Science & Technology

Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi's lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan - something a simple surgery would easily correct. But when Nnedi wakes from the surgery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375714580Author Jonathan MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 220gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 138mm...

Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who have recently died. More than standard obituaries, the lives are summarised with narration and include interviews with some of those who knew...

Galileo's story may be more relevant today than ever before. At present, we face enormous crises-such as the minimization of the dangers of climate change-because the science behind these threats is erroneously questioned or ignored. Galileo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906833619Author Ruth Velikovsky SharonFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Paradigma LtdPublisher Paradigma LtdWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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,...

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...

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...

Boolean 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113669Author Christine MontrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800944572Author John FolkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Michael Terence PublishingPublisher Michael Terence PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621644118Author Aude DugastFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

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,...

As director of the Cincinnati Observatory and, later, a civilian in the newly established forecast and storm warning division of the U.S. Army Signal Service, Cleveland Abbe was the first person to issue official, regularly scheduled weather forecasts,...

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

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 9789888412266Author John J O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Discovery PublisherPublisher Discovery PublisherWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

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 9780359045143Author John J O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048521Author Patricia MeisolFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm * 32mm

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060538989Author Lisa JardineFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

When Charles Frederick Ball was killed at Gallipoli in 1915 The Irish Times called him 'one of the best known botanists and horticulturists in Ireland'. Fred Ball (to friends and family) trained in horticulture at Kew Gardens in the UK, moved to Dublin...

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 9781639364688Author Matthew CappucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 138mm...

The Life and Work of James Bradley: The New Foundations of 18th Century Astronomy is the first major work on the life and achievements of James Bradley for 190 years. This book offers a new perspective and new interpretations of previously published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401309954Author Jamie JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 354g

"One of history's greatest anthropologists-and a rip-roaring storyteller-recounts his life with an endangered Amazonian tribe and the mind-boggling controversies his work ignited" (Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature).Napoleon...

Lucky Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming memoir by a renowned veterinary oncologist who tells us what we can learn about health care and ourselves from our most beloved pets.What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymen's term: cancer...

Since publication of Stillman Drake's landmark volume, Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography, new and exciting information has come to light about this towering figure in the history of Western science. Drawing largely from Galileo's manuscript...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400080663Author Erik LarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

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

Volume III of Dick Russell's monumental biography, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, takes up the final decades of the pioneering depth psychologist's explorations of "Soul in the World." Hillman's twenty-three-year relationship and ultimately...

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...

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.Book InformationISBN 9780262046435Author Maia WeinstockFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a rocket and soared into space. He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to...

The great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman-loved and reviled, and finally now revealed. The first full biography of Henry A. Wallace, a visionary intellectual and one of this century's most important and controversial...

Who are the most important men and women whose notions and theories have changed the world? When Isaac Newton claimed that he only saw further because he stood on the shoulders of giants, he alluded to the long list of geniuses that came before him. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386367297Author Estefania WengerFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions