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Paperback. When the British prototype Concorde took off from RAF Fairford on 9 April 1969, at the controls was Captain Brian Trubshaw. This title presents the story of Brian Trubshaw's life as an experimental test pilot, written from his own unique viewpoint on the flight deck, and covering a period of tremendous upheaval. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; TRP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750944946
- ISBN
- 9780750944946
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.65
€ 17.99
€ 16.65
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGT; JFFH; MBD; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816697335
- ISBN
- 9780816697335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.08
€ 26.08
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- National Geographic Society
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781426216497
- ISBN
- 9781426216497
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.93
€ 24.99
€ 20.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages, colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: BGT; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 8. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616144333
- ISBN
- 9781616144333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.78
€ 20.99
€ 18.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; WNW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Sentient Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591810360
- ISBN
- 9781591810360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 20.67
€ 30.99
€ 20.67
Hardback. Two teenagers. A dark road. A drunk driver. The journey from grief to gratitude to grace by a pediatrician-mother. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; BM; MBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 21.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762780457
- ISBN
- 9780762780457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.43
€ 25.99
€ 20.43
paperback. Luca Turin was born with a powerful nose, able to distinguish the components of any scent, from the most refined perfumes to the air on the subways. When he began to write reviews of fragrances, everything changed. The secret world of scent creation opened up, and Turin discovered something astonishing: No one understands how our noses work. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099460237
- ISBN
- 9780099460237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. This volume brings together key chapters from Darwin's most important books, including the Journal of Researches on the Beagle voyage (1845), the Origin of Species (1859), the Descent of Man (1871), and the full text of his delightful autobiography. They are accompanied by responses from 19th-century readers from around the world. Editor(s): Secord, James A. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 544 pages, map; 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: BGHA; BGTA; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199580149
- ISBN
- 9780199580149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. This book retraces the life and work of Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli, one of the great physicists of the 20th century. Pauli spent most of his professional life in Zurich where he was a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology ETH, and where he was in close contact with the psychology of C.G. Jung. Num Pages: 584 pages, 39 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: BGT; JMAJ; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199588152
- ISBN
- 9780199588152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Paperback. At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. This title traces the making - and unmaking - of Oppenheimer's wartime and postwar scientific identity. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 171 x 28. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226798462
- ISBN
- 9780226798462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Hardback. The first-ever biography of the man behind the disease - and a pioneer of medical science Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; JPF; MBX; MJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785781780
- ISBN
- 9781785781780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.13
€ 26.99
€ 18.13
Hardcover. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479833535
- ISBN
- 9781479833535
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.45
€ 97.45
Paperback. The story of Britain's first female professional scientist, Caroline Herschel Series: Icon Science. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; BGT; PGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785781667
- ISBN
- 9781785781667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. 'Most appealing and complete presentation of Jung to the general reader since Man and His Symbols .. would make a popular textbook, perfect for the undergraduate.' Dr. John Beebe, President, C.G.Jung Institute of San Francisco Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; BGT; JMAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 256 x 25. Weight in Grams: 872.
- Publisher
- Watkins Media
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780288314
- ISBN
- 9781780288314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.27
€ 33.99
€ 22.27
Hardback. Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called "The Fallen Astronaut". By telling the stories of the sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the quest to reach the moon between 1962 and 1972, this book conveys the human cost of the space race. Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight. Num Pages: 448 pages, 50 photographs. BIC Classification: BGT; BK; TTDS; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 34. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803285095
- ISBN
- 9780803285095
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.09
€ 40.09
Paperback. The authorised biography of the doctor who made the link between smoking & lung cancer and battled Big Tobacco Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: BGT; MBNS; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 35. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Publisher
- Signal Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909930049
- ISBN
- 9781909930049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.87
€ 19.99
€ 19.87
Hardcover. The untold story of an eccentric, scientific visionary whose death-defying research has saved millions of lives. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 167 x 40. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871406774
- ISBN
- 9780871406774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.92
€ 30.99
€ 25.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 80. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGT; MBD; MBX; MNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Avery
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592409259
- ISBN
- 9781592409259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.47
€ 18.99
€ 17.47
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Island Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781610915915
- ISBN
- 9781610915915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 30.86
€ 32.99
€ 30.86
Hardcover. Detailing Mr. Hubbard's monumental achievements along the myriad of avenues he walked, here is the definitive saga of a life like no other - and all as told through a multitude of archival documents and never previously seen images. Series: L. Ron Hubbard Series. Num Pages: 231 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: BGT; BGX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 309 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1350.
- Publisher
- New Era Publications International APS Denmark
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788764935134
- ISBN
- 9788764935134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 31.03
€ 46.99
€ 31.03
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- New Era Publications International APS Denmark
- Number of pages
- 166
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788764971422
- ISBN
- 9788764971422
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 31.03
€ 46.99
€ 31.03
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- New Era Publications International APS Denmark
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788764934854
- ISBN
- 9788764934854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 31.03
€ 46.99
€ 31.03
Hardback. This is the first scholarly biography of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) in any language. Based upon a wealth of archival material, it weaves his life and science into some 100 years of Russian history and offers a fundamental reinterpretation of his scientific style and his famous research on conditional reflexes. Num Pages: 880 pages, 47 illus. BIC Classification: BGT; JMM; MBX. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 242 x 159 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1420.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199925193
- ISBN
- 9780199925193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 38.85
€ 54.99
€ 38.85
Paperback. From the bestselling author of E=mc^2, Einstein's Greatest Mistake is a brisk, accessible biography of Albert Einstein that reveals the genius and hubris of the titan of modern science. Num Pages: 304 pages, Integrated b/w photos and diagrams. BIC Classification: BGT; PDZ; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349142029
- ISBN
- 9780349142029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33