Science & Technology

This is the first volume of the definitive biography of Hans Krebs, one of the world's foremost biochemists. It begins with the early work of Krebs in Germany, where, working with Otto Warburg, he discovered the urea cycle in 1932. This early...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728217543Author Bruce GoldfarbFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm * 28mm

Memory binds our mental life together. We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember. But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of...

Women have played a vital role in the development of computing, although at times their participation has gone unrecognised. Their scholarly inventiveness and discoveries have provided a rich tapestry to add to the evolution of computer science in the...

In Losing the Nobel Prize, cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment Brian Keating tells the inside story of BICEP2's mesmerising discovery and the scientific drama that ensued. In an...

Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet -- for free. Today...

An 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...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954)...

In 1948, just weeks before his best friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts died, John Steinbeck wrote of Ricketts process of discovery, noting that "a young, inquisitive, and original man might one morning find a fissure in the traditional technique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976200093Author SchatzkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Tanglewood BooksPublisher Tanglewood BooksWeight(grams) 413g

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805074581Author Evelyn Fox KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Apologies 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...

This is the story of Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the polymath and horologist. A remarkable man, Lt Cmdr Gould made important contributions in an extraordinary range of subject areas throughout his relatively short and dramatically troubled life. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078837Author Fritjof CapraFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy' DAVID LIPSKY 'After...

At 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...

A product of the Scottish Enlightenment, William Playfair (1759-1823) worked as a statistician, economist, engineer, banker, land speculator, scam artist, and political propagandist. It has been claimed - erroneously - that Playfair was a spy for the...

Biologist 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...

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,...

'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...

A compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry's quest to connect everything-and who hoped for something better. When developers and critics trace the roots of today's Internet of Things-our smart...

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805110187Author Andrew RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 562g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743202411Author SAPOLSKYPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

The story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth century Two of the boldest and most creative...

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

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology in 2020 'A stunningly original memoir ... her most human tale of love, loss and redemption is illuminated and given meaning by this backdrop. A beautiful and...

*Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award* The definitive biography of chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize in the sciences to date. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668070741Author Lionel BarberFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Atria/One Signal PublishersPublisher Atria/One Signal PublishersWeight(grams)...

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...

'Billy Connolly says he's no idea who Parkinson was and just wishes he'd kept his disease to himself. He should read this book.' Jeremy PaxmanParkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK...

“The Pain Project is ironically full of pleasure: on every page is another generous, original insight into this most intimate human subject.”—NAOMI KLEIN, author of Doppelganger“The Pain Project is a beautiful, humane, thoughtful inquiry into the...

In 1880, Griffith Evans, an army veterinary surgeon in India, made the seminal discovery that blood parasites - then universally considered benign - were pathogenic. Spurned by peers and colleagues, his conclusions from experiments with diseased horses...

Through 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...

Learn from Kellie Gerardi What It's Like to Be a Female Astronaut"Kellie is probably one of the best ambassadors for spaceflight in the 21st century that the industry could have." Lucy Hawking, author of George's Secret Key to the Universe and host of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228840169Author Timothy DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

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...