Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Science and Technology

Profiles every element on the periodic table and describes their properties, when they were discovered, and how they are used in household materials.

This book offers a largely chronological illustrated guide to how the chemical elements were discovered over the past three millennia. It provides a view not just of how we came to understand what everything is made of but also of how chemistry developed from a trial-and-error craft of making and...

The Elements is an illustrated guide to the simple table that revolutionised the sciences and provides a framework for all visible matter in the universe: the Periodic Table of Elements.

Ever wanted to know how things work, especially electronic devices? This informative guide tells you all about the building blocks that make up electronic circuits and the components that make an electronic device tick. It explains electronics in an easy to understand way and then takes you throu...

"The Electric Vehicle Revolution explores the exciting, fast-changing technology and design in the electric-vehicle world, forecasts what the future may hold, and provides an eye-opening look back at a history stretching to Victorian days"-- Provided by publisher.

In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German professor named Einstein. The neatly printed equations on the scrap of paper outlined his world-changing theory of general relativity. Until then, Einstein's masterpiece of time and space had b...

Quantum physics has been, ever since its inception, the golden child of science. It is the basis of our understanding of everything from elemental particles to the behaviour of materials. Yet is has also been a troubled child, beset by controversy and raging disagreement over which formulation be...