Inventions & Inventors
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai BirdCurrent price €17.50Original price €18.50***THE INSPIRATION FOR OPPENHEIMER, WINNER OF 7 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST ACTOR***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF...
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Power Play: Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of the Century
Tim HigginsCurrent price €17.50Original price €18.50Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla''s bid to build the world''s greatest car and the race to drive the future.Elo...
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Watches: A Complete History of the Technical and Decorative Development of the Watch
Cecil CluttonCurrent price €94.82Original price €108.99The long-awaited reprint of an important illustrated reference work on the general history of the watch from 1500 to 1980. When Watches was first ...
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
William KamkwambaCurrent price €15.80Original price €16.99NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURED DIRECTED BY AND STARRING CHIWETEL EJIOFOR AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX When William Kamkwamb...
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Engineers: From the Great Pyramids to Spacecraft
Adam Hart-DavisCurrent price €31.53Original price €32.50Full of incredible tales of achievement and ingenuity, Engineers celebrates the greatest engineers that ever lived and the stamp they have left on ...
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Soviet Science and Engineering in the Shadow of the Cold War
Hiroshi IchikawaCurrent price €126.71Original price €143.99The 1950s were a vital time in the history of science. In accordance with the intensification of the Cold War, many scientific talents were mobiliz...
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The Ethics of Creativity
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €90.63Original price €102.99The Ethics of Creativity illuminates the thorny issues that arise when novel creative ideas collide with what we believe to be 'right' or 'good'. T...
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The Ethics of Creativity
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50The Ethics of Creativity illuminates the thorny issues that arise when novel creative ideas collide with what we believe to be 'right' or 'good'. T...
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Fusion 360 for Makers, 2e: Design Your Own Digital Models for 3D Printing and CNC Fabrication
Lydia Sloan ClineCurrent price €24.59Original price €29.99Learn how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to digitally model your own original projects for a 3D printer or a CNC device.
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Ingenious Britain: 101 Innovations that Changed the World
Steven A.T. WilliamsCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Britain has a rich and spectacular history. It is a core country in the development of the modern world. Indeed, as the first industrial nation, ...
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A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of ''Abbas Ibn Firnas
Glaire D. AndersonCurrent price €63.50Original price €72.99In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular...
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On the Brink of Utopia: Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World''s Largest Problems
Rafael Laguna de la VeraCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Current price €31.49Original price €34.99Save 10% -
The Men who Invented Britain
John HannavyCurrent price €23.27Original price €23.99The book is a collection of inter-linked essays, each dealing with a significant figure in the emergence of Britain as an industrial powerhouse in ...
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Heroes of Progress: 65 People Who Changed the World
Alexander C R HammondCurrent price €16.14Original price €18.99Current price €16.14Original price €18.99Save 15% -
Crossing the Boundaries of Life: Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology
Karl S. MatlinCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50A close look at Günter Blobels transformative contributions to molecular cell biology. The difficulty of reconciling chemical mechanisms with the f...
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Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
Sharon WeinbergerCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Current price €21.59Original price €23.99Save 10% -
Parliament, Inventions and Patents: A Research Guide and Bibliography
Phillip JohnsonCurrent price €215.03Original price €223.99This book is a research guide and bibliography of Parliamentary material, including the Old Scottish Parliament and the Old Irish Parliament, relat...
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Gana dinero con Inteligencia Artificial: La Guía completa para Dummies
Rondha WatsonCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
James BarratCurrent price €14.35Original price €17.50'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not.' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary hig...
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Science Museum - Genius Inventions: The Stories Behind History''s Greatest Technological Breakthroughs
Jack ChallonerCurrent price €24.12Original price €26.50Genius Inventions gives readers an unprecedented insight into the events, people and histories behind technological and scientific developments tha...
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Railways'' Strangest Tales
Tom QuinnCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history. Right from the ver...
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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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