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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,...
The Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page' Guardian Standard histories of technology give tired accounts...
Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King
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Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
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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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Brainstorms and Mindfarts: The Best and Brightest, Dumbest and Dimmest Inventions in American History
Author: Jim Downey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The American entrepreneurial spirit burns bright today. As of 2018, the US Patent & Trademark Office had granted its ten millionth...
Bad Ideas? An arresting history of our inventions
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Living Dolls: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
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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...
Thunderstruck
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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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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Smithy
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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...
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...
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...