Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-08-25
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £21.00
Price: £11.46
Review Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 1998-11-09
Dewey code: 338.7610053092
RRP: £20.99
Price: £8.50
Review Bill Gates Speaks: Wisdom from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur / John Wiley & Sons:At the end of the millennium Bill Gates must be the subject of more books than any other living individual, and so to make a splash, any book about him has to be different. This certainly is. It is one of a series by Janet Lowe (her other most recent book is called Oprah Winfrey Speaks), and is based on things Gates has said and things that have been said about him in public. The idea is to use quotations to present a portrait of the man and what makes him tick, without making any critical assessment of his character or actions. Presentationally, the book is simply a collection of snippets-sometimes as many as four on a page-comprising background explanation and a quote from Gates or another. They have been drawn together into themed headings: "The Gatesian Management Style", "The Microsoft Business Model", "Microsoft Mistakes", "Living at the Pinnacle", and so on. Because its source material is taken from the public domain Bill Gates Speaks does not offer any new insights or revelations, but it is still an interesting read, particularly for anyone seeking their first glimpse into the Gates character. -Sandra Vogel.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1987-06-01
Dewey code: 530.0922
RRP: £12.00
Price: £13.60
Review Men Who Made a New Physics: Physicists and the Quantum Theory / Chicago University Press:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1990-06-19
Dewey code: 574.1910924
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.06
Review What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery (Sloan Foundation science series) / Basic Books:
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 629.4092
RRP: £17.45
Price: £45.88
Review Flight: My Life in Mission Control / Dutton Books:Flight: My Life in Mission Control is the feisty memoir of Chris Kraft, head of mission control ground crew on the famous Eagle mission of 1969. On July 20, 1969, near the end of a great decade of near-space exploration, a small craft called Eagle landed on the moon's surface. As anyone who watched the televised broadcast of the landing might recall, the astronauts aboard Eagle were guided to their objective by a capable ground crew headed by Chris Kraft, whom his colleagues had long called "Flight". Kraft was unflappable on the surface, but, as he writes in this memoir, the Eagle's landing had moments of drama that gave him pause, and that few outside NASA knew about-including baleful alarms from the ship's on-board computer that warned of imminent disaster. For Kraft, frightening moments were part of his job as director of Mission Control. He encountered many of them in the early years of the space programme, when failures were commonplace and all too often caused not by mechanics but politics. We learn of many in Kraft's pages. One such failure was the Soviet Union's Sputnik launch, on which Kraft thunders, "We should have beaten them. [+]We were stopped by anonymous doctors in the civilian world who didn't know what they were talking about, by a bureaucrat in the White House who'd been stung when JFK shot down his position on manned space flight, and by our friend the German rocket scientist who got cold feet when he should have been bold. " Plenty of other contemporaries, including John Glenn and Richard Nixon, come in for a scolding in Kraft's fiery account, which offers a fly-on-the-wall portrait of the challenging work of astronautics-work that, Kraft writes hopefully, is only beginning. -Gregory McNamee.
Publication date: 1999-11-26
Dewey code: 796.72
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.24
Review McLaren: Formula 1 Racing Team (Formula 1 Teams) / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 1994-08-30
Dewey code: 510
RRP: £19.99
Price: £15.63
Review The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems and Personalities / John Wiley & Sons:
Creator: Silvan S. Schweber
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £19.95
Price: £11.50
Review Einstein for the 21st Century His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture / Princeton University Press:
Publication date: 2007-07-12
RRP: £20.00
Price: £7.90
Review The Man Who Stopped Time: Eadweard Muybridge - Pioneer Photographer, Father of the Motion Picture, Murderer / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Authors
- Ernst Malmsten
- Charles Drazin
- Erik Portanger
RRP: £17.99
Price: £7.25
Review Boo Hoo: a Dot-com Story / Random House Business Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-02-26
Dewey code: 530.092
Price: £7.99
Review Richard Feynman A Life in Science (Penguin Press Science S.) / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 1992-02
Dewey code: 510.92
RRP: £15.13
Price: £27.57
Review Prisoner's Dilemma / Doubleday:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-09-21
Dewey code: 796.72092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £31.31
Review Only Here for the Beer: Gerry Marshall / J H Haynes & Co Ltd:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.78
Price: £4.87
Review You Belong in a Zoo!: Tales from a Lifetime Spent with Cobras, Crocs, and Other Extraordinary Creatures / Villard Books:
Publication date: 2002-01-01
Dewey code: 624.092
Price: £35.00
Review Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel / Hambledon Continuum:
Publication date: 2008-04-30
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £35.00
Price: £23.08
Review Arthur C. Clarke / Wildside Press:
Publication date: 2002-05-02
Dewey code: 941.07092
RRP: £40.00
Price: £40.00
Review William Stukeley: Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth-century England / The Boydell Press:
Publication date: 2005-04-01
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.99
Review Brunel in South Wales: In Trevithick's Tracks: v. 1: In Trevithick's Tracks: 1: In Trevithick's Tracks: 1 / The History Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-03
Dewey code: 338.76292092
RRP: £3.33
Price: £0.01
Review Henry Ford (Rookie Biographies) / Children's Press(CT):
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 917.8042
RRP: £8.03
Price: £4.12
Review On the Trail of Lewis and Clark: A Journey Up the Missouri River / Boyds Mills Press:
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