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Longitude by Dava Sobel
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47The 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... -
The Planets by Dava Sobel 9781841156217
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65After the huge national and international success of 'Longitude' and 'Gallileo's Daughter', Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system. This groundbreaking... -
The Planets by Dava Sobel 9780142001165
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142001165Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin... -
Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel 9781857027129
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.89From 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872868400Author Arnold WeskerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Amber Lane Press LtdPublisher... -
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel 9780802779656
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802779656Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Walker & CoPublisher Walker &... -
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111344Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel 9780007548200
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.38AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The... -
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel 9780008536954
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.38Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the young women who trained in her... -
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel 9780802163820
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €21.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802163820Author Dava SobelFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel 9780802165862
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802165862Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press /... -
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe by Cathie Pelletier
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.30In 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... -
Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel 9780008536916
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €14.13Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the young women who trained in her... -
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802715296Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Walker & CoPublisher Walker &... -
The Consolation of Maps by Thomas Bourke
Booksplease Price: €19.29'Austere, elusive . . . the influence of Beckett seems unmistakeable' Irish TimesArresting and beautiful, The Consolation of Maps tells a story of ill-fated passion. Theodora Appel runs a company... -
Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal by David K. Love 9781633888913
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.68Edmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the nature of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery is enough to make the career of any scientist,... -
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time Simon Garfield 9781782113218
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Time 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €1.90SUNDAY 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... -
Time Tamed by Nicholas Foulkes 9781471170645
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.40'Downright fascinating...indispensable reading' Daily Telegraph'Nicholas Foulkes' excellent...book is beautifully illustrated. Captivating' Daily Mail For more than 25,000 years, humanity has sought... -
Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans by David Barrie
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.89In 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.461856. 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: €26.18Booksplease Price: €17.84The 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... -
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, From Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks by Chad Orzel
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.53'Entertaining and engrossing' Sean Carroll Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping. That need to tell the time connects you to... -
Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World by Meredith Francesca Small 9781639366903
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.17The 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.89Winner 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02'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... -
My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters Chris Barker 9781782115670
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20AS 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... -
Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €33.97Science on Stage is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of "science plays"--theatrical events that weave scientific content into the plot lines of the drama. The book investigates the... -
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion: Writing About Everything From Travel to Food to Sex by Sally Cline 9781474268301
Booksplease Price: €32.75Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on nature, history, death,... -
To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence Simon Garfield 9780857868619
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Every 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,... -
A World On Fire: A Heretic, An Aristocrat and the Race to Discover Oxygen by Joe Jackson 9780143038832
RRP: €22.55Booksplease Price: €18.39Like Charles Seife's Zero and Dava Sobel's Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in... -
The Poetry of Physics: From a Quark to a Quasar Sam Illingworth 9781032847313
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €33.43The Poetry of Physics explores the intersection of science and art, blending the intricate beauty of physics with the evocative power of poetry. This unique work takes readers on a journey through... -
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.28Neil 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... -
Time Restored: The Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything by Jonathan Betts 9780199606719
Booksplease Price: €59.11This is the story of Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the polymath and horologist. A remarkable man, Lt Cmdr Gould made important contributions in an extraordinary range of subject areas throughout his... -
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer by Kathy Kleiman
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.48A fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who launched modern computing. As the Cold War began, America's race for tech supremacy was taking off. Experts rushed to complete the... -
Fermat's Last Theorem Simon Singh 9781841157917
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.38'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 Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin by Nathan G. Goodman 9780812210675
Booksplease Price: €30.13An outstanding collection of Benjamin Franklin's scientific correspondence, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin has long been unavailable yet deserves a place beside his Autobiography as essential reading for... -
Time Restored: The Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything by Jonathan Betts 9780198568025
Booksplease Price: €118.30This is the story of Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the polymath and horologist. A remarkable man, Lt Cmdr Gould made important contributions in an extraordinary range of subject areas throughout his... -
Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life by Donald Goldsmith
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €21.30"How do alien, faraway worlds reveal their existence to Earthlings? Let Donald Goldsmith count the ways. As an experienced astronomer and a gifted storyteller, he is the perfect person to chronicle... -
Zone of the Marvellous: In Search of the Antipodes by Martin Edmond 9781869404475
Booksplease Price: €26.54In the tradition of Dava Sobel and Longitude, award-winning writer Martin Edmond uses his extraordinary intellectual breadth and imaginative reach to elegantly and lucidly execute his most ambitious...