Inventions & Inventors
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Great TED Talks: Innovation: An unofficial guide with words of wisdom from 100 TED speakers
Neil C. HughesCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99This unofficial compilation reviews the 100 best TED talks about innovation from great minds worldwide. With quirky graphics and memorabl...
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Brilliantly Bad: Inventions So Terrible Theyre Good
Mark TannerCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50A miscellany of actual patents for wonderfully bizarre inventions, Brilliantly Bad is a salute to what the human mind can achieve eve...
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50 Women in Technology
Georgina FerryCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99[In the laboratory] they thought I was the new janitor. - Clarice Phelps, Nuclear Chemist. Why do I get a tenth of the funding that men that have ...
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future
Iwan Rhys MorusCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99'[An] insightful analysis of 19th-century futurism ... Morus's account is as much a cautionary tale as a flag-waving celebration.' - DUNCAN BELL, N...
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Rufus Porters Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860
Pennsylvania State University PressCurrent price €34.39Original price €42.99Once called the Yankee Da Vinci, Rufus Porter was an itinerant portrait painter and muralist, a publisher and author, an inventor of mechanical imp...
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Dr. Kelly WeinersmithCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining boo...
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Inventor Lab: Awesome Builds for Smart Makers
DKCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Are you a budding scientist, engineer, or inventor?This children's book will unlock your inner maker through 18 amazing step-by-step science projec...
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Explaining the Future: How to Research, Analyze, and Report on Emerging Technologies
Sunny BainsCurrent price €38.21Original price €41.99Will this new technology work to solve the problem its inventors claim it will? Is it likely to succeed? What is the right technical solution for a...
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The Firefly''s Light: The Secret Inventors of Our Natural World
Sarah HorneCurrent price €12.17Original price €13.99Ever wonder how fireflies light up the sky? And why those sticky plant seeds are so hard to get off your clothes? The Firefly's...
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Her Majesty''s League of Remarkable Young Ladies
Alison D. StegertCurrent price €11.47Original price €13.99Plots, spies and inventors abound in an epic adventure set between London and Paris ... Mischief is afoot, and Queen Victoria is not am...
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The Einstein Effect: How the World''s Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms, and Our Minds
SourcebooksCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50A fascinating and funny guide to history's favorite genius-and why he still matters. -A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling authorA fascinating l...
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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023)
Jody RosenCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on ...
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White Elephant Technology: 50 Crazy Inventions That Should Never Have Been Built, And What We Can Learn From Them
Eric MilesCurrent price €23.66Original price €28.50What exactly is White Elephant Technology?White Elephant Technology is any unusual invention past or present that fails in the marketplace despite ...
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Papyrus: THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER
Irene VallejoCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The bestselling phenomenon - an enthralling 6,000-year journey through the history of books and readingA FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUN...
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Makers Manual, The
Andrea MaiettaCurrent price €25.21Original price €25.99The Maker's Manual is a practical and comprehensive guide to becoming a hero of the new industrial revolution. It features hundreds of color images...
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Eureka: How Invention Happens
Gavin WeightmanCurrent price €17.45Original price €17.99This witty and inspiring book chronicles the long history of discovery and ingenuity which gave rise to a eureka moment when a dream of invention b...
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Citizen Science: How Ordinary People are Changing the Face of Discovery
Caren CooperCurrent price €15.46Original price €16.99Current price €15.46Original price €16.99Save 9% -
Engineering Hitler''''s Downfall: the Brains that Enabled Victory
Gwilym RobertsCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Foreword by Admiral Lord West Whilst living in Liverpool, Britain''s second most heavily bombed city during World War II, the author experienced...
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