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Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles Travis Elborough 9781408712849
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.49'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon GarfieldThe humble pair of glasses might just be one the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions to see a world that might otherwise appear a blur. And yet how much do many of us even really think about... -
Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation by Kristy Hamilton 9781778401121
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.13A lively and endlessly fascinating deep-dive into nature and the many groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild."Delightful."—The Guardian"Fans of Helen Scales won't want to miss this."—Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewWhen astronomers wanted a... -
One Good Turn: a Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski 9780684867304
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684867304Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 140gDimensions(mm) 190mm *... -
Brilliantly Bad: Inventions So Terrible They Are Good by Mark Tanner 9780008558659
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.66A miscellany of actual patents for wonderfully bizarre inventions, Brilliantly Bad is a salute to what the human mind can achieve - even if it probably shouldn't. This collection of the strangest ideas ever patented,... -
The Roaring 2020s: How the Cloud Will Unleash History's Biggest Economic Boom by Mark P. Mills
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £17.54The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what's really coming.The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the "new normal,"... -
Innovation: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Dodgson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30What 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... -
History of the Sewing Machine by James Parton 9781603861717
Booksplease Price: £6.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603861717Author James PartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm *... -
Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty by Robert Kanigel
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.63Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who for over forty years have made Nobel Prize- and Lasker... -
Science Museum - Genius Inventions: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Technological Breakthroughs by Jack Challoner
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.10Genius Inventions gives readers an unprecedented insight into the events, people and histories behind technological and scientific developments that have helped shape modern civilization. Discover the inspiration for some of the most important moments in... -
Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All Erno Rubik 9781474613125
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'More than just a memoir. A manifesto for a whole way of thinking' Daily Mail'An idiosyncratic and gripping memoir about his life and the indomitable career of the Cube' Observer'The rise and enduring power of the world's most popular puzzle toy . . ... -
Vintage Tomorrows: What Steampunk Can Teach Us About the Future by Pieter Hintjens 9781449337995
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.50Can you imagine what today's technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That's the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st Century-inspired contraptions powered by stream and driven by gears. It's more than just a... -
Plato's Alarm Clock: And Other Amazing Ancient Inventions by James M. Russell 9781782439349 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.98We all like to think we are pretty smart. New medical advances seem to come along every day; space travel suddenly doesn't seem so difficult; self-driving cars are no longer a thing of the future . but if we were stranded on a desert island tomorrow,... -
Plato's Alarm Clock: And Other Amazing Ancient Inventions James M. Russell 9781782439349
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.77We all like to think we are pretty smart. New medical advances seem to come along every day; space travel suddenly doesn't seem so difficult; self-driving cars are no longer a thing of the future . but if we were stranded on a desert island tomorrow,... -
Make: Paper Inventions Kathy Ceceri 9781457187520
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.54Paper is amazing stuff. It's cheap, easy to use, and easy to recycle. It's lightweight and easy to cut or tear--but incredibly strong when folded, layered, or rolled. It can stand stiff as a board, pop up like a spring, or hang softly like a silk scarf... -
Nature's Wild Ideas: How Biomicicry Is Inspiring Scientists Around the World by Kristy Hamilton
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.38A lively and endlessly fascinating deep-dive into nature and the many groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild. "Delightful."-The Guardian "Fans of Helen Scales won't want to miss this."-Publishers Weekly STARRED Review When astronomers... -
Birdseye by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767930307Author Mark KurlanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla 9781603866033
Booksplease Price: £6.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603866033Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Wright Way: 7 Problem-Solving Principles from the Wright Brothers That Can Make Your Business Soar by Mark EPPLER 9780814414613
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.24"When Wilbur and Orville Wright executed the first successful manned flight on December 17th, 1903, they stunned the world. Man could fly! Where had these two brothers come from? The impact was astonishing. (Imagine if Neil Armstrong had landed on... -
Einstein's Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric by Allen Esterson
Booksplease Price: £35.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538978Author Allen EstersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 21mm -
The Man behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley by Leslie Berlin 9780195311990
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.63Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now, in The Man Behind the... -
The Digital Ape: how to live (in peace) with smart machines by Nigel Shadbolt 9781911617815
