldn't benefit from advice given by a mentor who has carefully examined his own life and career? Translator Larry Swanson writes in the foreword: Hard work, ambition, patience, humility, seriousness and passion for work, family and country were among the traits he considered essential. But above all, master technique and produce original data; all the rest will follow. Cajal's guidance on such things as the scientific method, resolve, undue admiration of authority, passion for reputation, reading and "diseases of the will" is priceless. Every page of this little book is filled with read-aloud gems: If a solution fails to appear after all of this, and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while. [+]Like the early morning frost, this intellectual refreshment withers the parasitic and nasty vegetation that smothers the good seed. Bursting forth at last is the flower of truth. Whether you're writing a dissertation, conquering writer's block to get that paper submitted to a journal, beginning a new research project, or just starting out in a scientific career, Advice for a Young Investigator will inspire, edify and amuse you. -Therese Littleton, Amazon. com.
Publication date: 1976-04
RRP: £14.95
Price: £12.00
Review William Scoresby, Arctic Scientist / Caedmon of Whitby:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-02-26
Dewey code: 973.922092
Price: £9.99
Review Jacqueline Bouvier: An Intimate Memoir / John Wiley & Sons:
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