(Hardback)
By: Rick Beyer
ISBN: 9780061626968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The author of the highly successful History Channel series "The Greatest Stories Never Told" returns with new historic tales, this time focusing on amazing science stories of discovery and invention.
(Paperback)
By: Thomas Levenson
ISBN: 9781784973988
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An elegant and entertaining account explaining the strange history of the (non-existent) Planet Vulcan, which confounded the 19th century's brightest minds.
(Hardback)
By: Dennis Piszkiewicz
ISBN: 9780275952174
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This work claims that the Nazi rocket engineers, led by Wernher von Braun, were not the naive dreamers of a space-age future as they have often been painted, but were collaborators with fellow scientists, soldiers and politicians in Nazi Germany. It is argued that they were guilty of war crimes.
(Hardback)
By: Adrian Tinniswood
ISBN: 9781786691897
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The story of a British institution whose fellows, including Newton, Darwin and Hawking, have changed the way we look at the world.
(Hardback)
By: Clifford A. Pickover
ISBN: 9781454930068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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This illustrated compendium includes 250 entries on science selected from titles in the `Sterling Milestones series.
(Paperback)
By: Patricia Fara
ISBN: 9781785782077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Icon Books
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Benjamin Franklin's Enlightenment world of philosophy, spectacle and electricity.
(Paperback)
By: Piers Bizony
ISBN: 9781785782053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Icon Books
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How 200 years of classical physics was turned on its head.
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Gregory
ISBN: 9781785781919
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Icon Books
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An exploration of the eruption of scientific activity in the Ancient Greek world.
(Paperback)
By: James Hannam
ISBN: 9781848311503
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2010
Publisher: Icon Books
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A powerful and thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world.
(Hardback)
By: Iwan Rhys Morus
ISBN: 9781785789281
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Icon Books
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The Victorians invented the idea of the future - it was an undiscovered country, ripe for exploration and colonisation.
(Paperback)
By: Kitty Ferguson
ISBN: 9781848312319
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Icon Books
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The story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy, and the arts.
(Paperback)
By: Manjit Kumar
ISBN: 9781848310353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2009
Publisher: Icon Books
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Manjit Kumar's epic history of the band of young men and their challenging theories which changed the way we see the very building blocks of our world.
(Paperback)
By: Ehsan Masood
ISBN: 9781785782022
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: Icon Books
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The 'fascinating and clearly written' (New Scientist) history of the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between the eighth and fifteenth centuries.
