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The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debateBeginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully... -
An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage 9780802719911
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802719911Author Tom StandageFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher... -
Truly Peculiar: Fantastic Facts That Are Stranger Than Fiction by Tom Standage
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Our extraordinary world makes more (and sometimes less) sense when you wonder: What's driving the international turkey-meat boom? How does a cannonball determine a maritime boundary? Where... -
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage 9780802715524
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802715524Author Tom StandageFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Walker & CompanyPublisher Walker... -
Unconventional Wisdom: Adventures in the Surprisingly True by Tom Standage
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.55The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How much does a ghost reduce a house's value? How are winemakers responding to climate change? How much should you tip... -
Oddly Informative: Matters of fact that amaze and delight by Tom Standage
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The more we ponder, the odder the world can seem. How do footballers get their shirt numbers? Why does having daughters make couples more likely to divorce? How do you move a horse from... -
Uncommon Knowledge: Extraordinary Things That Few People Know by Tom Standage
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.94The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of... -
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car, to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.53'Speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun - and utterly timely' Sunday Times 'Standage writes with a masterly clarity' New York Times 'The product of deep research,... -
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun - and utterly timely' Sunday Times 'Standage writes with a masterly clarity' New York Times 'The product of deep research,... -
The Economist Quiz Book: 60 Brain Teasers for Inquisitive Minds Tom Standage 9781805223795
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Calling all problem-solvers drawn to the smart, quirky and counter-intuitive. Challenge yourself to join the dots, get your facts straight and sort the genuine from the fake in this puzzle book... -
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers by Tom Standage 9781620405925
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620405925Author Tom StandageFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher... -
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Uncommon Knowledge: Extraordinary Things That Few People Know by Tom Standage 9781788163323 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.69The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of... -
Seriously Curious: 109 facts and figures to turn your world upside down Tom Standage 9781788161367
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Some questions you never think to ask. Others, you didn't know you didn't know. And some facts are so surprising they cry out for answers. What can a president actually do? Why do cities sink into... -
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Seriously Curious: 109 facts and figures to turn your world upside down by Tom Standage 9781788161367 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Some questions you never think to ask. Others, you didn't know you didn't know. And some facts are so surprising they cry out for answers. What can a president actually do? Why do cities sink into... -
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Go Figure: Things you didn't know you didn't know: The Economist Explains by Tom Standage 9781781256251 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.50Which James Bond drinks the most martinis? What do Satanists really believe? How do hurricanes get their names? Why are bees disappearing? Is chocolate healthy? ...Go Figure has the answers. ... -
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong: As Featured on Radio 4 by Raymond Hull
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'The Peter Principle has cosmic implications.' - New York Times 'The classic book which warns of the dangers of over-promotion' The Times In a hierarchy, every employee rises to the level of... -
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Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Stephen J. Dubner 9780141030708 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40The international bestselling Freakquel to Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics, this book sees them looking deeper, questioning harder and uncovering even more hidden truths about our world, from... -
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Stephen J. Dubner
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The international bestselling Freakquel to Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics, this book sees them looking deeper, questioning harder and uncovering even more hidden truths about our world, from... -
From Gutenberg to Google and on to AI: The History of Our Future Tom Wheeler 9780815740612
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.81The two great Western technological revolutions of the past, the invention of movable type in the fifteenth century and the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century, changed the course of... -
Megatech: Technology in 2050 by Daniel Franklin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.26Technology moves fast - so where will it have taken us by 2050? How will it affect the way we live? And how far are we willing to let it go? In Megatech, distinguished scientists, industry leaders,... -
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Terrible Estate Agent Photos by Andy Donaldson 9780224100915 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.67FOR SALE: From the creator of the viral blog sensation TerribleRealEstateAgentPhotos.com, a book of the most baffling property photographs ever taken. With over 100 previously unpublished photos,... -
Personal Connections in the Digital Age by Nancy K. Baym 9780745670331
Booksplease Price: £51.21The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. In this... -
Innovators in Digital News by Lucy Kung
Booksplease Price: £23.81News organisations are struggling with technology transitions and fearful for their future. Yet some organisations are succeeding. Why are organisations such as Vice and BuzzFeed investing in... -
Personal Connections in the Digital Age Nancy K. Baym (Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Kansas) 9780745670348
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. In this... -
Will Robots Take Your Job?: A Plea for Consensus by Nigel M. de S. Cameron 9781509509553
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.30The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the elderly and, indeed, code-writing can now be done by... -
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart 9780393349566
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem-or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe... -
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia by Mark Piesing
Booksplease Price: £13.00"GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street JournalThe riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the... -
Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History by Marc Millon 9781911723073
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.24The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities-and, of course, its wine. From the ancient Greeks to the Medici, and from fascism to... -
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia by Mark Piesing 9780062851529
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £19.15"GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street JournalThe riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the... -
Anansi's Gold: The man who swindled the world. WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024. Yepoka Yeebo 9781526667083
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Winner of the Jhalak Prize & Plutarch Award | A New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME Book of the Year 2023 'Fabulously entertaining' Daily Telegraph | 'Perfect for fans of...