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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf 9781529392760
RRP: $16.76$11.09'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the Week'Extraordinary... A thrilling intellectual history that reads like a racy, intelligent novel, with a cast of... -
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future by Ashlee Vance
RRP: $16.76$11.73South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
RRP: $14.18$9.18A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and grand historical narrative. Above all it fizzes with a... -
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys by Michael Collins
RRP: $19.34$14.01'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of... -
Books do Furnish a Life: An electrifying celebration of science writing by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $14.18$9.18'A rich feast of his essays, reviews, forewords, squibs and conversations, in which talent and passion are married to deep knowledge.' Matt Ridley'Enjoy the unfailing clarity of his thought and prose, as well as the grandeur of his vision of life on... -
Limitless: The Autobiography: The bestselling story of Britain's inspirational astronaut by Tim Peake
RRP: $14.18$10.02The inspirational autobiography of Britain's beloved astronaut Tim Peake, the #1 bestselling author of Hello, is this Planet Earth? and Ask an AstronautAs heard on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs__________________'What surprised me was how entirely... -
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy
RRP: $12.89$8.71In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated and even filed away in a... -
Darwin's Notebook by Jonathan Clements
RRP: $19.34$14.55Many 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... -
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini
RRP: $30.96$20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593241837Author Joy BuolamwiniFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922 - 1923 by Albert Einstein
RRP: $32.25$25.26Albert Einstein's travel diary to the Far East and Middle EastIn the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist... -
Carl Sagan: A Biography by Ray Spangenburg
RRP: $16.76$14.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591026587Author Ray SpangenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus BooksWeight(grams) 155g -
The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs by Mark O'Connell 9780062484178
RRP: $12.89$8.57The wildly entertaining and eye-opening biography of J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who invented the concept of "Close Encounters" with alien life, inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster classic science fiction epic film, and made a nation want to... -
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa
RRP: $25.80$16.90A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental... -
How Not to be a Doctor: And Other Essays by John Launer
RRP: $12.89$8.71The essential book on how not to be a doctor - and how to be a better one. Drawn from his popular medical columns over the years, John Launer shares fifty of his best-loved essays, covering topics from essentials skills they don't teach you in medical... -
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close 9780141997582
RRP: $16.76$11.73The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of itIn the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the... -
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel 9780465064953
RRP: $20.63$14.10A New York Times Science BestsellerWhat if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is... -
Caves, Coprolites and Catastrophes: The Story of Pioneering Geologist and Fossil-Hunter William Buckland by Dr Allan Chapman
RRP: $25.79$18.42'An irresistible biography of one of Oxford's most colourful characters.' John Hedley Brooke In 1824, William Buckland stood in front of the Royal Geological Society and told them about the bones he had been studying - the bones of an enormous,... -
Diary of a Rural GP: Hilarious True Stories from a Country Practice (Book 3 in the Country Doctor series) by Michael Sparrow
RRP: $12.89$10.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788420747Author Michael SparrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PreludePublisher Duckworth Books -
Dreamland: An Autobiography by Bob Lazar 9780578437057
RRP: $25.79$18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578437057Author Bob LazarFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bruno Gmuender GmbHPublisher Bruno Gmuender GmbH -
My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla
RRP: $16.76$11.73Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew no limits and his incredible sense of possibility rings through his memoir. This authorative volume of My Inventions includes three... -
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick
RRP: $19.34$12.64Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission, ebulent bongo-player and storyteller - Feynman... -
The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World by James Ashton
RRP: $32.25$21.65**A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023**Out now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company behind the blueprint to it all.'A gripping and inspiring read.' Sir James Dyson'A revealing and insightful biography of the... -
When the Dogs Don't Bark: A Forensic Scientist's Search for the Truth by Professor Angela Gallop
RRP: $14.18$9.55*As seen on ITV's The Pembrokeshire Murders*'Fascinating. A book that will be essential reading for every aspiring crime writer' Guardian'Offers a chilling glimpse into her life's work. Fascinating stuff.' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily... -
The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded by Jim Ottaviani
RRP: $18.05$13.36Alan Turing (1912-1954) was the mathematician credited with cracking the German Enigma code during World War II, enabling the Allies to defeat the Nazis. After the war, Turing went on to launch modern computer science through his creation of the... -
No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses by Peter Piot
RRP: $18.05$15.80When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, "There's no future in infectious diseases. They've all been solved." Fortunately, Piot ignored him, and the result has been an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, as a young man,... -
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin 9780241363157
RRP: $16.76$11.73'IMPRESSIVE AND ILLUMINATING' TOM HANKS This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant leap for mankind' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600... -
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
RRP: $16.76$10.94SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as... -
Einstein: A Biography by Jurgen Neffe 9780745642215
RRP: $16.76$11.61Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famous for his theory of relativity, which is considered the founding principle of modern physics. He also made enormous contributions to quantum mechanics and... -
The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: a history of the Renaissance mathematics that birthed imaginary numbers, probability, and the new physics of the universe by Michael Brooks 9781911617358
RRP: $12.89$8.64A Daily Telegraph book of the year. This is a landmark in science writing that resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer,... -
Einstein's Greatest Mistake: The Life of a Flawed Genius by David Bodanis
RRP: $16.76$11.09Widely 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... -
The Year the World Went Mad: A Scientific Memoir from the Pandemic by Mark Woolhouse
RRP: $21.92$15.84In January 2020, leading epidemiologist Professor Mark Woolhouse learned of a new virus taking hold in China. He immediately foresaw a hard road ahead for the entire world, and emailed the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland warning that the UK should... -
Darwin by Adrian J. Desmond
RRP: $24.50$18.07This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about God... -
LSD: My problem child by Albert Hofmann
RRP: $31.59$28.51Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, but the results of animal tests were so unremarkable that the chemical was abandoned. Driven by intuition, he synthesized it again in 1943, and... -
The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman
RRP: $14.18$9.44One 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,... -
The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works by Nikola Tesla
RRP: $24.50$17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645174387Author Nikola TeslaFormat HardbackPage Count 768Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,... -
Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz
RRP: $27.09$16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439148815Author Gene KranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 156mm... -
Magnificent Desolation by Buzz Aldrin
RRP: $19.34$14.13_________________________ THE ESSENTIAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE SECOND MAN ON THE MOON _________________________ 'Thrilling ... years on, the raw facts of the adventure remain beguiling and the bravery of the astronauts compelling' - SUNDAY TIMES ... -
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
RRP: $14.18$9.35The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue. The genome is our 100,000 or so genes. The genome is the... -
Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
RRP: $14.18$10.02NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Discover the... -
Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption by Patrick Alley
RRP: $12.89$8.77*****'Reads like a John le Carré novel but is, in fact, very real.' - The Big Issue'Very Bad People would be a hugely enjoyable thriller if it wasn't all true.' - Isabella Tree, author of Wilding'Global Witness are fearless.' - Gordon Roddick, Campaigner...