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Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It by Oliver Burkeman
RRP: $21.43$15.15**The instant Sunday Times bestseller**What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for... -
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari 9780062464316
RRP: $73.13$28.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062464316Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1161gDimensions(mm)... -
Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison 9780393326048
RRP: $41.93$33.68A 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 adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of... -
The Clockwork Conspiracy by Sam Sedgman 9781526665386
RRP: $15.58$10.92'Clever, inventive and a cracking read' - Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl A locked-room mystery packed with rooftop chases, hidden codes and mind-bending science, The Clockwork Conspiracy is a must for fans of the Adventures on Trains series and... -
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time by Rebecca Struthers
RRP: $42.90$28.39A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'An exquisite book, beautifully put together... What a very wonderful book.' STEPHEN FRY'Forty-thousand years of our relationship with time condensed into 288 pages: a hugely entertaining achievement.' ESQUIRE'5/5 A true joy... -
The Illustrated Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking
RRP: $48.75$36.31Professor Stephen Hawking is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. Here, his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time is illustrated to bring his theories to life in a clear, captivating and visually engaging way... -
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli 9780141984964
RRP: $21.43$15.15THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROne of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade'Captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful. . . Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he is as much philosopher and poet as he is a scientist'... -
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein 9788175994652
RRP: $13.63$9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788175994652Author Albert EinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Prakash Books -
How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel 9781851687794
RRP: $21.43$14.39The international bestseller from the author of Breakfast with Einstein Emmy is no ordinary dog. When adopted from the shelter by physics professor Chad Orzel, she becomes immediately fascinated by his work. Could she use quantum tunnelling to get... -
Time: 10 Things You Should Know Colin Stuart 9781841884929
RRP: $19.48$13.26'A gripping exploration of one of the most fundamental, but also perplexing aspects of existence.' PROF. LEWIS DARTNELL, author of Origins'Such an enjoyable read...full of delightful nuggets that you will want to impress your friends and family with.'... -
A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein by Palle Yourgrau 9780465092949
RRP: $23.38$23.11In 1942, the logician Kurt Godel and Albert Einstein became close friends; they walked to and from their offices every day, exchanging ideas about science, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science. By 1949, Godel had produced a... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney 9780241370513
RRP: $21.43$15.15'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious meditation on the nature and symbolism of time-keeping... -
Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life by Gloria Mark 9780008526009
RRP: $21.43$14.14AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD AND IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES **A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR TBR IN 2023** ... -
About Time Too: A Miscellany of Time by Royal Observatory Greenwich 9781906367664
RRP: $25.33$17.53How old is Earth? Can we look back in time? How long is a light year? How short is a femtosecond? What is Greenwich Mean Time? How did astronauts tell the time on the Moon? When did time begin? It's high time you knew the answers to these and many... -
Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose
RRP: $25.33$17.73**WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS** What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end? In this remarkable book Roger Penrose brilliantly illuminates some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. Cycles of... -
Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 by Paul Glennie 9780199278206
RRP: $195.00$147.99Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and... -
The Oxford Companion to the Year by Bonnie Blackburn 9780192142313 [USED COPY]
RRP: $177.45$8.83The Oxford Companion to the Year explores the fascinating history of calendars in general and our own in particular. The calendar used in the West today is just one of a multitude of systems for parcelling up time and naming its divisions. Each of... -
The Oxford Companion to the Year by Bonnie Blackburn 9780192142313
$210.81The Oxford Companion to the Year explores the fascinating history of calendars in general and our own in particular. The calendar used in the West today is just one of a multitude of systems for parcelling up time and naming its divisions. Each of... -
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, From Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks by Chad Orzel
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Entertaining and engrossing' Sean Carroll Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping. That need to tell the time connects you to over five thousand years of human history, from the... -
The Time Paradox: Using the New Psychology of Time to Your Advantage by Philip G. Zimbardo
RRP: $33.13$23.95Every significant choice, every important decision we make, is determined by our perception of time. This is the most influential force in our lives, yet we are virtually unaware of it. In this fascinating book, the award-winning past president of the... -
The End Of Time Dr Julian Barbour 9780753810200
RRP: $21.43$14.43Time is an illusion. Although the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there are only timeless 'nows'. In THE END OF TIME, the British theoretical physicist Julian Barbour describes the coming revolution in our... -
Time Trvl in Einstein Universe by Gott 9780618257355
$26.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618257355Author GottPage Count 304Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 318g -
The Power of When: Learn the Best Time to do Everything by Dr. Michael Breus
RRP: $33.13$23.95The latest research shows that there is a right time for all of us to do everything, from drinking a cocktail to getting a flu shot. The catch? That 'right time' varies from person to person. Fortunately, as Dr Michael Breus proves in The Power of When,... -
Black Holes: The Reith Lectures by Stephen Hawking
RRP: $17.53$12.58"It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers."In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC... -
The Mayan and Other Ancient Calendars by Geoff Stray 9781904263609
RRP: $11.68$8.01Ever since humans first began to count, people have clocked days, moons and years, tried to make sense of them in terms of each other, and formed calendars to order their lives. In an amazing leap, the ancient Maya managed to synchronize all the visible... -
Bang!! 2: The Complete History of the Universe Brian May 9781787398276
RRP: $39.00$26.81In 2004 a rock star, a TV astronomer and a young research astronomer sat down to write the story of the Universe in the order in which it happened, from its birth at the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, through to its ultimate demise in the infinitely... -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: $42.90$34.63On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who... -
Sundials: Their Theory and Construction by Albert E. Waugh 9780486229478
RRP: $24.36$15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486229478Author Albert E. WaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction by Leofranc Holford-Strevens
RRP: $17.53$12.58Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar? The organisation of time into hours, days, months and years seems... -
Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time by Theodore Sider
RRP: $81.88$81.39Four-Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. This defense includes a novel account of persistence over time, new arguments in favour of the four-dimensional ontology, and responses to... -
Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life by Gloria Mark
RRP: $42.90$37.62AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD AND IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES **A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR TBR IN 2023** ... -
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time by Dean Buonomano 9780393355604
RRP: $27.28$22.19"Time" is the most common noun in the English language yet philosophers and scientists don't agree about what time actually is or how to define it. Perhaps this is because the brain tells, represents and perceives time in multiple ways. Dean Buonomano... -
Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide by Craig Callender
RRP: $17.53$13.07What is time? The 5th-century philosopher St Augustine famously said that he knew what time was, so long as no one asked him.Is time a fourth dimension similar to space or does it flow in some sense? And if it flows, does it make sense to say how fast?... -
Quantum Computing from Colossus to Qubits: The History, Theory, and Application of a Revolutionary Science by John Gribbin
RRP: $25.33$17.73The revolution is here. In breakthrough after breakthrough, pioneering physicists are unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum... -
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin 9780141046525 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$7.12Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life as a succession of moments. But just as some of us see God as eternal, so physicists understand the truths of mathematics and the laws of nature as constant, transcending time. These laws... -
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin
RRP: $21.43$15.15Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life as a succession of moments. But just as some of us see God as eternal, so physicists understand the truths of mathematics and the laws of nature as constant, transcending time. These laws... -
Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer by Jo Marchant
RRP: $21.43$15.15In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck near the island of Antikythera dating from around 70 BC.Lying unnoticed for months amongst their hard-won haul was what appeared to be a formless... -
The Calendar: The 5000 Year Struggle To Align The Clock and the Heavens, and What Happened To The Missing Ten Days by David Ewing Duncan 9781857029796 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.38$4.47The 5,000-year struggle to align the heavens with the clock and what happened to the missing ten days. Measuring the daily and yearly cycle of the cosmos has never been entirely straightforward.The year 2000 is alternatively the year 2544... -
Time Travel by James Gleick
RRP: $25.33$16.54AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our... -
The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: $44.83$39.02In this pathbreaking philosophical work, Elizabeth Grosz points the way toward a theory of becoming to replace the prevailing ontologies of being in social, political, and biological discourse. Arguing that theories of temporality have significant and...