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Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon 9781529372489
RRP: £20.00£12.69DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAINHis face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of... -
Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines by Henrietta Heald 9781783526604
RRP: £20.00£13.35'Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.'This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women's Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine and Rachel... -
Hedys Folly by Richard Rhodes
RRP: £14.99£9.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742957Author Richard RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
I, Woz by Steve Wozniak
RRP: £10.99£7.05I, WOZ offers readers a unique glimpse into the offbeat and brilliant but ethical mind that conceived the Macintosh. After 25 years avoiding the public eye, Steve Wozniak reveals the full story of the Apple computer, from its conception to his views on... -
Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything by Jane Hawking
RRP: £9.99£7.11Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physics In this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking, Stephen... -
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane
RRP: £12.99£11.51Selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of shuttle astronauts, Mike Mullane completed three missions and logged 356 hours aboard the Discovery and Atlantis shuttles. It was a dream come true. As a boy, Mullane could only read about... -
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli 9780241635049
RRP: £16.99£12.28A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Anaximander is a delight and so is this book' -- James McConnachie, Sunday TimesNow widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of... -
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Patterns, Proteins and Peace: A Life in Science by Georgina Ferry
RRP: £18.99£15.65*Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Marsh Biography Award* The definitive biography of chemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize in the sciences to date. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) was... -
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Veliz
RRP: £9.99£7.11An Economist BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAs the data economy grows in power, Carissa Veliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and governments, why that matters and what we can do about it.The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving... -
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading... -
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham 9780349014937
RRP: £10.99£6.77'Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk' NEW STATESMAN'Wonderful ... both frank and fearless' TELEGRAPH BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Fascinating' GUARDIAN TOP TEN NATURE MEMOIRSFrom Mexico to the... -
Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science by Judy Mikovits
RRP: £14.99£9.36#1 on Amazon Charts, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller-Over 100,000 Copies in Print!"Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits are the new dynamic duo fighting corruption in science." -Ben Garrison, America's #1 political satirist Dr. Judy... -
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £14.99£10.95In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his... -
Super Mario by Jeff Ryan
RRP: £10.99£7.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591845638Author Jeff RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 29gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 24mm -
Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story by Benjamin Oren Black
RRP: £14.99£7.77Courage meets crisis in a doctor's extraordinary true account on the frontlines of maternal healthcare during a deadly epidemic in Sierra Leone. In May 2014, as the country grapples with the highest maternal mortality rate globally, a new, invisible... -
Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie
RRP: £12.99£7.12In the tradition of Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who... -
The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99£11.58The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and most magical church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and... -
Darwin: Portrait of a Genius by Paul Johnson
RRP: £21.99£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147509772Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 135g -
Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul by Claire Dunne
RRP: £25.00£16.27This is the essential fully illustrated biography of Carl Jung - one of the world's most influential thinkers and a founding father of psychology. It offers a unique insight into Jung's life and work, featuring generous excerpts from his writings and... -
When The Heavens Went On Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach by Ashlee Vance
RRP: £25.00£17.62*An instant New York Times Bestseller*'One of the most exciting tales of our time... It's the next tech frontier, and Vance turns it into a thriller' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs'Eloquent, expertly reported' Brad Stone, author of The Everything... -
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller by Tony Fadell
RRP: £14.99£11.85THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (MAY 2022).An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from 'the father of the iPod and iPhone' and the creator of Nest.Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road, you need someone to... -
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission by Col. Eileen M. Collins, USAF (Retired)
RRP: £20.00£13.26The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well... -
The Emperor Of Scent by Chandler Burr
RRP: £10.99£7.77In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for perfume, his brilliant, quixotic theory of how we smell,... -
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists by Napoleon A. Chagnon 9780684855110
RRP: £22.00£15.10"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... -
An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £10.99£7.77Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired... -
Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
RRP: £12.99£9.09Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not to be essential for comprehending human rationality and understanding, they have largely been ignored... -
Elixir: A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life by Theresa Levitt 9781399803250
RRP: £12.99£8.18A FINANCIAL TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA STRONG WORDS TOP 50 BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Dizzying and fragrant . . . truly a captivating achievement!' Aimee Nezhukumatathil'If you read this book you will be changed . . . this book feels like an actual elixir'... -
'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £10.99£7.77What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling scientific genius Richard P. Feynman. Richard Feynman - Nobel Laureate, teacher and iconic intellect -... -
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter 9780593358917
RRP: £15.99£10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593358917Author Barbara Rae-VenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey by Fred Haise
RRP: £29.00£18.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347138Author Fred W. HaiseFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution by T.R. Reid 9780375758287
RRP: £15.99£10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780375758287Author T.R. ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House Trade... -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9781035038619
RRP: £10.99£7.12The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman's cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne.'No dead woman has done more for the living . . ... -
Apollo 11: The Inside Story by David Whitehouse 9781785786181
RRP: £9.99£6.70'Terrific and enthralling' New Scientist'An authoritative account of Apollo 11 and the end of the space race, shedding light on the true drama behind the mission.' ObserverFifty years ago, in July 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land... -
A Boy Called Arsenal by Alan J Hill 9781913208660
RRP: £9.99£7.51A Boy Called Arsenal is an honest and emotional true story about a man who, after a life-long battle with mental and physical problems, finally became diagnosed with autism at the age of forty-nine in 2011. The catalyst for his diagnosis was his... -
Isaac Newton by James Gleick 9780007163182
RRP: £10.99£7.25From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith. Isaac Newton was the chief architect of the modern world. He answered the ancient... -
Before Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of the First World War by Paul Gannon
RRP: £20.00£15.11The story of Bletchley Park's codebreaking operations in the Second World War is now well known, but its counterparts in the First World War - Room 40 & MI1(b) - remain in the shadows, despite their involvement in and influence on most of the major... -
The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist's Journey Through Life by Dr Richard Shepherd
RRP: £22.99£16.68The heart-wrenchingly honest and fascinating new book from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of UNNATURAL CAUSES, Dr Richard ShepherdA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Each chapter is like a finely-crafted detective story . . . Shepherd... -
Samsung Rising: Inside the secretive company conquering Tech by Geoffrey Cain
RRP: £16.99£12.28*** Longlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year ***'Shines an incisive and entertaining light into the secretive world of the South Korean technology giant shaping our digital lives in ways we probably can't imagine' --... -
Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais
RRP: £36.49£33.74Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both professionally and personally in the last years of his life... -
Moving Heaven and Earth (Icon Science): Copernicus and the Solar System by John Henry
RRP: £8.99£2.26When Nicolaus Copernicus claimed that the Earth was not stationary at the centre of the universe but circled the Sun, he brought about a total revolution in the sciences and consternation in the Church.Copernicus' theory demanded a new physics to explain...