Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Adam Hart-Davis
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The Great Stink of London
‘An extraordinary history’ PETER ACKROYD, The Times‘A lively account of (Bazalgette’s) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated’ HERMIONE HOBHOUSE‘Halliday is good on …
Science: The Definitive Visual Guide
Delve into the story of science - from astronomy and biology to geology and mathematics - with this illustrated guide to the great scientists, discoveries, and inventions that …
Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse
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.
Henry Winstanley and the Eddystone Lighthouse
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. …
Thunder, Flush and Thomas Crapper
A dictionary of all things lavatorial, from the Abbot of St Albans (allegedly the first Englishman to have a W.C., c. 1115) to the zero-gravity loo (as featured in the film 2001: a …
Very Heath Robinson
‘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 …
100 Local Heroes
For more than five years, Adam Hart-Davis travelled the length and breadth of Britain, bringing to life in his TV series, "e;Local Heroes"e;, pioneers of science, invention …
Pavlov's Dog
Experimental psychology burst onto the intellectual scene in the middle part of the nineteenth century, radically transforming the way we understand human thought and behavior. …
Schrödingers Katze
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Eurekaaargh!
This work presents 100 stories of weird and wonderful inventions, full-blown and well-developed disasters of what seemed to be brilliant inventions that fell at the first fence, …