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The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind by Mahdi Obeidi 9780471679653
$37.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471679653Author Mahdi ObeidiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 454g -
Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister by Michelle DiMeo
RRP: $78.00$65.50For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patroness... -
The Smallest Lights In The Universe by Sara Seager
RRP: $19.48$12.95In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace after losing her first husband to cancer, her unflagging search for an Earth-like exoplanet and her unexpected... -
The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon by Timothy Sandefur
RRP: $37.03$28.08Best remembered today for his blockbuster documentary series The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski spent decades explaining scientific ideas to laypersons on television and radio. A true Renaissance man, Bronowski was not only a scientist, but a philosopher... -
The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir by Elio Morillo 9780063214316
RRP: $42.90$34.05"Heartwarming... infectious ... [Morillo's The Boy Who Reached for the Stars] is every bit the inspiration he means it to be." –Kirkus ReviewsThe engineer known as the “space mechanic” speaks to both our future and past in this breathless memoir of his... -
The Last Cambridge Spy: John Cairncross, Bletchley Codebreaker and Soviet Double Agent by Chris Smith 9780750981477
RRP: $39.00$28.68John Cairncross was among the most damaging spies of the twentieth century. A member of the infamous Cambridge Ring of Five, he leaked highly sensitive documents from Bletchley Park, MI6 and the Treasury to the Soviet Union - including the first atomic... -
She Sold Seashells ...and dragons: The curious Mary Anning. Re-imagined. by Wolfgang Grulke 9781916039452
RRP: $23.40$18.95Mary Anning lived about 200 years ago. A bright girl from a poor family living in a small town on the south coast of England, she became a successful fossil hunter, dealer and self-taught scientist. While not fully recognised in her own lifetime... -
Before We Go Live: Navigating the Abusive World of Online Entertainment by Stephen Flavall 9781739285906
RRP: $21.43$14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739285906Author Stephen FlavallFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Spender BooksPublisher Spender Books -
Michael Faraday: A Very Short Introduction by Frank A. J. L. James
RRP: $17.53$12.58Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. Known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, the principle behind the electric generator and transformer, he has frequently been portrayed as the 'father' of electrical... -
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams
RRP: $46.78$39.21When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn't expect is that she'll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to... -
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
RRP: $29.23$19.11In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess,... -
Journey through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics by William Dunham
RRP: $58.50$38.61Praise 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... -
The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix by Howard Markel 9781324002239
RRP: $46.78$39.99Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do... -
His Invention So Fertile by Adrian Tinniswood 9780712673648
RRP: $58.50$41.63Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was the greatest architect Britain has ever known. But he was more than that. A founder of the Royal Society, he mapped the moon and the stars, investigated the problem of longitude and the rings of Saturn, and carried out... -
A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir by Lindy Elkins-Tanton
RRP: $42.88$24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063086876Author Lindy Elkins-TantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)... -
Born to Rewild: Triumphs of a Now Fearless Woman by Manda Kalimian 9781953652881
RRP: $35.00$26.60When Manda Kalimian began her mission to help America's wild horses-through rewilding-to regain their rightful place as a native species of the open plains, little did she know the challenges ahead would redefine everything she understood about who she... -
Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World by Tobias Hürter 9781891011177
RRP: $36.95$24.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Science/Technology) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781891011177Author Tobias H rterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint... -
Sleeping with the Gasman by Jazz Pal-Kerr
RRP: $19.48$13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398415270Author Jazz Pal-KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food by Chase Purdy
RRP: $11.68$8.01A fast-paced, gripping insider account of the entrepreneurs and renegades racing to bring lab-grown meat to the world.The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmental hazards; it pollutes more than all the world's... -
Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe by Shohini Ghose 9780262048316
RRP: $52.65$35.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048316Author Shohini GhoseFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm * 24mm -
Paranormal: My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife by Raymond Moody
RRP: $31.18$22.64Few people have the opportunity to change the face of modern medicine. However, Raymond Moody achieved precisely this with the publication in 1975 of Life After Life, which introduced the phrase 'near death experience' (NDE) into popular use. In that... -
The Ghost In The Garden: in search of Darwin's lost garden by Jude Piesse
