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Shackleton by Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: £10.99£7.37Discover the exhilarating true story of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expeditionTold through the words of the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .'For anyone... -
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
RRP: £9.99£6.89NOW 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 that he must leave school and come home to work on the... -
Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind by Professor Sue Black
RRP: £10.99£8.02WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'Gripping from the start, Written in Bone is superb' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes'No Scientist communicates better than Sue Black' - Val McDermid, author of Still Life'Macabre,... -
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £10.99£8.02Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life... -
The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World by James Ashton
RRP: £25.00£15.95Pre-order 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 Dyson'A revealing and insightful biography of the company whose blueprints define the... -
Traces: The memoir of a forensic scientist and criminal investigator by Patricia Wiltshire
RRP: £9.99£6.66'ASTONISHING AND ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING' - LYNDA LA PLANTE 'Engrossing, emotionally honest and forensically fascinating' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes EVERY BODY LEAVES A MARK In Traces, Professor Patricia Wiltshire will take you... -
Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game by Andrew Hodges
RRP: £10.99£8.42The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in... -
Limitless: The Autobiography: The bestselling story of Britain's inspirational astronaut by Tim Peake
RRP: £10.99£8.02The thrilling autobiography of the astronaut who inspired a generation The #1 bestselling author of Hello, is this planet Earth? and Ask an Astronaut 'I looked down below my feet and suddenly noticed Australia flashing by. The vertigo hit me then. My... -
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
RRP: £10.99£8.02THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a... -
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future by Ashlee Vance
RRP: £12.99£9.34South 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 colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these... -
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives by Dr Matt Morgan
RRP: £16.99£11.08It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time... -
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf
RRP: £25.00£15.95Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, The Spectator, Prospect, Sunday Times, Economist, New Statesman, Telegraph, Financial Times, TLS, New York Times, and Washington Post. 'This is ridiculous. No book about German philosophy has any right to be... -
Edward Jenner - the Original Vaccinator by Robin Jenner
RRP: £9.99£7.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528993241Author Robin JennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
RRP: £10.99£8.02A heartbreaking account of a medical miracle: how one woman's cells - taken without her knowledge - have saved countless lives. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a true story of race, class, injustice and exploitation.'No dead woman has done more... -
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman 9780393355628
£8.47Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that "can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist" (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic... -
Pihkal by Alexander T. Shulgin 9780963009609
RRP: £23.99£17.09Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved A unique document written by renowned psychopharmo -gist Shulgin and his partner which gives details of his research and investigations into the use of psychedelic drugs for the study of the human mind. Also... -
Einstein For Dummies by Carlos I. Calle
RRP: £22.99£16.27Genius demystified, the Dummies way! In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized modern physics with his theory of relativity. He went on to become a twentieth-century icon-a man whose name and face are synonymous with "genius." Now, at last, ordinary... -
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini
RRP: £24.00£15.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593241837Author Joy BuolamwiniFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 431g -
Carl Sagan: A Biography by Ray Spangenburg
RRP: £12.99£9.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591026587Author Ray SpangenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus BooksWeight(grams) 155g -
Reflections of Alan Turing: A Relative Story by Dermot Turing 9781803990125
£7.58Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing. Except When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, people want to know more than the bullet points of his life. They want to know everything was Alan Turing... -
Tihkal by Alexander T. Shulgin 9780963009692
RRP: £23.99£17.09Contains over 70 experiments, complete with notes and ingredients with the focus on Tryptamines. The first half concentrates on Shulgin's spiritual journey, ideas and philosophy. Foreword by Daniel M Perrine and preface by Nicholas Saunders. Edited by... -
The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition by Claire Brock
RRP: £8.99£2.85Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal. Soon making scientific discoveries in her... -
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe by Paul Sen
RRP: £9.99£6.89'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI 'An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its history' PHIL BALL, PHYSICS WORLD Einstein's Fridge tells... -
Journey through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics by William Dunham
RRP: £30.00£20.71Praise for William Dunham s Journey Through Genius The GreatTheorems of Mathematics "Dunham deftly guides the reader throughthe verbal and logical intricacies of major mathematical questionsand proofs, conveying a splendid sense of how the... -
Darwin by Adrian J. Desmond
RRP: £18.99£14.01This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about God... -
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf 9781529392760
RRP: £12.99£8.43'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the Week'Extraordinary... A thrilling intellectual history that reads like a racy, intelligent novel, with a cast of... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
RRP: £10.99£7.37A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and grand historical narrative. Above all it fizzes with a... -
Books do Furnish a Life: An electrifying celebration of science writing by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £10.99£7.37'A rich feast of his essays, reviews, forewords, squibs and conversations, in which talent and passion are married to deep knowledge.' Matt Ridley'Enjoy the unfailing clarity of his thought and prose, as well as the grandeur of his vision of life on... -
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys by Michael Collins
£10.86'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of... -
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss 9780062416162
RRP: £14.99£10.35A National Book Award finalist, the mesmerizing, landmark illustrated biography Radioactive is finally available in a stunning paperback edition. Through words and her own gorgeously crafted illustrations, artist and journalist Lauren Redniss tells the... -
Isambard Kingdom Brunel by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: £14.99£10.95Engineering genius, technical innovator and one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom Brunel changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions. L. T. C. Rolt's masterly... -
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Patterns, Proteins and Peace: A Life in Science by Georgina Ferry
RRP: £18.99£15.65*Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award* The definitive biography of chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize in the sciences to date. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) was... -
Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story by Benjamin Oren Black
RRP: £10.99£7.89What happens to pregnant women when a humanitarian catastrophe strikes? Belly Woman shines a light on a story often left untold. May, 2014. Sierra Leone is ranked the country with the highest death rate of pregnant women in the world. The same... -
How Not to be a Doctor: And Other Essays by John Launer
£3.49The essential book on how not to be a doctor - and how to be a better one. Drawn from his popular medical columns over the years, John Launer shares fifty of his best-loved essays, covering topics from essentials skills they don't teach you in medical... -
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
RRP: £12.99£8.73Previously 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 launch of a prizewinning rocket. In 1957,... -
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
RRP: £12.99£8.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as... -
My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla
RRP: £12.99£9.34Nikola 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 authorative volume of My Inventions includes three... -
The Invention of Miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end Deafness by Katie Booth
RRP: £25.00£18.02A revelatory revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell - renowned inventor of the telephone and hated enemy of the Deaf community. When Alexander Graham Bell first unveiled his telephone to the world, it was considered miraculous. But few people... -
The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded by Jim Ottaviani
RRP: £13.99£10.36Alan Turing (1912-1954) was the mathematician credited with cracking the German Enigma code during World War II, enabling the Allies to defeat the Nazis. After the war, Turing went on to launch modern computer science through his creation of the... -
Broken Places & Outer Spaces by Nnedi Okorafor 9781471185359
RRP: £8.99£6.07Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi's lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan - something a simple surgery would easily correct. But when Nnedi wakes from the surgery...