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The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science by Roy Porter 9781107559738
Booksplease Price: $84.42This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific... -
A Brief History of Everything Wireless: How Invisible Waves Have Changed the World by Petri Launiainen 9783319789095
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $99.06Since the discovery of electromagnetic waves less than 150 years ago, the application of wireless communications technology has not only revolutionized our daily lives, but also fundamentally changed... -
God and Reason in the Middle Ages by Edward Grant
Booksplease Price: $74.49Between 1100 and 1600, the emphasis on reason in the learning and intellectual life of Western Europe became more pervasive and widespread than ever before in the history of human civilization. Of... -
The Bishop Method: The life and achievements of Professor Alan Bishop, soil mechanics pioneer by Laurie Wesley 9781849954396
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $68.15Bishop is undoubtedly one of the most widely-known names in the soil mechanics, or geotechnical engineering, community today, alongside the `founding father', Karl Terzaghi. This is mainly due to the... -
![German Fighter Ace Hans-Joachim Marseille: The Life Story of the "Star of Africa" by Franz Kurowski](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/311815/311532/9780887405174__34005.1686976851.jpg?c=1 "German Fighter Ace Hans-Joachim Marseille: The Life Story of the "Star of Africa" by Franz Kurowski")
German Fighter Ace Hans-Joachim Marseille: The Life Story of the "Star of Africa" by Franz Kurowski
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $73.33A tribute to one of the top fighter aces of the World War II, this new full length biography appears here in its first edition. Marseilles' wartime exploits are legendary with the 158 aerial... -
The Future is Digital: How Complexity and Artificial Intelligence will Shape Our Lives and Work by George Rzevski 9783031378096
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $49.60This book describes in an easily accessible way how artificial intelligence (AI) will help us to overcome the ongoing rise in complexity and thus shape our lives and work in a not-too-distant future... -
Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps by Karen Wigen
Booksplease Price: $84.99Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their... -
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $33.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476708706Author Walter IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint -
American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970 by Thomas P. Hughes
Booksplease Price: $42.88American Genesis is the book that helped earn Thomas Hughes his reputation as one of the foremost historians of technology of our age. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990, the book tells the... -
Republic F-84: Thunderjet, Thunderstreak, and Thunderflash/A Photo Chronicle by David R. McLaren 9780764304446
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $47.17The Republic Aviation Corporation F-84 series, the Thunderjet, Thunderstreak, and Thunderflash was the United States Air Forces' first Post World War II jet fighter. As a somewhat sad result of this,... -
Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890-1967: Holism and the Quest for Objectivity by Mitchell G. Ash 9780521646277
Booksplease Price: $120.58This is a full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology - an attempt to advance holistic thought within natural science. Holistic thought is often portrayed as a woolly-minded revolt against... -
Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution by Lamont Wood 9781948261548
Booksplease Price: $48.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948261548Author Lamont WoodFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint -
The Birth of a New Agriculture: Koberwitz 1924 and the Introduction of Biodynamics by Adalbert Graf Von Keyserlingk 9781906999056
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $28.18In 1924 at Koberwitz, the estate of Count and Countess Keyserlingk, Rudolf Steiner gave a key course of lectures on agriculture. At a time when industrial methods were being introduced into farming,... -
The History of the London Water Industry, 1580-1820 by Leslie Tomory 9781421422046
Booksplease Price: $110.54Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished... -
The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4 by Colin A. Ronan 9780521338738
Booksplease Price: $86.88Three previous volumes of this series by Colin Ronan are each available in hardback as well as paperback. Volume I introduces the reader to the country of China: its history, geography and language... -
Project Mercury by Eugen Reichl 9780764350696
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.21Project Mercury was America's entry into the manned spaceflight program. When the program began in 1958, the Soviet Union was far ahead of the US in the race for supremacy in space. With immense... -
Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution by Robert M. Clark 9781647120115
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $78.02A riveting introduction to the complex and evolving field of geospatial intelligence. Although geospatial intelligence is a term of recent origin, its underpinnings have a long and interesting... -
An Archaeology of Innovation: Approaching Social and Technological Change in Human Society by Catherine J. Frieman 9781526171788
Booksplease Price: $49.43An archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective. It interrogates the idea of innovation that... -
Cosmonaut: A Cultural History by Cathleen S. Lewis 9781683403708
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88How the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut was designed and reimagined over timeIn this book, Cathleen Lewis discusses how the public image of the Soviet cosmonaut developed beginning in the 1950s... -
Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe by Alix Cooper
Booksplease Price: $55.88In the wake of expanding commercial voyages, many people in early modern Europe became curious about the plants and minerals around them and began to compile catalogues of them. Drawing on cultural,... -
Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820 by Jan Golinski 9780521659529
Booksplease Price: $64.16Science as Public Culture joins a growing number of studies examining science as a practical activity in specific social settings. Jan Golinski considers the development of chemistry in Britain from... -
The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook: A Pictorial History of Lunar Vehicles by Robert Godwin 9781894959698
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $27.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894959698Author Robert GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Digital Oil: Machineries of Knowing by Eric Monteiro
Booksplease Price: $74.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544672Author Eric MonteiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint -
Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle poque by Hollis Clayson
Booksplease Price: $114.70The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower's nightly... -
Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815 by Sarah Easterby-Smith 9781107565685
Booksplease Price: $74.49Sarah Easterby-Smith rewrites the histories of botany and horticulture from the perspectives of plant merchants who sold botanical specimens in the decades around 1800. These merchants were not... -
A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century by Edward Grant
Booksplease Price: $62.08Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and was little concerned with mathematics. By contrast,... -
Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986 by David Hitt 9781496229403
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $36.20After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most... -
A People's History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin 9780674970977
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $45.61Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism.The... -
It Goes without Saying: Taking the Guesswork Out of Your PhD in Engineering by Caroline Boudoux 9780262548205
Booksplease Price: $78.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548205Author Caroline BoudouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint
On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping by Kenneth C. Mondschein
RRP: $53.55Booksplease Price: $41.66An approachable, accessible history of timekeeping and the impact of the increasing precision and accuracy of time on humanity.Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the...
Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880 by JoAnne Yates 9781421428895
RRP: $110.25Booksplease Price: $81.27The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting.Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History ConferencePrivate, voluntary...
Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History by Loren R. Graham 9780521287890
Booksplease Price: $64.16By the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment had become the largest in the world, but very little of its history was known in the West. What has been needed for many years in order to fill that...
Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor by Iina Kohonen
Booksplease Price: $67.56Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a...
The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West by Toby E. Huff
Booksplease Price: $75.12Now in its third edition, The Rise of Early Modern Science argues that to understand why modern science arose in the West it is essential to study not only the technical aspects of scientific thought...
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 2, Medieval Science by David C. Lindberg 9781107521643
Booksplease Price: $88.56This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley. Medieval science was once...
Technical and Military Imperatives: A Radar History of World War 2 L Brown 9780750306591
RRP: $262.50Booksplease Price: $241.44Technical and Military Imperatives: A Radar History of World War II is a coherent account of the history of radar in the second World War. Although many books have been written on the early days of...
Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The origin and spread of domesticated plants in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean Basin by Daniel Zohary 9780199688173
Booksplease Price: $131.88The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000 years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in favour of growing...
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson 9781400080663
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $48.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400080663Author Erik LarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint
Science and the Enlightenment by Thomas L. Hankins 9780521286190
Booksplease Price: $51.74Science and the Enlightenment is a general history of eighteenth-century science covering both the physical and life sciences. It places the scientific developments of the century in the cultural...
Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object by Matthew C Hunter
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $80.54Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century--and how they can alter our...