Authors
- Jean Francois De Galaup De Laperouse
- Jean-Francois de Galoupe de La Perouse
Publication date: 1999-01-31
Price: £35.00
Review The Journal of Jean-Francois De Galaup De La Perouse, 1785-88: v. 1 (Hakluyt Society Second) / Hakluyt Society:
Publication date: 2008-09-30
RRP: £15.00
Price: £14.25
Review Paul Janssen: Pioneer in Pharma and China / Dundee University Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-10-17
RRP: £7.99
Price: £6.39
Review Alexander von Humboldt: Ein biographisches Denkmal / BookSurge Publishing:
Publication date: 2000-05-23
Dewey code: 681.7509224212
RRP: £65.00
Price: £61.75
Review Adams of Fleet Street, Instrument Makers to King George / Ashgate:
Publication date: 1999-02-25
Dewey code: 520.92
RRP: £8.71
Price: £118.82
Review Galileo Galilei: First Physicist (Oxford Portraits in Science) / Oxford University Press:
Creator: S. Finn
Publication date: 1984-12
Price: £2.95
Review Mendel (Past Masters) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2000-12-18
Dewey code: 595.78092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £22.67
Review Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius / Zoland Books:
Publication date: 2003-03-31
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.75
Review Any Damn Thing / Gomer Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1990-04-26
Price: £6.99
Review What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-10-29
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.50
Review Uncle Tungsten / Picador:Oliver Sacks's luminous memoir Uncle Tungsten charts the growth of a mind. Born in 1933 into a family of formidably intelligent London Jews, he discovered the wonders of the physical sciences early from his parents and their flock of brilliant siblings, most notably "Uncle Tungsten" (real name, Dave), who "manufactured lightbulbs with filaments of fine tungsten wire". Metals were the substances that first attracted young Oliver, and his descriptions of their colours, textures and properties are as sensuous and romantic as an art lover's rhapsodies over an Old Master. Seamlessly interwoven with his personal recollections is a masterful survey of scientific history, with emphasis on the great chemists like Robert Boyle, Antoine Lavoisier and Humphry Davy (Sacks's personal hero). Yet this is not a dry intellectual autobiography; his parents in particular, both doctors, are vividly sketched. His sociable father loved house calls and "was drawn to medicine because its practice was central in human society", while his shy mother "had an intense feeling for structure. for her [medicine] was part of natural history and biology". For young Oliver, unhappy at the brutal boarding school he was sent to during the war, and afraid that he would become mentally ill like his older brother, chemistry was a refuge in an uncertain world. [+]He would outgrow his passion for metals and become a neurologist, but as readers of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat know, he would never leave behind his conviction that science is a profoundly human endeavour. -Wendy Smith.
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2008-05
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £20.80
Price: £18.54
Review Isaac Newton: The Greatest Scientist of All Time (Great Minds of Science) / Enslow Publishers:
Publication date: 2006-01-17
Dewey code: 510.92
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.99
Review The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Publication date: 2005-04-30
Dewey code: 629.2220922
RRP: £29.95
Price: £24.92
Review The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy (Great Lakes Books): The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy (Great Lakes Books Series) / Wayne State University Press:
Edition: Library Binding
Publication date: 1995-03
Dewey code: 530.092
RRP: £10.95
Price: £10.95
Review Albert Einstein: Physicist and Genius (Great Minds of Science) / Enslow Publishers:
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 1992-11
Dewey code: 636.089092
Price: £16.78
Review Every Living Thing (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) / G K Hall & Co:
Creator: Christopher Timothy
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1999-07-10
Price: £8.99
Review The Real James Herriot: The Authorized Biography / Penguin Audiobooks:
Authors
- Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles
Dewey code: 629.4500922
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.01
Review Almost Heaven: Women on the Frontiers of Space / Perseus Books,U.S.:
Creator: John Shoenherr
Publication date: 1984-10
Dewey code: 813.52
Price: £11.07
Review Rascal / Dutton Books:
Publication date: 2006-03-09
Dewey code: 510
RRP: £24.99
Price: £16.49
Review Mathematical Apocrypha Redux: More Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical (Spectrum): More Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical (Spectrum) / The Mathematical Association of America:
Publication date: 2005-04-30
Dewey code: 539.7092
RRP: £17.33
Price: £17.09
Review Ernest Rutherford: Father of Nuclear Science (Great Minds of Science) / Enslow Publishers:
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