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Save 2% Highway under the Hudson
Robert W. JacksonCurrent price €46.99Original price €47.99Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 "There is no comparable book on this tunnel. Highly recommended."—Choice Reviews Every year, m...
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Broadcasting Britain
Robert SeatterCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50Explore 100 years of British History through key broadcasting moments illuminated by images from the BBC archive. Created 100 years ago, on 18 Octo...
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Cycling Pathways
Henk-Jan Dekker€169.88In an effort to fight climate change, many cities try to boost their cycling levels. They often look towards the Dutch for guidance. However, histo...
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The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived
Marc WortmanCurrent price €34.99Original price €36.50The enduring story of Thomas Watson Jr.-a figure more important to the creation of the modern world than Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and MorganNearly ...
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Save 12% Engines
Theodore GrayCurrent price €31.99Original price €36.50In Engines, the always entertaining and informative Theodore Gray explores the glorious guts and intricate innards of dozens of impressive machines...
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Save 1% Overpotential
Matthew EislerCurrent price €75.99Original price €76.99It sounds so simple. Just combine oxygen and hydrogen in an electrochemical reaction that produces water and electricity, and you’ll have a clean, ...
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Kerim YasarCurrent price €100.99Original price €101.99Long before karaoke’s ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and con...
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History of Pesticides, A
Graham Matthews€62.99In this fascinating book, Graham Matthews takes the reader through the history of the development and use of chemicals for control of pests, weeds,...
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Save 2% Telecommunications History & Policy into the 21st Century
Ronald G. FulleCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50Telecommunications History & Policy into the 21st Century provides a succinct overview of the telecommunications environment and the factors th...
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Pierre-Yves DonzéCurrent price €97.99Original price €98.99World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. Former centres such as Great Britain, France, the Un...
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Switch
Jason Puskar€38.99From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency Th...
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Software Paradox
Stephen Ogrady€17.50Software is more important than ever today and yet its commercial value is steadily declining. Microsoft, for instance, has seen its gross margins ...
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Osiris, Volume 38
The University of Chicago PressCurrent price €34.99Original price €36.50Perceptively explores the shifting intersections between algorithmic systems and human practices in the modern era. How have algorithmic systems an...
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Blood in the Machine
Brian MerchantCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years...
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Iron, Stone and Steam
Tim Bryan€28.50Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Victorian icon, engineer, artist, architect, designer and visionary, entrepreneur and celebrity. His astounding feats chan...
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Breaking Twitter
Ben MezrichCurrent price €27.50Original price €28.50New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich pulls back the curtain on the most volatile, complex, and bizarre corporate takeover in history: Elon...
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IT Girls
John S. Croucher€28.50Women have played a vital role in the development of computing, although at times their participation has gone unrecognised. Their scholarly invent...
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Harvesting the Air
Edward J. KealeyCurrent price €83.99Original price €84.99This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...
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Harvesting the Air
Edward J. KealeyCurrent price €51.99Original price €52.99This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...
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Great Stink of London
Stephen HallidayCurrent price €25.99Original price €26.50‘An extraordinary history’ PETER ACKROYD, The Times‘A lively account of (Bazalgette’s) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated’ HERMI...
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World Without Mind
Franklin Foer€16.99A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture – and what we can do to fight their influenceFour titanic co...
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Save 4% Crafting of the 10,000 Things – Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth–Century China
Dagmar SchäferCurrent price €32.50Original price €33.99The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase in publications that examined advances in...
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Power of One
Frances HaugenCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50**Available now: Whistleblower Frances Haugen's searing exposé of the internal workings of Facebook revealing the company's struggles to regain con...
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Apple II Age
Laine NooneyCurrent price €25.99Original price €26.50An engrossing origin story for the personal computer—showing how the Apple II’s software helped a machine transcend from hobbyists’ plaything to es...
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Philosopher of Palo Alto
John TinnellCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50A compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry’s quest to connect everything—and who hoped...
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Einstein
Steven Gimbel€17.99A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world’s first scientific “superstar” The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric ...
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Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 16 (Documentary Edition)
Albert Einstein€228.16A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Albert EinsteinDuring the period covered by this volume, Einstein aims to discov...
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Thrifty Science
Simon WerrettCurrent price €47.99Original price €49.99If the twentieth century saw the rise of “Big Science,” then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werret...
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Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines
Henrietta HealdCurrent price €25.99Original price €26.50‘Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.’This was the great rallying cry of th...
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Early Pioneers of Steam
Stuart Hylton€21.99We think of the Stephensons and Brunel as the fathers of the railways, and their Liverpool and Manchester and Great Western Railways as the prototy...
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Sonic Wind
Craig Ryan€27.50Sixty years ago, cars and aeroplanes were deathtraps waiting to happen. Today, both are safer than they were, thanks in part to a pioneering US Air...
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Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry
Gerald M. Carbone€36.50Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockmaker who invented new machines, and new ways to make things. Samuel Darling, an...
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