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Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal by David K. Love 9781633888913
RRP: £19.99£14.28Edmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the nature of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery is enough to make the career of any scientist, Halley's massive contributions to the fields of astronomy,... -
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane by Samanth Subramanian
RRP: £20.00£13.86Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize & the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.'A wonderful book about one of the most important, brilliant... -
Simon: The Genius in my Basement by Alexander Masters
RRP: £11.99£9.00From the author of 'Stuart: A Life Backwards'; a warm and witty portrait of a harmless, eccentric, bona fide genius. Alexander Master's landlord, Simon, lives in the basement of their Cambridge house. Between teetering towers of outdated maps... -
The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry by Shing-Tung Yau
RRP: £20.00£18.17A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape-the Calabi-Yau manifold-that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe. "An unexpectedly intimate look into a highly accomplished man, his colleagues and... -
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What It Means For All Of Us by Jonathan Taplin
RRP: £18.99£14.00A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year' 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDGoogle. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the... -
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe by Hugh Aldersey-Williams 9781509893355
RRP: £10.99£7.71'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' - Simon Ings, Spectator'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.' - Literary ReviewFilled with incident, discovery, and... -
The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age by Paul J. Nahin
RRP: £15.99£12.61Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to home appliances. How did a system of mathematics established in the Victorian era become the basis for such... -
No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
RRP: £18.99£13.61Beloved American hero Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered through his event-filled life - both in outer space and on earth. No Dream Is Too High whittles down Buzz Aldrin's event-filled life into... -
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt
RRP: £14.99£9.32From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these groundbreaking features was an incredibly influential group of women who fought for... -
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft by Paul Allen 9780241953716
RRP: £15.99£11.61What's it like to start a revolution?How do you build the biggest tech company in the world?And why do you walk away from it all?Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. Together he and Bill Gates turned an idea - writing software - into a company and then an... -
Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science by Kent Heckenlively
RRP: £26.99£17.28#1 on Amazon Charts, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller-Over 100,000 Copies in Print!"Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits are the new dynamic duo fighting corruption in science." -Ben Garrison, America's #1 political satirist Dr. Judy... -
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines by George Dyson 9780141975436
RRP: £12.99£9.09A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand?George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections... -
Sir Vincent Raven and the North Eastern Railway by Peter Grafton 9780853616405
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616405Author Peter GraftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet by Andrew Nahum
RRP: £8.99£6.08The story of the jet engine has everything: genius, tragedy, heroism, a world war, the individual vs. the state, and an idea that would change the world. Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very... -
Brunel In South Wales Vol 3 by Stephen K. Jones
RRP: £25.00£18.15Isambard Kingdom Brunel had strong associations with South Wales; chief engineer of the GWR at just 27, he was the same for the South Wales Railway Co., taking the railways across South Wales. This illustrated history focuses on Brunel's contribution to... -
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman
RRP: £19.00£12.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250181695Author Ellen UllmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton by Rob Iliffe 9780199995356
RRP: £32.99£24.54Newton's unusual -- or even downright heretical -- religious opinions were well known to a number of his contemporaries. For over two centuries the exact nature of his religious beliefs was a matter of intense debate, but by the middle of the nineteenth... -
Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Science) by Iwan Morus
RRP: £8.99£6.08The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science.Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolutionary force in nineteenth-century society. The electric... -
The Patient Doctor: How one man's cancer diagnosis led to a quest to put the heart back into healthcare by Dr Ben Bravery
RRP: £14.99£9.32At the age of twenty-eight, with his Beijing-based science communications business doing well and a new relationship blossoming, Ben Bravery woke from a colonoscopy to be told he had stage 3 colorectal cancer. As a scientist, Ben understood the... -
Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began by Jack Repcheck 9780743289528
£13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743289528Author Jack RepcheckFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science by J.L. Heilbron
£29.40In this moving and eloquent portrait, John Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. With great understanding, he shows how Max Planck suffered morally and intellectually as his lifelong habit of service... -
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science by Karl Sigmund
RRP: £25.00£15.95Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest... -
The Alchemy Of Air by Thomas Hager
RRP: £16.99£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307351791Author Thomas HagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Conversations with Isaac Newton: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by Michael White
RRP: £9.99£6.61Isaac Newton's influence on our world is immense. He formulated the theory of gravity, devised a radical new theory of light and created a calculus that would revolutionize mathematics. His theory of matter in motion sparked the Industrial Revolution... -
Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birutae Galdikas by Sy Montgomery 9781603580625
RRP: £20.00£12.952017 is the 50th anniversary of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda. Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity's closest... -
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by Michael D. Leinbach 9781948924610
RRP: £18.99£13.61Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space HipstersThe dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster. On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all... -
Copernicus: A Very Short Introduction by Owen Gingerich
RRP: £8.99£6.45Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is a pivotal figure in the birth of modern science, the astronomer who "stopped the sun and set the earth in motion." Born in Poland, educated at Cracow and then in Italy, he served all of his adult life as a church... -
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by Michael D. Leinbach 9781628728514
RRP: £25.99£17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628728514Author Michael D. LeinbachFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm)... -
Girl Decoded: My Quest to Make Technology Emotionally Intelligent - and Change the Way We Interact Forever by Rana el Kaliouby
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Bold, inspired and hopeful' Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global'Lucid and captivating' Max Tegmark, professor of physics at MIT and author of Life 3.0A captivating memoir that chronicles one woman's mission to humanise technology and... -
Dr. NO: The Discovery That Led to a Nobel Prize and Viagra by Louis Ignarro
RRP: £26.95£19.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641120296Author Louis IgnarroFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Vertel PublishingPublisher Vertel PublishingWeight(grams) 152g -
Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People by Stephen Wolfram
RRP: £19.99£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579550035Author Stephen WolframFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Wolfram Media IncPublisher Wolfram Media Inc -
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montross 9780143113669
RRP: £24.00£16.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113669Author Christine MontrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Ending Plague: A Scholar's Obligation in an Age of Corruption by Dr. Francis W. Ruscetti 9781510764682
RRP: £26.99£16.70"An engrossing expose of scientific practice in America." -KIRKUS REVIEWS From the authors of the New York Times bestselling Plague of Corruption comes the prescription on how to end the plague infecting our medical community.Ending Plague continues the... -
Uncertainty by David Lindley
RRP: £15.99£10.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079964Author David LindleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
John Whitehurst FRS: Innovator, Scientist, Geologist and Clockmaker by Maxwell Craven 9781781552650
RRP: £40.00£30.24John Whitehurst was one of a select number of men of science living and working in the eighteenth century whose minds were as remarkable for their breadth as their talents were for their diversity. Although remembered today mainly as a notable clockmaker... -
October Child by Linda Bostroem Knausgard
RRP: £12.99£11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642860894Author Linda Bostroem KnausgardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint World EditionsPublisher World Editions -
The Age of Uncertainty: how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world by Tobias Hurter
RRP: £25.00£16.59The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, and Albert Einstein didn't only... -
Edward Jenner - the Original Vaccinator by Robin Jenner
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies 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 -
Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment by Ronald S. Calinger 9780691196404
RRP: £35.00£28.21An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative... -
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience by Director Michael S Gazzaniga 9780062228857
RRP: £16.99£11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062228857Author Director Michael S GazzanigaFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 318g