Science & Technology

Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology's potential for the public good. "Lucid, probing and urgent. Wendy Liu manages to be both...

An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859). A Prussian nobleman...

He was the dominant intellectual figure of his age. His published works, including the Principia Mathematica and Opticks, reached across the scientific spectrum, revealing the degree of his interdisciplinary genius. His renown opened doors throughout his...

This is a biography of 'England's greatest medieval scientist, a man who solved major practical and theoretical problems to build an extraordinary and pioneering astronomical and astrological clock'. John North tells an extraordinary story here; Richard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088145135Author Raymond LoewyFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 152mm * 24mm

Ross-shire-born polymath Hugh Miller (1802-56) was famous in his lifetime across the English-speaking world. After starting his working life as a stonemason, he became a social commentator and crusader and an inspiring (pre-Darwinian) writer on fossils...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452289642Author George G. SzpiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *...

Born into what was one of the wealthiest families in the world, "Walter Rothschild" became the best known zoologist of his day - and one of Britain's great eccentrics. A benign and enigmatic figure with a boundless enthusiasm for nature, he amassed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637120378Author Robert ShedingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Discovery InstitutePublisher Discovery InstituteWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916216174Author Jeff GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint SunRise Publishing LtdPublisher SunRise Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)...

It has been said of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) that no one from his day to ours has ever rivalled him in his achievements in such a wide range of fields. He was a far-sighted scientific genius, fertile in theory and invention, and one of the foremost...

'Essential reading.' - ESQUIRE 'Both absorbing and highly illuminating' - THE BOOKSELLER 'No one understands the intricacies of YouTube like Chris Stokel-Walker' - THE ATLANTIC Two billion people watch YouTube and it reaches deep into everyday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306832215Author Rich BenoitFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Hachette GoPublisher Hachette GoWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 147mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800312852Author Peter SykesFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Legend Times LtdPublisher Legend Times LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838185503Author Ian R SwinglandFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Ian R. SwinglandPublisher Ian R. SwinglandWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959770152Author Jackie M StebbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Wisdom EditionsPublisher Wisdom EditionsWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347138Author Fred W. HaiseFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Michael 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...

Apologies 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593685259Author Jasmin GrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

WINNER 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...

Centuries from now, when the Cold War is as remote as the War of Roses and the passions of our time have faded into footnotes, humanity will still remember July 16, 1969, the day the first human beings departed from earth bound for a landing on the moon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250839008Author Mikita BrottmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "many worlds" theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy. Using Everett's unpublished papers (recently discovered in his son's basement) and dozens...

Our sun drives the weather, forms the landscape, feeds and fuels - but sometimes destroys - the creatures that live upon it, controls their patterns of activity, makes chemicals in the skin that cheer up those who bask in its rays, and for the ancients...

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies 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

Hailed 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...

#10 on Amazon Charts, USA Today Bestseller "This book is my best attempt to tell the truth about my research, the culture in science today which is hostile to new ideas, and what science can really do if allowed to pursue promising areas of inquiries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743217767Author BerlinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 305gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Imagine a giant snowflake in 196,884 dimensions... This is the story of a mathematical quest that began two hundred years ago in revolutionary France, led to the biggest collaboration ever between mathematicians across the world, and revealed the...

Book 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...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain's great heroes and an engineering genius. His father Marc Brunel has not received the same degree of adulation, but this book will show just how important a part Marc played in his son's...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW STATESMAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIAN 'BRILLIANT' OBSERVER 'POWERFUL AND EVOCATIVE' ADAM KAY 'YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU...

By the age of nine, Taylor had mastered the science of rocket propulsion.At eleven, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis inspired him to seek new ways to produce medical isotopes.And by fourteen, Taylor had built a reactor which produces temperatures...

Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, through his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, his early friendship with Richard Feynman, and...

Apologies 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

"Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know."--Richard P. Feynman Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918-88)...

Newton's Notebook is a biography with a difference. It provides a full and detailed account of Sir Isaac Newton's life and discoveries, but is written, designed and illustrated to look like a personal notebook.By mining the rich sources of Newton's own...