Science & Technology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398443808Author Marco PreshevskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

At 19, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was in charge, under his father, of an engineering work that is the wonder of Europe: the Thames tunnel, completed in 1843. This book traces Brunel's life and career, the man of immense energy who came to dominate civil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307237217Author David BodanisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 309gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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...

The Woman Who Knew Too Much illuminates the life and achievements of the remarkable woman scientist who revolutionized the concept of radiation risk. For more than 40 years, Alice Stewart (1906-2002) warned that low-dose radiation was more dangerous than...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982115869Author Walter IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was among the group of mathematicians, engineers, and social scientists who laid the theoretical foundations of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525432432Author Scott KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684513598Author James KunetkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery HistoryWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838574215Author Paul VirrFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894959407Author David J ShaylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Apogee BooksPublisher Collector's Guide PublishingWeight(grams) 504g

Born in colonial New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford grew up on the frontier-a different world from Cambridge, to which he won a scholarship at the age of twenty-four. His work revolutionized modern physics. Among his discoveries were the orbital structure of...

No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It's the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a...

W.D.Hamilton (1936-2000) was responsible for a revolution in thinking about evolutionary biology - a revolution that changed our understanding of life itself. He played a central role in the realization that what matters in evolution is not the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501196454Author G Pascal ZacharyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 43mm

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...

This book retraces the life of the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, analyses his scientific work, and describes the evolution of his thinking. Pauli spent 30 years as a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology ETH in Zurich, which occupies a central...

In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley's life in England. In...

Our world today,from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon,has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780233005706Author Joel LevyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Welbeck Publishing GroupPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345535283Author Stephen HawkingFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

Frank Julian Sprague invented a system for distributing electricity to streetcars from overhead wires. Within a year, electric streetcars had begun to replace horsecars, sparking a revolution in urban transportation. Sprague (1857-1934) was an American...

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, a small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a rocket and soared into orbit to score a victory in the heavily contested Cold War. The television images were blurry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Science/Technology) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780375759819Author Chandler BurrFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House Trade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588344045Author Tom JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility ...The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle." --Albert Einstein, 1936 Albert Einstein's universal appeal is only partially explained by his brilliant work in physics, as Andrew Robinson...

Blends the brilliance of the scientific genius with the compassion, playfulness, and wit of the private figure "A fascinating read with more interesting material about Einstein as a human being than I have ever seen before."--Robert Jastrow,...

In "Mapping Fate", Alice Wexler tells the story of a family at risk for a hereditary, incurable, fatal disorder: Huntington's disease, once called Huntington's chorea. That her mother died of the disease, that her own chance of inheriting it was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398467729Author Wesley BoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

It's hard to imagine the study of human origins without the Leakey family. Three generations of Leakeys have scratched in the baked, unfriendly soil of East Africa to unearth fossil evidence of the earliest humans and their ancient ancestors. In the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935023531Author Geroge D HathawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Integrity Research InstitiutePublisher Integrity Research InstitiuteWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643138794Author Ranulph FiennesFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *...

Edward Jenner is a giant of modern medicine. Throughout history, smallpox had plagued humanity with disfigurement, blindness and death. It was an incurable blight, the suffering of which Jenner helped to end.Surmising from the immunity of milkmaids that...

In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545976Author Maia WeinstockFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903660171Author Laurence FlemingFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Dexter HavenPublisher Dexter HavenWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 165mm *...

By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062496737Author Leland MelvinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Amistad PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Albert Einstein re-wrote the textbooks of science in 1905: physics since has been little more than a series of footnotes to the theories of a 26-year-old patent-office clerk. Einstein's science and emotional life come together in this vivid portrait of a...