Science & Technology

In this classic work Anne Sayre, a journalist and close friend of Franklin, puts the record straight.About the AuthorAnne Sayre was a well-known journalist and a close friend of Rosalind Franklin's.Book InformationISBN 9780393320442Author Anne...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786863624Author Paul HoffmanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint American Mathematical SocietyPublisher American Mathematical Society

He studied with Niels Bohr, taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein. John Archibald Wheeler's fascinating life brings us face to face with the central characters and discoveries of modern physics...

For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It takes listeners to parts of the world they've never been, and perhaps never would go in their lives: war zones, refugee camps, elite...

BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews make sobering reading, a reminder of all the deadly viruses that have threatened global health, and why...

Apologies 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)...

One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the WeekFrom Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the...

Called a madman by some, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was, without a doubt, a trail blazer who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming,...

When 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...

One of the world's first tree-top scientists, Meg Lowman is both a pioneer in her field - she invented one of the first treetop walkways - and a tireless advocate for the planet. In a voice as infectious in its enthusiasm as in its practical optimism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048521Author Patricia MeisolFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm * 32mm

Everything 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...

In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, and world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman...

This book presents the life and personality, the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the great scientists who marked the passage from 19th- to 20th-Century physics. His rich and tragic life, ending by suicide at the age of 62,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986218668Author Howard Scott WarshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Scott West ProductionsPublisher Scott West ProductionsWeight(grams)...

'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...

Apologies 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 *...

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the...

Women 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 important...

'Engrossing, emotionally honest and forensically fascinating' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural CausesIn Traces, Professor Patricia Wiltshire will take you on a journey through the fascinating edgeland where nature and crime are intertwined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards and Pulitzer Prize 2006. Short-listed for J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780375726262Author Kai...

From 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...

`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...

Apologies 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)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046435Author Maia WeinstockFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Best 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...

In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical physics and quantum mechanics, equally at ease with theory...

A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were...

Women 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780385495400Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams)...

In 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...

Apologies 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...

Kenneth 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389374Author Michael NeufeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 697gDimensions(mm) 232mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400081226Author Neal ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This is a definitive, deeply researched biography of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) and is the first scholarly biography to be published in any language. The book is Todes's magnum opus, which he has been working on for some twenty years...

George Stephenson is among the most famous engineers of all time. His rise from 'rags to riches' is a stirring story of its kind. But much of the work of innovative engineers for his period lay not in the work itself but in persuading people that such...

Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein as "the basis of all twentieth-century physics." Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum...