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Cambridge Computing: the first 75 years
Cambridge Computing: The First 75 Years marks the 75th anniversary of the Computer Laboratory and the centenary of Professor Sir Maurice Wilkes who directed the laboratory for 35 years. Read more...
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter
Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This title explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences. Read more...
Sustainable Materials: With Both Eyes Open
Industry's target is to halve carbon emissions by 2050. But demand for materials will DOUBLE, so we'll have to reduce emissions per ton of material by 75%. This book shows how we can do this, backed up by real-life commercial experience, and full of scientific detail, written for a popular audience as well as specialist readers. Read more...
Middle Age: a Natural History
A vet turns forty and discovers sound - and surprising - zoological evidence that he's about to experience the best years of his life. Read more...
Wild Hope: on the front lines of conservation success
Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think that environmental disaster is inevitable. This title offers several stories of successful conservation. Read more...
Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
Not only an evolutionary history of consciousness but also an attempt to explain the 'Meaning of Life'. Read more...
Heart of Darkness: unraveling the mysteries of the invisible universe
Describes the saga of humankind's quest to unravel the secrets of the universe. This title explains the physics and the history of how the advanced model of our universe arose and has passed every test hurled at it by the skeptics. It also explains the growth of all cosmic structure, and holds the key to the universe's fate. Read more...
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
Successful Wall Street trader turned Cambridge neuroscientist Dr John Coates reveals the biology of boom and bust and how risk taking transforms our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria and risky behavior or stress and depression. Read more...
Betrayed by Nature: the war on cancer
Despite the medical advances of the last century, the science behind cancer and its treatment remains a mystery to many people. Read more...
Clusters of Creativity
Enduring Lessons on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Silicon Valley and Europe’s Silicon Fen - "An innovative book for an innovative topic." Charles Hampden Turner Read more...
Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future
Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack Read more...
Echoes of Ingen Housz
Jan Ingen Housz (1730 –1799) was a remarkable physician and scientist who lived in a circle of very famous names and through tempestuous times. His reputation has slid into obscurity and deserves new prominence, especially his discovery of the primacy of light in photosynthesis. Read more...
Military Laser Technology for Defense
Military Laser Technology for Defense, includes only unclassified or declassified information. Read more...
Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science
In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and identity. Read more...
Histories of Scientific Observation
Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Read more...
Short Introduction to Accounting
An introduction to the fundamentals of accounting and how it is used that will help students apply accounting as a usable, everyday business tool. Read more...
Energy and carbon emissions: the way we live today
This is a sourcebook of facts and figures about carbon emissions and energy use in the UK. Read more...
Meaning in Mathematics
Is mathematics a highly sophisticated intellectual game in which the adepts display their skill by tackling invented problems, or are mathematicians engaged in acts of discovery as they explore an independent realm of mathematical reality? Read more...
Eruptions that Shook the World
What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Read more...
The Chief Sea Lion's Inheritance: Eugenics and the Darwins
Charles Galton Darwin was the grandson of the great Charles Darwin and was born into the liberal and independent-minded intellectual family in 1887. Read more...
The Book of Universes
The Book of Universes tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein’s famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes. Read more...
Inflight Science
There are few times that science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Read more...
Fred Hoyle: A Life of Science
The scientific life of Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) was truly unparalleled. Read more...
The Artful Universe Expanded
In the The Artful Universe (OUP, 1995) John D. Barrow explored the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and the basic nature of the Universe, challenging the commonly held view that our sense of beauty is entirely free and unfettered. Read more...
Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel
Discoverers of the Universe tells the gripping story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's King George III, and of William's sister, Caroline, who assisted him in his observations of the night sky and became an accomplished astronomer in her own right. Read more...
Genetic Twists of Fate
News stories report almost daily that scientists have linked a certain gene to a disease like Alzheimer’s or macular degeneration, or to a condition like depression or autism, or to a trait like aggressiveness or anxiety. Read more...
A Scientist's Survival Guide
Dr Gerhard Haas’s life in science has spanned six decades--as biochemist, enzymologist and microbiologist, working with some of science's foremost researchers and some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical, brewing and food concerns. Read more...
Chasing the Sun
In Chasing the Sun, Richard Cohen distils the fruits of eight years research and visits to 18 different countries to create the most complete and readable account of the Sun yet published. Read more...
Vanished Ocean
This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Read more...
The Way of the Panda
Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago. Read more...
Sand: A journey through Science and the Imagination
This book is all about sand - sand in individual grains, each one a little different; sand in piles; sand in shoals and dunes; the science of sand but also, shot through the book, sand and imagination - the art and the music of sand. Read more...
The Infanticide Controversy: Primatology and the Art of Field Science
Infanticide in the natural world might be a relatively rare event, but as Amanda Rees shows, it has enormously significant consequences. Read more...
Science for All
Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. Read more...
Science: A Four Thousand Year History
Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Read more...
The Grown-Ups' Book of Risk
The Grown-Ups' Book of Risk is a simple and entertaining explanation of all you need to know about risk. Read more...
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know
Mathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. Read more...
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
Addressing the sustainable energy crisis in an objective manner, this enlightening book analyzes the relevant numbers and organizes a plan for change on both a personal level and an international scale--for Europe, the United States, and the world. Read more...
Parenting: what really counts?
This book examines the scientific evidence on what really matters for children's healthy psychological development. Read more...
