Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 1986-03-01
Dewey code: 509.24
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.25
Review Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of Science (Da Capo series in science) / Da Capo Press Inc:
Publication date: 2006-05-20
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £17.50
Price: £5.60
Review Notes for a Memoir: On Isaac Asimov, Life, and Writing / Prometheus Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1992-07-01
Dewey code: 511
RRP: £15.95
Price: £10.25
Review The Adventures of a Mathematician / University of California Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-12-19
Dewey code: 519.5092
RRP: £14.95
Price: £9.85
Review Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age / Princeton University Press:
Publication date: 1995-06-15
Dewey code: 121.092
RRP: £11.75
Price: £9.75
Review A Recursive Vision: Ecological Understanding and Gregory Bateson / University of Toronto Press:
Creator: Nicolas Debon
Publication date: 2003-11-01
Dewey code: 610.73092
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.28
Review Florence Nightingale (On my own biography) / Carolrhoda:
Publication date: 2004-05-03
Dewey code: 338.76292092
RRP: £2.68
Price: £0.01
Review Eat My Dust!: Henry Ford's Big Race (Step Into Reading - Level 3 - Paperback) / James Bennett Pty Ltd:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 709.2
RRP: £12.10
Price: £6.63
Review Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer (Golden Kite Awards (Awards)) / Dutton Books:
Publication date: 1997-01-01
Dewey code: 791.45028092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £25.76
Review Xena X-Posed : The Unauthorized Biography of Lucy Lawless and Her On-Screen Character / Prima Publishing,U.S.:
Creator: Robert Crossley
Publication date: 1996-01-31
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £17.50
Price: £7.21
Review An Olaf Stapledon Reader / Syracuse University Press:
Publication date: 1997-09-22
Dewey code: 658
Price: £48.00
Review TAG Heuer, Mastering Time / Assouline:
Publication date: 2002-06
Dewey code: 629.222092
RRP: £26.86
Price: £17.30
Review Zora Arkus-Duntov: The Legend Behind Corvette (Chevrolet) / Bentley Publishers:
Publication date: 2008-02-11
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £6.99
Price: £5.58
Review Galileo Galilei: Biography of the Father of Science / Filiquarian Publishing:
Creator: J. K. Elliott
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1996-01-04
Dewey code: 229.9205208
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.99
Review The Apocryphal Jesus: Legends of the Early Church / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 1998-03-05
Price: £12.99
Review On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:So many of us are blessed-or at least affected-by the fruits of science, yet how many of us really understand how we got them? Scientific creativity, like all other kinds, is a product of its times, but we can learn much from looking at the lives of its greatest practitioners; as a sizable side benefit, these lives are often tremendously entertaining. Author and BBC radio host Melvyn Bragg understands this well, and invited many of the great modern interpreters of science to discuss the lives and work of 12 greats from Archimedes to Watson and Crick, and published the cream in On Giants' Shoulders. These are no dry transcripts, though; Bragg has a genius for selecting the most intriguing quotes and selections from both his guests and his subjects and weaving them into his own engrossing narrative. His many novels have tightened up his prose so well that he can make even a discussion of the genesis of relativity a page-turner. He couldn't have invented better material, either: Newton's notorious snobbery, Darwin's almost-naïve sincerity and Lavoisier's turbulent life and untimely death make for compelling stories indeed (one almost wonders how they had time to change the world). His guests, including luminaries such as Lewis Wolpert, Richard Dawkins, Oliver Sacks and Roger Penrose, consistently cut to the heart of their subjects' importance and tie it all up neatly in the last chapter: "Where Are We Now?" An important question, of course, and one that can be better answered from On Giants' Shoulders. -Rob Lightner.
Creator: R.A. Gilbert
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-12
Dewey code: 130.92
RRP: £42.00
Price: £27.72
Review John Dee (Ibis Western Mystery Tradition) (Ibis Western Mystery Tradition) / Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.:
Creator: Stephen Finn
Publication date: 1996-05-31
Dewey code: 576.5092
Price: £29.50
Review Gregor Mendel: The First Geneticist / Oxford University Press:
Publication date: 1996-05-01
Dewey code: 510.92
RRP: £10.00
Price: £6.29
Review Courant / Springer:
Authors
- Ian Millar
- David Millar
- Margaret Millar
- John Millar
Publication date: 2002-06-20
Dewey code: 509.22
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.18
Review The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists / Cambridge University Press:
Creator: Lydia Davis
Publication date: 1997-05-01
Dewey code: 848.91209
RRP: £14.50
Price: £12.65
Review Scraps (Rules of the Game (John Hopkins)) / Johns Hopkins University Press:
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