Biography: science, technology & medicine
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30-Second Leonardo Da Vinci
£9.9930-Second Leonardo Da Vinci
Leading Leonardo scholars present a clear and concise guide to the truly diverse thoughts and greatest inventions of the ultimate Renaissance Man.ÂÂ
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Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature
£16.95Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature
The first comprehensive English-language biography of Albert the Great in a century. As well as being an important medieval theologian, Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) also made significant contributions to the study of astronomy, geography, and natural philosophy, and his studies of the natural world led Pope Pius XII to declare Albert the patron saint of the natural sciences.
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From Our Own Correspondent
£10.99From Our Own Correspondent
For over fifty years, ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ has been one of BBC Radio 4’s flagship programmes. Every week BBC foreign correspondents, journalists and writers reflect on current headlines, often bringing a personal perspective to them. There are few countries and subjects which have not featured on the programme – places as diverse as the Faroes, Moldova in Eastern Europe, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan and one of Africa’s smallest countries – Sao Tome and Principe. So many of the outlets that correspondents work for demand little more than writing to television pictures or covering the day’s events in one report of perhaps only a minute’s duration.
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Life Between the Tides
£9.99Life Between the Tides
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022
‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ? Nicolson is unique as a writer ? I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAAL
Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise.
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Planting the World
£9.99Planting the World
‘Based on meticulous research in original sources ? Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was ? Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated’
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Shackleton
£10.99Shackleton
To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history. ‘Shackleton’ is an engaging account of the adventurer, his life and his incredible leadership under the most extreme of circumstances.
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The Incomparable Monsignor
£20.00The Incomparable Monsignor
J. L. Heilbron introduces Francesco Bianchini, reputed to be the greatest Italian of his time, whose life embodied the extraordinary meeting of science, culture, history, and politics in early modern Europe. From the Jacobite cause to Newton’s theories to the zodiac, Heilbron paints a glorious portrait of a world of excitement and discovery.
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The Man from the Future
£20.00The Man from the Future
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases and nuclear weapons. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man: John von Neumann, one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived. His colleagues believed he had the fastest brain on the planet – bar none. He was instrumental in the Manhattan Project and helped formulate the bedrock of Cold War geopolitics and modern economic theory. He created the first ever programmable digital computer. He prophesied the potential of nanotechnology and, from his deathbed, expounded on the limits of brains and computers – and how they might be overcome. Here, Ananyo Bhattacharya explores how a combination of genius and unique historical circumstance allowed a single man to sweep through so many different fields of science.
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The Multifarious Mr. Banks
£25.00The Multifarious Mr. Banks
A fascinating life of Sir Joseph Banks which restores him to his proper place in history as a leading scientific figure of the English Enlightenment
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