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Fundamentals of Astrophysics by Stan Owocki 9781009618007
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.02Presenting a concise overview of astrophysical concepts, the second edition of this textbook bridges the gap between introductory astronomy books and advanced astrophysics texts. Designed for... -
Slave in a Box: Strange Career of Aunt Jemima by M.M. Manring 9780813918112
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78In "Slave in a Box," M. M. Manring investigates why the troubling figure of Aunt Jemima has endured in American culture. The author traces the evolution of the mammy from her roots in Old... -
At the Cross-Roads of Astrophysics and Cosmology (IAU S376): Period-Luminosity Relations in the 2020s by Richard de Grijs 9781009353045
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.45The period–luminosity relation (PLR) is an important relationship between the fundamental physical properties of many types of variable stars. Most recognisable is the PLR of Cepheids, which allows... -
Before This Decade is Out ...: Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program by Glen E. Swanson 9780813025377
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.25This collection of oral histories of the Saturn/Apollo program recounts the unique adventure of the lunar landing programme as witnessed by some of the political leaders, engineers, scientists and... -
Managing Large Systems: Organizations for the Future by Leonard R. Sayles
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.52Managing Large Systems examines a range of human, organizational, and managerial challenges associated with large systems. Special attention is given to the behavioral relationships among scientists... -
Convergence To Cosmicrobia: The Final Acceptance Of Life As A Cosmic Phenomenon Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe 9789819800889
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £62.28Forty years ago, Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe challenged the long-held belief that life originated spontaneously from a primordial soup on Earth — a concept rooted in Aristotelian philosophy... -
The Nature of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies by William Cowley 9783319667478
Booksplease Price: £90.86This thesis combines a theoretical model of galaxy formation with a treatment of the radiative transfer in the titular dusty star-forming galaxies. Embedding this within the well-established CDM... -
Peace and Prisoners of War: A South Vietnamese Memoir of the Vietnam War by Nam Nhat Phan 9781682476147
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.79American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlefields, these were brutal times for America's South... -
Fragments by Jack Fuller
Booksplease Price: £23.87Fragments is a story about how war can make everything explosive--even love--and how two friends try to put the pieces of their lives together again. "[Fragments] makes the usual... -
Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition) by Julio A Gonzalo
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76'Cosmic Paradoxes' was an outcome of a Conference-Summer Course on 'Astrophysical Cosmology: Frontier Questions' held at El Escorial, Madrid, on August 16-19, 1993. The Scientific Directors were John... -
3D Spectroscopy in Astronomy by Evencio Mediavilla 9780521895415
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £119.38Simultaneously storing both spectral and spatial information, 3D spectroscopy offers a new way to tackle astrophysical problems, and opens up new lines of research. Since its inception in the... -
Probing Galaxy Evolution by Unveiling the Structure of Massive Galaxies Across Cosmic Time and in Diverse Environments by Timothy Weinzirl 9783319377810
Booksplease Price: £90.56Awarded the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize, and with a foreword by thesis supervisor Professor Shardha Jogee at the University of Texas at Austin, this thesis... -
Starchild: My Life Under the Night Sky by Dr Maggie Aderin 9781785949449
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.92From a childhood in Camden to the frontiers of space, an inspirational memoir from space scientist, presenter of The Sky at Night, and bestselling author Maggie Aderin.'I'd toast the moon and look at... -
Cosmic Paradoxes (Third Edition) by Julio A Gonzalo 9789811262067
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.50'Cosmic Paradoxes' was an outcome of a Conference-Summer Course on 'Astrophysical Cosmology: Frontier Questions' held at El Escorial, Madrid, on August 16-19, 1993. The Scientific Directors were John... -
The Turnaround by Mark Timlin 9781843442691
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Fifth Nick Sharman Thriller Disliked by Old Bill and villains alike, South London private eye Nick Sharman attracts trouble like the proverbial magnet. When businessman James Webb asks Sharman to... -
Inside PixInsight by Warren A. Keller
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.29PixInsight has taken the astro-imaging world by storm. As the first comprehensive postprocessing platform to be created by astro-imagers for astro-imagers, it has for many replaced other generic... -
NASA: The Greatest Milestones of Space Exploration by Bill Schwartz
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.30"Every kid's dream is captured in the pages of this ACC Art Book depicting more than 60 years of space exploration, from the foundation of NASA in 1958 to the launch of the James Webb telescope in... -
Leadership and Innovation: Entrepreneurs in Government by Jameson W. Doig
Booksplease Price: £28.90Jameson W. Doig and Erwin C. Hargrove outline a perspective on leadership in government that emphasizes entrepreneurship. They show how government executives' ability to set goals, generate support... -
Deep Affinities: Art and Science Philip F. Palmedo 9780789213785
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.25An illustrated exploration of the fundamental connections between art and science, from an author who has lived in both worlds. In this thought-provoking book, Philip F. Palmedo, a former... -
Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry and the Cultural Imagination by Fabienne Collignon 9781501317651
Booksplease Price: £40.79Rocket States crosses the disciplines of Cold War Studies, American Literature, American Studies and Cultural Studies. The particular attraction of this study lies in the combination of its... -
Public Service Exemplars: A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement J. Michael Martinez 9781032212258
