Creator: Sir Peter Medawar
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1984-03-22
Dewey code: 575.0092
RRP: £2.00
Price: £104.15
Review J.B.S.: The Life and Work of J.B.S.Haldane (Oxford Paperbacks) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2007-10-01
Dewey code: 621.385092
RRP: £3.99
Price: £0.59
Review Alexander Graham Bell: Giving Voice to the World (Sterling Biographies) / Sterling:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-08-24
Dewey code: 624.092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.68
Review Eiffel: The Man Who Rebuilt Babel / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1997-06-01
Dewey code: 621.30924
RRP: £3.99
Price: £0.85
Review The Story of Thomas Alva Edison (Landmark Books) / Random House USA Inc:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 550.92
Price: £9.09
Review The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology / Harper Perennial: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: 2005-09-07
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £11.95
Price: £4.54
Review My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla / Wildside Press:
Creator: Ralph Thompson
Edition: Large Print Ed
Publication date: 1994-08-01
RRP: £13.99
Price: £12.75
Review A Zoo in My Luggage (Large Print Edition) / Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C:
Publication date: 2002-04-08
Dewey code: 576
RRP: £8.95
Price: £4.30
Review The Monk in the Garden / Houghton Mifflin (Trade):
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1993-09-10
Dewey code: 920
Price: £6.99
Review Every Living Thing / Pan Books:
Authors
- David Millar
- Margaret Millar
- Ian Millar
- John Millar
Publication date: 2002-06-20
Dewey code: 509.22
RRP: £50.00
Price: £23.94
Review The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists / Cambridge University Press:
Publication date: 2009-01
Dewey code: 520
RRP: £15.00
Price: £14.25
Review Full Meridian of Glory: Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth / Springer:
Creator: Moshe Schein
Publication date: 2003-05-01
Dewey code: 617.092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £13.74
Review The Memoirs of Allen Oldfather Whipple: The Man Behind the Whipple Operation / TFM Publishing Ltd:
Creator: Roy Porter
Publication date: 2002-06-27
Dewey code: 610
RRP: £43.00
Price: £39.22
Review William Hunter and the Eighteenth-Century Medical World / Cambridge University Press:
Authors
- Jacques MD Philippon
- Jacques MD Poirer
Dewey code: 616.80092
RRP: £26.99
Price: £26.99
Review Joseph Babinski a Biography / OUP USA:
Publication date: 2002-12-13
Dewey code: 540.94209032
Price: £26.50
Review Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry / Chicago University Press:
Publication date: 1982-07
Dewey code: 520.924
RRP: £10.65
Price: £25.72
Review Lowell and Mars / University of Arizona Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-08-24
Dewey code: 624.092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.68
Review Eiffel: The Man Who Rebuilt Babel / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Authors
- Veniamin A. Tsukerman
- Zinnaida A. Azarkh
Publication date: 1999-03-01
RRP: £13.95
Price: £15.94
Review Arzamas 16: Soviet Scientists in the Nuclear Age - A Memoir (Russiam Memoirs) / Bramcote Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 540.9
Price: £16.10
Review Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements / Thomas Dunne Books:
Creator: Melissa Sweet
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2002-03-11
Dewey code: 609.2273
RRP: £4.53
Price: £1.59
Review Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women / Houghton Mifflin Company:
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