Publication date: 2001-05-03
Dewey code: 500
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.00
Review Reflections on a Summer Sea / Century:Trevor Norton's Reflections on a Summer Sea is partly his scientific autobiography and partly the scientific biography of a remarkable tidal inlet from the Atlantic. Professor of marine biology at the University of Liverpool, Norton cut his teeth as a young research student in the mid-1960s at Lough Ine, a small sea loch in county Cork, Ireland. Since 1923 Lough Ine has been probed and prodded by countless generations of students from Ireland and Britain who have counted, identified and wondered about the extraordinary diversity of life that inhabits it. Their published results have made Lough Ine famous amongst ecologists and marine biologists the world over. Reflections on a Summer Sea provides a wonderful evocation of this little corner of Ireland, the scientists who have worked there and how it has changed over the decades. Norton writes with ease and charm and a particular familiarity engendered over many years. Ireland and the Irish tend to lure the English into an overly romantic and nostalgic paternalism which Norton generally manages to keep at bay. He is aware of "the harsh unyielding land that wears a man down and into an early grave in soil too shallow to dig". But his constant obsevations of quaint advertisements "Cahirsiveen Gun Club-Shooting Strictly Prohibited" still add a pervasive note of whimsy. Norton remarks on the efforts of Jack Kitching, one of the founders of the research station, to maintain the spirit of the 1950s, "when joints were for carving not smoking , when students were 'good chaps' and 'grand girls'", who were "content to Swallows-and-Amazons away their summers". [+]Here he hits just the right note and his true story could well be about what Arthur Ransome's young heroes got up to when they went to university. A good read for all natural scientists of a certain age and fans of Arthur Ransome. -Douglas Palmer.
Edition: 1st Aladdin Books Ed
Publication date: 1986-10-01
Dewey code: 621.30924
RRP: £3.99
Price: £0.86
Review Thomas A. Edison, Young Inventor (Childhood of Famous Americans (Paperback)) / Prentice Hall & IBD:
Authors
- David Flannery
- Sarah Flannery
Publication date: 2001-03-26
Dewey code: 920
Price: £8.99
Review In Code: A Mathematical Adventure / Profile Books Ltd:Sarah Flannery is the Irish teenager who last year stunned the world by inventing a way of making public-key encryption much more efficient. Given that this is the underlying security technology of e-commerce, that is an achievement that many of the world's leading research laboratories would have been proud of. That it came from a modest, well-adjusted, cheerful Irish teenager is nothing short of miraculous. In Code is the story of how she did it, and of what happened to her and her family as a result. It's an engaging, almost playful, book in which the reader is encouraged to spend lots of time working out mathematical puzzles set by the authors. This is not sadism on their part, but a cunning plot to get the reader thinking like a cryptographer. It's also a reflection of the way the Flannery family works, for it's clear that puzzle-solving is as much a part of their communal life as eating. The puzzles are interwoven with a narrative of Sarah's annus mirabilis, in which she found a stupendously clever way of easing the computational load which public-key cryptography imposes on machines. What's striking about this account is its level-headed, self-deprecating, eminently sane tone. This is a girl whose head hasn't been turned by fame. [+]And that, in a way, is her greatest achievement. -John Naughton.
Publication date: 1991-10-10
Price: £19.95
Review Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight-errant / John Murray:
Creator: R.H. Daly
Publication date: 2000-04-26
Dewey code: 510.92
RRP: £37.99
Price: £25.07
Review Niels Henrik Abel and His Times: Called Too Soon by Flames Afar / Springer:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1975-01-01
Dewey code: 510.922
RRP: £13.95
Price: £7.48
Review Women in Mathematics / MIT Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-10-27
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.73
Review Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight-errant / John Murray Publishers Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1994-01-28
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £43.00
Price: £39.22
Review Chance and Design: Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War / Cambridge University Press:
Creator: A.S. Weber
Publication date: 1999-01-01
Dewey code: 509.034
RRP: £19.99
Price: £19.99
Review Nineteenth-Century Science: An Anthology / Broadview Press Ltd ,Canada:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-10-30
Dewey code: 004.019
Price: £13.00
Review I, Cyborg / University of Illinois Press:
Publication date: 2003-07-15
Dewey code: 362.19681
RRP: £16.00
Price: £12.44
Review Striking Back at Stroke: A Doctor-patient Journal / Chicago University Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-03-07
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.24
Review Alfred Russell Wallace / Pimlico:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2004-06-03
Dewey code: 520
RRP: £18.99
Price: £5.95
Review The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Publication date: 2002-01-01
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £11.95
Price: £9.53
Review Schizophrenia: A Mother's Story / Fivepin:
Publication date: 1997-01-27
Dewey code: 338.76100411092
RRP: £20.99
Price: £15.33
Review The Supermen: Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2004-06-10
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £13.50
Price: £15.49
Review Bad Beekeeping / Trafford Publishing:
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 1993-09
Dewey code: 636.089092
Price: £14.09
Review Every Living Thing (Thorndike Paperback) / G. K. Hall & Company:
Creator: Joel Segel
Publication date: 2008-12
Dewey code: 510
RRP: £35.00
Price: £36.99
Review Recounting Conversations with MIT Mathematicians / A K Peters:
Publication date: 1999-09-02
Dewey code: 133
RRP: £12.99
Price: £44.43
Review Clock This: My Life as an Inventor / Headline Book Publishing:In Clock This, Trevor Baylis takes the reader on a jaunt through the mind of an inventor who, inspired by a television documentary about HIV and AIDS in Africa, immediately took to his workshop and set to work on a radio that would work without electricity or batteries. His now world-famous invention sells at a rate of 120,000 a month. No mean feat for a man who described his early educational abilities as "best suited to some form of early retirement. "However, after a childhood set against the backdrop of war-torn London-a veritable playground for Baylis and his buddies-and a life as an affluent teenager with 4 pounds per week, an apprenticeship with a soil engineering firm and one day a week day-release to study for a certificate in engineering, Baylis quickly found his feet in the real world. But there is much more to him than an engineering prodigy who struck lucky. Indeed, his life has to date been well and truly less ordinary. A world-class swimmer who narrowly missed qualifying for the Olympics, and who then, incredibly, found his fins by demonstrating swimming pools and later by flirting with the circus, Baylis' sense of showmanship has certainly stood him in good stead for the later developments in his life that have brought him much publicity, an OBE, visiting professorships at numerous universities and a trip down memory lane as the victim of This is Your Life. Clock This is the autobiography of a man whose infectious enthusiasm, dedication and humour have shone through every aspect of his life, and it certainly makes for an entertaining read. But through the effervescence of his writing Baylis also inspires, and indeed almost dares, the reader to sit down, think and create for themselves. He reckons that: "As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something. [+]" So, what's stopping you? -Susan Harrison.
Publication date: 1999-09-02
Dewey code: 133
RRP: £12.99
Price: £44.43
Review Clock This: My Life as an Inventor / Headline Book Publishing:In Clock This, Trevor Baylis takes the reader on a jaunt through the mind of an inventor who, inspired by a television documentary about HIV and AIDS in Africa, immediately took to his workshop and set to work on a radio that would work without electricity or batteries. His now world-famous invention sells at a rate of 120,000 a month. No mean feat for a man who described his early educational abilities as "best suited to some form of early retirement. "However, after a childhood set against the backdrop of war-torn London-a veritable playground for Baylis and his buddies-and a life as an affluent teenager with 4 pounds per week, an apprenticeship with a soil engineering firm and one day a week day-release to study for a certificate in engineering, Baylis quickly found his feet in the real world. But there is much more to him than an engineering prodigy who struck lucky. Indeed, his life has to date been well and truly less ordinary. A world-class swimmer who narrowly missed qualifying for the Olympics, and who then, incredibly, found his fins by demonstrating swimming pools and later by flirting with the circus, Baylis' sense of showmanship has certainly stood him in good stead for the later developments in his life that have brought him much publicity, an OBE, visiting professorships at numerous universities and a trip down memory lane as the victim of This is Your Life. Clock This is the autobiography of a man whose infectious enthusiasm, dedication and humour have shone through every aspect of his life, and it certainly makes for an entertaining read. But through the effervescence of his writing Baylis also inspires, and indeed almost dares, the reader to sit down, think and create for themselves. He reckons that: "As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something. [+]" So, what's stopping you? -Susan Harrison.
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