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12 produkter
Engineers
From the Great Pyramids to Spacecraft
Inbunden, 2017
324 kr
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Full of incredible tales of achievement and ingenuity, Engineers celebrates the greatest engineers that ever lived and the stamp they have left on our world. Learn all about how engineering projects have changed the course of history and added to human progress, from those who built the Great …
Talking Science
Häftad, 2004
152 kr
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talking SCIENCE TV personality Adam Hart-Davis meets 14 of the world’s leading scientists to discuss their work, their passions, and those elusive ground-breaking moments in their lives. This is a book that shows how science can explain the world that we inherited and shape the world that we would …
Talking Science
E-bok, 2005
180 kr
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talking SCIENCE TV personality Adam Hart-Davis meets 14 of the world’s leading scientists to discuss their work, their passions, and those elusive ground-breaking moments in their lives. This is a book that shows how science can explain the world that we inherited and shape the world that we would …
They Made Britain Great
The Engineers Who Drove the Industrial Revolution
Inbunden, 2030
258 kr
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They pioneered new techniques, invented new machines, built roads, canals, bridges, railways, and lighthouses, and devised new standards for guns, sewers, and nuts and bolts. By the end of the nineteenth century their innovations had put Britain on top of the world, and laid the foundations for the …
What the past did for us
E-bok, 2011
170 kr
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Adam Hart-Davis, one of the nations favourite TV presenters, returns to our screens with a tour through the Top Ten developments of each of the great civilisations of the past. From the Egyptians to the Romans, Babylonians to the Arabs, Adam takes us on an epic history of the world, looking at some …
Eureka Years
A BBC history of science
Ljudbok, 2021
176 kr
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Science''s long history is studded with ''eureka years'', when radical and brilliant ideas emerged from the maelstrom of mad, bad and dangerous thinking to transform the way we look at ourselves and our universe. Veteran broadcaster and polymath Adam Hart-Davis guides us through 16 of these pivotal …
Personality Test
The complete BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz series
Av Robin Ince, Lucy Porter m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2023
190 kr
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The comedy panel game where all the questions are about the guest host Welcome to The Personality Test , the panel show in which a brand new host takes the chair for every episode to present a quiz entirely themed around themselves. Each gets to run the show by their own rules, devising topics and …
Very Heath Robinson
Stories of His Absurdly Ingenious World
Inbunden, 2017
478 kr
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‘I have been ill and frightfully bored and the one thing I have wanted is a big album of your absurd beautiful drawings to turn over. You give me a peculiar pleasure of the mind like nothing else in the world.’ – H. G. Wells to W. Heath Robinson (1914)This book takes a nostalgic look back to the …
Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse
Av Adam Hart-Davis, Emily Troscianko
Häftad, 2003
96 kr
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Adam Hart-Davis vividly recreates the story of the Eddystone Lighthouse, the character of the man who built it, and the power of the elements that finally destroyed them both.
