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Chaos by James Gleick
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Uncover one of the most exciting frontiers of modern physics in this fascinating, insightful and accessible overview of Chaos theory.'An exceedingly readable introduction to a new intellectual world'... -
Isaac Newton by James Gleick
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science 2004.Book InformationISBN 9781400032952Author James GleickFormat... -
Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
Booksplease Price: £8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168922Author James GleickFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Isaac Newton by James Gleick 9780007163182
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith. Isaac Newton was the chief... -
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle... -
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick 9780007225743
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its... -
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113454Author James GleickFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything by James Gleick 9780679775485
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679775485Author James GleickFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick 9780679747048
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £15.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 1992.Book InformationISBN 9780679747048Author James GleickFormat... -
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick 9781400096237
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 2012. Short-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence... -
What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier by James Gleick
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375713910Author James GleickFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Faster: Our Race Against Time by James Gleick 9780349112923
Booksplease Price: £20.70Time rules our lives. The frenetic purpose - more than we want to admit, is to save time. Think of one of those conveniences that best convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing... -
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Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick 9780349105321 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle... -
Vintage Tomorrows: What Steampunk Can Teach Us About the Future by Pieter Hintjens 9781449337995
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Can you imagine what today's technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That's the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st Century-inspired contraptions powered by... -
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The Glass Cage: Who Needs Humans Anyway by Nicholas Carr 9780099597452 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.34In The Glass Cage, Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author Nicholas Carr shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical effect this is having... -
Conversations with John Banville by Earl G. Ingersoll 9781496828767
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and... -
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning Robert Skidelsky 9780241244616
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which... -
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley by John Gribbin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has... -
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist,... -
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning Robert Skidelsky 9780141982519
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which... -
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P Feynman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATESIn this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a... -
A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking: From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics James M. Russell 9781472143686
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a... -
Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border by Sarah F. Green 9780691121994
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps"--places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book... -
Academic Instincts by Marjorie Garber
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls... -
The Quotable Feynman by Richard P. Feynman 9780691153032
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21"Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know."--Richard P. Feynman ... -
The Quotable Feynman Richard P. Feynman 9780691270449
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23A treasure-trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from beloved physicist Richard P. Feynman"Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live... -
Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Science on Stage is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of "science plays"--theatrical events that weave scientific content into the plot lines of the drama. The book investigates the... -
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time Simon Garfield 9781782113218
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven... -
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time by Simon Garfield 9781782113195 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £1.60SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and... -
Conversations with John Banville by Earl G. Ingersoll 9781496828750
Booksplease Price: £88.60John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and... -
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.71A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi,... -
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.84“The most interesting book ever written about Google” (The Washington Post) delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time, now updated with a new... -
Transparency: The Material History of an Idea by Daniel Jutte
Booksplease Price: £30.43A wide-ranging illustrated history of transparency as told through the evolution of the glass window "With impressive detail and wide-ranging erudition, Jutte charts the history of a single... -
The Emperor Of Scent by Chandler Burr
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15In 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... -
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring climate... -
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our World Greg Milner 9781847087096
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all: the Global Positioning System (GPS). A network of twenty-four... -
The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America, Revised Edition by Daniel J. Kevles 9780674666566
Booksplease Price: £33.81This magnificent account of the coming of age of physics in America has been heralded as the best introduction to the history of science in the United States. Unsurpassed in its breadth and literary... -
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
Booksplease Price: £8.94Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" this book's many stories-some funny, others intensely moving-display Richard P. Feynman's unquenchable thirst... -
Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction Gregory L. Baker (Academy of the New Church College) 9780521476850
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £40.76The previous edition of this text was the first to provide a quantitative introduction to chaos and nonlinear dynamics at undergraduate level. It was widely praised for the clarity of the writing and... -
Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison 9780393326048
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £20.29A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps is "part history, part science, part...