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Alfred Russel Wallace by Peter Raby
RRP: $20.63$14.98In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast - his work of decades was about to... -
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine by Harry Parker 9781788163101
RRP: $19.34$14.13*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity and how robotics and AI are altering our... -
How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling
RRP: $14.18$9.55BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness.This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about... -
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley
RRP: $29.67$19.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525655497Author Kerry HowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Race for Tomorrow: The Scramble for Riches and Survival on a Changing Planet by Simon Mundy
RRP: $25.80$14.62As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times' best books of 2021 In this extraordinary journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy meets the... -
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Goedel by Stephen Budiansky 9780198866336
RRP: $27.72$20.23A remarkable account of Kurt Goedel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval. At age 24, a brilliant Austrian-born mathematician published a mathematical... -
Bechamp or Pasteur? by Ethel, D Hume 9780980297607
RRP: $33.48$29.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980297607Author Ethel, D HumeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Distant MirrorPublisher Distant MirrorWeight(grams) 582gDimensions(mm) 140mm * 216mm *... -
An Astronomer's Tale: A Bricklayer's Guide to the Galaxy by Gary Fildes
RRP: $16.76$11.73A Bricklayer's Guide to the Galaxy . . . The inspirational memoir of a former brickie who followed his passion for the stars and built his own observatory. Perfect for readers of Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald and James Rebanks - as well as fans of... -
The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown by Michael Patrick F. Smith
RRP: $14.18$9.35A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy' DAVID LIPSKY 'After... -
The Life and Ideas of James Hillman: Volume III by Dick Russell 9781956763577
RRP: $70.95$43.85Volume III of Dick Russell's monumental biography, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, takes up the final decades of the pioneering depth psychologist's explorations of "Soul in the World." Hillman's twenty-three-year relationship and ultimately... -
Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb by David C. Cassidy
RRP: $23.21$22.88"A fascinating, well-documented biography." --New York Times Book Review "A monumental effort." --New York Review of Books "An excellent piece of science writing...Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that... -
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan 9780300101621
RRP: $24.50$23.84A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher's Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year "Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever... -
Models of My Life by Herbert A. Simon
RRP: $73.53$51.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262691857Author Herbert A. SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space by John C Lilly 9780998580180
RRP: $25.74$22.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998580180Author John C LillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Float onPublisher Float onWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm -
Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story by Benjamin Oren Black 9781911107569
RRP: $25.80$18.12Courage 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... -
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni 9781476766690
RRP: $24.50$15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476766690Author Jimmy SoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm... -
Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó
RRP: $37.40$22.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443163Author Katalin KarikoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution by Albert Glinsky
RRP: $38.69$33.98The Moog synthesizer "bent the course of music forever" Rolling Stone declared. Bob Moog, the man who did that bending, was a lovable geek with Einstein hair and pocket protectors. He walked into history in 1964 when his homemade contraption... -
Feynman by Jim Ottaviani 9781596438279
RRP: $24.50$16.45In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, and world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman... -
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War by Michael Neufeld
RRP: $24.50$17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389374Author Michael NeufeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 697gDimensions(mm) 232mm... -
Brunel's Kingdom: In the Footsteps of Britain's Greatest Engineer by John Christopher 9780750963060
RRP: $24.50$18.58Isambard Kingdom Brunel changed the world as we know it. He was responsible for building the Great Western Railway main line, introducing regular steamship travel across the Atlantic, building the first tunnel under a major river, and constructing docks,... -
Nutt Uncut by David Nutt
RRP: $32.25$28.11David Nutt regularly hit the headlines as the UK's forthright Drugs Czar (Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs), not least when fired by the Home Secretary in 2009 for his 'inconvenient' views. In Nutt Uncut he explains how he survived... -
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 9780812988406
RRP: $33.54$19.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812988406Author Paul KalanithiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)... -
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black 9781951627805
RRP: $36.11$22.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951627805Author Sue BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 160mm... -
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
RRP: $45.15$28.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062301239Author Ashlee VanceFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Headlines and Hedgerows: A Memoir by John Craven
RRP: $25.80$23.25Take a trip down memory lane with the memoir from national TV treasure John Craven, as he recounts both the highs and lows of one of the longest entertaining careers in history, and the people and animals that have helped to shape it. _______'A cracking... -
Thomas Telford by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: $19.34$14.55Thomas Telford, the son of a shepherd, was born in Westerkirk, Scotland in 1757. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a stonemason. He worked for a time in Edinburgh and in 1792, he moved to London where he was involved in building additions to... -
The Last Cambridge Spy: John Cairncross, Bletchley Park Mole and Soviet Agent by Chris Smith
RRP: $19.34$14.55John Cairncross was among the most damaging spies of the twentieth century. A member of the infamous Cambridge Ring of Five, he leaked highly sensitive documents from Bletchley Park, MI6 and the Treasury to the Soviet Union - including the first atomic... -
Scientists Who Changed History by DK
RRP: $24.50$18.85Delve into the lives, inspirations, motivations, and achievements of the greatest scientists in the world and through all time. Explore the stories of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential scientists with this innovative and... -
Elon Musk Young Readers' Edition by Ashlee Vance
RRP: $19.34$10.66Elon Musk is an inspirational role model for young entrepreneurs, breaking boundaries and revolutionising the tech-world. He is also the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films, starring Robert Downey Junior. From his humble beginnings in... -
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane by Samanth Subramanian 9781786492845
RRP: $14.18$9.44Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and the British Society for the History of Science Hughes... -
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
RRP: $15.47$10.87This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. ... -
Vera Rubin: A Life by Jacqueline Mitton
RRP: $32.19$25.65The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement of women in science. One of the great lingering mysteries of the universe is dark matter. Scientists... -
An English Car Designer Abroad: Designing for GM, Audi, Porsche and Mazda by Peter Birtwhistle
RRP: $48.38$35.13The humorous and personal account of a life spent working on the design of some of the world's best known cars. Commencing his career as a designer at Vauxhall Motors, Luton in 1973, Peter Birtwhistle then left the UK in 1977 to take a position abroad,... -
Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius by Dermot Turing
RRP: $7.74$5.52Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. His codebreaking work at Bletchley Park was so significant it helped to shorten the Second World... -
Alan Turing: The Enigma Man by Nigel Cawthorne 9781784045357
RRP: $6.44$4.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784045357Author Nigel CawthorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Men of Mathematics by E. Bell 9780671628185
$18.80From one of the greatest minds in contemporary mathematics, Professor E.T. Bell, comes a witty, accessible, and fascinating look at the beautiful craft and enthralling history of mathematics.Men of Mathematics provides a rich account of major... -
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth by Kate Greene 9781785787775
RRP: $12.89$8.64Featured in New Scientist's Best Books of 2021'Filled with wonderment and awe ... Greene's eloquent memoir is equal parts escape and comfort.' Publishers WeeklyA powerful reflection on life in isolation, in pursuit of the dream of Mars.In 2013 Kate... -
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
RRP: $19.34$14.13SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shifts of the modern era' John Gray, New Statesman'The whole of British intellectual life seems accessible... -
My Brief History by Stephen Hawking 9780857502636
RRP: $11.60$8.32'His clarity, wit and determination are evident, his understand and good humour moving' New ScientistMy Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his post-war London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity...