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Chaos by James Gleick
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Uncover one of the most exciting frontiers of modern physics in this fascinating, insightful and accessible overview of Chaos theory.'An exceedingly readable introduction to a new intellectual world'... -
Isaac Newton by James Gleick
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $19.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science 2004.Book InformationISBN 9781400032952Author James GleickForm -
Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $18.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168922Author James GleickFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint < -
Isaac Newton by James Gleick 9780007163182
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.68From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith. Isaac Newton was the chief... -
Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
RRP: $44.85Booksplease Price: $28.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113454Author James GleickFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint < -
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick 9781400096237
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick 9780679747048
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $29.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 1992.Book InformationISBN 9780679747048Author James Gleick -
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle... -
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick 9780007225743
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its... -
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Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick 9780349105321 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $4.70Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle... -
Vintage Tomorrows: What Steampunk Can Teach Us About the Future by Pieter Hintjens 9781449337995
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.76Can you imagine what today's technology would have looked like in the Victorian Era? That's the world Steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st Century-inspired contraptions powered by... -
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley by John Gribbin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.45Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has... -
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.53Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist,... -
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P Feynman
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATESIn this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a... -
A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking: From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics James M. Russell 9781472143686
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a... -
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time Simon Garfield 9781782113218
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Time 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... -
The Quotable Feynman Richard P. Feynman 9780691270449
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.80A treasure-trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from beloved physicist Richard P. Feynman"Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live... -
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time by Simon Garfield 9781782113195 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $3.12SUNDAY 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... -
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $30.67A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi,... -
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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
Booksplease Price: $17.55Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" this book's many stories-some funny, others intensely moving-display Richard P. Feynman's unquenchable thirst... -
The Emperor Of Scent by Chandler Burr
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for... -
How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45What happens to us as we die? Discover the answers in this exclusive 25th anniversary edition of Sherwin B Nuland's seminal book ... -
Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison 9780393326048
RRP: $41.93Booksplease Price: $40.27A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps is "part history, part science, part... -
The Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Scientists Britannica 9781845298647
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22Who are the most important men and women whose notions and theories have changed the world? When Isaac Newton claimed that he only saw further because he stood on the shoulders of giants, he alluded... -
The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence by Richard L. Hudson
Booksplease Price: $44.25Mathematical superstar and inventor of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot, has spent the past forty years studying the underlying mathematics of space and natural patterns. What many of his... -
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Peter L. Bernstein (Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.) 9780471295631
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $26.33A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release... -
Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of... -
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson 9780008301620
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.18Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal... -
The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity by Claudia de Rham 9780691237503
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.80A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her lifeClaudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with... -
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $17.53** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.The story begins in an... -
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads Tim Wu (Atlantic Books) 9781782394853
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers.In nearly every moment of our waking... -
Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet by Richard Panek
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.30Nobody knows - and just about nobody knows that nobody knows. How something so pervasive can also be so mysterious, and how that mystery can be so wholly unrecognised outside the field of physics, is... -
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It by Cory Doctorow 9781836742227
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $32.99*** Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 ***Misogyny, conspiratorialism, surveillance, manipulation, fraud, and AI slop are drowning the internet. For the... -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $42.32On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with... -
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.00For 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... -
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will Kevin J. Mitchell 9780691226217
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.80An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As... -
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Sunday Times*'This is empirical... -
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack 9780141989587
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, NEW SCIENTIST, BBC FOCUS, INDEPENDENT AND WASHINGTON POST 'A rollicking tour of the wildest physics. . . Like an animated discussion with... -
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In the Shadow of Memory by Floyd Skloot 9780803242975 [USED COPY]
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $2.44In December 1988, Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain. The resulting damage left him totally disabled and utterly changed. "In the Shadow of Memory" is a candid memoir of... -
The Book of Records: A Novel by Madeleine Thien 9781324130703
Booksplease Price: $19.79Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts...