Publication date: 2000-04-01
Dewey code: 508.092
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.99
Review Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews / National Geographic Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-03-15
Dewey code: 600
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.03
Review Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Invention That Sparked the Radio Revolution / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Gerald L. Alexanderson
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Publication date: 2008-05
Dewey code: 510.922
RRP: £29.95
Price: £28.45
Review Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews / A K Peters:
Publication date: 2007-10-15
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.64
Review Whatever the Weather / Gomer Press:
Creator: Joel Segel
Publication date: 2008-12
Dewey code: 510
RRP: £35.00
Price: £35.00
Review Recounting Conversations with MIT Mathematicians / A K Peters:
Publication date: 2003-08-07
RRP: £14.99
Price: £12.50
Review The Seashell on the Mountaintop / William Heinemann Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-08-24
Dewey code: 572.838
RRP: £20.00
Price: £47.49
Review Mendel's Demon: Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:In contradistinction to the more populist of science authors, Oxford zoologist Mark Ridley (not to be confused with Matt Genome Ridley) is unafraid to pitch his acclaimed books (like Evolution, and Animal Behaviour) at a discerning and cerebral audience. In other words don't go reading this analysis of genetic and sexual complexity expecting laugh-a-minute anecdotes about transvestite sparrows. That said, those who are willing to persevere through the dense and unashamedly highbrow text will find an interesting debate cogently and wittily argued. Ridley's self-posed question is why such complex beings as swans, gibbons and journalists should have arisen, given an evolutionary process far more favourable to the replication of simple organisms. After all, each time we have sex, reproduce and thus copy our DNA, we are attempting the equivalent of xeroxing James Joyce's Ulysses. Mistakes can and will creep in. So why bother? Ridley's search for an explanation of this puzzle leads him up some fairly precipitous intellectual mountains. Nor is he unafraid of tackling the wilder kinds of speculation: at one point he considers the sex lives of angels-or any putative beings superior to homo sapiens. Readers willing to accompany the author on this demanding expedition, and stretch their brains as a result, will find the exercise as stimulating as it is edifying. -Sean Thomas.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-02-15
Dewey code: 658.5
RRP: £16.95
Price: £7.74
Review The One Best Way: Frederick Wilson Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency (Sloan Technology) / MIT Press:
Authors
- Phillip Berman
- Jane Goodall
Price: £8.99
Review Reason for Hope: An Extraordinary Life / Thorsons:
Publication date: 2002-08-01
Dewey code: 004
RRP: £16.99
Price: £13.45
Review I, Cyborg / Century:
Authors
- David K. Dickson
- M.J. Simpson
- Neil Gaiman
Publication date: 2002-06-21
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.99
Review Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" / Titan Books Ltd:
Authors
- Dante Fratta
- J.Carlos Santamarina
Dewey code: 621.3822
RRP: £75.00
Price: £34.93
Review Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists / WileyBlackwell:
Authors
- James H. Enderson
- Robert Katona
Dewey code: 598.96
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.90
Review Peregrine Falcon: Stories of the Blue Meanie (The Corrie Herring Hooks Series) / University of Texas Press:
Publication date: 2004-09-07
Dewey code: 508.092
RRP: £18.50
Price: £11.93
Review Island Days / Stacey International:
Creator: Desmond King-Hele
Edition: 1st Unabridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-10-10
Dewey code: 508.092
RRP: £27.99
Price: £21.21
Review Charles Darwin's 'The Life of Erasmus Darwin' / Cambridge University Press:
Publication date: 2006-07-21
Dewey code: 576.82092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.69
Review The Reluctant Mr Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great Discoveries) / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2006-10-10
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.98
Review Brunel in South Wales: v. 2: Communications and Coal: v. 2 / NPI Media Group:
Creator: David Wright
Publication date: 1997-03
Dewey code: 797
Price: £12.95
Review Sailing into Sunshine / Thomas Reed Publications:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-11
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.19
Review Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer / Basic Books:
Publication date: 1997-01-27
Dewey code: 338.76100411092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £12.09
Review The Supermen: Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer / John Wiley & Sons:
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