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The Maltese Spitfire: 1942 - One Pilot and One Plane Searching for the Enemy on Land and Sea
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Celebration of the Dream Machine: Graham Scott's Photo Essay About Harley-Davidson
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Lives of Boulton and Watt
James Watt transformed steam engine technology by inventing the condensing engine. He collaborated with Matthew Boulton to form a engineering firm in 1773, which went on to monopolise production of...
Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters
Having penned hundreds of letters to his family over four decades, Freeman Dyson has framed them with the reflections made by a man now in his nineties. While maintaining that...
The World of Minecraft
Uncover the history of one of the most influential video games of all time in The World of Minecraft. Explore how the critically acclaimed game evolved from a one-person project...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go
Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
The World of Minecraft
Uncover the history of one of the most influential video games of all time in The World of Minecraft. Explore how the critically acclaimed game evolved from a one-person project...
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
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Engines: The Inner Workings of Machines That Move the World
International bestseller, Theodore Gray, author of How Things Work and The Elements Trilogy, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies, turns his focus here to a visual exploration of...
Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023**AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK, OFF AIR WITH FI AND JANE AND 99% INVISIBLE*'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to...
The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
'Our relationship with nature has changed . . . radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion,...
Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King
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Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Author: James T. CostaFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 244mm, 800g, 464 pagesPublished: WW Norton & Co, United States, 2017How Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple yet ingenious home-spun experiments. James...
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Author: Yasha LevineFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 405g, 384 pagesPublished: Icon Books, United Kingdom, 2019As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our...
By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration
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Steam Railways of the World
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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Bad Ideas? An arresting history of our inventions
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Author: Brian Merchant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon...
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Author: Brian MerchantFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 740g, 496 pagesPublished: Little, Brown & Company, United States, 2023Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe most urgent story in...
The Great Divide
Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
Sonic Wind: The Story of John Paul Stapp and How a Renegade Doctor Became the Fastest Man on Earth
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The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration
Author: Colin Burgess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery...
Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity
Author: Robert Hannigan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers - what the secret world can teach us...
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own
Author: Verity Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A humanist manifesto for the age of AI. Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's...
The Great Divide
Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
Edison: A Life of Invention
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Diamonds and Precious Stones
Author: Patrick Voillot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Glittering jewels and precious stones, diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires have from time immemorial held a special fascination because of their...
Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks: A Potted History of Personal Tech
Author: Peter Leigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekAn eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be...
Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks: A Potted History of Personal Tech
Author: Peter Leigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative...
A Handheld History
Author: Lost in Cult Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Handheld History is a unique celebration of portable platforms and their iconic games. Forty years ago, businessmen fiddling with...