Science & Technology

Elisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century-a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a...

The Atom Bomb was crucial to a post-War world dominated by the Cold War. Yet the stories of the people who chose to give atom secrets to Russia has never fully been told. Paul Broda's father and stepfather both passed secrets to the Russians, for no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938972126Author Robert TriversFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint PlymptonPublisher PlymptonWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the Chimborazo, then believed to be the highest mountain in the...

Many people have written biographies of Charles Darwin, but the story of his family and roots in Shrewsbury is little known. This book, containing original research, fills that gap. The key player is Charles' father, Dr Robert Darwin, a larger-than-life...

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 *...

In 1983 Gerry Kennedy set off on a tour through Russia, China, Japan and the USA to visit others involved in the global anti-war movement. Only dimly aware of his Victorian ancestors: George Boole, forefather of the digital revolution and James Hinton,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800993310Author Dyfed Elis-GruffyddFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 5mm

Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual life. Best known for his achievements in physiology and physics, he also contributed to other disciplines such as ophthalmology, psychology, mathematics,...

Fred Hoyle was one of the most widely acclaimed and colourful scientists of the twentieth century, a down-to-earth Yorkshireman who combined a brilliant scientific mind with a relish for communication and controversy. Best known for his steady-state...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046466Author Rena SelyaFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781454910763Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint SterlingPublisher Sterling Publishing Co IncWeight(grams) 685g

This volume: * is the first in-depth and archive-based analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist * presents a dazzling portrait of the twentieth century through the eyes of a pioneering Indian woman scientist- the rise of Nazi Germany and World...

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...

Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first - and most successful - British men of science to become a full-time professional. He was also, Jim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2010 Indie Lit Award for NonFiction 2010 and Ambassador Book Award in American Studies 2011 and American Association for the Advancement of Science's Young Adult...

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...

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...

Groundbreaking biography of Galileo, one of the greatest scientists and religious heretics in historyA giant of science, Galileo's achievements allow him to be bracketed alongside Newton, Einstein and Darwin. A devout Roman Catholic, his genius threw him...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547053561Author Dale PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 165mm *...

Isaac Newton had an extraordinary idea. He believed the physical universe and everything in it could be described in exact detail using mathematical relationships. He formulated a law of gravity that explained why objects fall downwards, how the moon...

In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Newton and championed as Britain's answer to France's Cuvier and Germany's von Humboldt, Owen was, as the "Times" declared in 1856,...

James 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...

"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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS)'s Science Books & Films Best List 2016 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2016. Short-listed for...

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a rocket and soared into space. He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588343338Author Al WordenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

A charismatic naturalist, bird-watcher, teacher, artist, photographer, film-maker, and winner of the Nobel Prize, Niko Tinbergen was a prominent and influential scientist. Jointly with Konrad Lorenz, he laid the foundation for a new science, the...

Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American, invented the radio, the induction motor, the neon lamp and the remote control. His breakthrough came in alternating current, which pitted him against Thomas Edison's direct current empire and bitter patent battles ensued...

A NEW EDITION OF MICHAEL VLISMAS' EYE-OPENING BIOGRAPHY OF ELON MUSK, NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL COVERING THE LATEST IN MUSK'S FAMILY AND BUSINESS LIFEIn 2022 Elon Musk - one of the richest and best-known people on earth - made headlines worldwide with his...

Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Goedel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein,...

The first biography in English of a leading Dutch American physicist, who discovered the subatomic property of "spin" and spearheaded the search for Hitler's atom bomb as World War II came to an end. This engaging biography of an important Dutch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389916Author Benoit MandelbrotFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

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...

Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834-1907) is a name we recognize, but perhaps only as the creator of the periodic table of elements. Generally, little else has been known about him. A Well-Ordered Thing is an authoritative biography of Mendeleev that draws a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684859804Author Bruce SchechterFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 305gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526894Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever. They were an unlikely pair - one the professor son of a banker, the other the only child of an acclaimed poet and a social-reforming mathematician - but...