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Coal Mining in Britain by Richard Hayman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.39An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them. Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powered the engines of the Industrial Revolution. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the coalfields -... -
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill 9781398509177
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.96'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES Best Books of 2023'In a gripping - and sometimes creepy - book, Hill explores the repercussions of [facial recognition] technology and finds out who is behind it' THE TIMES Best Technology Books of... -
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21'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... -
The Computers That Made Britain Tim Danton 9781912047857
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.79The 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... -
A Handheld History by Lost in Cult 9780008598174
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.00A 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,... -
Innovation: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Dodgson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.04What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150... -
Blitz Then and Now: v. 3 by Winston G. Ramsey 9780900913587
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £38.23The period in question began quietly with the Luftwaffe busy elsewhere, yet the increasing attacks on Germany by the Royal Air Foce provoked a response in the form of the so-called Baedeker offensive of 1942. And it is against this background of the... -
Captain Swing Eric Hobsbawm 9781781681800
Booksplease Price: £23.99Sir Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills Ye have been the Blackguard Enemies of the People on all occasions, Ye have not yet... -
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming by Paul N. Edwards 9780262518635
Booksplease Price: £36.04The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future. Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for... -
The Qualcomm Equation: How a Fledgling Telecom Company Forged a New Path to Big Profits and Market Dominance by Dave Mock 9780814409978
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.19This book reveals crucial but little-known information on the history of cellular and wireless technology -- some of which dates to World War II -- and shows how the company grabbed the wave just as it began to rise.It is not an exaggeration to say that... -
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.80Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of... -
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery by Seb Falk
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Chosen 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... -
Instant Engineering: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Inventions Explained on a Single Page Joel Levy 9781787393233
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.27Instant Engineering pulls together all the pivotal engineering theories and discoveries into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert... -
Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel's Railway Empire by Tim Bryan 9781398112698
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.60Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Victorian icon, engineer, artist, architect, designer and visionary, entrepreneur and celebrity. His astounding feats changed the British landscape, and this new book tells the story of his awe-inspiring achievements and... -
Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy by Ben Collier 9780262548182
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £29.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548182Author Ben CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
I Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21In 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... -
The Long History of the Future: Why tomorrow's technology still isn't here Nicole Kobie 9781399403108
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.72We love to imagine the future. But why are groundbreaking future technologies always just around the corner, and never a reality?For decades we've delighted in dreaming about a sci-fi utopia, from flying cars and bionic humans to hyperloops and smart... -
Retro Gaming: A Byte-sized History of Video Games - From Atari to Zelda by Mike Diver
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.31'Superb coffee table book' - Nintendo Life'A fun read' - Retro Gamer Take a trip down memory lane with Retro Gaming, and relive the glory days (and not so glory days) of your old retro tech favourites.Published in paperback to tie-in with 50 years of... -
Spaceflight: A Concise History by Michael J. Neufeld
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262536332Author Michael J. NeufeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius by Marc J. Seifer
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806539966Author Marc J. SeiferFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. -
The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.67Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of... -
The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez 9780008607982
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.56‘A gorgeous, sweeping epic’ ANN NAPOLITANO ‘One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY ‘Spectacular’ JOANNE SEFTON ‘I didn’t want it to end’ SARA SHERIDAN A breathtaking historical novel following the incredible construction of the Panama Canal and... -
Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution by Robert M. Clark
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £104.83A 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 history. Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution... -
It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies by Bill Fawcett
Booksplease Price: £10.18Gathered in this book is a collection of flawed plans, half baked ideas, and downright ridiculous machines that, with the best and most optimistic intentions, men have constructed throughout history. Included are such military, scientific, commercial,... -
London's Lost Power Stations and Gasworks by Ben Pedroche 9780752487618
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.74Many of London's original power stations have either been demolished, converted for other use, or stand derelict awaiting redevelopment that is seemingly always just out of reach. However, in their prime these mighty 'cathedrals of power' played a vital... -
How Steam Locomotives Really Work by A. J. Goldfinch
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.23Following the pioneering work of Trevithick, Stephenson, and many others, steam locomotives continued to evolve and be refined until overtaken by diesel and electric traction technology. Although the last main-line steam service was operated by British... -
The Complete Book of the SR-71: Every Aircraft, Pilot, and Story from 1963 Richard Graham 9780760348499
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.00The ultimate SR-71 book which profiles the history, development, manufacture, modification, and active service of all 50 models in the SR-71 program. At the height of the Cold War in 1964, President Johnson announced a new aircraft dedicated to... -
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.37SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the definitive history, and will remain so for generations' A.N... -
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System by Wes Marshall 9781642833300
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.45In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continue to accept these deaths as part of doing business. There has been no examination of why we engineer... -
Machine Learning, Revised and Updated Edition by Ethem Alpaydin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.27Apologies 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 -
Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age by Tom D. Crouch 9780393326208
RRP: £33.50Booksplease Price: £30.21The invention of the airplane ushered in the modern age-a new era of global commerce, revolutionary technologies, and total war. Whatever the practical consequences, the sheer exhilaration of flight captured the imagination. No longer bound to the... -
The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects Emily Prokop 9781633538283
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.36Discover the Surprising History of Ordinary Things"Emily magically weaves a vibrant history of simple everyday objects we often take for granted. The Story Behind will surprise and delight..." Deana Marie, Creator & Host of the Twisted Philly podcast#1... -
The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850 by David Gwyn
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.38The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution-one that... -
Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks: A Potted History of Personal Tech by Peter Leigh
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.92In 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... -
Ka-boom!: The Science of Extremes by David Darling 9780861548033
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.82What'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... -
Small Inventions That Made a Big Difference Helen Pilcher 9781787397873
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.33Pockets, 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... -
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.43Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data... -
Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation by Jamie Lendino 9780692851272
Booksplease Price: £14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692851272Author Jamie LendinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Steel Gear PressPublisher Steel Gear PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age by Thomas S. Mullaney 9780262047517
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £21.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047517Author Thomas S. MullaneyFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quamtum Cryptography by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495325Author Simon SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...