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Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object by Matthew C Hunter
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £38.35Painting 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... -
Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech by Lee Mcguigan
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545440Author Lee McguiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint < -
Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future by Peter J. Bowler
Booksplease Price: £48.31Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it... -
ColdFusion Presents: New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology that Transformed Our World (A Technology Gift for Men, A History of Modern Innovation) by Dagogo Altraide 9781642505917
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.58ColdFusion's New Thinking About the Future of Technology and Science"Dagogo has the uncanny ability to take fascinating topics and somehow make them even more interesting." -Adam Sinicki, author and... -
The Axe and Man: The History of Man's Early Technology as Exemplified by His Axe by Charles A. Eavrin 9781879335899
Booksplease Price: £19.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879335899Author Charles A. EavrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint -
A Short History of Naval and Marine Engineering by Edgar C. Smith 9781107672932
Booksplease Price: £39.70Originally published in 1938, this book was written to provide an account of the historical development of naval and marine engineering. The material which formed the basis of the text was gathered... -
Charles Darwin: The Man and his Influence by Peter J. Bowler 9780521566681
Booksplease Price: £26.61Darwin's enormous influence on science and culture, begun during his lifetime, is still very evident today. The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of... -
Heinkel He 115 by Hans Peter Dabrowski 9780887406676
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.80Covers the design and multiple uses of the Heinkel He 115.Book InformationISBN 9780887406676Author H.P. DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint -
Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS, 1802-1875 by Brian Bowers
Booksplease Price: £73.85Charles Wheatstone began his life-long involvement with electrical engineering in the days when it was still at the stage of 'philosophical toys', yet he had a vision of telecommunications that could... -
A Woman's Right to Know: Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn 9780262544399
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £49.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544399Author Jesse Olszynko-GrynFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Impr -
Heinkel He 219 Uhu by Heinz J. Nowarra 9780887401886
Booksplease Price: £10.19One of the best night fighters of World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780887401886Author Heinz J. NowarraFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint -
Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration and Revolution by Arthur Donovan 9780521566728
Booksplease Price: £44.32This biography represents a comprehensive, accessible account of the great eighteenth-century French chemist and administrator, Antoine Lavoisier. Historians of science know Lavoisier as a founder of... -
The Color Revolution by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £34.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2013 Hacker Prize, awarded by the Society for the History of Technology 2013.Book InformationISBN... -
Building the French Empire, 1600-1800: Colonialism and Material Culture by Benjamin Steiner 9781526167019
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.54This study explores the shared history of the French empire from the perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, Creole, and indigenous agency in the... -
Have Blue and the F-117A: Evolution of the ""Stealth Fighter by David C. Aronstein 9781563472459
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £46.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563472459Author David C. AronsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprin -
Chance and Design: Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War by Alan Hodgkin 9780521456036
Booksplease Price: £50.53Alan Hodgkin believes that - contrary to popular conviction - chance plays quite as large a role as design in scientific discovery. This engaging autobiography charts the balance of the two in his... -
Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution by Lamont Wood 9781936449361
Booksplease Price: £16.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936449361Author Lamont WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint -
Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing in by Dylan Mulvin
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £37.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045148Author Dylan MulvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint < -
Books and the Sciences in History by Marina Frasca-Spada 9780521659390
Booksplease Price: £57.42The history of the sciences and the history of the book are complementary, and there has been much recent innovative research in the intersection of these lively fields. This accessibly-written,... -
Space and the American Imagination by Howard E. McCurdy 9780801898686
Booksplease Price: £34.10People dreamed of cosmic exploration-winged spaceships and lunar voyages; space stations and robot astronauts-long before it actually happened. Space and the American Imagination traces the... -
The Early Days of the Power Station Industry by R. H. Parsons 9781107475045
Booksplease Price: £28.58First published in 1940, this book describes how the power industry originated and describes the various types of machinery and equipment used in power stations up to the end of the nineteenth... -
Humphry Davy: Science and Power by David Knight 9780521565394
Booksplease Price: £55.15In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks, and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is... -
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World Mark Denny 9780801885860
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow and arrow, the waterwheel, the... -
The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences by David Gooding 9780521337687
Booksplease Price: £57.42Experiment is widely regarded as the most distinctive feature of natural science and essential to the way scientists find out about the world. Yet there has been little study of the way scientists... -
Narrative Science: Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800 by Mary S. Morgan
Booksplease Price: £30.85Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to... -
Project Gemini by Eugen Reichl 9780764350702
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.83In just two-and-a-half years, beginning in 1964, two unmanned and ten manned flights took place in the Gemini program. This program was the turning point in the space race with the USSR; from then on... -
German Fighter Ace Erich Hartmann by Ursula Hartman
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £41.34Here is the life story of the most successful fighter pilot of all time, with 352 air combat victories - who spent ten and a half years behind Soviet barbed wire, surviving prison uprisings, hunger... -
The History and Future of Technology: Can Technology Save Humanity from Extinction? by Robert U. Ayres 9783030713928
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £43.47Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating... -
Saturn V Rocket by Alan Lawrie 9781467123877
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467123877Author Alan LawrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint -
Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present by Keith Breckenridge 9781107434899
Booksplease Price: £35.47Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic, development in countries... -
Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga 9780262537582
Booksplease Price: £33.84An account of technology in Africa from an African perspective, examining hunting in Zimbabwe as an example of an innovative mobile workspace. In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in... -
Man and Nature in the Renaissance by Allen George Debus
Booksplease Price: £19.72Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century... -
Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome by Margaret Meserve
Booksplease Price: £49.74How did Europe's oldest political institution come to grips with the disruptive new technology of print?Printing thrived after it came to Rome in the 1460s. Renaissance scholars, poets, and pilgrims... -
The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution by Henry Schlesinger 9780061442940
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061442940Author Henry SchlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism by Per Högselius 9789633866474
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.46The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance. The two authors map the... -
Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light by Jane Brox 9780547520346
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547520346Author Jane BroxFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint -
Magnificent Failure: Free Fall from the Edge of Space by Craig Ryan 9781588341419
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588341419Author Craig RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
India Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy by Ravi Agrawal
RRP: £24.49Booksplease Price: £23.32Former chief CNN India correspondent and award-wining journalist Ravi Agrawal takes readers on a journey across the Subcontinent, through its remote rural villages and its massive metropolises,... -
The Extraction State: A History of Natural Gas in America by Charles Blanchard 9780822966760
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £31.44The history of the United States of America is also the history of the energy sector. Natural gas provides the fuel that allows us to heat our homes in winter and cool them in summer with the touch... -
The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program: Unfulfilled Dreams and Missions that Never Flew by Davide Sivolella 9783031196522
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £32.79In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA's path for the decades to come. This imaginative vision...