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  • John Wilkinson

    King of the Ironmasters

    par Frank Dawson ...
    From a farming background in Cumbria, John Wilkinson's remarkable abilities and ambitions ensured his rise to pre-eminence among the gifted pioneers of the industrial revolution. His colleagues and friends were similarly talented characters, including James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, Richard Crawshay and Thomas Telford. Wilkinson achieved great leaps in the iron industry and munitions, including the ... En savoir plus

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  • Leonardo da Vinci

    par Walter Isaacson ...
    **Now a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS!The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).**Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Logician and the Engineer

    How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age

    par Paul J. Nahin ...
    Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to our kitchen gadgets and home appliances. How did a system of mathematics established in the Victorian era become the basis for such incredible technological achievements a century later? In The Logician and the Engineer, best-selling popular math writer Paul ... En savoir plus

    $24.19 CAD

  • Welder's Handbook

    A Guide to Plasma Cutting, Oxyacetylene, ARC, MIG and TIG Welding, Revised and Updated

    par Richard Finch ...
    A newly-updated, state-of-the-art guide to MIG and TIG arc welding technology.Written by a noted authority in the field, this revised edition of HP's bestselling automotive book-for over 20 years-is a detailed, instructional manual on the theory, technique, equipment, and proper procedures of metal inert gas (MIG) and tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding. ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Genome War

    How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World

    par James Shreeve ...
    The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science—the race to map the human genome.On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming a private company that within three years would unravel the complete genetic code ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $9.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • Churchill's Bomb

    par Graham Farmelo ...
    Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons.Churchill was the only prominent politician to foresee the nuclear age and he played a leading role in the ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

  • Avoid Boring People

    Lessons from a Life in Science

    par James D. Watson ...
    From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those starting out their academic careers.In Avoid Boring People, Watson lays down a life’s wisdom for getting ahead in a competitive world. Witty and uncompromisingly honest, he shares his thoughts on how young ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Einstein

    The Life and Times

    par Ronald Clark ...
    First published in 1972, Ronald W. Clark's definitive biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to reveal the human side of the legendary absent-minded professor. Here is the classic portrait of the scientist and the man: the boy growing up in the Swiss Alps, the young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the passionate pacifist who agonized ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Exact Thinking in Demented Times

    The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science

    A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and scienceInspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest theories in ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Scientific Autobiography

    And Other Papers

    par Max Planck ...
    In this fascinating autobiography from one of the foremost geniuses of twentieth-century physics, Max Planck tells the story of his life, his aims, and his thinking. Published posthumously, the papers in this volume were written for the general reader and make accessible Planck's scientific theories as well as his philosophical ideals, including his thoughts on ethics and morals. ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Time, Love , Memory

    A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior

    par Jonathan Weiner ...
    The story of Nobel Prize–winning discoveries regarding the molecular mechanisms controlling the body’s circadian rhythm.How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer, and his asssociates are in the process of finding answers, often astonishing ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Oracle of Oil

    A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future

    par Mason Inman ...
    The first comprehensive biography of Marion King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil."In 1956, geologist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert delivered a speech that has shaped world energy debates ever since. Addressing the American Petroleum Institute, Hubbert dropped a bombshell on his audience: U.S. oil production would peak by 1970 and decline steadily thereafter. World production would ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD