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The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The 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: $25.45Booksplease Price: $14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802719911Author Tom StandageFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint < -
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage 9780802715524
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802715524Author Tom StandageFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint < -
Unconventional Wisdom: Adventures in the Surprisingly True by Tom Standage
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09The 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: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The 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... -
The Economist Quiz Book: 60 Brain Teasers for Inquisitive Minds Tom Standage 9781805223795
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Calling 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... -
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'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,... -
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Uncommon Knowledge: Extraordinary Things That Few People Know by Tom Standage 9781788163323 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.60The 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... -
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers by Tom Standage 9781620405925
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620405925Author Tom StandageFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint < -
Seriously Curious: 109 facts and figures to turn your world upside down Tom Standage 9781788161367
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Some 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64Some 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: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.35Which 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.22The 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37The 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... -
Megatech: Technology in 2050 by Daniel Franklin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Technology 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: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.44FOR 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 Nancy K. Baym (Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Kansas) 9780745670348
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56The 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... -
The Future of Bananas by James Dale 9781911545811
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The most eaten fruit in the world is facing possible extinction. While there are thousands of banana varieties, only one has become the West's favourite - the Cavendish: our familiar curvy,... -
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia by Mark Piesing
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11"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...