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High Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery: 2nd edition Ian Dowman 9781849953900
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $176.00The second edition of this book has been fully updated to include information on optical sensors launched since 2012 and on new developments in technology, particularly on small satellites and on... -
Environmental and Engineering Geology: Beyond the Basics J. S. Griffiths 9781849954013
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $185.03This new book is a substantially updated and expanded edition based upon the successful and acclaimed Basic Environmental and Engineering Geology by the late Professor Fred Bell. It incorporates... -
Soil and Rock Description in Engineering: 3rd edition by David Norbury
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $179.21This is a revised and updated edition of the highly successful first and second editions. In the intervening period the procedures used in the description of soils and rocks have continued to develop... -
Ploughing a New Furrow: A Blueprint for Wildlife Friendly Farming Malcolm Smith 9781849953283
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.57Farmland wildlife has been decimated by intensive crop growing using pesticides, grubbing up hedges, ploughing heathland and draining marshes, etc. With too many sheep grazing our moors, hills and... -
Diplomatic Protocol: Etiquette, Statecraft & Trust by Rosalie Rivett
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43Foreword by H.E. Dr. Khaled Al-Duwaisan, GCVO, Ambassador for the State of Kuwait, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dean of Arab Ambassadors Prologue by Professor Nabil Ayad, formerly Founder and... -
Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea: HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse by Rod Macdonald 9781849950954
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94The first book to explore in detail the wrecks of these two vessels from Force Z which in December 1941 was sent to defend Singapore. It grippingly narrates the lead up to the siege of Singapore and... -
Days with the Golden Eagle by Seton Paul Gordon 9781870325356
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94A reprint of the classic eagle book from one of the pioneers of nature writing. Seton Gordon was among the first to observe in some detail - through countless hours in his hide - the daily life of... -
An Expedition Handbook: with Mountaineering Case Studies by Dave Wynne-Jones 9781849955355
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94This is for anyone who believes there is something special about taking on a challenging task in a remote place where few, if any people have been before. It may be a mountain range where your team... -
Structural Safety: Theory & Practice by Allan Mann 9781849951524
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $157.19We all depend on infrastructure for civilised living with the scale and sophistication of what we build ever increasing. Manifestly we all have a vested interest in construction being safe, and yet... -
Pulling Together: The Making of a Global Maritime Trade Union by Andrew Linington 9781849955737
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.62Ship masters and officers may not seem like pioneers of trade unionism. However, this history of their unique union, Nautilus International, shows how they have been pitched into the forefront of a... -
The Lost Glen by Neil Gunn 9781904445432
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.88"The Lost Glen" vividly portrays a clash of cultures and personalities against a background of a landscape in visible decay. The cultural collision and its effects are explored through Ewan, a young... -
The The Hen Harrier: In the Shadow of Slemish by Don Scott 9781904445937
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94The hen harrier is one of the iconic species of the bird world and its history is a mix of controversy, persecution, and recent patchy recovery. This book, a dedicated study of the bird in N. Ireland... -
Wrecks & Reefs of Southeast Scotland: 100 Dives from the Forth Road Bridge to Eyemouth by Mike Clark 9781849950107
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94Situated on the south side of the Firth of Forth, the port of Leith, Edinburgh, is a major harbour for warships and cruise liners. Over hundreds of years it has been a trading port and a military... -
Three Men on the Way Way: A Story of Walking the West Highland Way by Hamish M. Brown 9781849950879
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.22The West Highland Way is Scotland's first official Long Distance Route and runs near 100 miles from Milngavie to Fort William. It was nicknamed the 'Way Way' by a trio from Fife who set off to walk... -
A Practical Guide to Adopting BIM in Construction Projects by Bimal Kumar 9781849951463
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43This book presents a unique view of the key issues for adopting BIM in construction projects from a pragmatic perspective. It provides an overview of the core ideas and issues distilled from various... -
Kestrels for Company by Gordon Riddle 9781849950299
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94An appealing book that rightfully raises the profile of the kestrel. It provides an extensive picture of this delightful falcon, including its lifestyle and the factors that affect its breeding... -
Design of Liquid Retaining Concrete Structures by John P. Forth 9781849950527
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $141.44This new edition of a successful engineering text provides an interpretation of the more theoretical guidance given in the new suite of Eurocodes for the subject of retaining structures. The book... -
Diving for Treasure: Discovering history in the depths Vic Verlinden 9781849953252
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94This book recounts the efforts over many years to dive wrecks that contained treasure in one form or another. The often prolonged and sometimes dangerous expeditions tell of dives to many ships that... -
Footsteps in the Snow by John Dudeney 9781849955393
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94Footsteps in the Snow recounts a life shaped and dominated by Antarctica, a multi-facetted account of a life dedicated to Antarctic science, policy and governance. It is also the story of growth from... -
Roaming Wild: The Founding of Compassion in World Farming by Emma Silverthorn 9781849955430
