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Anecdotes and Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians by Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19To my knowledge...no one...has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through the ages and recounting their history in a coherent fashion. So wrote Syrian physician Ibn Abi... -
The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Klaus Dodds 9780190649807
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28As the threat of global climate change becomes a reality, many look to the Arctic Ocean to predict coming environmental phenomena. There, the consequences of Earth's warming trend are most... -
The Collectors: Creating Hans Sloane's Extraordinary Herbarium by Robert Huxley
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $22.75This lavishly illustrated book reveals the lives of the people who assembled the greatest botanical collection of the Early Modern period, with stories of adventure and discovery across every... -
From Science Fiction to Science Fact: How Writers of the Past Invented Our Present by Joel Levy
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.45The iconic futurist artist and designer Syd Mead once described science fiction as "reality ahead of schedule". In From Science Fiction to Science Fact, Levy explores the visions of the writers,... -
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance by Dan Egan 9781324074724
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.83Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it's also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has... -
Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies by Charles Darwin 9780199580149
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin' On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary... -
The Death of Holden: The bestselling account of the decline of Australian manufacturing Royce Kurmelovs 9780733638824
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92An extraordinary account of the impending closure of the Holden factory in Adelaide. More than the end of a business - it's the end of an era, of a story, and of a great Australian dream.When Holden... -
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross 9781324050537
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.09A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result,... -
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Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes by Walter Gratzer 9780192804037 [USED COPY]
RRP: $105.86Booksplease Price: $3.89The march of science has never proceeded smoothly. It has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, and by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and... -
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe by Cathie Pelletier
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99In 1916, a nearly unknown German-born theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein had developed his theory of relativity, but hadn't yet been able to prove it. The only way to do that was through the... -
Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality Rhodri Evans 9781472120373
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Acclaimed popular-science writer Brian Clegg and popular TV and radio astronomer Rhodri Evans give us a Top Ten list of physicists as the central theme to build an exploration of the most exciting... -
Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science by Ronald L. Numbers 9780674241565
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $21.09A Guardian "Favourite Reads-as Chosen by Scientists" Selection"Tackles some of science's most enduring misconceptions."-DiscoverA falling apple inspired Isaac Newton's insight into the law of... -
Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element by Jeremy Bernstein 9780801475177
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.84When plutonium was first manufactured at Berkeley in the spring of 1941, there was so little of it that it was not visible to the naked eye. It took a year to accumulate enough so that one could... -
From Melancholia to Prozac: A history of depression by Clark Lawlor 9780199585793
RRP: $23.44Booksplease Price: $19.75Depression is an experience known to millions. But arguments rage on aspects of its definition and its impact on societies present and past: do drugs work, or are they merely placebos? Is the... -
Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks by John L. Heilbron 9780198746850
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $15.61How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the... -
Tales from the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $21.96"Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony," writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world's most beloved scientists, "their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg." In Tales... -
Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison 9780393326048
RRP: $28.81Booksplease Price: $25.08A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps is "part history, part science, part... -
Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $18.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060535957Author Timothy FerrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint -
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable by Paul J. Nahin 9780691207841
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable Heat, like gravity, shapes nearly every aspect of our... -
Dancing Bees: Karl Von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language by Tania Munz
Booksplease Price: $39.52We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators-and unusual dancers. As Karl von... -
E=Mc2 by David Bodanis 9780425181645
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $14.67Already climbing the bestseller lists-and garnering rave reviews this "little masterpiece" sheds brilliant light on the equation that changed the world.Bodanis begins by devoting chapters to each of... -
Ivan Pavlov: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel P. Todes
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36In this book, Daniel P. Todes provides concise introduction to the life and science of the great Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936). Todes weaves together Pavlov's life, values, context,... -
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485381Author Steven JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint -
Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science by Kate Clanchy 9781905583331
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $19.15Like the creation myths they supersede, the revelations of science are seared into our collective imagination through storytelling. In this anthology, authors have worked together with scientists and... -
The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found by Violet Moller
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101974063Author Violet MollerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Tales from the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson 9781324091097
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.85In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson takes us on a thrilling myrmecological tour across continents and through time, inviting us into his decades-long... -
The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique Ruth Leys 9780226488561
Booksplease Price: $47.46In recent years, the emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences... -
Cuerpo Abierto: Ciencia, Ensenanza y Coleccionismo Andaluces En Cuba En El Siglo XIX by Armando Garcia Gonzalez 9788447212491
Booksplease Price: $11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788447212491Author Armando Garcia GonzalezFormat HardbackPage Count 430 -
A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 by Bill Bryson 9781529966817
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.87In this fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the... -
Images and Contexts: The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India by Dhruv Raina 9780198068808
Booksplease Price: $21.72This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. Focussing on several strands from the corpus of writing over the last 150 years, it examines the... -
Fossil Drugs: A natural history of antibiotics - and how we burned through them by Liam Shaw 9781847927552
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.36'A riveting book ... In combining the passion of Robert Macfarlane with the incisiveness of Patrick Radden Keefe, Shaw has announced himself as a brilliant new voice in science writing' RACHEL... -
Chemistry 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Key Concepts by DK 9780593961629
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593961629Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Scientific Feuds: From Galileo to the Human Genome Project by Joel Levy 9781847737175
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $17.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847737175Author Joel LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution by 9780292725942
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35As Spain colonized the Americas during the sixteenth century, Spanish soldiers, bureaucrats, merchants, adventurers, physicians, ship pilots, and friars explored the natural world, gathered data,... -
Myriad, Microscopic and Marvellous: The World of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Geertje Dekkers 9781836390978
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42The pioneering Dutch microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek uncovered hidden worlds of minuscule life. With his ingenious, self-made microscopes, he observed inconceivably tiny creatures and... -
Lab Hopping: A Journey to Find India's Women in Science by Aashima Dogra 9780143464020
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143464020Author Aashima DograFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint -
Rough-Water Man: Elwyn Blake's Colorado River Expeditions by Richard E. Westwood 9780874179149
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35The passage of the 1902 Reclamation Act created a mandate for the federal government to build dams on the Colorado River and its powerful tributaries. By 1920 the US Geological Survey had surveyed... -
Weather on the Air – A History of Broadcast Meteorology by Robert Henson
Booksplease Price: $49.75From low humor to high drama, TV weather reporting over the decades has encompassed an enormous range of styles and approaches, triggering chuckles, infuriating the masses, and at times even saving... -
Big and Bright: A History of the McDonald Observatory by David S. Evans 9780292707627
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35By day, every year over 40,000 visitors pour in. Across the Rio Grande, a hundred miles away, Mexican mountaineers use the white domes as landmarks. By night, perched almost 7,000 feet above the... -
Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge by Francois Delaporte 9780823242504
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $30.07Francois Delaporte's Chagas Disease chronicles Brazilian medicine's encounter with a disease, an insect, and a history of discovery. Between 1909 and 1911, Carlos Chagas described an infection...