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Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time by Huw Price 9780195117981
Booksplease Price: £26.61`splendidly provocative ... enjoy it as a feast for the imagination.' John Gribbin, Sunday Times Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the... -
Our First Ambassador to China: An Account of the Life of George, Earl of Macartney, with Extracts from His Letters, and the Narrative of His Experiences in China, as Told by Himself, 1737-1806 by Helen Henrietta Macartney Robbins 9781108026253
Booksplease Price: £49.54George Macartney (1737-1806) was a British statesman, diplomat and administrator who held a succession of important appointments. In 1764 he was sent as envoy extraordinary to Russia, but described... -
A Voyage of Discovery, Made under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's Ships Isabella and Alexander: For the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage by John Ross 9781108041522
Booksplease Price: £62.84Sir John Ross (1777-1856) was a Scottish naval officer and Arctic explorer. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of nine and distinguished himself during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1818, Ross was... -
The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1847 by 9781108054379
Booksplease Price: £50.53The Nautical Magazine first appeared in 1832, and was published monthly well into the twenty-first century. It covers a wide range of subjects, including navigation, meteorology, technology and... -
The Visual Language of Technique: Volume 2 - Heritage and Expectations in Research by Luigi Cocchiarella 9783319358598
Booksplease Price: £46.74The book is inspired by the second seminar in a cycle connected to the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano. "Working with the Image Description Processing Prediction"... -
Adaptations and Innovations: Studies on the Interaction Between Jewish and Islamic Thought and Literature from the Early Middle Ages to the Late Twentieth Century, Dedicated to Professor Joel L. Kraemer by Y. Tzvi Langermann 9789042919440
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £78.81The interconnections, common interests, and other linkages between the Jewish and Islamic traditions have long been a matter of interest to academics. Today the need to understand these... -
Discovery in Haste: English Medical Dictionaries and Lexicographers 1547 to 1796 by Roderick McConchie 9783110635782
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £81.98Discovery in Haste is the first book to survey the English printed medical dictionary, a greatly under-researched area, from Andrew Boorde's Breviary of Helthe of 1547 to Benjamin Lara's surgical... -
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £12.49Is there any connection between the vastness of the universes of stars and galaxies and the existence of life on a small planet out in the suburbs of the Milky Way? This book shows that there is. In... -
Physics and our View of the World by Jan Hilgevoord 9780521476805
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £52.50One of the central questions of physics is whether or not a Theory of Everything is possible. Many physicists believe that such a theory might be attainable, a belief which has led to speculation... -
Structure Formation in the Universe T. Padmanabhan (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India) 9780521424868
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £75.08Understanding the way in which large-scale structures like galaxies form remains the most challenging problem in cosmology today. This text provides an up-to-date and pedagogical introduction to this... -
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The Book Of Nothing by John D. Barrow 9780099288459 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing? Where does it begin and where does it end?From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty... -
The Book Of Nothing by John D. Barrow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing? Where does it begin and where does it end?From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty... -
Gravity: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Clifton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions that exist in nature. It also has the distinction of being the oldest, weakest, and most difficult force to quantize. Understanding gravity is not... -
Prisons of Light - Black Holes by Kitty Ferguson 9780521625715
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.96What is a black hole? Could we survive a visit to one ... perhaps even venture inside? Have we yet discovered any real black holes? And what do black holes teach us about the mysteries of our... -
The Incredible Shrinking Mind: What Happens When The Human Equation Gets Lost by Gerald Alper
Booksplease Price: £26.09Within the last few decades a dizzying array of scientific disciplines and "explanations" of the motivating forces behind the profound enigmas of human behaviour have emerged: sociobiology, cognitive... -
Farewell to Reality: How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth by Jim Baggott 9781780334929
Booksplease Price: £20.70Modern physics is heady stuff. It seems that barely a week goes by without some new astounding science story; some revelation about hidden dimensions, multiple universes, the holographic principle or... -
The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking 9780691168449
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.13Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the... -
The Physical World: An Inspirational Tour of Fundamental Physics by Nicholas Manton
Booksplease Price: £51.07The Physical World offers a grand vision of the essential unity of physics that will enable the reader to see the world through the eyes of a physicist and understand their thinking. The text follows... -
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension by Michio Kaku
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £9.78Already thoroughly familiar to the seasoned science fiction fan, hyperspace is that realm which enables a spaceship captain to take his ship on a physics-defying shortcut (or "wormhole") to the outer... -
Celestial Tapestry: The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics by Nicholas Mee 9780198851950
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.60Artists and scientists view the world in quite different ways. Nevertheless, they are united in a search for hidden order beneath surface appearances. The quest for eternal geometrical designs is... -
Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History by Lynn Gamwell 9780691165288
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £52.49This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the... -
The Cosmic Mystery Tour by Nicholas Mee
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.01The Cosmic Mystery Tour takes us on a lightning tour of the mysteries of the universe enlivened by brief stories of the colourful characters who created modern science. It explores hot topics in...