The True story of a Genius, an Engine and Our Future
by Phillip Hills
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781780276687
Publisher: Birlinn
Pub Date: 2021-11-02
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Birlinn
256 Pages
Told for the first time, this is the extraordinary story of how an obscure Victorian Scottish minister invented the technology which may take us to the stars. Phillip Hills weaves science and history together to tell the story of one of the most exciting scientific developments the world has ever seen.
A Scientist’s Guide to the Biggest Challenges Facing our Species Today
by Professor Luke O'Neill
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780717186396
Publisher: Gill Books
Pub Date: 2021-01-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Gill Books
336 Pages
Professor Luke O’Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the Covid 19 Pandemic, grapples with life’s biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them. From gender to pandemics, a fascinating and thought-provoking addition to current popular debates.
The first railway chemical laboratory was opened in 1864 by the London & North Western Railway at Crewe, and the last ones lost their direct link to the rail industry on their privatisation in 1996.Whatever...
Presents the story of the science of galvanism - named after the Italian scientist Luigi Galvini who had conducted the original experiments - a movement that investigated the theory of 'animal electricity', a unifying vital spirit that animates us all, its leaders believing that they stood on the brink of immortality.
In the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory: that vegetation on the islands off the west coast of Scotland had survived the last Ice Age. His premise flew in the face of what most botanists believed - that no plants had survived the 10,000-year period of extreme cold.
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