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I Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54In 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... -
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger 9781250182517
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $24.26In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in... -
The Tetris Effect: The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game by Dan Ackerman 9780861547814
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.2121 February 1989. Three men fly into Moscow, representing software giants from Britain, America, and Japan. Each of them is determined to undercut the others in order to secure a technology so... -
Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era by Rory Cellan-Jones
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $29.24'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable [...] There is an energy and drama to Rory's writing which nonetheless leaves space for us, the reader, to make up our minds' - Stephen Fry The... -
James May's Magnificent Machines: How men in sheds have changed our lives by James May
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59Our world has been transformed beyond recognition, particularly in the twentieth century, and so were our lives and our aspirations. Throughout James May's Magnificent Machines, our Top Gear guide... -
John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature by Deborah E. Harkness 9780521027489
RRP: $45.60Booksplease Price: $39.03John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations... -
Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship by Bill Hammack 9781945441035
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945441035Author Bill HammackFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint < -
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies
RRP: $58.90Booksplease Price: $47.29Nearly 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... -
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill 9781398509207
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024**LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023* 'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES, Best Books of... -
Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth by Ian Mortimer
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, woman's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond... -
Programming Language Cultures: Automating Automation Brian Lennon 9781503639874
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.69In this book, Brian Lennon demonstrates the power of a philological approach to the history of programming languages and their usage cultures. In chapters focused on specific programming languages... -
Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel's Railway Empire by Tim Bryan 9781398112698
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $27.32Isambard 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 Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects Emily Prokop 9781633538283
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.38Discover 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... -
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W.Brian Arthur
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54In The Nature of Technology, ground-breaking economist W. Brian Arthur explores the extraordinary way in which the technology that surrounds us and allows us to live our modern lives has actually... -
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debateBeginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully... -
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla
Booksplease Price: $9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868143Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint -
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture by Brian Dear
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $26.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101973639Author Brian DearFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint -
Radio Broadcasting: A History of the Airwaves by Gordon Bathgate
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.742020 marks the centenary of Marconi's experimental transmissions and this book seeks to commemorate this anniversary. The book examines the history of radio and traces its development from theories... -
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson 9781846148552
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.23From Steven Johnson, the bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, comes How We Got to Now, the companion book to his six-part BBC One television series exploring the power and the legacy of... -
Timelines of Science by DK 9780241600979
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $33.02Discover the world of science as never before in this richly illustrated guide bringing key milestones and events to life in visual timelines. Offering a uniquely accessible and visual approach,... -
The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world Bryan Appleyard 9781474615419
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $12.90More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made... -
Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945 Alfred Price 9781473895645
RRP: $56.91Booksplease Price: $43.02The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could... -
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Drury Clark 9780813595832
RRP: $49.38Booksplease Price: $40.93A 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... -
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam 9780008166083
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.08Previously published in paperback as October Sky. Three years in the life of Homer 'Sonny' Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful... -
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.32** 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... -
Concorde by Christopher Orlebar
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.40The story of one of greatest technological achievements of the 20th century told from a pilot's-eye view, which will appeal to all enthusiasts of modern aviation. From her first commercial flight... -
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men: A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West by Carl P. Russell 9781602399693
Booksplease Price: $20.98This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with... -
The White Paper by Satoshi Nakamoto
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999675929Author Satoshi NakamotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint
London's Lost Power Stations and Gasworks by Ben Pedroche 9780752487618
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $25.04Many 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...
Tesla: Wizard At War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power by Marc Seifer
RRP: $41.78Booksplease Price: $30.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806540962Author Marc SeiferFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint
Computing: A Concise History by Paul E. Ceruzzi
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $20.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262517676Author Paul E. CeruzziFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint
World Heritage Canal: Thomas Telford and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct by Paul A. Lynn 9781849953986
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $26.11Thomas Telford was arguably the greatest civil engineer Britain has ever produced. This book reveals his humble beginnings and then describes his self-propelled rise from journeyman stonemason to...
MINI: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car by Simon Garfield
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54In 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...
Spycraft by H. Keith Melton 9780553820072
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $26.32Secret instructons written in invisible ink.Cigarettes that fire bullets.Covert communications slipped inside dead rats.Subminature cameras hidden in ballpoint pens.If these sound like the stuff of...
Concorde Pocket Manual by Richard Johnstone-Bryden
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.57The story of the legendary supersonic passenger jet, told through a series of contemporary documents and records. First flown in 1969, Concorde was the first supersonic aircraft to go into...
How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain by Ryan North 9780593541531
RRP: $34.20Booksplease Price: $23.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593541531Author Ryan NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint
Guide to Electro-Motive E and F Units by Jeff Wilson 9781627008822
RRP: $53.18Booksplease Price: $34.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627008822Author Jeff WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint
Cafe Racers of the 1960s by Mick Walker
Booksplease Price: $21.95Various events contrived to bring about the cafe racer era, together with the advent of the rocker - and subsequently mod - cults. New motorcycles such as the BSA Gold Star singles and star twins,...
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure Vaclav Smil 9780262551014
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $24.64From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. Included in BILL GATES's 2023 Holiday Reading List Included in...
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones
RRP: $114.00Booksplease Price: $88.83In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera...