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E=mc2 by David Bodanis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40By the end of the astonishing E=mc2, a dedicated reader will have achieved, if only by osmosis, an understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity and feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize... -
E=Mc2 by David Bodanis 9780425181645
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.18Already climbing the bestseller lists-and garnering rave reviews this "little masterpiece" sheds brilliant light on the equation that changed the world.Bodanis begins by devoting chapters to each of... -
Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography by David Bodanis 9781328745521
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328745521Author David BodanisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton... -
Einstein's Greatest Mistake: The Life of a Flawed Genius by David Bodanis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.64Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet... -
The Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean by David Bodanis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.44'David Bodanis is an enthralling storyteller. Prepare to be taken on a surprising, wide-ranging and ultimately inspiring journey to explore what makes us human' Tim HarfordCan you succeed without... -
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World by David Bodanis 9780307335982
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780307335982Author David... -
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World by David Bodanis 9780349117669
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26For centuries, electricity was viewed as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation... -
Passionate Minds: Emilie Du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment by David Bodanis 9780307237217
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307237217Author David BodanisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher... -
Stephen Hawking: Friendship and Physics by Leonard Mlodinow
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND BBC SCIENCE FOCUS'An intimate, unique, and inspiring perspective on the life and work of one of the greatest minds of... -
Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits by John D. Barrow 9780099772118
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16What can we never do? Barrow looks at what limits there might be to human discovery, and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable. Science is a big success story,... -
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A majestic story' David Bodanis, Financial Times From the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the FutureThis is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of... -
Curation: The power of selection in a world of excess by Michael Bhaskar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A terrific and important book ...it's a great, fresh take on how the 21st century is transforming the way we select everything from food to music' David Bodanis, author of E=MC2 In the past two... -
How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74The definitive guide to mathematical problem solving, from one of the great teachers of the twentieth centuryGeorge Polya's perennial bestseller has inspired generations around the world to think... -
The Making of Her: Why School Matters by Clarissa Farr 9780008271329
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63What makes a good education? 'A crucial book of the moment: the best-informed education insider laying out how schools should work' David Bodanis ... -
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.50Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries... -
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age by Joel N. Shurkin 9780230551923
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £31.52This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th century. Drawing upon unique access to the private... -
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age by Joel N. Shurkin 9781403988157
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £42.59This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th century. Drawing upon unique access to the private... -
The Moves that Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life by Jonathan Rowson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.16'A nuanced and witty meditation on confronting the challenges life throws at us all' Oliver Burkeman Jonathan Rowson's competitive success as a chess Grandmaster and work as an applied philosopher... -
Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times by Albert Einstein 9781349729111
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £26.35A classic collection of correspondence between two Nobel Prize winners, The Born-Einstein Letters , is also highly topical: scientists continue to struggle with quantum physics, their role in wartime... -
Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times by Albert Einstein 9781403944962
RRP: £70.50Booksplease Price: £46.28A classic collection of correspondence between two Nobel Prize winners, The Born-Einstein Letters , is also highly topical: scientists continue to struggle with quantum physics, their role in wartime... -
The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922 - 1923 by Albert Einstein
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70Albert Einstein's travel diary to the Far East and Middle EastIn the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East... -
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking by Michael Bhaskar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide'Observer'A fascinating, must-read book covering a vast array of topics from the arts to the sciences, technology to... -
Reading Jane: A Daughter's Memoir by Susannah Kennedy 9781736795477
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A gripping memoir that shows what freedom looks like when we choose to examine the uncomfortable pastJane is to the world a charismatic personality - opinionated, an inner-city teacher and public... -
Every Third Thought: On Life, Death, and the Endgame by Robert McCrum
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.23As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and... -
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna 9781399810654
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Mind expanding - this book will change your view of the world forever' Matthew SyedA blueprint for a better future. Playing on the phrase "a theory of everything" in physics, Michael... -
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna 9781399810630
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.56'A fabulous book' The Economist'Mind expanding - this book will change your view of the world forever' Matthew Syed'Wonderfully refreshing and thought-provoking' Peter Frankopan'Original,...