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Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment by Ronald S. Calinger 9780691196404
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $41.27An acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists... -
Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Explored by Ralph Lorenz 9780691146331
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.78For twenty-five years following the Voyager mission, scientists speculated about Saturn's largest moon, a mysterious orb clouded in orange haze. Finally, in 2005, the Cassini-Huygens probe... -
Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community by J.Robert Oppenheimer 9780691603742
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.28J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the outstanding physicists of his generation. He was also an immensely gifted writer and speaker, who thought deeply about the way that scientific discoveries have... -
Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time by Tim Maudlin
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $22.77This concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philosophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space and time, and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the... -
The Seven Measures of the World Piero Martin 9780300280111
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world "Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are... -
Reliable Computer Systems: Design and Evaluation, Third Edition by Daniel P. Siewiorek 9780367447649
RRP: $79.97Booksplease Price: $73.67This classic reference work is a comprehensive guide to the design, evaluation, and use of reliable computer systems. It includes case studies of reliable systems from manufacturers, such as Tandem,... -
Physics at the Highest Energy and Luminosity: To Understand the Origin of Mass - Proceedings of the 29th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics Held in Erice, Sicily, Italy, July 14-22, 1991 by Antonino Zichichi 9780306443015
Booksplease Price: $116.82The proceedings of a course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, July 1991, in Erice, Sicily. The 14 lectures include theoretical topics, literature reviews, quantum chromo dynamics,... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 7 (English): The Berlin Years: Writings, 1918-1921. (English translation of selected texts) by Albert Einstein 9780691057187
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $80.11In the spring of 1919, two British solar eclipse expeditions confirmed the correctness of general relativity theory and propelled Albert Einstein to instant celebrity. Before this major turning... -
Force and Geometry in Newton's Principia by Francois de Gandt 9780691602516
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $59.97In this book Francois De Gandt introduces us to the reading of Newton's Principia in its own terms. The path of access that De Gandt proposes leads through the study of the geometrization of force... -
Physicists in Conflict: From Antiquity to the New Millennium by Neil A. Porter
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $144.03Dialogue in science is essential for progress. But when dialogue becomes conflict or further intensifies to persecution the situation is harmful not only to science, but also to the wider society in... -
Advances in X-Ray Analysis: Volume 7 Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Applications of X-Ray Analysis Held August 7-9, 1963 by William M. Mueller 9781468486391
Booksplease Price: $117.85Consider for a few moments the staggering magnitude of technological advance which has occurred since the birth four centuries ago of that early progenitor of the scientific method, Galileo. Think... -
Earth Sciences in the Age of the Satellite by J. Pouquet 9789401021906
Booksplease Price: $114.29Renaissance man " ... discovered many a mechanical marvel .... The achievement of the astronauts '" opened up comparable prospects to the men of today, but of infinitely wider scope"... -
Venus in Transit by Eli Maor 9780691115894
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $42.22In 2004, Venus crossed the sun's face for the first time since 1882. Some did not bother to step outside. Others planned for years, reserving tickets to see the transit in its entirety. But even this... -
Academic Motivation of Adolescents by Frank Pajares 9781931576635
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $92.45Rationality is widely regarded as being at odds with the very concepts of metaphysics and transcendence. Yet it is easy to forget that the thinkers who pioneered rationality and the scientific method... -
Earth Sciences in the Age of the Satellite by J. Pouquet 9789027704375
Booksplease Price: $116.82Renaissance man " ... discovered many a mechanical marvel .... The achievement of the astronauts '" opened up comparable prospects to the men of today, but of infinitely wider scope". C. LUCET,... -
Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice by Veronica Chambers 9780062796257
Booksplease Price: $16.83A perfect tool for young readers as they grow into the leaders of tomorrow, Veronica Chambers's inspiring collection of profiles-along with Senator Cory Booker's stirring foreword-will inspire... -
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It by Robert Zimmerman 9780691146355
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.78The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most stunning images of the cosmos humanity has ever seen. It has transformed our understanding of the universe around us, revealing new information about... -
Resist: 40 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice by Veronica Chambers
Booksplease Price: $9.21A perfect tool for young readers as they grow into the leaders of tomorrow, Veronica Chambers's inspiring collection of profiles-along with Senator Cory Booker's stirring foreword-will inspire... -
The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Physics for Kids: Science Experiments and Activities Inspired by Awesome Physicists, Past and Present; with 25 Illustrated Biographies of Amazing Scientists from Around the World: Volume 3 Liz Lee Heinecke 9780760372432
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Aspiring young physicists will discover an amazing group of inspiring scientists and memorable experiments in Physics for Kids, the third book of The Kitchen Pantry Scientist series. Make a water... -
