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Longitude by Dava Sobel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12The 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95After 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.26Apologies 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58From 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. ... -
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel 9781408822388
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802779656Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Walker & CoPublisher Walker &... -
Longitude: The Play - Based on the Book "Longitude" by Dava Sobel by Arnold Wesker 9781872868400
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Apologies 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... -
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
Booksplease Price: £12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111344Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
To Father: The Letters of Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623–1633 by Dava Sobel 9780007291335
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The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel 9780007548200
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28AN 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Dava 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... -
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe by Cathie Pelletier
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90In 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... -
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel 9780802165862
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.02Apologies 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 /... -
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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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.12AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR `A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The... -
Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel 9780008536916
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.05Dava 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: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.06Apologies 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... -
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Apologies 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: £16.21'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... -
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time Simon Garfield 9781782113218
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Time 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £1.60SUNDAY 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... -
Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal by David K. Love 9781633888913
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Edmond 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,... -
Time Tamed by Nicholas Foulkes 9781471170645
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68'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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58In 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.951856. 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... -
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, From Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks by Chad Orzel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The 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... -
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: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50The 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58Winner 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23AS 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... -
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My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters by Chris Barker 9781782115670 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.41AS 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Science 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: £27.28Literary 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Every 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,... -
The World of Gerard Mercator: The Mapmaker Who Revolutionised Geography by Andrew Taylor 9780007100811
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic. 'Geographie and Chronologie I may... -
A World On Fire: A Heretic, An Aristocrat and the Race to Discover Oxygen by Joe Jackson 9780143038832
Booksplease Price: £19.65Like 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: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79The 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.14Neil 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: £52.13This 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... -
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History by Eli Maor 9780691196886
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23An 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...