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Power Play: Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins
RRP: $14.18$9.18*A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller*'A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride' --Walter Isaacson'A masterclass in narrative journalism' --Bradley Hope'Exemplary' --The Times'An exceptional work' --Washington Post Inside... -
Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult by Richard B. Spence 9781932595338
RRP: $28.37$20.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595338Author Richard B SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 430g -
Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles
RRP: $27.08$17.88In 1966 the author, newly graduated from college, went to work for the MIT laboratory where the Apollo guidance system was designed. His assignment was to program the complex lunar landing phase in the Lunar Module's onboard computer. As Apollo 11... -
Safety is No Accident: From 'V' Bombers to Concorde: A Flight Test Engineer's Story by John R W Smith 9781526769442
RRP: $32.25$24.02Flying, as everyone knows, is generally regarded as the safest means of transportation. Yet for that to be the case an enormous amount of testing is undertaken. Central to this, of course, are the test pilots, who fly the aircraft, but it is the men... -
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder 9780316491976
RRP: $25.79$16.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316491976Author Tracy KidderFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
I Don't Talk to Dead Bodies: The Curious Encounters of a Forensic Psychiatrist by Dr. Rhona Morrison 9781912300785
RRP: $16.76$10.55Prepare to be intrigued, amazed and astonished as you join Dr Rhona Morrison on an often funny, and at times downright bizarre, thought-provoking and eye-opening rollercoaster ride through some of the most curious encounters of her career as a leading... -
Charles Frederick Ball: From Dublin's Botanic Gardens to the Killing Fields of Gallipoli by Brian Willian
RRP: $21.87$14.25When Charles Frederick Ball was killed at Gallipoli in 1915 The Irish Times called him 'one of the best known botanists and horticulturists in Ireland'. Fred Ball (to friends and family) trained in horticulture at Kew Gardens in the UK, moved to Dublin... -
Becoming Steve Jobs: The evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader by Brent Schlender 9781444762013
RRP: $16.76$9.69THE SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - with a new foreword by Silicon Valley legend Marc Andreessen.'For my money, a better book about Jobs than Walter Isaacson's biography' New Yorker'A fascinating reinterpretation of the Steve Jobs story'... -
100 Science Discoveries: That Changed the World by Colin Salter
RRP: $19.34$13.03Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World charts the great breakthroughs in scientific understanding. ... -
Brief Lives 3 - Newton by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $12.89$4.53Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of age for... -
How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling 9781529375022
RRP: $25.80$17.22This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, author of worldwide... -
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll 9781416507789
RRP: $24.50$16.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416507789Author Cliff StollFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm... -
Get Clean: with Martin John by Oliver Pritchard 9781906670603
RRP: $12.89$9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906670603Author Oliver PritchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint St James's HousePublisher St James's House -
Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines by Henrietta Heald 9781783526604
RRP: $25.80$17.74'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... -
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Paabo
RRP: $19.34$12.64ONE OF AMAZON'S TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2014 Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer this question: what can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian... -
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Life of an Engineering Genius by Colin Maggs
RRP: $16.76$10.94In his time Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the world's greatest engineer. His list of achievements is truly breathtaking: the Thames Tunnel, the first underwater tunnel in the world; the SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven ship; the Clifton... -
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games by Sid Meier 9781324005872
RRP: $28.37$23.93Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier's... -
The Archers Year Of Food and Farming: A celebration of Ambridge's most delicious produce, from the fields to the kitchens, with a side order of gossip by Keri Davies
RRP: $24.50$5.30'What's for tea, Clarrielove?' From the fabled kitchens of Ambridge come the recipes and gossip that fuel the nation's favourite village. Whether it's Susan's spicy chilli con carne on the hob or Helen's dramatic tuna bake in the oven, Jill's flapjacks... -
Mary Seacole by Ron Ramdin
RRP: $12.89$8.84Mary Seacole's remarkable life began in Jamaica, where she was born a 'free person,' the daughter of a black mother and white Scottish army officer. Ron Ramdin - who, like Seacole, was born in the Caribbean and emigrated to the UK - tells the remarkable... -
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
RRP: $19.34$14.13The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away. 'A... -
This Is It!: The Secret Lives of Dr. Conrad Murray and Michael Jackson by Conrad Murray 9780692741078
RRP: $27.08$18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692741078Author Conrad MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Bruce Farr Creative PublishingPublisher Bruce Farr Creative PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Sex And Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922915972Author John CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 379g -
The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses by Meredith Wadman
RRP: $14.18$10.02**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE****A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Riveting ... invites comparison to Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'NatureThe epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology... -
The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space by Michael G. Smith 9781612498416
RRP: $38.64$31.13The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space focuses on the golden era of space exploration between 1946 and 1966, specifically the life and times of Purdue University's Dr. Maurice J. Zucrow, a pioneering teacher and... -
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
RRP: $16.76$10.94Previously published in paperback as October Sky. Three years in the life of Homer 'Sonny' Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of a prizewinning rocket. In 1957,... -
To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science by Luke O'Neill 9780241542422
RRP: $28.38$20.67*The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller*LOOKING FOR A GIFT FOR THE CURIOUS MIND IN YOUR LIFE? YOU'VE FOUND IT.'A lively, gossipy, story-filled delight, filled with fascinating factoids' - SUNDAY INDEPENDENT'Even the scientifically illiterate, like myself,... -
Einstein's Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric by Allen Esterson
$45.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538978Author Allen EstersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 21mm -
The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Azcel 9780743422994
$16.99From the end of the nineteenth century until his death, one of history's greatest mathematicians languished in an asylum, driven mad by an almost Faustian thirst for universal knowledge. THE MYSTERY OF THE ALEPH tells the story of Georg Cantor... -
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike
RRP: $25.80$16.72'Outstanding' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryThe remarkable untold story of how a group of sixteen determined women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. This is a... -
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery by Dr Barbara K.Lipska
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Completely compelling and powerful, and hard to put down.' Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, prize-winning author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain- Who are we if our brain fails?- How do we think?- How do we feel?- How do we move, if we... -
Not Necessarily Rocket Science by Kellie Gerardi
RRP: $24.45$16.65Learn from Kellie Gerardi What It's Like to Be a Female Astronaut"Kellie is probably one of the best ambassadors for spaceflight in the 21st century that the industry could have." Lucy Hawking, author of George's Secret Key to the Universe and host of... -
The Book Of My Life by Girolamo Cardano
RRP: $23.21$16.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170168Author Girolamo CardanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour 9780062428738
RRP: $24.50$17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062428738Author Porochista KhakpourFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris by Andrew Robinson
RRP: $11.55$7.97Linear B is Europe's oldest readable writing, dating from the middle of the second millennium BC. This book, newly available in paperback, tells the life story of Michael Ventris, interlaced with that of his decipherment of Linear B. First discovered in... -
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers by James Essinger
RRP: $14.18$11.53Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times-when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting... -
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
RRP: $16.76$11.73Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far... -
Headstrong by Rachel Swaby
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553446791Author Rachel SwabyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Darwin: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Howard
RRP: $11.60$8.32Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value... -
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe 9780099479376
$7.26A wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test `What is it' asks Tom Wolfe, `that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle...and wait for someone to... -
Galileo: And the Science Deniers by Mario Livio 9781501194733
RRP: $36.12$20.87Galileo's story may be more relevant today than ever before. At present, we face enormous crises-such as the minimization of the dangers of climate change-because the science behind these threats is erroneously questioned or ignored. Galileo...