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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird 9781838959708
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday... -
The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.26Led 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... -
The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI by Michael Wooldridge
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A terrific book - essential reading for everyone seeking to make sense of Artificial Intelligence' Professor Sir Adrian Smith, Director and Chief Executive of the Alan Turing InstituteIn this... -
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... -
Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Works by Leonardo da Vinci 9780715324530
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.14Leonardo Da Vinci is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived, responsible for the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The... -
What is Chatgpt Doing... and Why Does it Work? by Wolfram S 9781579550813
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579550813Author Stephen WolframFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURED DIRECTED BY AND STARRING CHIWETEL EJIOFOR - AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him... -
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future by Ashlee Vance
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a... -
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era James Barrat 9781529434620
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not.' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but... -
Engineers: From the Great Pyramids to Spacecraft by Adam Hart-Davis
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.65Full of incredible tales of achievement and ingenuity, Engineers celebrates the greatest engineers that ever lived and the stamp they have left on our world. Learn all about how engineering projects... -
The BOOK:The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding a Civilization by Hungry Minds 9781068555008
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £86.88The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization is a hand-illustrated journey into the art of starting over. With whimsy and insight, it explores how to rebuild society from scratch if the... -
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles... -
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the... -
Elon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance 9780062469670
Booksplease Price: £6.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062469670Author Ashlee VanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint < -
Robot Magic by Mario Marchese 9781680457124
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55Learn robotics through magic, or enhance your magic with robotics! This book is a beginner's guide to creating robotics-infused magic. You'll be introduced to simple DIY electronics and Arduino... -
My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew no limits and his incredible sense of possibility rings through his memoir. This... -
The Wright Brothers: The Dramatic Story-Behind-the-Story by David McCullough 9781471150388
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The incredible true story of the origin of human flight, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers... -
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do by Erik J. Larson
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.35"Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it."-John Horgan"If you want to know about AI, read this book...It shows how a supposedly... -
Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives by Michio Kaku 9780141044248
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Michio Kaku's Physics of the Future: The Inventions that will Transform our Lives is a hypothetical journey through the next 100 years of scientific innovation, as told by the scientists who are... -
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... -
Applied Minds: How Engineers Think by Guru Madhavan 9780393353013
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.51In this engaging account of innovative triumphs, Guru Madhavan examines the ways in which engineers throughout history created world-changing tools, from ATMs and ZIP codes to the digital camera and... -
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Dr. Kelly Weinersmith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith give us a snapshot of... -
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen by Damon Centola
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A remarkable and important guide to effecting change in our individual lives, businesses, societies - and beyond' JONAH BERGER, bestselling author of ContagiousHow did movements like the Arab Spring... -
Frank Pantridge MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator Cecil Lowry 9781399002929
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Countless thousands of men and women around the world have good reason to be thankful that Frank Pantridge survived three and a half years of brutal Japanese captivity. Had he not, they too would in... -
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... -
Connections by James Burke 9780743299558
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743299558Author James BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World James Ashton 9781529394054
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90**A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023**Out now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company behind the blueprint to it all.'A gripping and inspiring read.' Sir James... -
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802715296Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Unusual Knowledge by Ltd Publications International 9781450845809
RRP: £16.98Booksplease Price: £13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450845809Author Publications International LtdFormat HardbackPage Count -
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, one of the most acclaimed history books of recent decades, Engineers of Victory is a new account of how the tide was turned against... -
How to Use a Breadboard! Sean Michael Ragan 9781680454031
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.55his full-color, illustrated handbook uses comic book-style panels to explain the basics of using a breadboard; then it walks you through ten fun and educational projects. You'll learn-by-doing as you... -
James May's Magnificent Machines: How men in sheds have changed our lives by James May
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Our 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... -
Life Hacks: Handy Tips to Make Life Easier Dan Marshall 9781849536448
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Ever accidentally used your thumb as a hammer cushion while putting up a picture hook?Do you become enraged at the uncontrollable bobbing of the straw in your drinks can?Are you yearning to find a... -
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. And now, Matthew Sweet's... -
Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great: The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution by Anthony Burton
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.88Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the... -
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon by Steve Wozniak 9780393330434
Booksplease Price: £12.99Before slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange, alien vending machines. But in "the most staggering burst of technical invention by a single person in high-tech history"... -
Power Play: Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15*A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller*'A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride' --Walter Isaacson'A masterclass in narrative journalism' --Bradley Hope'Exemplary'... -
Penicillin Man by Chris Brown
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60The history of penicillin.About the AuthorKevin Brown has been Trust Archivist and Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum Curator at St Mary's NHS Trust, Paddington since 1989. Educated at Hertford... -
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W.Brian Arthur
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 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... -
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla
Booksplease Price: £4.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868143Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint