Publication date: 2001-08-01
Dewey code: 660.0922
RRP: £18.99
Price: £99.27
Review Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World / Schaum Outline Series:
Authors
- Robert D. Ballard
- Malcolm McConnell
Dewey code: 930.102804092
Price: £8.00
Review Explorations: A Life of Underwater Adventure / Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap):
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-06-01
Dewey code: 791.450973
RRP: £20.99
Price: £15.23
Review Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars / Routledge:
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 976.4139
Price: £13.89
Review Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History / Crown Publishing Group (NY):On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. A tidal surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city, while the wind destroyed thousands of buildings. When the water and winds subsided, entire streets had disappeared and as many as 10,000 were dead-making this the worst natural disaster in America's history. In Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson blends science and history to tell the story of Galveston, its people, and the hurricane that devastated them. Drawing from hundreds of personal reminiscences of the storm, Larson follows individuals through the fateful day and the storm's aftermath. There's Louisa Rollfing, who begged her husband August not to go into town the morning of the storm; the Ursuline Sisters at St. Mary's orphanage who tied their charges to lengths of clothesline to keep them together; Judson Palmer, who huddled in his bathroom with his family and neighbours, hoping to ride out the storm. At the centre of it all was Isaac Cline, employee of the nascent Weather Bureau, and his younger brother-and rival weatherman- Joseph. Larson does an excellent job of piecing together Isaac's life and reveals that Isaac was not the quick- thinking hero he claimed to be after the storm ended. The storm itself, however, is the book's true protagonist-and Larson describes its nuances in horrific detail. [+]At times the prose is a touch too purple, but Larson is engaging and keeps the book's tempo rising in pace with the wind and waves. Overall, Isaac's Storm recaptures at a time when, standing in the first year of the century, Americans felt like they ruled the world-and that even the weather was no real threat to their supremacy. Nature proved them wrong. -Sunny Delaney.
Publication date: 1993-06-01
Dewey code: 813.0876209
RRP: £14.99
Price: £11.94
Review Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction / Duke University Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-10-30
Dewey code: 576.82092
RRP: £85.00
Price: £80.75
Review All Things Darwin: An Encyclopedia of Darwin's World / Greenwood Press:
Publication date: 2009-01-01
Dewey code: 523
RRP: £13.95
Price: £9.20
Review Around the World in 84 Days: The Authorized Biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr (Apogee Books Space): The Authorized Biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr (Apogee Books Space) / Apogee Books:
Authors
- Frank B., Jr. Gilbreth
- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Publication date: 2003-12
Dewey code: 658.540922
RRP: £4.28
Price: £0.40
Review Cheaper by the Dozen / HarperTorch:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-10-30
Dewey code: 576.82092
RRP: £85.00
Price: £80.75
Review All Things Darwin: An Encyclopedia of Darwin's World / Greenwood Press:
Edition: 1st Nebraska Pbk. Printing
Publication date: 2008-01-15
Dewey code: 629.4092273
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.49
Review Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes / Bison Books:
Authors
- Paul Andrews
- Stephen Manes
Dewey code: 338.7610053092
RRP: £13.38
Price: £4.17
Review Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry-And Made Himself the Richest Man in America / Doubleday:
Authors
- Tara Dixon-Engel
- Mike Jackson
Dewey code: 629.450092
RRP: £6.93
Price: £3.72
Review Neil Armstrong: One Giant Leap for Mankind (Sterling Biographies) / Sterling:
Publication date: 2007-09-18
Dewey code: 663.200993
RRP: £12.85
Price: £3.00
Review First Big Crush: The Down and Dirty on Making Great Wine Down Under / Scribner Book Company:
Publication date: 2007-09-18
Dewey code: 663.200993
RRP: £12.85
Price: £3.00
Review First Big Crush: The Down and Dirty on Making Great Wine Down Under / Scribner Book Company:
Authors
- Frank B. Gilbreth
- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1987-09
Dewey code: 658.500922
Price: £5.50
Review Cheaper by the Dozen (A Bantam Starfire Book) / Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-06-01
Dewey code: 791.450973
RRP: £20.99
Price: £15.23
Review Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars / Routledge:
Creator: Steven Rendall
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2008-06-26
Dewey code: 109
RRP: £9.95
Price: £6.53
Review Pythagoras / Cornell University Press:
Authors
- Tara Dixon-Engel
- Mike Jackson
Dewey code: 629.450092
RRP: £6.93
Price: £3.72
Review Neil Armstrong: One Giant Leap for Mankind (Sterling Biographies) / Sterling:
Edition: 2New Ed
Publication date: 2002-03
Dewey code: 333
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.13
Review Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy / Gateway:
Edition: 1st Nebraska Pbk. Printing
Publication date: 2008-01-15
Dewey code: 629.4092273
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.49
Review Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes / Bison Books:
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