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Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers by Max Planck 9780806530758
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £9.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806530758Author Max PlanckFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint -
Max Planck: Uncovering the World of Matter by Jane Weir 9780743905688
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £8.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743905688Author Jane WeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint -
Demographic Research, Volume 10 by Max-Planck-Institute Fur Demograf Fors 9783833469428
RRP: £46.50Booksplease Price: £42.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Economic Anthropology Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) 9780745644837
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three... -
The Bumpy Road: Max Planck from Radiation Theory to the Quantum (1896-1906) by Massimiliano Badino 9783319200309
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How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change by Jens Beckert (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany) 9781509510023
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.53For decades, we have known about the dangers of global warming. Despite this, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop... -
Classical and Quantum Mechanical Aspects of Heavy Ion Collisions: Symposium held at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, October 2-5, 1974 by Hanns Ludwig Harney 9783540070252
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The Quantum World: The disturbing theory at the heart of reality by Scientist New
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are... -
Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner's Call to Science Jeannine Atkins 9781665902519
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78From the acclaimed author of Finding Wonders and Grasping Mysteries comes a gorgeously written biography in "deliberate, delicate verse" (Kirkus Reviews) about the pioneering Jewish woman physicist... -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70On 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... -
Ptolemy's Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life by Jacqueline Feke 9780691210391
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most... -
Innovators: 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition—From Galileo to Barbara McClintock and Rachel Carson by Donald R. Kirsch 9781956763393
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50Scientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the world-and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don't receive... -
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Flexner 9780691174761
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.99A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that... -
The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Albert Einstein
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46This is the definitive edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages. The... -
Einstein on Einstein: Autobiographical and Scientific Reflections by Jurgen Renn 9780691183602
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65New perspectives on the iconic physicist's scientific and philosophical formationAt the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of... -
The Seven Measures of the World Piero Martin 9780300280111
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world "Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are... -
An Einstein Encyclopedia by Alice Calaprice 9780691141749
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.76This is the single most complete guide to Albert Einstein's life and work for students, researchers, and browsers alike. Written by three leading Einstein scholars who draw on their combined wealth... -
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - 100th Anniversary Edition by Albert Einstein
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.32After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popular audience. His intention was "to give an exact... -
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - 100th Anniversary Edition by Albert Einstein 9780691191812
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.81A handsome annotated edition of Einstein's celebrated book on relativityAfter completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote Relativity... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 14 (English): The Berlin Years: Writings & Correspondence, April 1923-May 1925 (English Translation Supplement) - Documentary Edition by Albert Einstein 9780691164229
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £56.48In the almost one hundred writings and more than one thousand letters included in this volume, Einstein is revealed yet again as the consummate puzzler of myriad scientific problems as well as the... -
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The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691162539
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.12This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable... -
Dualizable Tensor Categories by Christopher L. Douglas 9781470443610
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £70.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorChristopher L. Douglas, University of Oxford, UK, Christopher Schommer-Pries, Max Planck Institute for... -
Self-Determination in the International Legal System: Whose Claim, to What Right? by Tom Sparks 9781509945139
Booksplease Price: £44.31This open access book brings conceptual clarity to the study and practice of self-determination, showing that it is, without doubt, one of the most important concepts of the international legal order... -
Bridging History and Policy: Essays on Resilience, Sustainability and Systems Modelling by John F. Haldon 9783032243782
Booksplease Price: £46.28This open access volume addresses questions of scale, complexity, systems-modeling, information-sharing and challenges of policy relevance with the aim of moving our fields forward in better... -
(Dis)Entangled: Black hair, race, and identity Johanna Lukate 9781399700962
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJohanna M. Lukate is an author and academic based in Berlin, Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from... -
Tools of Radio Astronomy - Problems and Solutions by T.L. Wilson 9783319908199
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £26.60Covering topics of radio astronomy, this book contains graduate-level problems with carefully presented solutions. The problems are arranged following the content of the textbook Tools of Radio... -
Hypergeometry, Integrability and Lie Theory by Erik Koelink 9781470465209
RRP: £107.00Booksplease Price: £104.10This volume contains the proceedings of the virtual conference on Hypergeometry, Integrability and Lie Theory, held from December 7-11, 2020, which was dedicated to the 50th birthday of Jasper... -
The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Transformations on the Ground by Armin von Bogdandy 9780197744161
RRP: £112.50Booksplease Price: £109.45The Inter-American System of Human Rights (IASHR) is certainly a source of innovation in human rights law and policy. However, uncertainty reigns over its true legal, political, and social effects as... -
Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia: From Antiquity to Early Modernity by Rana Brentjes 9788869774249
Booksplease Price: £46.90In Imagining the Heavens across Eurasia, 20 authors tell in novel ways the histories of astral knowledge through objects and their imagery. These objects include, for instance, caves and buildings,... -
The Earliest Stages of Language Learning by Marianne Gullberg 9781444338768
Booksplease Price: £39.89This volume provides a state-of-the art overview of what we know about the cognitive and neurobiological aspects of the adult capacity for language learning. Brings together studies from several... -
Violence in the Balkans: First findings from the Balkan Homicide Study by Anna-Maria Getos Kalac 9783030744939
Booksplease Price: £25.70This is the first volume to offer an in-depth look at (lethal) violence in the Balkans. The Balkans Homicide Study analyses 3,000 (attempted) homicide cases from Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia,... -
Behavioral Economics for Leaders: Research-Based I nsights on the Weird, Irrational, and Wonderful Wa ys Humans Navigate the Workplace by M Sutter
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.59Every leader should know the surprising research and strange conclusions of behavioral economics--for fairness, teamwork and productivity You and your colleagues don't always make rational decisions... -
Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A fascinating, practical guide to making better decisions with our money, health and personal lives from Gerd Gigerenzer, the author of Reckoning with Risk.Numbers don't lie - but they often mislead... -
The Chimpanzees of the Tai Forest: 40 Years of Research by Christophe Boesch 9781108481557
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £89.60The Tai Chimpanzee Project (Tai National Park, Cote D'Ivoire) has yielded unprecedented insights into the nature of cooperation, cognition, and culture in our closest living relatives. Founded in... -
Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making psychologist and behavioural expert Gerd Gigerenzer reveals the secrets of fast and effective decision-making. A sportsman can catch a ball... -
Quantum Mechanics (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02What is quantum mechanics? Learn from the experts in the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIESA clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the weird, mind-bending world of the very, very small.Written... -
Among African Apes: Stories and Photos from the Field Martha M. Robbins 9780520267107
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £46.05These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Tai National Park in Cote d'Ivoire for an intimate... -
Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics and turn ignorance into insight. However much we want certainty in... -
Ernst Mach: His Life, Work, and Influence by John T. Blackmore 9780520366992
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.19Ernst Mach: His Work, Life, and Influence aims to bring attention to the important yet often overlooked figure of Ernst Mach, a physicist, philosopher, and psychologist whose contributions span... -
Analysis of Gravitational-Wave Data by Piotr Jaranowski 9780521864596
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.87Research in this field has grown considerably in recent years due to the commissioning of a world-wide network of large-scale detectors. This network collects a very large amount of data that is...