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Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
RRP: $14.18$10.02NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Discover the... -
Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption by Patrick Alley
RRP: $12.89$8.77*****'Reads like a John le Carré novel but is, in fact, very real.' - The Big Issue'Very Bad People would be a hugely enjoyable thriller if it wasn't all true.' - Isabella Tree, author of Wilding'Global Witness are fearless.' - Gordon Roddick, Campaigner... -
Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War by Dermot Turing 9781803991696
RRP: $28.38$20.76Everyone knows the story of Enigma and secret codebreaking in the Second World War: the triumph of Bletchley Park over world-class cipher technology. Except that excellence in codebreaking was nearly betrayed by incompetence in codemaking.German... -
Beyond by Stephen Walker
RRP: $25.80$23.25'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW 9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A... -
The Painted: Surgeon by Aali J Sheen 9781739798208
RRP: $16.76$12.51When you've been decorated as a doctor by a learned society in the United States for your research on novel gene therapy for Cancer, it seems ludicrous and yet unthinkable that nine years later when you return there you are detained as a 'suspicious'... -
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Drury Clark 9780813595832
RRP: $37.40$25.57A classic work in the history of science, and described as "a good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one" by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. ... -
Science: The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
RRP: $45.15$34.43Explore the science innovations as you have never seen them with this visual guide. From the humble beginnings of science, right through to today's information age - go on a journey through the history of science through its people, inventions, and... -
William Armstrong: Magician of The North by Henrietta Heald 9780857160423
RRP: $20.63$14.98William Armstrong was a brilliant and charismatic figure of the 19th Century - a self-made man whose achievements are now being more widely recognised. Inventor, scientist, engineer, and an early advocator of renewable energy, he built a pioneering house... -
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon 9781529372489
RRP: $25.80$17.22DROPOUT. 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... -
Brunel: The Man Who Built the World by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: $12.89$8.77A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities.In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the... -
Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything by Jane Hawking
RRP: $12.89$9.17Now 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... -
Hedys Folly by Richard Rhodes
RRP: $19.34$14.10Apologies 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: $14.18$9.55I, 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... -
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli 9780241635049
RRP: $21.92$15.84A 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: $24.50$14.18*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... -
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane
RRP: $16.76$15.67Selected 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... -
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
RRP: $19.34$12.64'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: $14.18$8.35'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... -
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Veliz
RRP: $14.18$10.02An 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... -
All in Good Time: Reflections of a Watchmaker by George Daniels
RRP: $45.15$34.34The remarkable story of George Daniels, the master craftsman who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. George Daniels (1926-2011) stands alone in modern times as the inventor of the... -
Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science by Judy Mikovits
RRP: $19.34$12.07#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: $19.34$14.13In 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: $14.18$9.62Apologies 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 -
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World by Marc Raboy 9780199313587
RRP: $46.43$35.22A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were... -
Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie
RRP: $16.76$9.18In 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: $21.92$14.94The 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: $28.37$18.65Apologies 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 -
Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story by Benjamin Oren Black
RRP: $19.34$10.02Courage 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... -
When The Heavens Went On Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach by Ashlee Vance
RRP: $32.25$22.73*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: $19.34$15.29THE 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: $25.80$17.11The 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... -
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf
RRP: $32.25$21.65Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, The Spectator, Prospect, Sunday Times, Economist, New Statesman, Telegraph, Financial Times, TLS, New York Times, and Washington Post. 'This is ridiculous. No book about German philosophy has any right to be... -
An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $14.18$10.02Born 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... -
The Emperor Of Scent by Chandler Burr
RRP: $14.18$10.02In 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,... -
Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
RRP: $16.76$11.73Joy, 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: $16.76$11.09A 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: $14.18$10.02What 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 -... -
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists by Napoleon A. Chagnon 9780684855110
RRP: $28.38$21.45"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... -
The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World by Toby Musgrave
RRP: $16.76$14.78A fascinating life of Sir Joseph Banks which restores him to his proper place in history as a leading scientific figure of the English Enlightenment"An extensive, admiring account of his subject's circuitous route to fame and power."-Wall Street... -
Understanding Charles Darwin by Erik L. Peterson 9781009338592
RRP: $19.34$16.19The legend of Charles Darwin has never been more alive or more potent, but by virtue of this, his legacy has become susceptible to myths and misunderstandings. Understanding Charles Darwin examines key questions such as what did Darwin's work change...