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Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation by Ju rgen P. Melzer 9780674244429
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €26.17The history of Japanese aviation offers countless stories of heroic achievements and dismal failures, passionate enthusiasm and sheer terror, brilliant ideas and fatally flawed strategies.In Wings for the Rising Sun, scholar and former airline pilot... -
Engines: The Inner Workings of Machines That Move the World by Theodore Gray
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €23.76In 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... -
Victorian Engineering by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.20L T C Rolt was an engineer and pioneer of industrial history; in this book he combined these two passions to give us a fascinating account of the men who 'made' Britain. From Brunel to Telford, he takes us on a journey from the first railway tracks being... -
Technology is Not the Problem by Timandra Harkness 9780008503604
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €15.41We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, knowing all this, do we keep going back for more? “Great book” – Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works “Essential reading” – Pete... -
A History of Fireworks from Their Origins to the Present Day John Withington 9781789149357
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.52This book illuminates the glittering history of fireworks, from their enigmatic origins tied to the pursuit of eternal life to the dazzling centrepieces of global celebrations today. It describes the invention of fireworks, how they became popular in... -
I Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.03In 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... -
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger 9781250182517
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.60In 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 their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had... -
The Tetris Effect: The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game by Dan Ackerman 9780861547814
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.7921 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 powerfully addictive it has brought the government department... -
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? by Graeme Barker 9780199559954
RRP: €79.73Booksplease Price: €52.56The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, and integrates a massive... -
Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users by Ruth Oldenziel 9780262516136
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €23.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516136Author Ruth OldenzielFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 17mm -
Autonomous Maintenance in Seven Steps: Implementing TPM on the Shop Floor Fumio Gotoh 9781563272196
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €59.27Autonomous maintenance is an especially important pillar of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) because it enlists the intelligence and skills of the people who are most familiar with factory machines-- equipment operators. Operators learn the maintenance... -
Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era by Rory Cellan-Jones
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.67'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 inside story of how tech became personal and pernicious,... -
James May's Magnificent Machines: How men in sheds have changed our lives by James May
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.94Our 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 explores the iconic themes of the past hundred years:... -
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran by Blake Atwood
RRP: €39.27Booksplease Price: €31.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542845Author Blake AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature by Deborah E. Harkness 9780521027489
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €23.26John 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 within the natural philosophical, religious and social... -
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning Robert Skidelsky 9780141982519
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.47A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the... -
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr 9781324064619
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.13From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom... -
Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship by Bill Hammack 9781945441035
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945441035Author Bill HammackFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Articulate Noise BooksPublisher Articulate Noise Books -
The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850 by David Gwyn
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €24.69The 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... -
Jensen Cars: A Guide to Jensen C-V8, 541 and Interceptor Models by Colin Pitt
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739845094Author Colin PittFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CP PressPublisher CP PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 201mm * 10mm -
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €29.75Nearly 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... -
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill 9781398509207
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.57*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 2023'Gripping' THE TIMES, Best Technology Books of 2023... -
Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe by Mark A. Waddell 9781108441650
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.78From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddell explores the rich and complex ways that premodern people made sense of their world. He... -
Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth by Ian Mortimer
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.19We 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 recognition.Sweeping through the last thousand years of... -
Programming Language Cultures: Automating Automation Brian Lennon 9781503639874
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.28In 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 such as SNOBOL and JavaScript, as well as on code... -
From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet John Naughton 9780857384263
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.46Our society has gone through a weird, unremarked transition: once a novelty, the Net is now something that we take for granted, like mains electricity or running water. In the process we've been surprisingly incurious about its significance or cultural... -
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich 9781564784018
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2005 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9781564784018Author Svetlana AlexievichFormat... -
Los Alamos Rolodex: Doing Business with the National Lab 1967-1978 by Center for Land Use Interpretation 9780922233458
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.75In 2012 the Center for Land Use Interpretation acquired a set of seven rolodexes from the dispersed collection of former Los Alamos National Laboratory employee Ed Grothus, who operated a salvage company of lab cast-offs, known as The Black Hole. Now... -
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough 9781476728742
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €25.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781476728742Author David McCulloughFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon... -
Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel's Railway Empire by Tim Bryan 9781398112698
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €18.36Isambard 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... -
The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects Emily Prokop 9781633538283
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.96Discover 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 Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W.Brian Arthur
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54In 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 been developed. Rather than coming from a series of... -
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.04The 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 demonstrated that electricity could pass from one end to the... -
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla
Booksplease Price: €5.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868143Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm -
The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire by Simon Naylor 9781009207232
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €82.71In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses our attention on the spaces in which it was pursued: meteorological observatories. During the nineteenth century, meteorologists established or converted sites where observers... -
The Governor: Controlling the Power of Steam Machines by Hannavy, John 9781399090889
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €26.53Power without control is unusable power, and long after the invention of the steam engine, finding ways of applying that power to tasks where consistency was of paramount importance was the 'Holy Grail' which many steam engineers sought to find. It was... -
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture by Brian Dear
RRP: €19.84Booksplease Price: €15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101973639Author Brian DearFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Metaverse: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Building the Spatial Internet Matthew Ball 9781324095286
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €24.22"The term "Metaverse" is thirty years old, yet only recently entered mainstream conversation, attracting both fascinating and skepticism. While some have promised its imminent arrival, in fact it will take a series of technological and societal leaps to... -
Radio Broadcasting: A History of the Airwaves by Gordon Bathgate
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.972020 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 advanced by James Clerk Maxwell and Heinrich Hertz to... -
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson 9781846148552
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.12From 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 great ideas.How did photography bring about social...