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White Knight, Red Heat: The Many Lives of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford by John Gribbin 9781633888678
RRP: $25.79$19.38President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that “Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Count Rumford are the greatest minds that America has produced,” and indeed, Rumford was a peer of theirs, and arguably contributed more to the scientific canon, and... -
John Dee by Charlotte Fell-Smith 9780892541041
RRP: $67.73$43.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892541041Author Charlotte Fell-SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Energy: The Life of John J. McKetta Jr. by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta 9781477312902
RRP: $38.69$34.19Energy recounts the life of Dr. John J. McKetta Jr., a first-generation Ukrainian American coal miner who worked his way up from the mines to become the world's foremost energy expert, a university dean, an encyclopedia editor, and one of the most widely... -
The Adam Quest: Eleven Scientists Who Held on to a Strong Faith While Wrestling with the Mystery of Human Origins by Tim Stafford 9781400205646
RRP: $19.34$17.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400205646Author Tim StaffordFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Space Age Generation: Lives and Lessons from the Golden Age of Solar System Exploration by William Sheehan 9780816551040
RRP: $63.15$58.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816551040Author William SheehanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press -
What about Darwin?: All Species of Opinion from Scientists, Sages, Friends, and Enemies Who Met, Read, and Discussed the Naturalist Who Changed the World by Thomas F. Glick 9780801894626
RRP: $36.12$32.17Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin scholar Thomas Glick presents fascinating observations about Darwin and his ideas from such notable figures as... -
Revolutionaries of the Cosmos: The Astro-Physicists by Ian Glass 9780198570998
$96.20Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Huggins, Hale, Eddington, Shapley and Hubble: these astronomers applied ideas drawn from physics to astronomy and made dramatic changes to the world-pictures that they inherited. They showed that celestial objects are composed... -
The Old Lion of Africa: An Autobiography of Walter N. Masiga by Walter Nyamori Masiga 9789966960191
RRP: $32.25$18.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789966960191Author Walter Nyamori MasigaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Nsemia Inc.Publisher Nsemia Inc.Weight(grams) 148g -
Francis Blake: An Inventor's Life, 1850-1913 by Elton W. Hall 9780934909846
$47.87Accomplished inventor, visionary photographer, philanthropist, and successful businessman, Francis Blake (1850 1913) changed not only the way Americans communicated in the nineteenth century but also quite literally how they saw themselves. His major... -
Pascal: The Man and His Two Loves by John R. Cole 9780814715109
$116.46Ever since the edifying life written by his sister in the months after his death, canonical representations of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) have revered him for the scientific genius of his youth, the religious conversions of his mid-life, and the great... -
Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker by Charles H. Warner 9780700627738
RRP: $38.64$37.37Every 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... -
Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo by Kate Jackson 9780674048423
RRP: $27.03$21.78In 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pitfall... -
Duty Calls: Lessons Learned From an Unexpected Life of Service by Dr. Antonia Novello 9781682754467
$26.05For over four decades, Dr. Antonia Novello has served the nation in various capacities, including serving as Deputy Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, being named the first woman and the first Hispanic Surgeon... -
Elements of Chemistry: Quarks, Atoms and Molecules by Matt Tweed 9781907155529
RRP: $8.97$6.05What makes a quark? How many quarks make a proton? How many protons make an oxygen atom? How many oxygen atoms make a carbon dioxide molecule? How many carbon atoms make you? In this accessible little book, packed with helpful diagrams and interesting... -
Adventures in Physics & Pueblo Pottery: Memoirs of a Los Alamos Scientist by Francis H. Harlow 9780890136157
RRP: $46.43$39.37Francis H Harlow (1928-present) is a world class physicist, an expert on Pueblo Indian pottery and Southwest sea fossils, an accomplished painter and cellist. In this memoir, the retired Los Alamos scientist and scholar looks back on his life and career,... -
The Cryotron Files: The Untold Story of Dudley Buck, Cold War Computer Scientist and Microchip Pioneer by Iain Dey 9781468315776
RRP: $37.35$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468315776Author Iain DeyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Isaac Newton, The Asshole Who Reinvented the Universe by Florian Freistetter 9781633884564
RRP: $23.21$21.23A blunt and humorous profile of Isaac Newton focusing on his disagreeable personality and showing that his offputting qualities were key to his scientific breakthroughs. Isaac Newton may have been the most important scientist in history, but he was a... -
Tesla for Beginners by Robert I. Sutherland-Cohen 9781939994486
RRP: $16.76$16.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994486Author Robert I. Sutherland-CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
John Wilkins 1614-1672: An Intellectual Biography by Barbara J. Shapiro 9780520370562
RRP: $103.20$80.35This 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... -
Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution by Madison Smartt Bell 9780393328547
RRP: $12.89$11.27Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell's enthralling narrative reads like a race to the finish line, as... -
The Fatal Sleep by Peter Kennedy 9781905222674
RRP: $25.80$18.68The bite of the tsetse fly - a burning sting into the skin - causes a descent into violent fever and aching pains. Severe bouts of insomnia are followed by mental deterioration, disruption of the nervous system, coma and ultimately death.Sleeping... -
