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Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element by Jeremy Bernstein 9780801475177
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.57When 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: $34.11Booksplease Price: $28.74Depression 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: $26.31Booksplease Price: $22.72How 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: $40.93Booksplease Price: $31.96"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: $41.93Booksplease Price: $40.35A 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... -
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable by Paul J. Nahin 9780691207841
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.80An 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: $57.51We 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... -
The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory by Susan Wise Bauer 9780393243260
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.81The Story of Science guides us to the original texts that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos and ourselves. Whether referenced individually or read together as the narrative of... -
E=Mc2 by David Bodanis 9780425181645
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $21.80Already 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07In 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: $39.00Booksplease Price: $25.06Apologies 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: $36.95Booksplease Price: $27.87Like 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: $40.95Booksplease Price: $24.94Apologies 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.40In 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... -
A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age by Joao Magueijo 9780465009039
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $68.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique Ruth Leys 9780226488561
Booksplease Price: $69.07In 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... -
Unearthed: Science and Environment Across Mineral Frontiers by Patrick Anthony 9780226847511
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Experimental Practice: Technoscience, Alterontologies, and More-Than-Social Movements by Dimitris Papadopoulos 9781478000655
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $174.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Origin and Compilation of Hortus Malabaricus by Charles Dias 9789360801786
Booksplease Price: $165.46This book is an attempt to evaluate and trace the background of publication of the 12 volumes Hortus Malabaricus by Henric Adrian van Rheede in the seventeenth century. An inquiry is made into how... -
Cuerpo Abierto: Ciencia, Ensenanza y Coleccionismo Andaluces En Cuba En El Siglo XIX by Armando Garcia Gonzalez 9788447212491
Booksplease Price: $17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788447212491Author Armando Garcia GonzalezFormat HardbackPage Count 430 -
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Sir Richard Holmes 9781400031870
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $38.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Before Columbus Foundation-ABA 2009 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2009 and Royal Society Prize... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 14 (English): The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, April 1923-May 1925 (English Translation Supplement) - Documentary Edition by Albert Einstein 9780691164229
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $110.14In the almost one hundred writings and more than one thousand letters included in this volume, Einstein is revealed yet again as the consummate puzzler of myriad scientific problems as well as the... -
The Uses of Science in the Age of Newton by John G. Burke 9780520362703
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $138.24This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics by J. L. Heilbron 9780520334595
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $96.27Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics examines the development of electricity during the Scientific Revolution, offering a comprehensive analysis of its evolving... -
Now Is the Time to Collect: Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896 by Paul D. Brinkman 9780817361488
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.26The rediscovery of a curator's lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum's famed collections "Now" Is the Time to Collect tells the... -
A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 by Bill Bryson 9781529966817
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.82In 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... -
Science in the Ancient World: From Antiquity through the Middle Ages Russell M. Lawson 9798216445173
Booksplease Price: $59.55Science in the Ancient World presents a worldwide history of science, from prehistoric times through the medieval period. It covers Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas and includes topics ranging... -
Images and Contexts: The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India by Dhruv Raina 9780198068808
Booksplease Price: $31.61This 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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $28.18'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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593961629Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues: How Microbes, War, and Public Health Shaped Animal Health by Norman F. Cheville 9781612496566
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $125.97Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues - anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio - were conquered, and details the important role that... -
Dialectical Materialism and Quantum Physics: The Unpublished 1957 Lectures of David Bohm in Israel Jürgen Renn 9780198945901
RRP: $173.55Booksplease Price: $159.28This is the story of David Bohm's hitherto unpublished notes, uncovered from a series of lectures given in Israel in 1957 to a group of Marxist physicists from the Hashomer Hatsair (young guard)... -
Scientific Feuds: From Galileo to the Human Genome Project by Joel Levy 9781847737175
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $24.92Apologies 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: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53As 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: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.10The pioneering Dutch microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek uncovered hidden worlds of minuscule life. With his ingenious, self-made microscopes, he observed inconceivably tiny creatures and... -
Atlas of the History of Modern Science 1500-2020: Overviews and Surveys in the Form of Charts, ‘Maps’ and Diagrams Thomas H. Brobjer 9783031766268
Booksplease Price: $225.81This Atlas of the History of Modern Science functions as a textbook to help the student, by means of diagrams and flowcharts, to better understand both science and the history of science. It thus... -
The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . and How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe by Thomas Levenson 9780812988307
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $29.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812988307Author Thomas LevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany: Visions of Chemical Modernity by Peter Thompson 9781009314824
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $185.84Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of the Second World War, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies like the gas mask produced new... -
Lab Hopping: A Journey to Find India's Women in Science by Aashima Dogra 9780143464020
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $23.79Apologies 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: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53The 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...