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Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography by Siobhan Angus 9781478030188
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.92In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus... -
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology by Adrienne Mayor 9780691202266
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.44The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life-and even invented real automated machines The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant... -
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Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard A. Fortey 9780007209897 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.84'Dry Store Room No. 1' is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic... -
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86'Dry Store Room No. 1' is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic... -
Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton 9780199212798
RRP: $22.56Booksplease Price: $17.35Just how much good has medicine done over the years? And how much damage does it continue to do? The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention... -
Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change by John Glassie 9781594631894
Booksplease Price: $25.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594631894Author John GlassieFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint < -
Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles 9780986385933
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $18.94In 1966 the author, newly graduated from college, went to work for the MIT laboratory where the Apollo guidance system was designed. His assignment was to program the complex lunar landing phase in... -
Darwin Among the Machines by George Dyson 9780718194574
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09'Full of historical anecdotes . . . but this is much more than a history book. [George Dyson] weaves his threads together for a purpose. Using voices of the past and present, he describes a fresh and... -
Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history by Dorothy H. Crawford
RRP: $16.11Booksplease Price: $10.84Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our... -
Pirotechnia by Vannoccio Biringuccio 9780262520171
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $58.45Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances Yates 9780415267694
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.34A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western... -
Missions to the Moon: The Story of Man's Greatest Adventure Brought to Life with Augmented Reality by Rod Pyle
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $13.78Full of personal insights and accounts of the long journey to getting a man on the moon, Missions to the Moon is the perfect companion for anyone with a love of space travel, the moon landings, or... -
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson 9780141015903
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.56George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, ipod, smartphone and almost every aspect of modern life came into being.In 1945... -
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin 9780691178165
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.72Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise... -
Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners by Ben Hubbard
Booksplease Price: $27.40"As every amateur toxicologist knows, the difference between a poison and medicine is often simply the dose."There is no weapon as insidious, as seductive or as mysterious as poison. In this... -
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus... -
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe JohnJoe McFadden 9781529364958
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of... -
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling 9780230103429
Booksplease Price: $14.18At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day. Mary Anning was only... -
Galaxies: A Very Short Introduction by John Gribbin
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.33Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made, around which planets... -
The Common Thread by John Sulston 9780552159609
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09John Sulston was director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge from 1993 to 2000. There he led the British arm of the international team selected to map the entire human DNA sequence, a feat that was... -
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones
Booksplease Price: $82.95In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera... -
Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany by Jordan Goodman 9780007578832
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.57'Based on meticulous research in original sources ... Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was ... Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively... -
Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not to be essential for comprehending human... -
Foundational Papers in Complexity Science: Volume I by David C Krakauer 9781947864528
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $50.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery by Graeme Donald 9781782437802 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $2.55Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly it is often as much down to chance as a single person's brilliance. The Accidental Scientist explores the role of chance... -
The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery by Graeme Donald
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $5.17Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly it is often as much down to chance as a single person's brilliance. The Accidental Scientist explores the role of chance... -
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy by Stephen Hawking
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.60ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking explains how these works... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance by Gordon Campbell
RRP: $31.59Booksplease Price: $24.68The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and... -
Niels Bohr: A Very Short Introduction by J.L. Heilbron 9780198819264
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.35Niels Bohr, who pioneered the quantum theory of the atom, had a broad conception of his obligations as a physicist. They included not only a responsibility for the consequences of his work for the... -
The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science): Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition Claire Brock 9781785781667
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.40Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer... -
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler by Philip Ball 9780099581642
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any 'Jewish ideas', many others made compromises and concessions as... -
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $20.29Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs-they are... -
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager 9781419734403
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.23Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome... -
Greek Science After Aristotle by G. E. R. Lloyd 9780393007800
RRP: $21.29Booksplease Price: $18.56In this volume, the author discusses the fundamental Greek contributions to science, drawing on the rich literary and archaeological sources for the period after Aristotle. Particular attention is... -
Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide by J. P. McEvoy 9781848310940
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $1.87'An ideal introduction [to Stephen Hawking]' - Independent 'Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself' - Focus Stephen Hawking was a world-famous physicist with a cameo in... -
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 9780199219223
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.09'can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?' In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin... -
Genomes and What to Make of Them Barry Barnes 9780226054568
Booksplease Price: $20.41In 2003 the Human Genome Project announced that it had achieved a stunning scientific breakthrough: the full map of the human genome, and with it our first complete picture of the basic building... -
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20The most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely science book you'll ever read, from the world-renowned, multi-award-winning, superstar physicist Lisa Randal.66 million years ago, a ten-mile-wide object... -
The Emperor Of Scent by Chandler Burr
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for... -
Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine by John V. Pickstone 9780719059940
Booksplease Price: $19.97This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. It identifies four principle...