Product Description: Over the last 500 years, life has been steadily transformed by the inventions of British scientists, and their landmark discoveries have revealed the astonishing beauty of the universe. This is the story of the flashes of inspiration experienced by generations of scientists as they realized they were about to change the world...read more

Product Description: The inspiring autobiography of James Dyson, the countryÂ's leading entrepreneur and inventor, and how he succeeded against all the odds. Dyson's freewheeling account of his struggles, failures and successes is interspersed with his insights on how to turn an inspired idea into a household name...read more

An award-winning inventor presents a fascinating scientific history that traces the greatest inventions, from the canoe and the wheel to language, maps, currency, and law, following human technological advances through each age and exploring the motives and circumstances behind these inventions.

Product Description: The facts are irrefutable. Women hold only five per cent of directorships in the UK's 200 largest companies. Only one woman is Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company. This book gets to grips with exactly what is happening for women in the world of business today - the opportunities they have, the pitfalls they face and the triumphs they achieve in what, in many ways, is still a male-centric society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 20th Century Icons is a stylish, quirky and instantly collectable series of little books created to celebrate the last hundred years. Famous names in the arenas of fashion, film, rock and pop, design, kitsch and camp have all chosen their own personal icons, recorded with interesting and amusing and sometimes controversial results...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the inspiring autobiography of James Dyson, Britain's leading entrepreneur and inventor, founder of Dyson Appliances and inventor of the Dual Cyclone, England's biggest-selling vacuum cleaner.