Publication date: 2006-02-16
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £17.95
Price: £11.66
Review Just Being There: With Bears and Tigers in the North Sea / Dunedin Academic Press:
Publication date: 1998-01-01
Dewey code: 551.5092
RRP: £15.50
Price: £7.54
Review Snowflake Man: A Biography of Wilson A. Bentley / McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US:
Publication date: 1994-04
Dewey code: 530.092
Review Introducing Newton (Introducing) / Totem Books:
Authors
- Arlen Ness
- Michael Lichter
Publication date: 2005-08-01
Dewey code: 629.2275092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.70
Review Arlen Ness: The Godfather of Choppers / Motorbooks International:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 943.9052092
RRP: £8.35
Price: £4.21
Review Swimming Across: A Memoir / Warner Books:
Authors
- David Chanoff
- Ejovi Nuwere
Publication date: 2003-12
Dewey code: 005.8092
RRP: £7.79
Price: £2.51
Review Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace / Harper Perennial:
Publication date: 1994-08-26
Dewey code: 520.92
RRP: £29.99
Price: £23.37
Review Home Is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life / University Science Books,U.S.:
Creator: Peter Weinberger
Edition: 2003. 2nd Print
Publication date: 2004-03-18
Dewey code: 530
RRP: £49.00
Price: £8.41
Review Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators / Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K:
Publication date: 2008-11-01
Dewey code: 796.75092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £17.99
Review Hurricane: The Bob Hannah Story / Motorbooks International:
Creator: J.E. Brigham
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1986-05
Dewey code: 769.92
RRP: £7.95
Price: £5.44
Review The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher / Tarquin Publications:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-07
Dewey code: 540.92
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.49
Review A Well-ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table / Basic Books:An academic biography, Michael D Gordin's A Well-Ordered Thing tells Dmitrii Mendeleev's story in dense prose, detailed with Russian history and molecular chemistry. Mendeleev will forever be remembered as the inventor of the periodic table of the elements, which sorts hydrogen, helium, lithium and so on according to their weights and properties. Readers unfamiliar with either the periodic table or the politics of imperial Russia will have a tough go of it. Nevertheless, Gordin's treatment reveals surprising facts about the enigmatic Mendeleev and his social context: "The periodic system was developed in Russia by an individual who was. trying to bring order to a Russian society that was apparently disintegrating. [+]In order to understand the building of this part of modern chemistry, one must come to terms with the attempts to create a modern Russia. " Far from a stereotypically isolated scientist surrounded by bubbling beakers and cryptic lore, the "ambitious and energetic" Mendeleev was a very public figure. He involved himself eagerly in the social problems of the day and participated actively in trying to shape a new society. His pursuits included hot-air balloons, art criticism, debunking spiritualists and perfecting systems of every kind. When he hit on the idea of periodicity in the elements, he published his table first in a chemistry textbook, later submitting papers to other scientists once his confidence allowed him to make predictions of elements yet to be discovered. Gordin paints Mendeleev as a consummate imperial who was shocked by the revolution that toppled the tsar. This complex civil servant and brilliant scientist deserves wider appreciation and A Well-Ordered Thing provides a rich context for examination of Mendeleev's life. -Therese Littleton, Amazon. com.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-02-04
Dewey code: 609
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.86
Review The Book of Inventions (National Geographic) / National Geographic Books:
Publication date: 2008-06-19
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.19
Review Nature Cure / Vintage:
Publication date: 2007-01-11
Dewey code: 621.381092
RRP: £11.99
Price: £0.77
Review The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley / OUP USA:
Publication date: 1993-12-01
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £70.00
Price: £66.50
Review The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: 1832-1840 v. 2 / Institution of Engineering and Technology:
Publication date: 1999-02-25
Dewey code: 520.92
RRP: £7.23
Price: £70.40
Review Galileo Galilei: First Physicist (Oxford Portraits in Science) / Oxford University Press:
Publication date: 2008-08-02
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £26.00
Price: £19.43
Review Imagining The Elephant: A Biography of Allan Macleod Cormack: A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack / Imperial College Press:
Publication date: 1992-10-08
Price: £14.99
Review Farming Times / Gollancz/Witherby:
Publication date: 2007-04-27
Dewey code: 629
RRP: £11.14
Price: £6.58
Review Shelby: The Man, the Cars, the Legend / Iconografix:
Publication date: 1990-09
Dewey code: 591.092
RRP: £12.26
Price: £21.46
Review Through a Window: My Thirty Years With the Chimpanzees of Gombe / Houghton Mifflin (T):
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