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Pieces of the Action by Vannevar Bush
RRP: £17.99£13.30An inside account of one of the most innovative R&D ecosystems of the 20th century, from the man who was at the center of it all. Over a 60-year career in public affairs, Vannevar Bush-engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded... -
Below the Edge of Darkness: Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea by Edith Widder
RRP: £9.99£6.48A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean in this 'thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure' (New York Times)LONGLISTED FOR THE SNHN NATURAL HISTORY BOOK PRIZEEdith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist... -
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
RRP: £24.00£13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Books for a Better Life (Inspirational Memoir) 2008. Commended for Grand Canyon Reader Award (Teen) 2010. Short-listed for Virginia Readers Choice Award (High... -
A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Fortey
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades ... The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a revelation' ADAM NICOLSON 'Wonderful,... -
Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais
£46.16Subtle 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... -
The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture by Scott Belsky
RRP: £14.99£12.45"Starting a new venture is like jumping off a cliff and sewing a parachute on the way down. This book is the parachute." Joe Gebbia, cofounder and chief product officer, AirbnbHow do you make your start-up a genuine success in the long term? While most... -
Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe by Silvan S. Schweber 9780674065871
£39.75On the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima, Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe called on his fellow scientists to stop working on weapons of mass destruction. What drove Bethe, the head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to... -
The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition by Claire Brock
£9.39Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal.Soon making scientific discoveries in her own... -
Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey by Ralph Leighton 9780393320695
RRP: £18.50£15.66In 1977, Feynman and his sidekick- fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton-set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending quite a few Tuvans, and discovering the wonders of... -
Alan Turing: Remarkable Lives by Dermot Turing
RRP: £6.00£4.28Today, Alan Turing is a well-recognised name, but it was not always so. Until the last few years of the 20th century hardly anyone had heard of him or his achievements. All that changed when the British government permitted the story of Bletchley Park... -
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith
RRP: £12.99£11.46Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth-an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding... -
The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
RRP: £14.99£10.88The story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet-and shifted our understanding of what computers could be. Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time is the vision of J.C.R... -
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems by Giorgio Parisi
RRP: £20.00£14.28From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power. In this exhilarating little book, he shows his human side,... -
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer
RRP: £14.99£12.98The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentle hearted torturer - the agency's "poisoner in chief." As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He... -
The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World by Toby Musgrave
RRP: £12.99£11.99A 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... -
The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works by Nikola Tesla
£19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645174387Author Nikola TeslaFormat HardbackPage Count 768Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,... -
War on Ivermectin: The Early Treatment that Could Have Saved the World from COVID by Pierre Kory 9781510773868
RRP: £32.50£21.37Big Pharma and health agencies cry "Don't take ivermectin!" A media storm follows. Why then, does the science say the opposite?Ivermectin is a dirty word in the media. The drug has been derided and declared useless. Doctors have earnestly recorded pleas... -
Fermat's Last Theorem (Collins Modern Classics) by Simon Singh
RRP: £9.99£6.64Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. ... -
Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-up Bubble by Dan Lyons
RRP: £10.99£7.32Dan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was unemployed... -
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space by Stephen Walker
RRP: £10.99£7.25'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 Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother by Ulinka Rublack 9780198736783
RRP: £13.99£9.75Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three... -
The Collector by Jack Nisbet 9781570616679
RRP: £19.95£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570616679Author Jack NisbetFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Sasquatch BooksPublisher Sasquatch BooksWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *... -
History VIPs: Mary Anning by Kay Barnham
RRP: £8.99£5.91'She sells sea shells on the sea shore' - and she really did! This rhyme is thought to have been written about Mary Anning, an amazing fossilist and dinosaur expert, who was almost unknown at the time she lived. This biography explores the life of Mary... -
Not Time To Put Out The Lights: My Transplant Story – Bilateral Double Lung Transplant by Stephen Henstridge 9781913012335
£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913012335Author Stephen HenstridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Chalk Stream BooksPublisher Riverside Publishing Solutions LtdDimensions(mm) 198mm... -
Dr William Budd: Bristol's Most Famous Physician by Michael Dunnill 9781904537489
RRP: £12.95£8.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904537489Author Michael DunnillFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press Ltd -
The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things by John Tinnell 9780226757209
RRP: £25.00£19.23A compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry's quest to connect everything-and who hoped for something better. When developers and critics trace the roots of today's Internet of Things-our smart... -
Cicely Saunders: The Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement by Shirley Du Boulay
RRP: £13.99£9.75Dame Cicely Saunders was the founder of the Hospice Movement, in which Britain leads the world. Her work transformed our approach to the care of the dying, and also the debate about euthanasia. She died in 2005 and her memorial service was held in... -
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level by Leander Kahney
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task - following in the footsteps of one of history's greatest business visionaries, Steve Jobs. Facing worldwide scrutiny, Cook (who was often described as shy, unassuming and unimaginative) defied all... -
The Last Man on the Moon by Eugene A. Cernan
£13.44Eugene Cernan is a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of spaceflight. His career spanned the entire Gemini and Apollo programs, from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around our... -
Latitude: The astonishing journey to discover the shape of the earth by Nicholas Crane
RRP: £9.99£7.11Told for the very first time, this is the true story of the adventure that shaped the world . . .'A thrilling story of courage, survival and science. It's an extraordinary, visceral and vivid read' Geographical Magazine________Three hundred years ago no... -
Alan Turing's Manchester by Jonathan Swinton
RRP: £20.00£15.11Alan Turing is a patron saint of Manchester, remembered as the Mancunian who won the war, invented the computer, and was all but put to death for being gay. Each myth is related to a historical story. This is not a book about the first of those stories,... -
Spare Parts: A Surprising History of Transplants by Paul Craddock
RRP: £18.99£16.78A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK'Spare Parts is a fascinating read filled with adventure, delight and surprise' RAHUL JANDIAL, surgeon author of 'Life on a Knife's Edge''This is a joyful romp through a fascinating slice of medical history' WENDY MOORE,... -
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep by Kenneth Miller 9780861545162
RRP: £18.99£13.61'Fascinating, magisterially researched, and brilliantly written.' Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes Thirty-two days underground. No heat. No sunlight. 4 June 1938. Nathaniel Kleitman and his research student make their way down the seventy-one... -
Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich 9780099553427
RRP: £15.99£11.61Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an... -
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics by Nancy Forbes
RRP: £13.99£10.58The story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth century Two of the boldest and most creative... -
Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic by Dr Roopa Farooki
RRP: £9.99£7.11CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW STATESMAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIAN 'BRILLIANT' OBSERVER 'POWERFUL AND EVOCATIVE' ADAM KAY 'YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU... -
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe by Paul Sen
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI 'An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its history' PHIL BALL, PHYSICS WORLD Einstein's Fridge tells... -
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
RRP: £14.99£9.80A Beautiful Mind is Sylvia Nasar's award-winning biography about the mystery of the human mind, the triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating... -
Life, Almost: Miscarriage, misconceptions and a search for answers from the brink of motherhood by Jennie Agg
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Vital and heart-wrenchingly intimate' Leah Hazard'Urgent, fascinating and thought-provoking' Julia Bueno'Thoughtfully researched and beautifully written' Pippa VosperAfter losing four pregnancies with no obvious cause, Jennie Agg set out to understand... -
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
RRP: £12.99£8.18'A tale of Machiavellian plots and coups d'etat, it's just all so gripping' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2THE ULTIMATE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS STORYSince 2006, Twitter has grown from the accidental side project of a failing internet start-up, to a global icon...