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.95How smart machines are transforming us all - and what we should do about it. The smart-machines revolution is re-shaping our lives and our societies. Here, Nigel Shadbolt, one of Britain's leading authorities on artificial intelligence, and Roger... -
The History of the Computer: People, Inventions, and Technology that Changed Our World by Rachel Ignotofsky 9781984857422
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984857422Author Rachel IgnotofskyFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
Wild Country by Mark Vallance 9781910240816
Booksplease Price: £11.06In early 1978, an extraordinary new invention for rock climbers was featured on the BBC television science show Tomorrow's World. It was called the 'Friend', and it not only made the sport safer, it helped push the limits of the possible. The company... -
Unspoken: A sexy, emotional second-chance romance Kelly Rimmer 9781472257550
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.60Unspoken is a unforgettable new romance from bestselling author Kelly Rimmer, in her Start Up in the City series, perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis and Nora Roberts.'Simultaneously deliciously intense and achingly tender. The authentic push and pull of... -
Build Your Own Farm Tools: Equipment & Systems for the Small-Scale Farm & Market Garden by Josh Volk
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.79Josh Volk, author of the best-selling Compact Farms, offers small-scale farmers an in-depth guide to building customized equipment that will save time and money and introduce much-needed efficiencies to their operations. Volk begins with the basics, such... -
The Greatest Inventors in History by Activity Wizo 9781951806439
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951806439Author Activity WizoFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Spotlight MediaPublisher Spotlight MediaWeight(grams) 216g -
Watches: A Complete History of the Technical and Decorative Development of the Watch by George Daniels
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £73.89The long-awaited reprint of an important illustrated reference work on the general history of the watch from 1500 to 1980. When Watches was first published in 1965 it quickly gained for itself a reputation as the foremost general history of the... -
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla 9781603868174
Booksplease Price: £12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868174Author Nikola TeslaFormat HardbackPage Count 52Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism by Jillian York
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.22What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our... -
One Hundred Patents That Shaped the Modern World by David Segal
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £35.54What would our world today be like without inventions like tarmac, aspirin, liquid crystals, and barbed wire? This guide shows how patents and the inventions they describe have shaped the 21st century. It gives us insights into the inventions, big and... -
Tech Trends in Practice: The 25 Technologies that are Driving the 4th Industrial Revolution Bernard Marr (Advanced Performance Institute, Buckinghamshire, UK) 9781119646198
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.80***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST 2021***Discover how 25 powerful technology trends are transforming 21st century businesses How will the latest technologies transform your business? Future Tech Trends in Practice will give you the knowledge of today's... -
The Vacuum Cleaner: A History by Carroll Gantz 9780786465521
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £21.31House cleaning has been an innate human activity for centuries, but only since the early 19th century have mechanical devices replaced the physical hard labor (performed mostly by women). Mechanical carpet sweepers were replaced by manual suction... -
Intersection: How Enterprise Design Bridges the Gap between Business, Technology, and People by Milan Guenther 9780123884350
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.11Many organizations struggle with the dynamics and the complexity of today's social ecosystems that connect everyone and everything, everywhere and all the time. Facing challenges at the intersection of business models, technical developments, and human... -
Total Inventor's Manual: Transform Your Idea into a Top-Selling Product by Sean Michael Ragan 9781681884332
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.89Contrary to popular wisdom, you don't have to be an ace electrician, a coding prodigy, or a mechanical master to come up with a game-changing invention! You just need curiosity, a strong desire to fix a problem that you see in the world, and the... -
Make: Props and Costume Armor by Shawn Thorsson
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.43Have you been trying to think of a way to conquer your local comic convention through cosplay? Do you gaze with envious eyes upon the fan-made suits of armored awesomeness strolling around every year on Halloween? Do you have a spot on your wall,... -
On the Brink of Utopia: Reinventing Innovation to Solve the World's Largest Problems by Thomas Ramge 9780262546485
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £17.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546485Author Thomas RamgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 18mm -
Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines by Vaclav Smil 9780262518765
Booksplease Price: £27.39The story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today's globally integrated economy possible. The many books on globalization published over the past few years range from claims that the world is flat... -
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier 9781250097408
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £12.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250097408Author Jaron LanierFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 25mm -
The Maker's Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse by Simon Monk
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.47Where will you be when the zombie apocalypse hits? Trapping yourself in the basement? Roasting the family pet? Beheading reanimated neighbors? No way. You ll be building fortresses, setting traps, and hoarding supplies, because you, savvy survivor, have... -
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Booksplease Price: £11.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781594633935Author Steven JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Riverhead...