Product Description: 'In his whistle-stop tour of inventions large and small, the scientist Trevor Norton shares the Gershwins' view that invention is fundamentally comic.' The Sunday TimesTrevor Norton, who has been compared to Gerard Durrell and Bill Bryson, weaves an entertaining history with a seductive mix of eureka moments, disasters and dirty tricks...read more

Product Description: A witty celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous scientific experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind.Many scientists have followed the advice of the great Victorian doctor Jack Haldane to “never experiment on an animal if a man will do” and “never ask anyone to do anything you wouldn’t do yourself...read more

Product Description: Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth is a hilarious celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind, written with all the wit, humour and eye for the beauties of nature -- and machinery and scientific equipment -- that have gained Trevor Norton a cult following and critical acclaim...read more

A marine biologist provides a revealing glimpse of the wonders of the ocean, its inhabitants, and those who study it, with profiles of such early beachcombers as John Steinbeck and Darwin and studies of various ocean habitats, from tidal pools, to rich coral gardens, to the darkest ocean depths. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: This is the funny and touching story of a menagerie of eccentric and talented ecologists who, mainly as a hobby, spent forty summers at Lough Ine, a stunning marine lough in a corner of Ireland. It is a humorous and moving account of ecologists who collaborated for forty years until their friendship came to a tragic end...read more

Product Description: In a series of brilliantly detailed portraits, this history of the daring art of diving recounts the eccentric exploits and sense-defying feats of the men who turned underwater adventure into a modern science. Spear fishermen and conservationists, treasure hunters and archaeologists, photographers and philosophers -- these pioneers invented and experimented with all sorts of amazing devices to enable them to explore the secretive and seductive depths of the sea...read more