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The Telephone and Its Several Inventors: A History by Lewis Coe 9780786426096
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20On March 7, 1876, the U.S. Patent Office issued to a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell what is arguably the most valuable patent ever: entitled "improvements in telegraphy," in truth it... -
The Montessori Method for Connecting to People with Dementia: A Creative Guide to Communication and Engagement in Dementia Care by Tom Brenner
Booksplease Price: $42.86Creative activities can support people with dementia, leading to moments of reconnection and joy. This book shows how the Montessori method - with its arts-based, person-centred and positive focus -... -
Microwave Resonators and Filters for Wireless Communication: Theory, Design and Application by Mitsuo Makimoto 9783540675358
Booksplease Price: $176.59Anytime. Anywhere. Mobile communication lets you keep in touch. The introduction of radio wave transmission by G. M. Marconi and the tele phone by Graham Bell in the late 19th century together... -
Glenn Curtiss: Pioneer of Flight by C. R. Roseberry 9780815602644
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.66Glenn Curtiss (1878-1930) was a self-taught aeronautical engineer, a self- made industrialist, and one of the first airplane pilots, the model for "Tom Swift." C. R. Roseberry's biography begins with... -
This African-American Life: A Memoir by Hugh B. Price 9780932112811
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.41From his early work as the first director of the Black Coalition of New Haven during the Civil Rights Movement to his tenure as president and CEO of the National Urban League, Hugh B. Price's varied... -
Science Museum - Genius Inventions: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Technological Breakthroughs by Jack Challoner
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.74Genius Inventions gives readers an unprecedented insight into the events, people and histories behind technological and scientific developments that have helped shape modern civilization. Discover... -
Wireless Personal Communications: Trends and Challenges by Theodore S. Rappaport 9780792394303
Booksplease Price: $177.18"Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires, and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be ofno practical value. " from an editorial in the Boston... -
Modem Theory: An Introduction to Telecommunications by Richard E. Blahut 9780521780148
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.18At the heart of any modern communication system is the modem, connecting the data source to the communication channel. This first course in the mathematical theory of modem design introduces the... -
How James Watt Invented the Copier: Forgotten Inventions of Our Great Scientists by Rene Schils 9781461408598
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $42.76Features 25 different scientists and the ideas which may not have made them famous, but made history...Typically, we remember our greatest scientists from one single invention, one new formula or one... -
Algebraic Codes for Data Transmission by Richard E. Blahut 9780521553742
RRP: $161.85Booksplease Price: $151.55The need to transmit and store massive amounts of data reliably and without error is a vital part of modern communications systems. Error-correcting codes play a fundamental role in minimising data... -
Wireless Personal Communications: Trends and Challenges by Theodore S. Rappaport 9781461361909
Booksplease Price: $176.59"Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires, and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be ofno practical value. " from an editorial in the Boston... -
The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray-Alexander Bell Controversy and Its Many Players by A. Edward Evenson 9780786408832
Booksplease Price: $57.17The invention of the telephone is a subject of great controversy, central is which is the patent issued to Alexander Graham Bell on March 7, 1876. Many problems and questions surround this patent,... -
Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain Lucy D. Curzon 9781032179377
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain critically analyses the role that visual culture played in the early development of Mass-Observation, the innovative British... -
George Owen Squier: U.S. Army Major General, Inventor, Aviation Pioneer, Founder of Muzak by Paul W. Clark 9780786476350
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.12During the 1920s and '30s, Major General George Owen Squier was one of the most famous men in America and abroad, as a scientist, soldier, military strategist, electrical communications expert and... -
Hotel Ponce de Leon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Flagler's Gilded Age Palace by Leslee F. Keys 9780813061498
Booksplease Price: $73.59Henry Flagler's opulent Hotel Ponce de Leon drew worldwide praise from the day its elaborately carved doors opened in 1888. Built in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style, the architectural and... -
Digital Outcasts: Moving Technology Forward without Leaving People Behind by Kel Smith 9780124047051
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $67.65The blind person who tries to make an online purchase. The young girl who cannot speak due to a cognitive disability. The man confined to his home due to permanent injury. The single mother with a... -
Outdoor School: Animal Watching: The Definitive Interactive Nature Guide by Odd Dot
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $29.37Rewild your life! With metal corners and 448 full-color, highly illustrated pages, Outdoor School is your indispensable tool for the outdoors. Make every day an adventure with the included: -... -
A Perilous Journey of Danger and Mayhem #1: A Dastardly Plot by Christopher Healy 9780062341983
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $13.18A rip-roaring, hilarious alternate-history adventure starring the world's most famous inventors-and its most forgotten. From the author of the beloved Hero's Guide series, Christopher Healy. It's... -
Cryptography and Secure Communication Richard E. Blahut (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 9781107014275
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $176.46Today's pervasive computing and communications networks have created an intense need for secure and reliable cryptographic systems. Bringing together a fascinating mixture of topics in engineering,... -
Peculiar Nature by John Micklos Jr.
