Authors
- Rohulamin Quander
- James W. Quander
Dewey code: 362.1964620092
RRP: £15.50
Price: £9.89
Review Quander Quality: The True Story of a Black Trailblazing Diabetic / Robert D. Reed Publishers:
Publication date: 2000-10-26
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.11
Review The Neptune File: Planet Detectives and the Discovery of Worlds Unseen / Allen Lane:In 1841, while browsing in a Cambridge bookshop, a young English student named John Couch Adams happened upon a perplexed remark in an astronomical report on the erratic behaviour of the planet Uranus. A gifted mathematician, Adams set about arriving at an explanation, commenting to a fellow student, "You see, Uranus is a long way out of his course. I mean to find out why. " Eventually, he did, using not direct observation but, controversially, mathematical modelling of a sort that has become commonplace today. Adams's work, built in a close race against rival French scientist Urbain Le Verrier, eventually established that Uranus's path was influenced by the gravitational pull of the then unseen planet of Neptune; Standage credits both Adams and Le Verrier with its discovery. Drawing on long-forgotten archives, including a scrapbook by the author and the remark that fired Adams's imagination, science correspondent Tom Standage serves up a fine tale of discovery. His story begins with the earliest scientific descriptions of Uranus, an annoyingly wayward planet whose "position in the sky obstinately refused to match up with the position predicted by theory"-the classical theory, that is, of a regular, clockwork universe, which was obtained in Adams's day and would not quite be laid to rest until Einstein's time. Standage's story continues to the present, an era when astronomers are, it seems, discovering new planets at every turn. Thanks to Adams and Le Verrier, Standage writes at the end of this graceful book, "Uranus lit the way to Neptune-and Neptune now points the way to the stars. " -Gregory McNamee.
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1994-10-12
Dewey code: 917.9259
Price: £4.99
Review Desert Solitaire / Ballantine Books Inc.:
Publication date: 2006-11-01
Dewey code: 712.092
RRP: £36.00
Price: £31.45
Review Nature as Model: Salomon De Caus and Early Seventeenth-century Landscape Design (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) / University of Pennsylvania Press:
Authors
- Matthew Symonds
- Larry Ellison
Publication date: 2004-09
Dewey code: 338.7610053
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.79
Review Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle / Simon & Schuster Australia:
Publication date: 2008-03
Dewey code: 523
RRP: £11.40
Price: £6.60
Review Blast Off: Scientific Adventures at the Dawn of the Space Age / New Holland Publishers:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2003-07-30
Dewey code: 560.92
RRP: £3.95
Price: £0.75
Review Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries (Rare Treasure) / Houghton Mifflin:
Publication date: 2004-08
Dewey code: 615
Price: £12.99
Review Dreamhealer: His Name is Adam: His Name Is Adam / Hampton Roads Publishing Co:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2007-10-30
Dewey code: 526.62
RRP: £8.71
Price: £22.79
Review Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time / Walker & Company: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.
Authors
- Roger Friedland
- Harold Zellman
Publication date: 2006-05-04
Dewey code: 720.92
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.38
Review The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship / ReganBooks,U.S.:
Creator: Roger Penrose
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-01-12
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £19.55
Review Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2005-12-30
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.24
Review Teach Yourself Jung (TY Philosophy) / Teach Yourself:
Publication date: 2008-07-09
Dewey code: 973.7092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.32
Review Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin / Prometheus Books:
Publication date: 2001-12-14
Dewey code: 070.092
RRP: £23.99
Price: £2.99
Review The Murdoch Mission: The Digital Transformation of a Media Empire / John Wiley & Sons:
Authors
- Robert D. Ballard
- Malcolm McConnell
Dewey code: 930.102804092
Price: £10.05
Review Explorations: A Life of Underwater Adventure / Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap):
Creator: Gerald L. Alexanderson
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2008-11-13
Dewey code: 510.922
RRP: £45.50
Price: £27.37
Review Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews / A K Peters:
Publication date: 1986-09-30
Dewey code: 630.924
RRP: £8.50
Price: £5.19
Review Farming the Dust Bowl: A First Hand Account from Kansas / University Press of Kansas:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 355
Price: £22.50
Review Gene Cloning: An Introduction / Nelson Thornes Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-07-01
Dewey code: 540.92
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.01
Review Marie Curie (Great Figures in History) / Bridges Business Consultancy:
Publication date: 2002-04-02
RRP: £15.99
Price: £26.95
Review The Nobleman and His Housedog: Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler - The Strange Partnership That Revolutionised Science / Headline Review:
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Quander Quality: The True Story of a Black Trailblazing Diabetic, The Neptune File: Planet Detectives and the Discovery of Worlds Unseen, Desert Solitaire, Nature as Model: Salomon De Caus and Early Seventeenth-century Landscape Design (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture), Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle, Blast Off: Scientific Adventures at the Dawn of the Space Age, Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries (Rare Treasure), Dreamhealer: His Name is Adam: His Name Is Adam, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship, Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms, Teach Yourself Jung (TY Philosophy), Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, The Murdoch Mission: The Digital Transformation of a Media Empire, Explorations: A Life of Underwater Adventure, Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews, Farming the Dust Bowl: A First Hand Account from Kansas, Gene Cloning: An Introduction, Marie Curie (Great Figures in History), The Nobleman and His Housedog: Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler - The Strange Partnership That Revolutionised Science |