Revealing New Worlds: Three Victorian Women Naturalists Suzanne Le-May Sheffield 9780415862981
RRP: $56.75$49.59The story of nineteenth-century science often tells a tale of a masculinized professionalizing domain. Scientific man increasingly pushed women out, marginalized them and constructed them as naturally feminine creatures incapable of intellectual work,... -
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect Charles Thorpe 9780226798462
RRP: $36.12$35.85At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons... -
The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment by Mary Terrall 9780226793610
RRP: $46.44$45.45Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698 - 1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. With "The Man Who Flattened the Earth", Mary Terrall offers an elegant portrait of... -
The Crime of Galileo Giorgio de Santillana 9780226734811
RRP: $46.44$44.93"In the gallery of what might be called the martyrs of thought, the image of Galileo recanting before the Italian Inquisition stirs the minds of educated modern men second only to the picture of Socrates drinking the Hemlock. That image of Galileo is out... -
Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature by Richard Rhodes 9781984898357
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898357Author Richard RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283g -
Great Maritime Achievers in Science and Technology by George MacBeath 9780864923806
RRP: $15.47$9.79Generations of practical and ingenious Maritimers have given the word great things. Since the mid-nineteenth century, scientists have fanned out into the world from colleges and universities that are among the oldest in North America. Great Maritime... -
Cosmos and Colonialism: Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism Rex Clark 9780857452665
RRP: $138.03$111.68Alexander von Humboldt explored the Spanish Empire on the verge of its collapse (1799-1804). He is the most significant German travel writer and the most important mediator between Europe and the Americas of the nineteenth century. His works integrated... -
Transatlantic Echoes: Alexander von Humboldt in World Literature by Rex Clark 9780857452658
RRP: $170.28$138.03Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a world traveler, bestselling writer, and versatile researcher, a European salon sensation and global celebrity. Yet the enormous literary echo he generated has remained largely unexplored. Humboldt inspired... -
Biography Of Paul Berg, A: The Recombinant Dna Controversy Revisited by Errol C. Friedberg 9789814569033
RRP: $94.17$82.64With a Foreword by Sydney Brenner (Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2002)This biography details the life of Paul Berg (Emeritus Professor at Stanford University), tracing Berg's life from birth, in 1926, to the present, with special emphasis... -
Joy Of Discovery, The: Great Encounters Along The Way by Walter Thirring 9789814322966
RRP: $54.18$47.64Walter Thirring is the last offspring of an Austrian family of scientists. In this moving narrative, he describes how he survived the Nazi occupation and became instrumental in reconstructing European science.Thirring is one of the last living physicists... -
Follow The Chemistry: Lure, Lore And Life - An Autobiography Of Goh Lai Yoong by Goh Lai (Wong) Yoong 9789814304009
RRP: $42.57$37.72This autobiography presents a personal account of the life of a woman academic, over a span of 60 years, from incidents in her childhood, through the education process from primary to pre-university education in British Malaya to two doctorates from... -
M.s. Swaminathan: Legend In Science And Beyond by P. C. Kesavan 9789813200098
RRP: $134.16$116.28This unique volume is not just an in-depth analysis of Professor Swaminathan's brilliant contributions to basic cytogenetics, radiation biology, mutagenesis and genomic affinities of cultivated potato and its wild derivatives, but also the application of... -
L. Ron Hubbard: A Profile Dan Sherman 9788764935134
RRP: $45.15$29.40This is the lead title and overview volume of a unique 16 volume biography of L. Ron Hubbard. This all-encompassing compendium for The L. Ron Hubbard Series highlights all he achieved as a humanitarian, educator, administrator, philosopher and artist... -
Alexandr A. Chuprov: Life, Work, Correspondence by Oscar Sheynin 9783899718126
RRP: $68.36$55.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899718126Author Oscar SheyninFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 0g -
My Watery Self: Memoirs of a Marine Scientist Stephen Spotte 9781941110164
RRP: $15.47$10.32In My Watery Self: An Aquatic Memoir, author/scientist Stephen Spotte traces a fascinating trail through a life that began in West Virgina coal camps, drifted through reckless bohemian times of countercultural indulgence in Beach Haven, New Jersey, and... -
No Stone Unturned by Donald A. Beattie 9781926837185
RRP: $16.76$10.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926837185Author Donald A. BeattieFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Griffin MediaPublisher Griffin MediaWeight(grams) 0g -
No Wisdom Without Folly: The Extraordinary Life Of Francois Englert, Nobel Laureate by Francois Englert 9789811283246
RRP: $83.85$72.98This book is a biography of François Englert, the first Belgian Nobel Laureate in Physics. Jointly awarded to him and British physicist Peter Higgs, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was celebrated for the understanding of the origin of massive particles... -
Small Science: Baracktrema Obamai And Other Stories Of A Life In Parasitology & Higher Education by Thomas Reid Platt 9789811239144
RRP: $83.85$72.98'Long, thin, and cool as hell' was how parasitologist Thomas Platt described the new genus and species of trematode (Baracktrema obamai) he named in honor of the 44th USA president and his 5th cousin, Barack Obama. The story of Baracktrema was picked up... -
From White Dwarfs to Black Holes: The Legacy of S. Chandrasekhar by G. Srinivasan 9780226769974
RRP: $38.70$37.73Chronicles the productive scientific career of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, one of the 20th-century's distinguished astrophysicists. Among Chandrasekhar's many discoveries were the critical mass that makes a star too massive to become a white dwarf and...