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Einstein Atomized: More Science Cartoons Sidney Harris 9780387946658
Booksplease Price: £11.83Sidney Harris, acclaimed Dean of Scientific Humor, presents his most recent collection of cartoons. No scientific or technical topic is safe from the scope of his humor. Harriss cartoons have... -
The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels by Thomas Gold 9780387952536
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.22This book sets forth a set of truly controversial and astonishing theories: First, it proposes that below the surface of the earth is a biosphere of greater mass and volume than the biosphere the... -
Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System by Bruce Dorminey 9780387950747
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.21Recent discoveries of planet-like objects circling other sun-like stars have stirred enormous interest in what other planets may exist in the universe, and whether they support intelligent life, or... -
The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications by Martin Gardner
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.00Of all of Martin Gardners writings, none gained him a wider audience or was more central to his reputation than his Mathematical Recreations column in Scientific American - which virtually defined... -
Fantasia Mathematica by Clifton Fadiman 9780387949314
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.35Clifton Fadiman's classic collection of mathematical stories, essays and anecdotes is now once again available. Ranging from the poignant to the comical via the simply surreal, these selections... -
The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist by James Longuski 9780387308760
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.33This book translates "thinking like a rocket scientist" into every day thinking so it can be used by anyone. It's short and snappy and written by a rocket scientist. The book illustrates the methods... -
Something New Under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age by Helen Gavaghan 9780387949147
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In this, the first history of artificial satellites and their uses, Helen Gavaghan shows how the idea of putting an object in orbit around the earth changed from science fiction to indispensable... -
Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall by Jeremy Bernstein 9780387950891
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £26.41From April through December of 1945, ten of Nazi Germany's greatest nuclear physicists were detained by Allied military and intelligence services in a kind of gilded cage at Farm Hall, an English... -
Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen by Eric Croddy 9781461265207
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.86The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) are now widely held not just by nation-states, but by terrorist and criminal enterprises. The weapons themselves are relatively inexpensive and... -
American Normal: The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome by Lawrence Osborne 9780387953076
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.97Asperger's Syndrome, often characterized as a form of "high-functioning autism," is a poorly defined and little-understood neurological disorder. The people who suffer from the condition are usually... -
Secrets of the Old One: Einstein, 1905 by J. Bernstein 9780387260051
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.70Beginning on the 18th of March, 1905,at approximately eight week intervals, the noted German physics journal Annalen der Physik received three hand-written manuscripts from a relatively unknown... -
Mission Jupiter: The Spectacular Journey of the Galileo Spacecraft by Daniel Fischer 9780387987644
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £26.39In this exciting story of the Galileo mission to investigate Jupiter, noted astronomer Daniel Fischer weaves together the many disparate facts learned about this most fascinating planet and its... -
The Little Book of the Big Bang: A Cosmic Primer by M. Rees 9780387983851
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.86What do we know about the origins of the Universe, and more important, how do we know it? In a small, easy-to-read package, this book introduces you to all of the important ideas about the Big Bang... -
The Little Book of Planet Earth by Rolf Meissner 9780387952581
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.89Acknowledgments chapter 1 The Roots of Earth Sciences 1 Classical Scientific Thought 1 The Copernican Revolution 2 From Physics and Philosophy to Geology 4 The Age of the Earth 6 chapter 2 The Earth... -
Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen by Eric Croddy 9780387950761
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £30.14The armaments of chemical and biological warfare (CBW) are now widely held not just by nation-states, but by terrorist and criminal enterprises. The weapons themselves are relatively inexpensive and... -
Return of the Crazy Bird: The Sad, Strange Tale of the Dodo by Clara Pinto-Correia 9780387988764
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.05Using the history of the concept of extinction with the dodo as a case study, Pinto-Correia carefully weaves together story fragments to give a cohesive eye-opening view of 17th century exploration... -
Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration by Paul Gilster 9780387004365
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £30.71I wrote this book because I wanted to learn more about interstel lar flight. Not the Star Trek notion of tearing around the Galaxy in a huge spaceship-that was obviously beyond existing tech ... -
The Book of Numbers by Professor John H. Conway 9780387979939
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £36.74"...the great feature of the book is that anyone can read it without excessive head scratching...You'll find plenty here to keep you occupied, amused, and informed. Buy, dip in, wallow." -IAN... -
Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard by Matt Curtin 9780387201092
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.65In the 1960s, it became increasingly clear that more and more information was going to be stored on computers, not on pieces of paper. With these changes in technology and the ways it was used came a... -
The Book of Numbers by Professor John H. Conway 9781461284888
