Science & Technology

Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, is renowned as one of the world's most ingenious and influential scientists. Nonetheless, he remains misunderstood and enigmatic, his history shrouded in controversy and myth. Escaping poverty, he joined a...

A "beautifully written" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have take to bypass the problem, and how to...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312308667Author David ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Flint Dille wrote your childhood. From his work on 80s cartoon classics like Transformers, G.I. Joe, the Garbage Pail Kids, and Inhumanoids to the interactive novels he wrote with Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons, Flint had a hand in many...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547238234Author Linda LearFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 46mm

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...

An explosive behind-the-scenes look at Donald Trump's final months in office and how the COVID crisis response was a carefully crafted plan to ruin him.In January 2020, Donald Trump was on the fast track to an easy re-election. While his first two years...

FINALIST! 2019 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award This biography of Oliver Heaviside profiles the life of an underappreciated genius and describes his many contributions to electrical science, which proved to be...

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

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 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...

Charles Darwin's Autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. It was a bowdlerized edition: Darwin's family, attempting to protect his posthumous reputation, had deleted all the passages they considered too personal or...

The present volume, set in the turbulent post-World War I period, finds Einstein awaiting news of the 1919 British eclipse expedition to test the general relativistic prediction of the deflection of starlight by the sun. With the expedition's success, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645067101Author Graeme M ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint IscastPublisher IscastWeight(grams) 903gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 24mm

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...

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

A moving memoir following the author's own experience of psychosis What if psychosis is really a wake up call? Emma Goude is a twenty-something who works at the BBC. She likes to party and take drugs... until she decides to give them up... and that's...

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,...

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...

Nikola Tesla was one of the 20th century's great pioneers; his role in advancing electrical energy through the use of alternating current, and his stupendous engineering finesse, make this biography by journalist John J. O'Neill a fine read. Born in a...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400033850Author Chris ChesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788306683Author Dick SedgleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547336954Author Dr Jane GoodallFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312556730Author Kevin RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

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 Memphis/Shelby County Public Library "Same Book Same Time" County-Wide Reading Pick of 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780440235507Author Homer HickamFormat...

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...

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...

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...

F David Peat is one of the most interesting and innovative thinkers around today. This book offers a rich, inquiring and highly readable journey from the creative buzz of his native Liverpool in the sixties to a Native American talking circle. He meets...

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...

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,...

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...

A penetrating, mesmerizing biography of a scientific icon, now in paperback "Absolutely fascinating ...Davidson has done a remarkable job."-Sir Arthur C. Clarke "Engaging ...accessible, carefully documented ...sophisticated."-Dr. David Hollinger for...