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Biography: science, technology & medicine

Paperback. Co-authored by Fortune journalist Brent Schlender and Fast Company Executive Editor Rick Tetzeli, and containing exclusive material, this revelatory book will cast an entirely new light on the man behind the most successful company of all time. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: BGB; BGT; KNTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444762013
ISBN
9781444762013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.95

Paperback. When the British prototype Concorde took off from RAF Fairford on 9 April 1969, at the controls was Captain Brian Trubshaw. This title presents the story of Brian Trubshaw's life as an experimental test pilot, written from his own unique viewpoint on the flight deck, and covering a period of tremendous upheaval. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; TRP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750944946
ISBN
9780750944946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.94

Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGT; JFFH; MBD; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816697335
ISBN
9780816697335
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: BGTA; MNQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Plume
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780147515339
ISBN
9780147515339
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.05

Hardback. .
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781426216497
ISBN
9781426216497
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages, colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: BGT; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 8. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Prometheus Books United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9781616144333
ISBN
9781616144333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; WNW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Sentient Publications United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781591810360
ISBN
9781591810360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 19.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGTA; MBD; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 199.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Unbridled Books United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609530563
ISBN
9781609530563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.05

Hardback. Two teenagers. A dark road. A drunk driver. The journey from grief to gratitude to grace by a pediatrician-mother. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; BM; MBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 21.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762780457
ISBN
9780762780457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 19.76

Paperback. Presents stories that teach us about ourselves and our attitudes to health and illness, whether we are deliverers or recipients of health care. This book takes the reader from apartheid South Africa, where the author did his initial training to the London of the early 1970s, where he forswore medicine to become an anthropologist and poet. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGTA; MB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Hammersmith Press Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905140084
ISBN
9781905140084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.89

paperback. In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for perfume, his brilliant, quixotic theory of how we smell, and his struggle to set before the world the secret of the most enigmatic of our senses. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PNN; TDCJ1; WJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099460237
ISBN
9780099460237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 10.44

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 394 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
394
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691603759
ISBN
9780691603759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 97.58

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGT; TRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641157
ISBN
9780691641157
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.84

Paperback. This volume brings together key chapters from Darwin's most important books, including the Journal of Researches on the Beagle voyage (1845), the Origin of Species (1859), the Descent of Man (1871), and the full text of his delightful autobiography. They are accompanied by responses from 19th-century readers from around the world. Editor(s): Secord, James A. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 544 pages, map; 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: BGHA; BGTA; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199580149
ISBN
9780199580149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.33

hardcover. A selection of correspondence, much previously unpublished, between Darwin and women in his circle, both family members and colleagues. Editor(s): Evans, Samantha. Num Pages: 298 pages, 19 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGT; BJ; JFSJ1; PSAJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554.
Edition
First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107158863
ISBN
9781107158863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 39.17

Paperback. The first Tay Bridge collapsed into the sea in 1879. Its fall shook society's confidence in Victorian engineering. This book follows the career of engineer Thomas Bouch, ostracised from the engineering community when his bridge crashed into the Tay estuary. It also offers conclusions about why the first Tay Bridge collapsed. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JH; BGT; HBTK; TNCJ; TRF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781862079403
ISBN
9781862079403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.29

Paperback. This book retraces the life and work of Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli, one of the great physicists of the 20th century. Pauli spent most of his professional life in Zurich where he was a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology ETH, and where he was in close contact with the psychology of C.G. Jung. Num Pages: 584 pages, 39 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: BGT; JMAJ; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199588152
ISBN
9780199588152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.16

Paperback. At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. This title traces the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 171 x 28. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226798462
ISBN
9780226798462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.55

Hardback. The first-ever biography of the man behind the disease - and a pioneer of medical science Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; JPF; MBX; MJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Icon Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785781780
ISBN
9781785781780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 17.41

Hardcover. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479833535
ISBN
9781479833535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.05

Paperback. The story of Britain's first female professional scientist, Caroline Herschel Series: Icon Science. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; BGT; PGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Icon Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785781667
ISBN
9781785781667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. 'Most appealing and complete presentation of Jung to the general reader since Man and His Symbols .. would make a popular textbook, perfect for the undergraduate.' Dr. John Beebe, President, C.G.Jung Institute of San Francisco Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; BGT; JMAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 256 x 25. Weight in Grams: 872.
Publisher
Watkins Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780288314
ISBN
9781780288314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 21.24

Hardback. Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called "The Fallen Astronaut". By telling the stories of the sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the quest to reach the moon between 1962 and 1972, this book conveys the human cost of the space race. Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight. Num Pages: 448 pages, 50 photographs. BIC Classification: BGT; BK; TTDS; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 34. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Rev ed
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803285095
ISBN
9780803285095
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.72

Paperback. The authorised biography of the doctor who made the link between smoking & lung cancer and battled Big Tobacco Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: BGT; MBNS; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 35. Weight in Grams: 784.
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909930049
ISBN
9781909930049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.55

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