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £36.44"...the great feature of the book is that anyone can read it without excessive head scratching...You'll find plenty here to keep you occupied, amused, and informed. Buy, dip in, wallow." -IAN... -
Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing by Peter J. Denning 9780387985886
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.62In March 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the electronic computer. To understand what an extraordinary fifty years the computer has had, you... -
Candy Bites: The Science of Sweets by Richard W. Hartel 9781461493822
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.81This delicious new book reveals the fascinating science behind some of our favorite candies. If you've ever wondered how candy corn is made or whether Baby Ruth bars really float, as in the movie... -
Courant by Constance Reid 9780387946702
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.52"...a story of great mathematicians and their achievements, of practical successes and failures, and of human perfidy and generosity...this is one of the still too rare occasions in which... -
The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays by Martin Gardner 9780387256412
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.90This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to... -
The Wizard of Quarks: A Fantasy of Particle Physics by Robert Gilmore 9781461265177
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £30.59Thousands of readers who were delighted by the adventures and science content of Alice in Quantumland are in for another treat. This time physicist Robert Gilmore takes us on a journey with Dorothy,... -
The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays by Martin Gardner
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.93This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to... -
The Wizard of Quarks: A Fantasy of Particle Physics by Robert Gilmore 9780387950716
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £31.18Thousands of readers who were delighted by the adventures and science content of Alice in Quantumland are in for another treat. This time physicist Robert Gilmore takes us on a journey with Dorothy,... -
Our Molecular Nature: The Body's Motors, Machines and Messages by David S. Goodsell 9781461275084
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.44Molecular Nature is a richly illustrated guide to the extraordinary diversity of molecules that are responsible for life. David Goodsell, author of the highly-praised book, The Machinery of Life, has... -
Once Upon a Universe: Not-so-Grimm tales of cosmology by Robert Gilmore 9780387955667
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £31.62"Once upon a time there was no Universe," began the Storyteller. . . ." First Snow White encounters one of the Little People, then one of the Even Smaller People, and finally one of the Truly... -
Distant Worlds: Milestones in Planetary Exploration by Peter Bond 9780387402123
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.83CHAPTER 1: DISCOVERING DISTANT WORLDS 3 CHAPTER 2: MERCURY: THE IRON PLANET 21 CHAPTER 3: VENUS: THE RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE 45 CHAPTER 4: THE MOON: QUEEN OF THE NIGHT 69 5: MARS: THE RED PLANET CHAPTER... -
The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared by Peter D. Ward 9780387949154
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.98Just 12,000 years ago - at the height of the last Ice Age - saber-toothed tigers, giant ground sloths, camels, hippos and the great herds of proboscideans: giant mastodons and mammoths, extinct... -
The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared by Peter D. Ward 9780387985725
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £19.71Just 12,000 years ago - at the height of the last Ice Age - saber-toothed tigers, giant ground sloths, camels, hippos and the great herds of proboscideans: giant mastodons and mammoths, extinct... -
The Math of Money: Making Mathematical Sense of Your Personal Finances by Morton D. Davis 9780387950785
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.58This lively and practical introduction to the mathematics of money invites us to take a fresh look at the numbers that underpin our financial decisions. Morton D. Davis talks about strategies to use... -
Hilbert by Constance Reid 9780387946740
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.01Now in new trade paper editions, these classic biographies of two of the greatest 20th Century mathematicians are being released under the Copernicus imprint. These noteworthy accounts of the lives... -
The Infamous Boundary: Seven Decades of Heresy in Quantum Physics by W. Faris 9780387947266
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.69"Provides (an)...accurate portrait of the essence of the disputes, both epistemological and technical, that characterize contemporary inquiry. This book will profit any reader-physicist,... -
Space Invaders: How Robotic Spacecraft Explore the Solar System by Michel van Pelt 9781489990129
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.47CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 From the Ground Up 3 Rockets and Satellites 4 To the Moon 15 Humans versus Robots 18 CHAPTER 2: A SPACE ROBOT IS BORN 23 Scientific Conception 25 Proving Technology 33 The... -
The Little Book of bees by Karl Weiss 9780387952529
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.96chapter1 Bees in the Animal Kingdom and in Earth's History 1 chapter2 The Bee-An Insect chapter3 What Does "Social" Mean in the Animal Kingdom? 25 Anonymous Societies 26 Family Associations 28 The... -
Space Invaders: How Robotic Spacecraft Explore the Solar System by Michel van Pelt 9780387332321
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.19Manned space programs attract the most media attention, and it is not hard to understand why: the danger, the heroism, the sheer adventure we as earthbound observers can imagine when humans are... -
The Parsimonious Universe: Shape and Form in the Natural World by Stefan Hildebrandt 9781461275329
RRP: £70.50Booksplease Price: £53.66The variety of sizes, shapes, and irregularities in nature is endless. Through illustrations and text, the authors of The Parsimonious Universe describe the efforts by scientists and mathematicians... -
Taking Nature Into Account: A Report to the Club of Rome Toward a Sustainable National Income by Wouter Van Dieren 9780387945330
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.59Indicators used to direct ecomonic policy (GDP, national income, etc.) are based on a number of factors ss but nowhere in their calculation is there an acknowledgement of the degradation of natural...