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Longitude by Dava Sobel
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.37The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a... -
Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel 9781857027129
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia. ... -
Longitude: The Play - Based on the Book "Longitude" by Dava Sobel by Arnold Wesker 9781872868400
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872868400Author Arnold WeskerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel 9781408822388
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.11The bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter tells the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and the revolution in astronomy that changed the world. 'Lively, inventive ... a masterly specimen... -
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel 9780802779656
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $17.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802779656Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111344Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel 9780007548200
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The... -
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe by Cathie Pelletier
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99In 1916, a nearly unknown German-born theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein had developed his theory of relativity, but hadn't yet been able to prove it. The only way to do that was through the... -
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802715296Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
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The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel 9780007548187 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $4.02AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR `A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The... -
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time Simon Garfield 9781782113218
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven... -
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time by Simon Garfield 9781782113195 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $2.14SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and... -
Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84In the tradition of Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery - an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational... -
Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world Simon Garfield 9781786892782
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.651856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye... -
Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World by Meredith Francesca Small 9781639364190
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece-the Venetian mappa mundi-that revolutionized how we see the world.In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the... -
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history 'Wonderfully researched and... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney 9780241370513
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'Not merely an horologist's delight, but an ingenious... -
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My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters by Chris Barker 9781782115670 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.23AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you... -
My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters Chris Barker 9781782115670
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'Utterly wonderful' NINA STIBBE, author of Love, NinaTwenty hours have gone since I last wrote. I have been thinking of you. I shall think of you until I post this, and until you... -
A History of Science in 21 Women Marieke Bigg 9781836432142
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.62From Ada Lovelace to Florence Nightingale, Rosalind Franklin to Tu Youyou - discover the women who changed science forever Imagine a scientist. White lab coat and goggles... check! A passing... -
To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence Simon Garfield 9780857868619
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Every letter contains a miniature story, and here are some of the greatest. From Oscar Wilde's unconventional method of using the mail to cycling enthusiast Reginald Bray's quest to post himself,... -
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.92Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist, one who can speak as easily and brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight... -
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History by Eli Maor 9780691196886
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73An exploration of one of the most celebrated and well-known theorems in mathematicsBy any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor... -
Fermat's Last Theorem Simon Singh 9781841157917
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and... -
The Book Nobody Read by Owen Gingerich
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.711543 saw the publication of one of the most significant scientific works ever written: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), in which Nicolaus Copernicus presented a... -
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell... -
Men Without Country: The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas by Harrison Christian
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me happily captive to the very last... -
Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence by Ross King
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'Compelling... fascinating' Spectator'Abounding with excellent little stories' Financial TimesThis is the story of one of the most magnificent achievements of the Italian Renaissance, and the... -
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The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst 9780007204434 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.07An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell... -
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29In 1735 a team of French scientists set out on a daring expedition into the South American wilderness to resolve one of the great scientific challenges of the time: the precise size and shape of the... -
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology by Paul Nurse
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.01The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every reader... -
The House of Wisdom by Jonathan Lyons 9781408801215
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely able to tell the time of day. Arab culture, however, was thriving, and had... -
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts 9781529400465
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.69The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task:... -
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11________________ WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION ________________ 'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm... -
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On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield 9781846685095 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.51Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to... -
Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer Margot Morrell 9781857883183
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called 'the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none' for saving the lives of the twenty-seven men stranded with him on an Antarctic ice floe for almost... -
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Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer by Margot Morrell 9781857883183 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called 'the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none' for saving the lives of the twenty-seven men stranded with him on an Antarctic ice floe for almost... -
Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist by Chad Orzel
Booksplease Price: $16.36Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.43For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in... -
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.39Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness...