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The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
Booksplease Price: €16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Costa Biography Award 2015 and Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2016 and Royal Society Prize for Science Books... -
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf 9781399827164
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MERLIN SHELDRAKEWINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson'Dazzling' Literary... -
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.83On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.United by this... -
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.83One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not... -
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf 9781529392760
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the Week'Extraordinary... A thrilling intellectual history that reads... -
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf 9780525657118
Booksplease Price: €16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525657118Author Andrea WulfFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A... -
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obession by Andrea Wulf 9780307454751
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307454751Author Andrea WulfFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden by Andrea Wulf
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.83A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion... -
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf 9780307390684
RRP: €27.37Booksplease Price: €18.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390684Author Andrea WulfFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner by Andrea Wulf
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €5.94WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express'Extraordinary... -
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom by Erica Benner
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02'A ripping read ... fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox' Daily TelegraphWas Niccolo Machiavelli really the cynical schemer of legend - or was he a profound ethical thinker, who tried to save... -
The Life Cycle: 8,000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike Kate Rawles 9781785788673
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.22'A gripping read for anyone who cares about what we're doing to the planet and how we can change it' DAVID SHUKMAN, FORMER BBC NEWS SCIENCE EDITOR'Searing observations focused on our need to protect... -
The Life Cycle: 8,000 Miles in the Andes by Bamboo Bike by Kate Rawles
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.66'A gripping read for anyone who cares about what we're doing to the planet and how we can change it' DAVID SHUKMAN, FORMER BBC NEWS SCIENCE EDITOR'Searing observations focused on our need to protect... -
F: A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work... -
Measuring the World Daniel Kehlmann 9781847241146
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.54Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist... -
By Any Other Name: A Cultural History of the Rose Simon Morley 9780861540525
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.40A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination. 'Fascinating... I'll never look at a rose in quite the same way... -
Sylvan Cities: An Urban Tree Guide by Helen Babbs
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51'Clever, pretty, fun and informative - what more can a reader ask for?' Sara Maitland, author of Gossip From the ForestWe're surrounded in cities by trees, quiet colossuses that most of us don't know... -
The Incredible Yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt by Volker Mehnert 9781615196319
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.80This beautifully illustrated biography of a pivotal early scientist will captivate the inner adventurer in children and adults alike Explorer. Scientist. Polymath. Hero. In his day, Alexander von... -
Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America Ralf Webb 9781399713252
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body'Raymond Antrobus, author of The PerseveranceIn October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at San Francisco... -
Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer by Jo Marchant 9780099519768
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck near the island of Antikythera dating from around 70 BC.Lying unnoticed for months amongst... -
The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime's Quest Thomas Pakenham 9781474606790
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'The master. Puts all other modern tree-writers in the shade' John Lewis-Stempel, author of MeadowlandThomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion of trees. In The Company of Trees he recounts his... -
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World by Sarah Stewart Johnson
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47As a new wave of interplanetary exploration unfolds, a talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars.'Beautifully written, emotive - a love letter to a planet'... -
The Quiet Before: On the unexpected origins of radical ideas by Gal Beckerman 9781529177404
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02'The Quiet Before is a fascinating and important exploration of how ideas that change the world incubate and spread.' Steven Pinker'Filled with insightful analysis and colourful storytelling..... -
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.34NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to... -
The Making Of The British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present Nicholas Crane 9780753826676
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81How much do we really know about the place we call 'home'? In this sweeping, timely book, Nicholas Crane tells the story of Britain.Over the course of 12,000 years of continuous human occupation, the... -
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination Richard Mabey 9781861979582
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.09In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from... -
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley by John Gribbin
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has... -
Nature's Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World by Patrick Dean 9781639364138
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.78A dynamic and fresh exploration of the naturalist Mark Catesby-who predated John James Audubon by nearly a century- and his influence on how we understand American wildlife.In 1722, Mark Catesby... -
The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner cosmos. It's a journey... -
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age brings us closer than ever to understanding what being Shakespeare was actually like.How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did... -
Alfred Russel Wallace Peter Raby 9780712665773
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.07In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection... -
'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms by Naoko Abe
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02The irresistible story of Japanese cherry blossoms, threatened by political ideology and saved by an unknown Englishman'This is not just a tale of trees, but of . . . endeavour, war and... -
The Arcadian Friends by Tim Richardson
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.88Between 1715 and 1750, a group of politicans and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon that was to become the English landscape garden... -
The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjoberg
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64Fredrik Sjoeberg's Swedish bestseller about summer, islands, freedom and boundaries.'The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong - the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?'Fredrik... -
A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier Diana Preston 9780552772105
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for... -
A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €27.35Get out in your garden and discover the history hidden in the hedges.Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did potatoes seem really, really weird when they arrived on our shores?Drawn... -
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64The inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Jaroslav Hasek's black satire The Good Soldier Svejk is translated with an introduction by Cecil Parrott in Penguin Classics.Good-natured... -
Birds Britannica Mark Cocker 9781784743789
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €54.43The British love their birds, which are inextricably entwined with every aspect of their island life. British customs, more than 1,000 years of English literature, the very fabric of society, even... -
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father George Goodwin 9781780227351
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian'Fantastic' Dan SnowFor the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in... -
Bird Photographer of the Year by 9780008175238
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.72Foreword by Chris Packham This beautiful book accompanies a new photographic competition celebrating some of the best bird photography of the year. ...