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Telescopes, Tides and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue About the Starry Messenger and Systems of the World by Stillman Drake 9780226162317
Booksplease Price: $99.08Publication of Galileo's Starry Messenger in 1610, detailing startling observations with the newly invented telescope, sparked immediate furor among the astronomers and philosophers of the day. The... -
Our Moon: A Human History by Rebecca Boyle 9781529342789
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $30.81'Passionate and absorbing'SUNDAY TIMES'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth'Superb: as... -
The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment Rose-Mary Sargent 9780226734972
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $87.34In this reassessment of one of the figures of early modern science, Rose-Mary Sargent explores Robert Boyle's philosophy of experiment, a central aspect of his life and work that became a model for... -
World History: 50 Events You Really Need to Know Ian Crofton 9780857380753
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To... -
The Embers and the Stars: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Moral Sense of Nature by Erazim Kohak 9780226450179
Booksplease Price: $55.67"It is hard to put this profound book into a category. Despite the author's criticisms of Thoreau, it is more like Walden than any other book I have read. . . . The book makes great strides toward... -
Remnants of Trust (A Central Corps Novel, Book 2) by Elizabeth Bonesteel 9780008137830
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.09In this follow-up to the acclaimed military science fiction thriller The Cold Between, a young soldier finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a deadly conspiracy in deep space. ... -
The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin
Booksplease Price: $32.66"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold vibrant exploration of early... -
Chinese Adaptations of Brecht: Appropriation and Intertextuality by Wei Zhang 9783030377779
RRP: $136.48Booksplease Price: $128.62This book examines the two-way impacts between Brecht and Chinese culture and drama/theatre, focusing on Chinese theatrical productions since the end of the Cultural Revolution all the way to the... -
Surprised by Science: Forces are Fantastic! by Sabrina Rose Science Girl 9781526326003
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Be surprised by the astonishing science of forces, with Sabrina Rose, AKA Science Girl, the internet's most inspiring curator of facts and observations of our wonderful world - making it easy for all... -
The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment by Rose-Mary Sargent 9780226734958
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $186.07In this reassessment of one of the figures of early modern science, Rose-Mary Sargent explores Robert Boyle's philosophy of experiment, a central aspect of his life and work that became a model for... -
Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science by Amir D. Aczel 9780743464796
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.86In 1853, before the upper crust of French society - including the emperor Napoleon III - a little known physicist named Leon Foucault staged a dramatic demonstration inside the Pantheon in Paris. He... -
Newton by Andrew Janiak
Booksplease Price: $33.17Newton is an evocative intellectual history of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton the natural philosopher, covering his influential thoughts about philosophical problems, our knowledge of nature, and... -
General Relativity from A to B by Robert Geroch 9780226288642
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $26.91"This beautiful little book is certainly suitable for anyone who has had an introductory course in physics and even for some who have not."-Joshua N. Goldberg, Physics Today"An imaginative and... -
Professor Wooford McPaw's History of Astronomy Elliot Kruszynski 9781800660236
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.06Take your youngsters on a voyage across the universe and ignite their passion for exploring the night sky in this fascinating and imaginative guide to astronomy for kids ages 6 to 10. This second... -
Breach of Containment (A Central Corps Novel, Book 3) by Elizabeth Bonesteel
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.11A reluctant hero must prevent war in space and on Earth in this fast-paced military science fiction thriller from the author of The Cold Between and Remnants of Trust. ... -
Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions Alain Aspect 9780226832012
RRP: $25.35Booksplease Price: $19.91A Nobel laureate offers a brief lesson on physics' biggest mystery, accessibly explaining the two quantum revolutions that changed our understanding of reality. At the start of the twentieth... -
The Cold Between (A Central Corps Novel, Book 1) by Elizabeth Bonesteel 9780008137809
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.09Debut novel of adventure, romance and interplanetary intrigue from a new voice in science fiction. When her crewmate, Danny, is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps engineer... -
Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book by 9780268023683
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.88This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each source document, some of which are published here for the... -
The Objective Eye: Color, Form, and Reality in the Theory of Art by John Hyman
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $77.61This, in a nutshell, is the central problem in the theory of art. It has fascinated philosophers from Plato to Wittgenstein. And it fascinates artists and art historians, who have always drawn... -
