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How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £10.99£7.77* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour... -
Ka-boom!: The Science of Extremes by David Darling 9780861548033
RRP: £10.99£7.38What's the brightest light on Earth? The coldest corner of the universe? The blackest material ever made? The most poisonous substance in nature? 'You will learn something new in every chapter, on every page and probably in every paragraph. Hugely... -
The Little Book of Aliens by Adam Frank 9780063279735
RRP: £27.99£15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063279735Author Adam FrankFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Engines: The Inner Workings of Machines That Move the World by Theodore Gray
RRP: £25.00£19.81In Engines, the always entertaining and informative Theodore Gray explores the glorious guts and intricate innards of dozens of impressive machines. Through his engaging and unexpected stories and Nick Mann's trademark gorgeous photography, Gray takes us... -
Marconi's New Street Works 1912 - 2012 by Tim Wander 9780755206933
£18.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755206933Author Tim WanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 710g -
The World of Ham Radio, 1901-1950: A Social History by Richard A. Bartlett 9781476662756
RRP: £21.99£17.97During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, ham radio went from being an experiment to virtually an art form. Because of the few government restrictions and the low monetary investment required, the concept of ham radio appealed to various... -
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine
RRP: £11.99£7.93** Featured as a Guardian Long Read **'[A] fast-paced, myth busting expose' Max Blumenthal, author of The Management of Savagery'Contentious... forceful... salutary' The New YorkerEVERYTHING WE HAVE BEEN TOLD ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC NATURE OF THE INTERNET... -
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters 9781469675985
RRP: £19.95£12.53The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating... -
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North
RRP: £18.00£11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735220157Author Ryan NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 209mm *... -
Space: A thrilling human history by Britain's beloved astronaut Tim Peake by Tim Peake 9781529913507
RRP: £22.00£16.02From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future forays to Mars. The Right Stuff for a new generation.'This book is brilliant - once in a blue moon. A book for... -
1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization by National Geographic
RRP: £19.99£16.241001 Inventions provides unique insight into a significant time period in Muslim history that has been looked over by much of the world. A time where discoveries were made and inventions were created that have impacted how Western civilization and the... -
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time by Rebecca Struthers
RRP: £22.00£14.56A 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... -
Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work by Roma Agrawal 9781529340112
RRP: £12.99£8.60*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023**AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK, OFF AIR WITH FI AND JANE AND 99% INVISIBLE*'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to the nerdy side of just about all of us... a great book to... -
Bauhaus by Magdalena Droste
RRP: £20.00£15.29In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which... -
How Technology Works: The facts visually explained by DK
RRP: £18.99£14.01Have you ever asked yourself how the inventions, gadgets, and devices that surround us actually work? Discover the hidden workings of everyday technology with this graphic guide.How Technology Works demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world... -
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder 9780316491976
RRP: £19.99£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316491976Author Tracy KidderFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity by Robert Hannigan 9780008398552
RRP: £25.00£16.83From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers – what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativity How do you hire smart people who can work together to prevent terrorist attacks... -
A Handheld History by Lost in Cult 9780008598174
RRP: £35.00£24.69A Handheld History is a unique celebration of portable platforms and their iconic games. Forty years ago, businessmen fiddling with calculators inspired Gunpei Yokoi to create the Game & Watch. Ever since then,... -
Small Inventions That Made a Big Difference Helen Pilcher 9781787397873
RRP: £14.99£10.20Pockets, matches, spectacles, postage stamps. Whether it's the stitches that hold our clothes together or the syringes that deliver life-saving vaccines, small things really do make a big difference. Yet these modest but essential components of everyday... -
How to Read Bridges: A crash course spanning the centuries by Edward Denison
RRP: £12.99£9.79A lavishly illustrated practical guide for understanding bridges, with case studies of the world's most famous bridges. How to Read Bridges is a practical introduction to looking at the structure and purpose of bridges and a guide to reading the... -
London's Underground, revised edition: The Story of the Tube by Oliver Green 9780711289055
RRP: £35.00£24.83It is impossible to imagine London without the Tube: the beating heart of the city, the Underground shuttles over a billion passengers each year below its busy streets and across its leafy suburbs. The distinctive roundel, colour-coded maps and Johnston... -
British Rail by Christian Wolmar 9781405946278
RRP: £12.99£9.09The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail'Wolmar's book is impeccably organised and makes a fast, enjoyable read' THE TIMES Literary Supplement________British Rail wasn't how we're asked to remember it... -
The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday TimesThe international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century'The... -
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Drury Clark 9780813595832
RRP: £26.99£21.32A classic work in the history of science, and described as "a good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one" by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. ... -
Out of the Hay and into the Hops: Hop Cultivation in Wealden Kent and Hop Marketing in Southwark, 1744-2000 by Celia Cordle 9781907396045
RRP: £18.99£16.98Based on oral histories and farm books, this account offers a fascinating analysis of some 300 years of hop-cultivation history in the Weald of Kent, a rural area in the South of England, and in the London Borough of Southwark. The diverse processes of... -
MINI: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car by Simon Garfield
RRP: £12.99£8.56In 1959, the first Mini was produced on an assembly line at Cowley, near Oxford. It would take a team of supremely talented designers, engineers and production-line workers to build a car that was unique in appearance and construction. They would clash... -
Machine Learning, Revised and Updated Edition by Ethem Alpaydin
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542524Author Ethem AlpaydinFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony 9780691148182
RRP: £25.00£19.99Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now... -
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £10.99£7.77'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning' Bill GatesIs flying... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney 9780241370513
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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... -
Manmade Wonders of the World by DK
RRP: £35.00£26.69Discover and explore the most incredible statues, monuments, temples, bridges, and ancient cities with this unparalleled survey of the most famous buildings and structures created by humans.From Stonehenge to the Sagrada Familia, from the Great Wall of... -
Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction by Margaret A. Boden
RRP: £8.99£6.45The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The results of Artificial Intelligence have been invaluable to biologists,... -
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery by Seb Falk
RRP: £12.99£9.09Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-written, it's a charismatic evocation of another world' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to... -
Saturn V Rocket by Alan Lawrie 9781467123877
RRP: £22.99£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467123877Author Alan LawrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Papyrus: THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER by Irene Vallejo 9781529344004
RRP: £12.99£8.60The bestselling phenomenon - a 6,000-year adventure through the history of books and readingA FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2023'Outstanding, universal and unique' NEW YORK... -
The Computers That Made Britain Tim Danton 9781912047857
RRP: £12.00£10.41The home computer boom of the 1980s brought with it now-iconic machines such as the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Commodore 64. Those machines would inspire a generation and foster the creation of a booming British software industry that continues to this... -
I Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: £10.99£7.77In I Know You Got Soul, Jeremy Clarkson writes about the machines that he believes have 'soul'. It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But it's not just any old bucket of blots, cogs and bearings that rings his bell... -
AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own by Verity Harding 9780691244877
RRP: £20.00£15.77A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI's power grows, so does the need to figure out what-and who-this technology is really for. AI Needs You argues that it is critical... -
Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks: A Potted History of Personal Tech by Peter Leigh
RRP: £16.99£11.94In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than forty pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures... -
The Saturn I/IB Rocket: NASA's First Apollo Launch Vehicle by David Baker 9781800350281
RRP: £27.95£19.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800350281Author David BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing