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Silicon: From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness by Federico Faggin 9781949003413
RRP: $33.05$27.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949003413Author Federico FagginFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Waterside ProductionsPublisher Waterside ProductionsWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm)... -
Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking by William H. Cropper
$38.43Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and accomplishments of such giants as Galileo and Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and... -
Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: the Early Years by Jane Goodall 9780618127351
$23.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618127351Author Jane GoodallFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 735g -
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Goedel by Stephen Budiansky 9780198866435
RRP: $37.03$31.82A remarkable account of Kurt Goedel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval. At age 24, a brilliant Austrian-born mathematician published a mathematical... -
Sir Sydney Camm: From Biplanes & 'hurricanes' to 'harriers' by John Chacksfield 9780853616986
RRP: $21.35$18.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853616986Author John ChacksfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist by Andrew Robinson
RRP: $23.38$19.79A "highly readable" (Wall Street Journal) account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life-first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the Nazis"A vivid look at how the U.K. affected the German-born physicist's... -
Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King by Brad Matsen 9780307275424
RRP: $37.05$27.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275424Author Brad MatsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry by Lynne Jones
RRP: $21.43$14.43'A profound memoir' Daily Telegraph'As revealing as the writing of Oliver Sacks' Mark CousinsOutside the Asylum is Lynne Jones's personal and highly acclaimed exploration of humanitarian psychiatry and the changing world of international relief. Her... -
Breaking and Entering: the extraordinary story of a hacker called 'Alien' by Jeremy N. Smith
RRP: $29.23$19.27Hackers know everything about us. We know almost nothing about them. Until now. The hacker now known as Alien entered MIT in 1998, intending to major in aerospace engineering. Almost immediately, she was recruited to join a secret student group scaling... -
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
RRP: $54.60$36.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594204227Author Michael PollanFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky by Homer Hickam
RRP: $39.00$25.86From Homer Hickam, the author of the #1 bestselling Rocket Boys adapted into the beloved film October Sky, comes this astonishing memoir of high adventure, war, love, NASA, and his struggle for literary success.Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys and the... -
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace by James T. Costa
RRP: $68.25$54.99A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast... -
Avoid Boring People: And other lessons from a life in science by James D. Watson 9780192802736
$44.40`ames D. Watson looks back on his extraordinary and varied career -- from its beginnings as a schoolboy in Chicago's South Side to the day he left Harvard almost 50 years later, world-renowned as the co-discoverer of DNA -- and considers the lessons he... -
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys: 50th Anniversary Edition by Michael Collins
$29.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537760Author Michael CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling 9780230103429
$24.73At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day. Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the... -
Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton by Rob Iliffe
RRP: $42.88$37.34He 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... -
John Napier: Logarithm John by Lynne Gladstone-Millar
RRP: $9.73$8.46When John Napier published his invention of logarithms in 1614 he was announcing one of the greatest advances in the history of mathematics, and log tables were used universally until the mid 1970s. With his Rabdologia, an ingenious calculating tool... -
A Life Underwater by Charlie Veron 9780143785460
RRP: $44.83$29.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143785460Author Charlie VeronFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Viking AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
Keeping the Barbarians at Bay: The Last Years of Kenneth Allsop, Green Pioneer by Wilkinson, David 9781908493842
RRP: $25.33$22.76Kenneth Allsop was a writer, journalist and broadcaster who in the 1960s and early 70s became one of Britain's first television celebrities. Voted the 'fifth most handsome man in the world', he enjoyed the high life of fast cars, jazz and smart London... -
Psyche Unbound: Essays in Honor of Stanislav Grof by Richard Tarnas
RRP: $48.73$33.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998276526Author Richard TarnasFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic StudiesPublisher Multidisciplinary... -
James Watt: Making the World Anew by Ben Russell 9781780233758
RRP: $58.50$41.63Among the many treasures in the collections of the Science Museum in London is the complete workshop of the Scottish engineer James Watt (1736-1819), acquired in its entirety from the attic of Watt's Birmingham home in 1924, where it had been left as an... -
Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World by Melissa A Schilling
RRP: $17.53$12.09From historical figures such as Marie Curie to contemporaries such as Steve Jobs, a handful of innovators have changed the world. What made them so spectacularly inventive? Melissa A. Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, looks at... -
Biographic: Tesla: Great Lives in Graphic Form by Brian Clegg 9781781453537
RRP: $19.48$13.86Many people know that Tesla was a scientific genius, instrumental in developing modern electricity and communications. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was born during a lightning storm; spoke eight languages; and claimed to have invented a... -
The Life Scientific: Explorers by Anna Buckley
RRP: $19.48$13.26The new book from the BBC Radio 4 hit series The Life ScientificInside the lives of the scientists who are exploring our world, our universe, our past, ourselves.Based on interviews broadcast on BBC Radio 4's hugely popular series, The Life Scientific... -
What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman 9780393026597
RRP: $73.13$60.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393026597Author Richard P. FeynmanFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 466gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble by Professor Edzard Ernst
RRP: $29.15$27.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845407773Author Edzard ErnstFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment by Ronald S. Calinger 9780691119274
RRP: $113.10$88.47This is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald Calinger connects the story of Euler's eventful life to... -
Robert Fulton: A Biography by Cynthia Owen Philip 9780595262038
RRP: $40.93$34.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595262038Author Cynthia Owen PhilipFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm -
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller by Alec Nevala-Lee
RRP: $48.75$44.95From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster... -
Women of Science: 100 Inspirational Lives by Professor John S. Croucher 9781445684710
RRP: $39.00$26.79Women have played a vital role in scientific discovery, although at times their participation has gone unrecognised. Their scholarly research and discoveries have provided a rich tapestry to add to the scientific endeavours of the world. It is... -
Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters by Albert Einstein
RRP: $37.03$28.84In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric, the companion, colleague, and confidante whose influence on his most creative years has given rise to much speculation. Beginning in 1897, after Einstein and... -
Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age by B. Jack Copeland
RRP: $21.43$15.15Alan Turing is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who broke Germany's most secret codes during the war of... -
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin 9780593300619
RRP: $35.10$22.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593300619Author Max ChafkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramon Y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron by Benjamin Ehrlich 9780374110376
RRP: $54.58$43.58The first major biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered neurons and transformed our understanding of the human mind-illustrated with his extraordinary anatomical drawings Unless you're a neuroscientist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal is... -
Boyle: Between God and Science by Michael Hunter
RRP: $33.13$29.27Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker-pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel... -
Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future by Iwan Rhys Morus
RRP: $25.33$16.69'[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and failures...and the hopeful thrum of an era before world wars.' - NatureNikola Tesla is one of the most enigmatic, curious and controversial figures in the... -
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla 9781789500783
RRP: $13.63$8.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789500783Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation by Christopher Cooper
RRP: $25.33$17.55Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. The Truth About Tesla sets the record straight.Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. For years, the engineering genius was relegated to relative obscurity, his... -
Battle For The North: The Tay And Forth Bridges And The 19th Century Railway Wars by Charles McKean
RRP: $19.48$17.08The first Tay Bridge collapsed into the sea in 1879, only eighteen months after it had opened, drowning seventy-two people travelling by train to Dundee. Shock reverberated through Britain, and the public demanded answers. The bridge had been hailed as a... -
Zwicky: The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe by John Johnson, Jr.
RRP: $58.40$46.00"A fitting biography of one of the most brilliant, acerbic, and under-appreciated astrophysicists of the twentieth century. John Johnson has delved deeply into a rich and eventful life, and produced a rollicking account of how Fritz Zwicky split his time...