A Journey Through Tides by Mattias Green 9780323908511
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $135.68**Association of American Publishers (AAP) PROSE Award Finalist in Earth Science, 2024** A Journey Through Tides is a fully comprehensive text on the history of tides. It brings together geology... -
Science Of Structural Engineering, The by Jacques Heyman
RRP: $52.89Booksplease Price: $48.13Structures cannot be created without engineering theory, and design rules have existed from the earliest times for building Greek temples, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals - and later, for steel... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 15 (Translation Supplement): The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, June 1925-May 1927 by Albert Einstein 9780691178820
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $70.86A translation of selected non-English texts included in Volume 15 is available in paperback. Since this supplementary paperback includes only select portions of Volume 15, it is not recommended for... -
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9780063324107
Booksplease Price: $19.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063324107Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Introduction to Petroleum Biotechnology by James G. Speight 9780128051511
RRP: $141.90Booksplease Price: $128.72Introduction to Petroleum Biotechnology introduces the petroleum engineer to biotechnology, bringing together the various biotechnology methods that are applied to recovery, refining and remediation... -
Kitchen Science Lab for Kids: 52 Family Friendly Experiments from Around the House by Liz Lee Heinecke
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.16Inspire a lifelong passion for science with these physics, chemistry, and biology experiments for kids-all using common household tools and ingredients! In Kitchen Science Lab for Kids, mom and... -
Wayfarers in the Cosmos: The Human Quest for Meaning by George V. Coyne 9780824525378
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.29With the embarrassing Galileo condemnation far, far behind them, the time is ripe for a book by Vatican officials about how the Official Church sees the staggering developments in modern astronomy... -
The Mission: A True Story by David W Brown
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.20"Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful." -NatureA "magnificent" (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep space... -
Concepts of Mass in Contemporary Physics and Philosophy by Max Jammer
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $36.83The concept of mass is one of the most fundamental notions in physics, comparable in importance only to those of space and time. But in contrast to the latter, which are the subject of innumerable... -
How To Construct Your Intellectual Pedigree by Elof Axel Carlson
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $102.56This is a handbook that shows the reader how to construct an intellectual pedigree. It is also a history of science monograph because the completed intellectual pedigrees can be used individually or... -
Great Dissenters by Norman Thomas 9780393005295
RRP: $23.87Booksplease Price: $22.82The twentieth century's greatest American dissenter has written a study of the five men whose own dissents helped shape the western world -- Socrates, Galileo, Tom Paine, Wendell Phillips, and Gandhi... -
Utopian Literature and Science: From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond by Patrick Parrinder 9781137456779
Booksplease Price: $116.82Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the... -
A History of Astronomy by Walter W. Bryant 9780415747363
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24A History of Astronomy, first published in 1907, offers a comprehensive introduction to the steady development of the science since its inception in the ancient world up to the momentous progress of... -
Renaissance and Revolution: The Remaking of European Thought Joseph Anthony Mazzeo 9780367272555
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $43.98Originally published in 1967, this book discusses some key writers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Castiglione, Bacon and Hobbes and compares their work by relating it that of others in England and... -
Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe by Eileen Reeves
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $72.01Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics, and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to the ways in which a long-standing association of... -
The Renaissance of Mechanics: Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism by Walter Roy Laird 9783031455049
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $124.76This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the... -
Time, Space & Now by Tenzin Gyurme 9780557437856
RRP: $14.31Booksplease Price: $13.39A Journey Down The Rabbit Hole. Since the beginning of the Universe, Time and Space have been critical concepts that have occupied the minds of the worlds greatest thinkers. From Da Vinci to... -
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus
Booksplease Price: $15.66The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the center, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching. Following his observations of the... -
The Physicists' View of Nature, Part 1: From Newton to Einstein by Amit Goswami 9780306464508
Booksplease Price: $119.92This book is designed as a textbook for students who need to fulfil their science requirements. Part I explores classical physics from its beginnings with Descartes, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, to... -
Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox by Alfredo Tradigo 9780892368457
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $21.80An icon (from the Greek word eikon, "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in... -
Lying Abroad: Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy Carol Chillington Rutter 9781526172068
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.36Student, traveller, secretary, scoundrel, spy: introducing the maverick whose diplomacy saved Europe from war.Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as England's...