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94Roaming Wild details the unconventional and pioneering lives of Anna and Peter Roberts, a British couple who were instrumental in making the animal welfare movement a respectable, highly-impactful... -
Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning George Vosselman 9781904445876
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $151.24Written by a team of international experts, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the major applications of airborne and terrestrial laser scanning. The book focuses on principles and... -
British Piers and Pier Railways by Anthony Poulton-Smith 9781849954846
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94The British have always had a special affinity for their coastal resorts and piers are the epitome of the British seaside. This book takes the reader on a clockwise tour of our islands, stopping at... -
The Nearly Man by Mark Bridgeman 9781849955003
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94The Nearly Man is the true, yet almost unbelievable, story of one man's incredible life, beginning in rural Scotland in the reign of Queen Victoria, and ending on the west coast of Canada in the... -
Bustler Class Rescue Tugs: In War & Peace by R O Neish 9781849955041
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $29.97This new book reveals the part played by the eight Bustler Class Rescue Tugs built at the Henry Robb Shipyard during the Second World War and will shed more light on the almost-forgotten part played... -
Leith-Built Ships: Vol. II, Leith Shipyards 1918-1939 by R.O. Neish 9781849954815
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.58This volume includes some very famous ships with tales of adventure and new trade routes, also sadness, the launch and then the loss of the largest sailing ship ever built in a British shipyard - the... -
Salt Horse: Memoir of a Maverick Admiral, Claude Lionel Cumberlege by Robin Knight 9781849955720
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94Written originally in 1936-38 by Admiral Cumberlege as a record of his life, Salt Horse was never published. The original manuscript has been expertly edited and made readable in terms of language to... -
Airman Abroad by Hamish Brown 9781849955409
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $33.96A revealing picture of a time when Britain was losing its empire. It draws on letters written at the period by an airman, his vivid memories and experiences from the Canal Zone, Kenya during Mau Mau... -
A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo by Hans Breuer 9781849955089
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo is about natural history, travel in the tropics, life sciences, and adventure, with the environment always in mind. It chronicles the nine years the author spent with... -
RAF Bomber Command Striking Back: Operations of a Halifax Crew by 9781849954563
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94In the early hours of 26th June 1942, six airmen from 102 Squadron return from Bremen in their Halifax, Q for Queenie, having taken part in the third Thousand Bomber Raid. These airmen formed a truly... -
Horse Welfare: A Window on the Equine World Christopher Hall 9781849955485
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.58This book is dedicated to the protection of horses, ponies and donkeys and is based on first-hand international experience from a lifetime spent with horses - hunting, racing and welfare - whether... -
Life in Lethinnis: A croft in the Highlands by Rory Putman
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.58After 20 years working as a professional biologist, the author decided to 'retire' to the Highlands, moving with his wife to a croft at the edge of a small and somewhat inaccessible village on the... -
Call of the Eagle by Dave Walker 9781904445821
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.58This is an account of one man's 30-year involvement with England's rarest bird, the golden eagle. Initially employed by the RSPB as a senior species protection warden at a secret location in Cumbria,... -
Archie's Lights: The Life and Times of a Scottish Lightkeeper by Archie MacEachern 9781849953993
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.57Born at a clifftop lighthouse in 1910, Archie's life was spent in the world of Scottish lighthouses - he was one of the third generation of his family in the service of the Northern Lighthouse Board... -
Luftwaffe Over Scotland: A History of German Air Attacks on Scotland, 1939-45 Les Taylor 9781849950008
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $29.97Luftwaffe over Scotland is the first complete history of the air attacks mounted against Scotland by Nazi Germany during World War Two and undertakes a detailed examination of the strategy, tactics... -
Deeper into the Darkness: 3: The Diving Trilogy by Rod Macdonald 9781849953603
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $37.25In Deeper into the Darkness Rod takes the reader diving to explore many more famous wrecks around the UK from the Great War. These include HMS Pathfinder and HMS Audacious - the first British... -
Through Albert's Eyes by A. Bentley-Buckle 9781849950664
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.58The autobiography of Tony Bentley-Buckle, a child of the Empire who was left to grow up in the care of maiden aunts. Having joined the Royal Navy before the war, he found himself on the Northern... -
The Darkness Below by Rod Macdonald 9781849950374
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94From the best-selling author of four classic UK diving books, comes The Darkness Below - a collection of absorbing adventures gained from a lifetime in diving. As one of the UK's leading Technical... -
Bubbleheads, SEALs and Wizards: America's Scottish Bastion in the Cold War by D.G. Mackay 9781849955546
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $31.08The American military presence in Scotland during the Cold War was greater than in either of the World Wars, bringing with it the largest peace-time number of foreign military personnel in Scotland’s... -
A Practical Guide to Facilities Management by Ian C. Barker 9781849950961
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $83.50This book provides a readily accessible and practical guide to the increasingly important subject of facilities management. It shows the formal basis for the complex and constantly moving... -
Running Wild by Mike Tomkies 9781849951234
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.94You thought he was retired, even dead? No, he is back! At the age of 86, Mike Tomkies is back doing what he does best - observing our rarest and most dramatic wildlife, unsuspected and from close...