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.75The natural world can be a beautiful and awesome place. But sometimes things happen naturally that are quite peculiar. Have you heard of Blood Falls in Antarctica? Ice cold water flows bright red out... -
A Perilous Journey of Danger and Mayhem #2: The Treacherous Seas by Christopher Healy 9780062342010
Booksplease Price: $13.01The second book in the new adventure trilogy from the beloved author of The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom.It's 1883-only a few months after Molly Pepper; her mother, Cassandra; and her friend,... -
Algebraic Codes on Lines, Planes, and Curves: An Engineering Approach by Richard E. Blahut 9780521771948
RRP: $222.30Booksplease Price: $216.35The past few years have witnessed significant developments in algebraic coding theory. This book provides an advanced treatment of the subject from an engineering perspective, covering the basic... -
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World by David Bodanis 9780349117669
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06For centuries, electricity was viewed as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation... -
The Telephone: The Life Story of a Technology by David Mercer 9780313332074
Booksplease Price: $85.37The telephone has played a central role in shaping the way we communicate. From the telegraph in the 19th century through the mobile phone of today, the technology of the telephone has drastically... -
Wedding Days: When and How Great Marriages Began by Susan J. Gordon 9781625361677
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.84From Pocahontas to Priscilla Presley, Annie Oakley to Yoko Ono, Grace Kelly to Coretta Scott King, no woman ever forgets her wedding day. Here are 366 poignant, passionate or hilarious wedding... -
A Man of the World: My Life at National Geographic by Gilbert M Grosvenor
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.06The captivating inside story of the man who helmed National Geographic over the course of six decades is a front-row seat to iconic feats of exploration, from the successful hunt for the Titanic to... -
The Book of Nice: A Nice Book About Nice Things for Nice People by Josh Chetwynd 9780761172949
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.01Nice is the secret ingredient to a better life. It makes us happy. It may even be what makes us civilized-when we say thank you, shake hands, send flowers, we're doing the nice things that bring... -
The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926 by Leonard S. Reich 9780521522373
Booksplease Price: $60.92This book tells the story of how and why industrial research was established in America by two large and innovative corporations: General Electric, formed in a merger of Edison General Electric and... -
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. Mackay 9781851588237
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.18Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie is one of history's greatest heroes, but also one of its greatest enigmas - a shadowy figure whose edges have been blurred by myth and legend. Even the date and place... -
QI: The Book of General Ignorance - The Noticeably Stouter Edition by John Lloyd
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50EVERYTHING TO PLAY FOR - A NEW BOOK BY QI ELVES JAMES HARKIN AND ANNA PTASZYNSKI - IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOWAn indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common... -
Speech Development Guide for Children with Hearing Loss by Frederick S. Berg 9781597562485
Booksplease Price: $167.02Though technological improvements have been steady in the field of speech development for children with hearing loss, training remains difficult, often frustrating, for clinicians and speech... -
Machine Learning and Wireless Communications by Yonina C. Eldar
RRP: $161.85Booksplease Price: $155.73How can machine learning help the design of future communication networks - and how can future networks meet the demands of emerging machine learning applications? Discover the interactions between... -
Letters of Note: Space by Shaun Usher
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74In Letters of Note: Space, Shaun Usher brings together fascinating correspondence about the universe beyond our planet, containing hopeful thoughts about the future of space travel, awestruck... -
Zworykin, Pioneer of Television by Albert Abramson 9780252021046
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $68.54Using patents, published and unpublished documents, and interviews with television pioneers including Zworykin himself, Abramson reconstructs the inventor's life from his early years in Russia,... -
The Tragic Trip of the Donner Party John Micklos Jr. 9781398251397
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.04In the spring of 1846, the Donner and Reed families joined a wagon train bound for California in the hope of finding a better life. But when the party took an untested shortcut, it set them down a... -
Learning to Smell: Olfactory Perception from Neurobiology to Behavior by Donald A. Wilson
RRP: $135.53Booksplease Price: $129.54Written by a neurobiologist and a psychologist, this volume presents a new theory of olfactory perception. Drawing on research in neuroscience, physiology, and ethology, Donald A. Wilson and Richard... -
The Tragic Trip of the Donner Party John Micklos Jr. 9781398251403
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.34In the spring of 1846, the Donner and Reed families joined a wagon train bound for California in the hope of finding a better life. But when the party took an untested shortcut, it set them down a... -
Management Innovators: The People and Ideas That Have Shaped Modern Business by Daniel A. Wren 9780195117059
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $98.88The survey of the field of management begins with Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, who failed to create a successful business based on it, and ends with Peter Drucker, who is probably the... -
Henry Hudson and the Murderous Arctic Mutiny John Micklos Jr. 9781398251441
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.34English explorer Henry Hudson had long searched for a quicker, northern sailing route from Europe to Asia. Three previous expeditions had failed. In 1610, he embarked again to find the fabled... -
Ableist Rhetoric: How We Know, Value, and See Disability by James L. Cherney
RRP: $56.45Booksplease Price: $50.49Ableism, a form of discrimination that elevates "able" bodies over those perceived as less capable, remains one of the most widespread areas of systematic and explicit discrimination in Western...