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What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays by Norwood Russell Hanson 9789402417388
Booksplease Price: $90.25Fifty years have passed since Norwood Russell Hanson's unexpected death, yet he remains an important voice in philosophy of science. This book is a revised and expanded edition of a collection of... -
A Random Walk in Science Robert L. Weber 9780750306492
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23A Random Walk in Science provides insight into the wit and intellect of the scientific mind through a blend of amusing and serious contributions written by and about scientists. The book records... -
John Milton: A Biography by Neil Forsyth 9780745953106
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64John Milton was born in 1608 and in the late 1630s he travelled to the Continent where he met, among others, Galileo and Grotius. A staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell... -
Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class by Tim Rayborn 9781646433650
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.84Discover the little known facts about some of the world’s greatest historical icons.We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we’ve heard a hundred times—but often our... -
What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays by Norwood Russell Hanson 9789402417418
Booksplease Price: $90.25Fifty years have passed since Norwood Russell Hanson's unexpected death, yet he remains an important voice in philosophy of science. This book is a revised and expanded edition of a collection of... -
Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science (Revised & Expanded) by John Grant 9781947071001
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $29.33A searing exposE of the misuses and misrepresentations of science from the time of Galileo continuing through to the present day, this new edition includes updates on the asbestos industry, the... -
The Physicists' View of Nature, Part 1: From Newton to Einstein by Amit Goswami 9781461354505
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $177.18This 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... -
The Great Zentangle Book: Learn to Tangle with 101 Favorite Patterns by Beate Winkler
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.16In The Great Zentangle Book, Certified Zentangle Teacher Beate Winkler provides simple and clear directions for creating 101 classic tangles. Captivating creative minds the world over, the art of... -
Italian & Spanish Art 1600 To 1750 by Robert Enggass 9780810110656
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57The Baroque period was crucial for the development of art theory and the advancement of the artistic academy. This collection of primary sources brings this important period to life with significant... -
A Source Book in Physics by W.F. Magie 9780674823655
RRP: $286.55Booksplease Price: $232.75This is the reprint of a well-known and valuable work that has been out of print and widely sought for a number of years. A volume in the series Source Books in the History of the Sciences, it... -
Astronomy Through the Ages: The Story Of The Human Attempt To Understand The Universe by Sir Robert Wilson 9780367400880
RRP: $132.58Booksplease Price: $118.85From an historical perspective, this text presents an entirely non- mathematical introduction to astronomy from the first endeavours of the ancients to the current developments in research enabled by... -
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"Mr Puntila and His Man Matti" by Bertolt Brecht 9781408100707
Booksplease Price: $25.35Written in 1940 during Brecht's exile in Finland, Puntila is one of his greatest creations - to be ranked alongside Galileo and Mother Courage. A hard-drinking Finnish landowner, Puntila suffers from... -
Great Moments in Science: Experiments and Readers Theatre by Kendall Haven 9781563083556
Booksplease Price: $56.90Significant moments of scientists' discoveries and inventions come alive in these 12 scripts based on stories in Marvels of Science. Linked with each are student experiments that parallel or simulate... -
Final Days by Gary Gibson 9780330519694
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $28.61But this new mode of transportation comes at a price and there are risks. Saul Dumont knows this better than anyone. He's still trying to cope with the loss of the wormhole link to the Galileo... -
GPS: Theory, Algorithms and Applications by Guochang Xu 9783642091810
Booksplease Price: $218.63After the first edition of this book was published at the end of 2003, I was very happy to put the hard work of book writing behind me and concentrate myself with my small team on the development of... -
Caravaggio by Howard Hibbard
RRP: $118.93Booksplease Price: $107.15Caravaggio was one of the most important Italian painters of the 17th century. He was, in fact, the wellspring of Baroque painting. In Hibbard's words, Caravaggio's paintings "speak to us more... -
Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music by Vincenzo Galilei 9780300090451
Booksplease Price: $139.95Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music, published in 1581 or 1582 and now translated into... -
Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 4.6-9 by Pamela Huby 9781472539168
Booksplease Price: $79.54Philoponus has been identified as the founder in dynamics of the theory of impetus, an inner force impressed from without, which, in its later recurrence, has been hailed as a scientific revolution... -
The Story of Astronomy by Peter Aughton
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06From the ancient origins of astronomy to the Copernican revolution, and from Galileo to Hawking's research into black holes, The Story of Astronomy charts the discoveries of some of the greatest... -
The Age of Epistemology: Aristotelian Logic in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1700 Dr Marco Sgarbi 9781350326699
Booksplease Price: $62.13Marco Sgarbi tells a new history of epistemology from the Renaissance to Newton through the impact of Aristotelian scientific doctrines on key figures including Galileo Galilei, Thomas Hobbes, Rene... -
Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution by David Marshall Miller 9781107046733