The Spirit of Venice: From Marco Polo to Casanova by Paul Strathern 9781845951924
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.70The Spirit of Venice is a history of the first great economic and naval power of the modern Western world, from its struggle to ascendancy, through the arc of its glory - when its trading empire... -
The Key to Newton's Dynamics: The Kepler Problem and the Principia by J.Bruce Brackenridge
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $57.64While much has been written on the ramifications of Newton's dynamics, until now the details of Newton's solution were available only to the physics expert. The Key to Newton's Dynamics clearly... -
The Science Timeline Wallbook by Christopher Lloyd
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $16.91Uncover the most amazing moments in scientific and technological discovery in this fascinating, over-sized timeline reference. Created in association with the Science Museum, the timeline is uniquely... -
Our Moon: A Human History Rebecca Boyle 9781529342826
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.77Longlisted for the National Book Award 2024'Passionate and absorbing'SUNDAY TIMES'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An... -
The New Order Chris Edwards 9781493089116
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.01What if the great discoveries of science came in the "wrong" order? The Laws of Thermodynamics were discovered well after the creation of algebra, classical physics, and chemistry, but are perhaps... -
Saturn by William Sheehan
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $40.77Saturn is the showcase of the Solar System. It may not be the largest of the planets, nor the smallest, nor even the only planet with rings. But it is among the most stunningly beautiful objects in... -
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion by Sean Carroll 9780861546145
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.09THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical universe of working physicists. Magnificent!' ... -
Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality Rhodri Evans 9781472120373
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06Acclaimed popular-science writer Brian Clegg and popular TV and radio astronomer Rhodri Evans give us a Top Ten list of physicists as the central theme to build an exploration of the most exciting... -
The Planets by Professor Brian Cox 9780007488841
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $38.40'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion... -
Aerospace Technologies and Applications for Dual Use by Finocchio Pietro 9788792329042
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $207.50The events occurred in the last years have shown how the threat related to both intentional and natural disasters could bring the civil and the military worlds closer in the conceivement and... -
Aerospace Technologies and Applications for Dual Use Pietro Finocchio 9788770045674
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.34The events occurred in the last years have shown how the threat related to both intentional and natural disasters could bring the civil and the military worlds closer in the conceivement and... -
European Space Policy: European integration and the final frontier by Thomas Hoerber
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.27Space policy is at the cutting edge of current EU policy developments and is a fascinating object of study, involving multiple and diverse actors. It is also an original and contemporary lens for... -
Mind The Gap: The Labyrinthine Story Of Planetary Orbits, Mathematics, And The Titius-bode Rule by Martin Beech 9789811276408
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $79.48This book is concerned with two tightly knit topics - those of mathematics and astronomy. Its focus is primarily concerned with planetary astronomy, and specifically the history of accounting for the... -
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong by Dr Becky Smethurst 9781529086744
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.53In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.'A jaunt... -
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything by Philip Ball 9780226045795
Booksplease Price: $76.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226045795Author Philip BallFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint University of Chicago... -
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong by Dr Rebecca Smethurst
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.79In A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.'A jaunt... -
The Book of Blast Off!: 15 Real-Life Space Missions by Timothy Knapman
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.74We look out of our window at the dark and twinkling sky. It's full of stars and planets and there's comets whooshing by. We want to go and see them, there's so much to explore. So let's count down... -
In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years by Sir Karl Popper 9780415135481
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his... -
What Music Did: The Story of Numerocracy in the West Tony Conrad 9780472057917
RRP: $64.25Booksplease Price: $60.72In What Music Did, experimental filmmaker and violinist Tony Conrad explores in depth the relationship between music and mathematics. A work of decades that was left unfinished at the time of his... -
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe JohnJoe McFadden 9781529364958
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of... -
A Little History of Science William Bynum 9780300283211
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages"In Mr. Bynum's telling, a little history goes a long way."-Alan Hirshfeld, Wall Street Journal Science is key to...