RRP: $19.48$13.07The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Darwin's childhood garden at The Mount in Shrewsbury was the site of some of the great scientist's earliest... -
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Goedel by Rebecca Goldstein
RRP: $35.08$27.69Probing the life and work of Kurt Goedel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning-and brought him to the edge of madness.About the AuthorRebecca Goldstein is a MacArthur Fellow, a... -
It's Been a Good Life by Janet J. Asimov 9781573929684
RRP: $38.98$29.43New one-volume autobiography spans Asimov's life for the first time! As one of the most gifted and prolific writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Asimov became legendary for his inexhaustible creativity, wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, and... -
The Secret Life of Dr James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon by Rachel Holmes
RRP: $25.33$17.73A reissue of Rachel Holmes's landmark biography of Dr James Barry, one of the most enigmatic figures of the Victorian age. James Barry was one of the nineteenth century's most exceptional doctors, and one of its great unsung heroes. Famed for his... -
Sasquatch Discovered: The Biography of Dr. John Bindernagel by Terrance James
RRP: $54.58$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888397515Author Terrance JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd... -
Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians by Alfred S. Posamentier 9781633885202
RRP: $38.98$29.43An entertaining history of mathematics as chronicled through fifty short biographies. Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their... -
Stardust to Stardust: Reflections on Living and Dying by Erik Olin Wright 9781642599206
RRP: $33.13$22.76Erik Olin Wright, one of the most important sociologists of his time, takes readers along on his intimate and brave journey toward death, and asks the big questions about human mortality.From the renowned Marxist sociologist and educator Erik Olin... -
The Incomparable Monsignor: Francesco Bianchini's world of science, history, and court intrigue by J.L. Heilbron
RRP: $41.91$30.58Through Francesco Bianchini, the 'greatest Italian of his time' this book explores the exciting meeting of science, history, and politics in early modern Europe. Born in a time where entry into the church granted power, privilege, and access to the... -
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter
RRP: $40.95$29.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593358894Author Barbara Rae-VenterFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
A Sonnet to Science: Scientists and Their Poetry by Sam Illingworth 9781526152268
RRP: $29.23$21.68A sonnet to science presents an account of six ground-breaking scientists who also wrote poetry, and the effect that this had on their lives and research. How was the universal computer inspired by Lord Byron? Why was the link between malaria and... -
Dr. Quin, Medicine Man by John Quin
RRP: $39.00$27.61Surgeons cut, but physicians... what do physicians actually do? And is it true that other doctors really call them 'the magicians'? John Quin worked for thirty-three years as a physician for the NHS in both Scotland and England, specialising in... -
Biographic: Einstein: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian Clegg 9781781453339
RRP: $19.48$13.26Many people know that Albert Einstein was a brilliant theoretical physicist who revolutionised modern science. What they may not know is that he only learnt to speak at four years old; that he was asked to become the President of Israel in 1952, but... -
The Maverick Mountaineer: The Remarkable Life of George Ingle Finch: Climber, Scientist, Inventor by Robert Wainwright
RRP: $25.33$16.69WINNER OF THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR PRIZE AT THE CROSS BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2017In the spring of 1901 a teenager stood on top of a hill, gazed out in wonderment at the Australian landscape and decided he wanted to be a mountaineer. Two... -
Tales from the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $40.93$31.02"Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony," writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world's most beloved scientists, "their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg." In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner... -
Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters by Freeman Dyson 9781631495472
RRP: $29.23$24.57Written between 1940 and the late 1970s, the postwar recollections of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson have been celebrated as an historic portrait of modern science and its greatest players, including Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen... -
Edison by Kaptain Krook
RRP: $38.98$21.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983210Author Edmund MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Moving Heaven and Earth (Icon Science): Copernicus and the Solar System by John Henry
RRP: $17.53$5.67When Nicolaus Copernicus claimed that the Earth was not stationary at the centre of the universe but circled the Sun, he brought about a total revolution in the sciences and consternation in the Church.Copernicus' theory demanded a new physics to explain... -
Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control by Paul Dye
RRP: $42.90$28.39Offering a compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age from the perspective of those tasked with making them happen, Shuttle, Houston explores the determined personalities, technological miracles,... -
George and Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: $25.33$16.54The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times. They carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed, transforming the pace and style of everyday life. We owe them to two men who, father and son, can lay claim to be the...