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $159.35The novel understanding of the physical world that characterized the Scientific Revolution depended on a fundamental shift in the way its protagonists understood and described space. At the beginning... -
The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, c. 1590-1640 by Thomas F. Mayer
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $108.85From the moment of its founding in 1542, the Roman Inquisition acted as a political machine. Although inquisitors in earlier centuries had operated somewhat independently of papal authority, the... -
Structural Analysis: A Historical Approach by Jacques Heyman 9780521041355
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $88.55This volume provides a concise, historical review of the methods of structural analysis and design - from Galileo in the seventeenth century, to the present day. Through it, students in structural... -
Revolutionaries of the Cosmos: The Astro-Physicists by Ian Glass 9780198570998
Booksplease Price: $154.46Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Huggins, Hale, Eddington, Shapley and Hubble: these astronomers applied ideas drawn from physics to astronomy and made dramatic changes to the world-pictures that they... -
Newton's Gravity: An Introductory Guide to the Mechanics of the Universe by Douglas W. MacDougal 9781461454434
RRP: $126.73Booksplease Price: $119.61"Newton's Gravity" conveys the power of simple mathematics to tell the fundamental truth about nature. Many people, for example, know the tides are caused by the pull of the Moon and to a... -
Introduction to Satellite Ground Segment Systems Engineering: Principles and Operational Aspects by Bobby Nejad 9783031159022
Booksplease Price: $176.59The ground segment is the fundamental backbone of every satellite project, yet it is usually not visible to the public or the end user of a satellite service. Also the bulk of existing published... -
Tommaso Campanella: The Book and the Body of Nature by Germana Ernst 9789048131259
Booksplease Price: $177.18A friend of Galileo and author of the renowned utopia The City of the Sun, Tommaso Campanella (Stilo, Calabria,1568- Paris, 1639) is one of the most significant and original thinkers of the early... -
The Italian Renaissance of Machines by Paolo Galluzzi
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $59.36The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine.When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic... -
Roman Catholicism and Modern Science: A History by Don O'Leary 9780826429261
Booksplease Price: $58.27In the popular imagination, historical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and modern science are best epitomized in the case of Galileo Galilei. Condemned in 1633 for advancing the theory of... -
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy by Stephen Hawking
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $31.14ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking explains how these works... -
The Philosophy of Physics by Roberto Torretti 9780521565714
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $66.50A magisterial study of the philosophy of physics that both introduces the subject to the non-specialist and contains many original and important contributions for professionals in the area. Modern... -
A Scandalous Jesus: How Three Historic Quests Changed Theology for the Better by Joseph A. Bessler 9781598151220
Booksplease Price: $49.02The question of the historical Jesus is not only a historical question but also a historic one. And historic questions can be the most scandalous, says Joe Bessler, because they challenge the... -
Physics From The Edge: A New Cosmological Model For Inertia by Michael Edward Mcculloch
RRP: $120.90Booksplease Price: $108.01The fundamental and very important property of inertia has never been well understood. This book shows how inertia has puzzled many scientists such as Galileo and Mach, and then presents a new theory... -
Mechanics: Volume 1 by L D Landau
RRP: $105.28Booksplease Price: $92.96Devoted to the foundation of mechanics, namely classical Newtonian mechanics, the subject is based mainly on Galileo's principle of relativity and Hamilton's principle of least action. The... -
Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy by David Sepkoski 9780415542968
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century? In... -
Atoms, Metaphors and Paradoxes: Niels Bohr and the Construction of a New Physics by Sandro Petruccioli 9780521402590
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $233.94This book gives a detailed study of the development and the interpretation given to Niels Bohr's Principle of Correspondence. It also describes the role that this principle played in guiding Bohr's... -
The Philosophy of Physics by Roberto Torretti 9780521562591
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $184.10A magisterial study of the philosophy of physics that both introduces the subject to the non-specialist and contains many original and important contributions for professionals in the area. Modern... -
Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery: From Copernicus to Flamsteed by Judy A. Hayden 9781137583451
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $157.40The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one's conviction in a world system long held to be finite required for many in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one's beliefs and the... -
Science and Technology in World History, Volume 3: The Black Death, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution by David Deming 9780786461721
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.71This installment in a series on science and technology in world history begins in the fourteenth century, explaining the origin and nature of scientific methodology and the relation of science to... -
The Role of Theology in the History and Philosophy of Science by Joshua M. Moritz 9789004360211
Booksplease Price: $148.22After a bibliographic introduction highlighting various research trends in science and religion, Joshua Moritz explores how the current academic and conceptual landscape of theology and science has...