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Understanding and encouraging the development of good leaders is so important that schools of business administration, public administration, public policy, and organizational development teach... -
111 Places in Space That You Must Not Miss Mark McCaughrean 9783740806019
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Prepare for an unforgettable journey beyond Earth with 111 Places in Space That You Shouldn't Miss! This extraordinary guide takes you on a cosmic adventure through the most breathtaking and... -
Satellites: Learn All About Satellites and Their Special Missions to Connect, Inform, and Protect All of US on Planet Earth Kate Peridot 9780241695807
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68Look up into a clear night sky and soon enough, you'll see a dot of light zip past. It's not a shooting star, it's a satellite.Every day, thousands of satellites orbit the Earth doing important jobs... -
The First Galaxies: Theoretical Predictions and Observational Clues by Tommy Wiklind 9783642448607
Booksplease Price: £91.68New observations of the period between the cosmic recombination and the end of reionization are posing intriguing questions about where the first generations of stars were formed, how the first... -
The Physics of Cosmology Fulvio Melia 9780443452017
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £89.86The Physics of Cosmology offers a comprehensive update to theoretical cosmology, drawing on the latest observations that measure, analyze, and synthesize vast amounts of data to refine our... -
Light: The Visible Spectrum and Beyond Kimberly Arcand 9780762487844
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.12A stunning visual exploration of the power and behavior of light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Light allows humans to see things around us, but we can only see a sliver of all the light... -
Vietnam and the Southern Imagination by Owen W. Gilman 9781604731699
Booksplease Price: £31.89A revealing look at how many of the new generation of southern writers link southern cultural heritage and the American experience in Vietnam Much recent fiction from the American South has... -
Eyes in the Sky: Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb by Andrew May 9781837731275
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Over 50 years ago, astronomers launched the world's first orbiting telescope. This allowed them to gaze further into outer space and examine anything that appears in the sky above our heads, from... -
Deep Space: Beyond the Solar System to the Edge of the Universe and the Beginning of Time Govert Schilling 9780762487233
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.12Join award-winning astronomy writer Govert Schilling on a journey through space and time to the most far-reaching corners of the universe in this stunning photographic voyage into deep space.This... -
Blast Off!: Look Inside Spectacular Spacecraft by Ben Elcomb 9798217126026
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.01Take a journey through outer space to discover how spacecraft changed the world, and how they might even shape our future...From early rockets to distant space probes, learn what it takes to blast... -
Mathematical Methods of Physics using Microsoft EXCEL Shinil Cho 9781032844541
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £85.50In Mathematical Methods for Physics using Microsoft EXCEL, readers will investigate topics from classical to quantum mechanics, which are often omitted from the course work. Some of these topics... -
Probing Galaxy Evolution by Unveiling the Structure of Massive Galaxies Across Cosmic Time and in Diverse Environments by Timothy Weinzirl 9783319069586
Booksplease Price: £90.56Awarded the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize, and with a foreword by thesis supervisor Professor Shardha Jogee at the University of Texas at Austin, this thesis... -
Blast Off!: Look Inside Spectacular Spacecraft by Ben Elcomb 9780241733127
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Take a journey through outer space to discover how spacecraft changed the world, and how they might even shape our future...From early rockets to distant space probes, learn what it takes to blast... -
Arduino - A Technical Reference J.m Hughes 9781491921760
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £28.90Rather than yet another project-based workbook, Arduino in a Nutshell is a reference and handbook that thoroughly describes the electrical and performance aspects of an Arduino board and its software... -
Diamonds Everywhere: Awe-inspiring astronomy discoveries by Tom Kerss 9780008636968
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.04Answers to the mysteries of the cosmos for inquiring minds. Explore the entire cosmos in 101 fascinating topics - from mind-blowing numbers, astonishing sights, to strange-but-true... -
Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA by W. Henry Lambright
Booksplease Price: £27.10When President Kennedy issued his well-known challenge to reach the moon and return safely before the end of the 1960s, the immediate responsibility for undertaking the task fell to 54-year-old NASA... -
Greco: A Novel C. G. Cooper 9781662525704
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72In this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author C. G. Cooper, a college football star struggles to pull himself free from his father's tangled past.It's 1989, and college freshman... -
Super Tech: Space Clive Gifford 9781526325761
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Did you know the James Webb Space telescope is so powerful it can spot a football 550 kilometres away? Would you like to live on a future Mars colony? Find out how the technology works and become an... -
The Sky at Night: The Art of Stargazing: My Essential Guide to Navigating the Night Sky by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock 9781785947896
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.35Look up...The Art of Stargazing is the ultimate insider's guide to the night sky in which award-winning space scientist and The Sky at Night presenter Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock shares her expertise and... -
A Day in the Life of Dinosaurs, Dead Kings and Other Discovered Things: A Laugh-Out-Loud Guide to the World’s Most Wonderful Discoveries Mike Barfield 9781837250257
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.32A fourth title in the 'A Day in the Life' series, this time looking at amazing and historic discoveries. Created by award-winning duo Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley, the book follows the highly...