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The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Led 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... -
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023) by Jody Rosen 9780099593591
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.42**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on SundayA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle... -
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery by Seb Falk
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Chosen 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... -
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony 9780691148182
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.43Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did... -
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, From Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks by Chad Orzel
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'Entertaining and engrossing' Sean Carroll Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping. That need to tell the time connects you to... -
The Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 by David Edgerton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page' Guardian Standard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual... -
Gateway to the Moon: Building the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex by Charles D. Benson 9780813020914
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.31Gateway to the Moon presents the definitive history of the origins, design, and construction of the lunar launch facilities at Kennedy Space Center, the terrestrial site of one of the greatest... -
The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything by Michael J. Saylor
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00In the tradition of international bestsellers, Future Shock and Megatrends , Michael J. Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, brings The Mobile Wave , a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of mobile... -
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'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... -
A Handheld History by Lost in Cult 9780008598174
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.52A Handheld History is a unique celebration of portable platforms and their iconic games. Forty years ago, businessmen fiddling with calculators inspired Gunpei... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney 9780241370513
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious... -
Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction by Margaret A. Boden
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us; in our homes, schools and offices, in our cinemas, in art galleries and - not least - on the Internet. The results of Artificial... -
British Rail by Christian Wolmar 9781405946278
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail'Wolmar's book is impeccably organised and makes a fast, enjoyable read' THE TIMES Literary... -
The Thames Tideway Tunnel: Preventing Another Great Stink by Mr Phil Stride 9780750989817
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50In 1858 the 'Great Stink of London' made much of the city along the Thames uninhabitable. Between 1848 and 1854 nearly 25,000 Londoners died of cholera, a disease borne by foul water. Joseph... -
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company by Michael S. Malone 9780062226761
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.05Based on unprecedented access to the corporation's archives, The Intel Trinity is the first full history of Intel Corporation-the essential company of the digital age- told through the lives of the... -
Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £15.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439148815Author Gene KranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday TimesThe international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of... -
Female Innovators Who Changed Our World: How Women Shaped STEM by Green, Emma 9781526789693
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24We are not all born with equal opportunities. Yet there have been countless of women who have overcome a range of barriers such as prejudice, illness, and personal tragedy to advance our... -
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Paabo
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93ONE OF AMAZON'S TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2014 Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer this question: what can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary... -
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr 9781324064619
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.15From 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 Computers That Made Britain Tim Danton 9781912047857
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.89The 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... -
The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA by Diane Vaughan
Booksplease Price: £26.98When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, millions of Americans became bound together in a single, historic moment. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and what... -
The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology by Wiebe E. Bijker 9780262517607
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £30.21An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society. This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the... -
The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play by James C. Whorton
RRP: £16.49Booksplease Price: £13.16Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from... -
Engineering: A Beginner's Guide by Natasha McCarthy 9781851686629
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Focusing on the impact of engineering on society and the world, McCarthy details the development of the discipline, explains what makes an engineering mind, and shows how every aspect of our lives... -
Instant Engineering: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Inventions Explained on a Single Page Joel Levy 9781787393233
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Instant 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... -
The Long History of the Future: Why tomorrow's technology still isn't here by Nicole Kobie 9781399403108
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Portishead Radio: A Friendly Voice On Many A Dark Night by Larry Bennett 9781800318960
Booksplease Price: £13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800318960Author Larry BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint -
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.43* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that... -
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham 9781501134630
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence (Nonfiction) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781501134630Author Adam Hig -
To Engineer Is Human: The Role Of Failure In Successful Design by Henry Petroski
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679734161Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez 9780008607982
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79‘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... -
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.99Longlisted 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... -
How Steam Locomotives Really Work by A. J. Goldfinch
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £11.78Following 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... -
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.99SHORTLISTED 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... -
The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology by Nick Cook
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767906289Author Nick CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Wings: A History of Aviation from Kites to the Space Age by Tom D. Crouch 9780393326208
RRP: £33.50Booksplease Price: £31.43Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Console Chronicles Lost in Cult 9780008616588
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.56The Console Chronicles will take you on a unique journey through the history of gaming platforms. Fifty years ago, the home console was an anomaly that predated... -
Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks: A Potted History of Personal Tech by Peter Leigh
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86In 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... -
Ka-boom!: The Science of Extremes by David Darling 9780861548033
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.53What'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...