Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-09-09
Dewey code: 540.92244
RRP: £16.25
Price: £9.13
Review The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World But Fueled the Rise of Hitler / Harmony:
Authors
- William R. Shea
- Mariano Artigas
Dewey code: 520.92
RRP: £16.99
Price: £31.84
Review Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius / Oxford University Press Inc:
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 1986-03-01
Dewey code: 509.24
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.07
Review Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of Science (Da Capo series in science) / Da Capo Press Inc:
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: 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: 1992-09-24
Price: £11.99
Review Barking Mad!: Adventures of a Top Dog Breeder / Piatkus Books:
Publication date: 2002-08
RRP: £135.00
Price: £135.00
Review 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century / Melrose Press Ltd:
Edition: 0
Publication date: 2007-12-19
RRP: £5.00
Price: £3.49
Review The Girl From Rotterdam: Memories Of The War in Holland / iUniverse.com:
Publication date: 2007-03-13
Dewey code: 621.3092
RRP: £16.25
Price: £10.51
Review The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World / Crown Publishers:
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.
Publication date: 2004-11-18
RRP: £11.99
Price: £8.65
Review Fashion Designers (21st Century Lives) / Wayland:
Publication date: 1997-09-22
Dewey code: 658
Price: £48.00
Review TAG Heuer, Mastering Time / Assouline:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1990-10
Dewey code: 530.0922
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.31
Review The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein (Biography of Physics) / Dover Publications Inc.:
Authors
- Leslie A. Dendy
- Mel Boring
Publication date: 2005-06
Dewey code: 616.027
RRP: £13.00
Price: £6.99
Review Guinea Pig Scientists: Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Awards)) / Henry Holt & Company:
Authors
- David Yeomens
- David Cottam
RRP: £9.95
Price: £7.19
Review Owen Williams (The engineer's contribution to contemporary architecture) / Thomas Telford Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-07-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.43
Review Bryson City Tales: Stories of a Doctor's First Year of Practice in the Smoky Mountains / Zondervan Publishing House:
Publication date: 2008-05-15
Dewey code: 551.460723
RRP: £29.95
Price: £20.95
Review America's Ocean Wilderness: A Cultural History of Twentieth-century Exploration / University Press of Kansas:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-12-19
Dewey code: 519.5092
RRP: £14.95
Price: £9.24
Review Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age / Princeton University Press:
Publication date: 2006-07-03
Dewey code: 560.92
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.65
Review Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate / HarperPerennial:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1990-02
Dewey code: 636.089092
Price: £3.33
Review Boxer Rebellion and Other Tales / Avon Books (Mm):
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