Edition: 1
Publication date: 1992-07-27
Dewey code: 362.196994
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.80
Review Making Miracles: Finding Meaning in Life's Chaos / Simon & Schuster Ltd:
Publication date: 1992-01
Dewey code: 509.22
Price: £10.65
Review Black Pioneers of Science and Invention (Odyssey Books) / Topeka Bindery:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-05-31
Dewey code: 610.696
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.90
Review Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine / Beacon Press:
Publication date: 1998-05-21
Dewey code: 540.922
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.01
Review Marie and Pierre Curie (Pocket Biographies) / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-07-27
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £11.99
Price: £1.21
Review Einstein: A to Z / John Wiley & Sons:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1997-03-27
Dewey code: 520.92
RRP: £31.99
Price: £28.29
Review Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae / Institute of Physics Publishing:
Publication date: 2003-09-22
Dewey code: 686.209
RRP: £10.42
Price: £3.90
Review Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press / Houghton Mifflin Company:
Authors
- Anthony W. Clare
- Spike Milligan
Price: £14.99
Review Depression and How to Survive it / Ebury Press:
Publication date: 2006-07-20
Dewey code: 510.92244
RRP: £21.95
Price: £18.09
Review Bourbaki: A Secret Society of Mathematicians / American Mathematical Society:
Publication date: 1992-01
Dewey code: 509.22
Price: £10.65
Review Black Pioneers of Science and Invention (Odyssey Books) / Topeka Bindery:
Publication date: 1990-08-30
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £43.00
Price: £39.40
Review Mrs. Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian / Clarendon Press:
Publication date: 2001-09
Dewey code: 609
RRP: £7.95
Price: £13.71
Review The Winged Medic / Janus Publishing Co:
Creator: Frank A.J.L. James
Publication date: 1993-12-01
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £70.00
Price: £66.50
Review The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: 1832-1840 v. 2 (Correspondence of Michael Faraday, 1811-1831) / Institution of Engineering and Technology:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-07-14
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.41
Review Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Great Discoveries (Paperback)) / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Publication date: 2001-08
Dewey code: 550.92
Price: £16.94
Review The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology / HarperCollins Publishers:Simon Winchester has a very simple formula, of which The Map That Changed the World is a perfect example-namely that the history we have forgotten is infinitely more interesting than the history with which we are all familiar. After the success of The Surgeon of Crowthorne, which documented the life of WC Minor, the American surgeon and major contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary, Winchester now turns his attention to William Smith, the 19th-century Briton who can justly lay claim to being the founding father of geology. The book has all the usual attributes of a pacy historical read: a self-educated, unrecognised scientist spends years roaming the British countryside, compiling a map of the geological layers beneath the surface, only to have his ideas ripped off and to wind up homeless and penniless in Yorkshire with a wife who is going bonkers. And it gets better: in a bizarre Dickensian twist, Smith finally gets his just accolades when he is recognised by a kindly liberal nobleman and is reintroduced to London society as the geologist par excellence. Of itself, the story would be more than enough recommendation but there is a subtext running though the book that is in many ways just as compelling-namely, how some parts of history get written in stone and others in dust. Most secondary-school students get to learn of Charles Darwin and The Voyage of the Beagle. Yet how many people could stick their hands up and say they had heard of Smith? But is evolution any more important a field as geology? Is history ultimately an exercise in who has the best PR? Winchester may not have the answer, but he'll certainly make you think. -John Crace.
Publication date: 2002-07-01
Dewey code: 616.85270092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £13.01
Review Out of the Dark / Bantam Press:
Publication date: 2005-09-27
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £25.00
Price: £69.74
Review Penalty Strike: v. 1: The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45: v. 1 (Soviet Memories of War) / Helion & Company:
Creator: Roy Porter
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publication date: 2000-03-23
RRP: £80.00
Price: £81.11
Review The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Helicon science) / Hodder Arnold H&S:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1993-09-13
RRP: £10.99
Price: £50.95
Review Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire / John Wiley & Sons:
Publication date: 2004-07-27
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £11.99
Price: £1.21
Review Einstein: A to Z / John Wiley & Sons:
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