Science & Technology

A first-rate ornithologist, Margaret Morse Nice (1883–1974) pioneered field studies on song sparrows and advocated for women’s active role in the sciences. Yet her nontraditional path toward scientific progress, as well as her gender, meant that she had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865345614Author David FubiniFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 626g

Rivers have always shaped the development of human society, their flows of water and sediment influencing food production, transportation, industrial activity, and power generation. Extreme flows that cause flood and drought, erosion, and sedimentation...

These essays explore the challenges Jeffe Kennedy has faced as a woman, a Westerner, a father-less daughter, a stepmother, a biologist, and a girl with hair of no specific colour. From the book's opening in a cornfield, where Kennedy is searching for the...

Astrophysicist and space pioneer James Van Allen (1914-2006), for whom the Van Allen radiation belts were named, was among the principal scientific investigators for twenty-four space missions, including Explorer 1 in 1958, the first successful U.S...

A collection of 23 essays that reflect the eclectic and provocative thinking of geographer Peter Gould. They discuss topics such as AIDS, game theory, development themes in Africa, and the efficiency of the private postal service at Penn State University...

Born on the same day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were true contemporaries. Though shaped by vastly different environments, they had remarkably similar values, purposes, and approaches. In this exciting new study, James Lander places these...

Gilbert Onderdonk traveled to Texas in 1851 as a twenty-two-year-old invalid in search of health. By the time of his death in 1920 at the robust age of ninety-one, he had been a pioneer botanist and horticulturist, a rancher, a Confederate soldier, a...

Architecture in the South Pacific: The Ocean of Islands recounts the recent developments of the South Pacific and its fascinating architecture. This volume traces the European architectural overlay onto this scattered group of islands as well as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781082490378Author Acie CargillFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228820536Author Stephen PhillipFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"...a sympathetic, insightful and highly readable story...Gathorne-Hardy ...shows us a very human and fallible but ultimately likable Kinsey, impatient and irritable at times, stubborn, willful, certainly a monomaniac about his research interests,...

Recounts the experiences, appointments and achievements of this eminent scientist. Dealing systematically with Bondi's childhood in Austria, arrival in Cambridge and his important contributions to the field of mathematics before his appointment as Master...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088253618Author Philip DrammehFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013787232Author Laura FermiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 254g

**As seen on Top Gear**For fans of Adrian Newey, Guy Martin and Chris Hadfield, in Taking on Gravity inventor Richard Browning tells the inspiring story behind his iconic jet suit, and shares his creative principles for generating true innovation.From...

Learn everything you need to know about Albert Einstein, the genius who created the Theory of Relativity and calculated mass-energy equivalence.101 Things You Didn't Know About Einstein provides in-depth, fascinating facts about the famous scientist and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013480904Author Laura FermiFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999367520Author Ken GullifordFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Peacock Proud PressPublisher Peacock Proud PressWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988470057Author Daniel Edward GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Daniel E. GrahamPublisher Daniel E. GrahamWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781022894372Author A P ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226720111Author Alison BashfordFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 1048g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nautilus Award (Ecology/Environment) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780061884986Author William KamkwambaFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint CollinsPublisher...

Dr Martin's study of Pierre Duhem's work refutes many prevailing legends about Duhem. His book pays particular attention to the political and intellectual context of French Catholicism, wracked as it was by the tensions of the Dreyfus affair and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988961043Author Sharael KolbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Sharael KolbergPublisher Sharael KolbergWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986410536Author Brian HoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Brian Holden PublishingPublisher Brian Holden PublishingWeight(grams)...

Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions reveals what makes Wes Jackson tick. What kind of lessons does he draw from his unique life experiences, and how do they shape his profoundly revolutionary worldview? Sometimes funny, sometimes wistful,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679756880Author George JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615548814Author Linda Morabito MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Heavens an Imprint of Scirel PublishingPublisher Heavens an Imprint of Scirel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595138333Author Tony FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 553g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578465135Author Sheila HinkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dwight B. HinkelPublisher Dwight B. HinkelWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061351846Author Ronald W ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 712g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985694494Author Robert T McMasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Unquomonk PressPublisher Unquomonk PressWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Percival probed the volcanic origins of rock via geology and the seething nature of his psyche via poetry. Stone Breaker is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American polymath, James Gates Percival. A poet, linguist, and unstable savant...

None of the spectators who gathered on the Hudson River shore on August 17, 1808, could have known the importance of the object they had come to see and, mostly, deride: Robert Fulton's new steamboat. But as Kirkpatrick Sale shows in this remarkable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449903940Author Sue HurwitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302276Author Dr Roger HighfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156031790Author George PendleFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935597Author Evan I SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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)...