Science & Technology

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...

Apologies 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)...

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...

Professor Matthew Heddle (1828-97) was a larger-than-life character, a renowned academic and one of Scotland's most famous mineralogists. His rich legacy includes: Encyclopaedia Britannica 9th edition (section on Mineralogy) A fossil fish Heddleichthys A...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528912488Author John ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A unique insight into the mind of one of the world's most extraordinary thinkers.Undoubtedly the most famous scientist on the planet and the very face of physics over the last half-century, Stephen Hawking is remarkable for many reasons. Not least...

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 9780802715296Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Walker & CoPublisher Walker & CoWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 187mm * 118mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802715296Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Walker & CoPublisher Walker & CoWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 187mm * 118mm * 15mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880800013Author Andrew M AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint National Center for Constitutional StudiesPublisher National Center for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733149617Author Christina D WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Christina D. WarnerPublisher Christina D. WarnerWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe--winner Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award--winners Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story...

In Darwin's Shadow is the gripping story of the heretical British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who co-discovered natural selection independently of his more well-known contemporary Charles Darwin. Utilizing a number of never-before-used archival...

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

J Martin Littlejohn was a person who stood literally and figuratively shoulder to shoulder with the founder of osteopathy, A T Still. A proud presbyterian Scot who made his career and reputation in the USA, only to have it questioned and discredited...

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...

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...

Erik Olin Wright, one of the most important sociologists of his time, takes readers along on his intimate and brave journey toward death, and asks the big questions about human mortality.From the renowned Marxist sociologist and educator Erik Olin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894959889Author Sy LiebergotFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Apogee BooksPublisher Collector's Guide PublishingWeight(grams) 310g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038474Author Ann FinkbeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

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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 9781684513598Author James KunetkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery HistoryWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142001219Author Michael RuhlmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

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This book began with the aim of telling the almost forgotten story of Thomas Hancock, the rubber developer who in his own day was acknowledged as one of the great scientific pioneers of the Industrial Revolution. But as research progressed, it was clear...

When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvellous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the...

A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher's Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year "Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever...

Hogben escaped from a background of religious bigotry by the academic ladder and gained a major scholarship at Cambridge and graduated in 1916. During a noteworthy academic career, he found time to be active in the Fabian Society and in the London Labour...

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

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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...

A vibrant graphic adaptation of the classic science memoir Regarded as one of the world's preeminent biologists, Edward O. Wilson spent his boyhood exploring the forests and swamps of south Alabama and the Florida panhandle, collecting snakes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345456885Author Bill B. HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261g

Codiscoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace should be recognized as one of the titans of Victorian science. Instead he has long been relegated to a secondary place behind Darwin. Worse, many scholars have...