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Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda Lear 9780547238234
RRP: $73.50$54.26Apologies 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 -
Presidential Takedown: How Anthony Fauci, the CDC, NIH, and the WHO Conspired to Overthrow President Trump by Dr. Paul Elias Alexander
RRP: $62.98$41.75An 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... -
The Booles and the Hintons: Two Dynasties That Helped Shape the Modern World by Gerry Kennedy 9781782051855
$52.73In 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,... -
The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science by Basil Mahon
RRP: $41.98$35.26FINALIST! 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... -
Dr Henry Hicks (1837-99) - The Life and Times of Dr Henry Hicks of St Davids, and the Bubble That Refused to Burst by Dyfed Elis-Gruffydd
$10.96Apologies 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 -
The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age by Paul J. Nahin
RRP: $35.68$27.49Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to home appliances. How did a system of mathematics established in the Victorian era become the basis for such... -
Fred Hoyle's Universe by Jane Gregory 9780198507918
RRP: $57.73$43.41Fred 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... -
The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla
RRP: $27.28$18.90Apologies 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 -
Chromosome Woman, Nomad Scientist: E. K. Janaki Ammal, A Life 1897-1984 Savithri Preetha Nair 9781032035482
RRP: $262.50$226.51This 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... -
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race by David Scott
RRP: $58.78$37.44Apologies 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 *... -
I Want to Fix Ears: Inside the Cochlear Implant Story by Graeme M Clark 9780645067101
RRP: $73.40$51.22Apologies 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 -
My Beautiful Psychosis: Making Sense of Madness by Emma Goude
RRP: $47.25$43.97A 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... -
Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America by Rena Selya
RRP: $69.30$59.72Apologies 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 -
Prodigal Genius: The Biography of Nikola Tesla; His Life, Legacy and Journals by John J O'Neill 9780359045143
RRP: $26.88$24.40Nikola 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... -
The Flawed Genius of William Playfair: The Story of the Father of Statistical Graphics by David R. Bellhouse 9781487545031
RRP: $90.30$79.59A 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... -
Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds by Chris Chester 9781400033850
RRP: $33.60$24.49Apologies 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 *... -
60 Year Journey with Lambretta by Dick Sedgley
$46.54Apologies 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 -
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe by Dr Jane Goodall 9780547336954
RRP: $35.68$23.63Apologies 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)... -
Helmholtz: A Life in Science by David Cahan
RRP: $100.80$87.42Hermann 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,... -
A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton by John McPhee 9780374526894
RRP: $37.80$21.78Apologies 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)... -
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics by Nancy Forbes 9781616149420
RRP: $41.98$35.20The 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... -
Shepherd's Delight: The Best of Tom Duncan by Tom Duncan 9781905769001
RRP: $20.98$17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905769001Author Tom DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd -
Galileo Antichrist: A Biography by Michael White 9780753822104 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.03Groundbreaking 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... -
Galileo Antichrist: A Biography Michael White 9780753822104
RRP: $27.28$18.06Groundbreaking 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... -
Pathways of Chance by F. David Peat 9788890196010 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.77F 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... -
Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by George Johnson
RRP: $25.18$19.22George Johnson brings to life Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who found the key to the vastness of the universe-in the form of a "yardstick" suitable for measuring it. Unknown in our day, Leavitt was no more recognized in her own: despite her enormous... -
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren 9781101873724
RRP: $33.60$19.55Apologies 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... -
Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science by Jim Endersby
RRP: $58.80$58.36Joseph 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... -
Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa by Kevin Richardson 9780312556730
RRP: $46.18$26.94Apologies 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... -
Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters by Albert Einstein
RRP: $39.88$31.75In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric, the companion, colleague, and confidante whose influence on his most creative years has given rise to much speculation. Beginning in 1897, after Einstein and... -
Niko's Nature: The Life of Niko Tinbergen and his Science of Animal Behaviour by Hans Kruuk 9780198515586
RRP: $90.28$67.91A 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... -
Comrade Haldane Is Too Busy to Go on Holiday: The Genius Who Spied for Stalin by Gavan Tredoux
RRP: $46.18$31.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039836Author Gavan TredouxFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA -
Carl Sagan by Keay Davidson 9780471395362
$44.27A 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... -
Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin by Nicolaas Rupke
RRP: $65.10$63.40In 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,... -
Ordinary Magic by Cameron Powell 9781684017577
RRP: $44.08$28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684017577Author Cameron PowellFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Mascot Books, IncPublisher Mascot Books, IncWeight(grams) 480g -
Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary by Arnold Thackray 9780465055647
RRP: $52.50$45.57Our 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... -
Sam Goudsmit and the Hunt for Hitler's Atom Bomb Martijn van Calmthout 9781633884502
RRP: $37.78$32.32The 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... -
Charles and Ada: The Computer's Most Passionate Partnership by James Essinger 9780750990950
RRP: $35.68$27.17The 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... -
The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology by Bernd Heinrich 9780060742164
RRP: $33.58$26.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060742164Author Bernd HeinrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Elon Musk: Risking It All by Michael Vlismas
RRP: $23.08$15.37A 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...