Science & Technology

The theory of plate tectonics transformed earth science. The hypothesis that the earth's outermost layers consist of mostly rigid plates that move over an inner surface helped describe the growth of new seafloor, confirm continental drift, and explain...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An adrenaline-fuelled expose of life inside the tech bubble, Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets, power plays and lifestyle excesses of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists and money cowboys who are revolutionising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786884063Author Hoffman PFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982051832Author Anita LaughlinFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Wyatt-MacKenzie PublishingPublisher Wyatt-MacKenzie PublishingWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142004418Author Gerald DurrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989139076Author James DemeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Natural Energy WorksPublisher Natural Energy WorksWeight(grams) 216g

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 9780981854939Author Andrew MarinoFormat PaperbackImprint CassandraPublisher CassandraWeight(grams) 304g

The book presents the life and personality, the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the great scientists who marked the passage from 19th to 20th century physics. His rich and tragic life, ending by suicide at the age of 62, is...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118299265Author John GribbinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618257348Author GoodallPage Count 448Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

Chandra is an intimate portrait of a highly private and brilliant man, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate in physics who has been a major contributor to the theories of white dwarfs and black holes. "Wali has given us a magnificent portrait of...

By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610353267Author Robert W BlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co Inc

Richard Garwin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama Called a "true genius" by Enrico Fermi, Richard Garwin has influenced modern life in far-reaching ways, yet he is hardly known outside the physics community. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980231687Author James Edward MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Natural Energy WorksPublisher Natural Energy WorksWeight(grams) 626g

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975574935Author Stan PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Papyngay PressPublisher Papyngay PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451492913Author Oliver SacksFormat HardbackPage Count 752Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1127g

In spring 1961 James E. Webb, a North Carolina farm boy turned Washington insider, took charge of the grandest exploration project ever known: America's bid for the Moon. He persuaded JFK to support him and gained control of 5 per cent of the US federal...

Award winning authors Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis present a historically accurate graphic novel biography of English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing (1912-1954) is...

Every day, in natural history museums all across the country, colonies of dermestid beetles diligently devour the decaying flesh off of animal skeletons that are destined for the museum's specimen collection. That time-saving process was developed and...

George Washington Carver (ca. 1864-1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely-and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954396763Author Michael FairleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint MifairPublisher MifairWeight(grams) 399g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228809777Author Elizabeth V HaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552646Author Lillian HoddesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Inspired by the life and times of Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859 , this biography follows Humboldt, who is considered the father of the Natural Sciences and in his day was as well known as Napoleon, and traces his childhood in what was then Prussia,...

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...

It was most fortuitous that on his first visit to Charleston, John James Audubon would meet John Bachman, a Lutheran clergyman and naturalist. Their chance encounter in 1831 and immediate friendship profoundly affected the careers and social ties of...

How unassuming government researcher Marshall Nirenberg beat James Watson, Francis Crick, and other world-famous scientists in the race to discover the genetic code. The genetic code is the Rosetta Stone by which we interpret the 3.3 billion letters of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901897916Author Frabk Le BlancqFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Societe JersiaisePublisher Societe JersiaiseWeight(grams) 189g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228881735Author Chris PaigeFormat PaperbackPage Count 858Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 835g

The apex of Soviet science as seen through the lives of twelve of the USSR's most eminent researchers Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery is the final resting place of some of Russia's most celebrated figures, from Khrushchev and Yeltsin to Anton Chekhov,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985451981Author Sean RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Onyx Neon PressPublisher Onyx Neon PressWeight(grams) 140g

Michael Polanyi was one of the great figures of European intellectual life in the 20th century. A highly acclaimed physical chemist in the first period of his career who became a celebrated philosopher after World War II, Polanyi taught in Germany,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990538523Author Rackham HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Greenwoman Publishing LLCPublisher Greenwoman Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898756746Author E A AsratyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...