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Optics f2f: From Fourier to Fresnel by Charles S. Adams 9780198786795
£43.32This textbook on optics provides an introduction to key concepts of wave optics and light propagation. It uniquely makes extensive use of Fourier methods and the angular-spectrum approach, especially to provide a unified approach to Fraunhofer and... -
Black Holes And Baby Universes And Other Essays by Stephen Hawking
RRP: £10.99£7.99Readers worldwide know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time. In this collection of essays and other pieces - on subjects that range from warmly personal to the wholly scientific- he is revealed variously... -
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-east Asia by Tadao Shimba
RRP: £35.00£26.93A spectacular and lavish photographic guide to the birds of Japan, Korea, north-east China and the Russian Far East. Eastern Asia is blessed with a rich and spectacular avifauna, and all 520 regularly occurring species are featured in this spectacular... -
Genetics 101: From Chromosomes and the Double Helix to Cloning and DNA Tests, Everything You Need to Know about Genes by Beth Skwarecki 9781507207642
RRP: £12.99£8.41A clear and straightforward explanation of genetics in this new edition of the popular 101 series. Our genetic makeup determines so much about who we are, and what we pass on to our children-from eye color, to height, to health, and even our longevity... -
Eyes on the Universe: The Story of the Telescope by Patrick Moore 9783540761648
RRP: £44.99£32.04Eyes on the Universe is an illustrated history of the telescope, beginning with pre-telescopic observatories and the refractors of Galileo, Lippershey and Digges, and ending with the most modern instruments including - of course - the Hubble Space... -
Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery by Cesare Hall 9780124159549
RRP: £74.99£72.25Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery is the leading turbomachinery book due to its balanced coverage of theory and application. Starting with background principles in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, the authors go on to discuss axial... -
Neuroaffective Picture Book: An Illustrated Introduction to Developmental Neuropsychology Marianne Bentzen 9781623172541
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172541Author Marianne BentzenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition by Samuel Gershman
RRP: £30.00£23.66How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognitionAt the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match the power and... -
Make - Rockets Mike Westerfield 9781457182921
RRP: £31.99£21.93This book teaches the reader to build rockets--powered by compressed air, water, and solid propellant--with the maximum possible fun, safety, and educational experience. Make: Rockets is for all the science geeks who look at the moon and try to figure... -
The Apothecaries' Garden by Sue Minter
RRP: £12.99£9.87In the heart of London, beside the Thames not far from the site of the world famous flower show, there is another magical garden. It has been there for over three hundred years and is now the calmest corner, and the most valuable four acres of freehold,... -
The Music Of The Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe by Jamie James
RRP: £11.99£8.22From the 5th century BC, when Pythagoras first composed his laws of Western music and science, until the flowering of Romanticism over 2000 years later, scientists and philosophers perceived the cosmos musically, as an ordered mechanism whose smooth... -
What We Know about Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535915Author Kerry EmanuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Invention of Green Colonialism Guillaume Blanc 9781509550890
RRP: £15.99£14.62The story begins with a dream - the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization -... -
Healing Adaptogens: The Definitive Guide to Using Super Herbs and Mushrooms for Your Body’s Restoration, Defence and Performance by Tero Isokauppila 9781788177290
RRP: £14.99£9.07Boost your body's internal ability to defend, perform, and restore with this guide to the 21 most common adaptogens and their healing properties from the team behind Four Sigmatic.Are you suffering from chronic fatigue, anxiety, digestive, or autoimmune... -
Quantum Reality: The Quest for the Real Meaning of Quantum Mechanics - a Game of Theories by Jim Baggott
RRP: £22.99£16.28Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. It is also completely mad. Although the theory quite obviously works, it leaves us chasing ghosts and phantoms; particles that are waves and waves that are particles; cats that are at... -
Biomolecular Archaeology: An Introduction T. A. Brown (University of Manchester, UK) 9781405179607
RRP: £35.95£32.31Illustrated thoroughly, Biomolecular Archaeology is the first book to clearly guide students through the study of ancient DNA: how to analyze biomolecular evidence (DNA, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates) to address important archaeological questions... -
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: £19.99£17.97How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A master historian uncovers the disturbing answer. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the... -
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe by Harry Cliff 9781529026214
RRP: £9.99£7.48'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe' - Carl SaganInspired by Sagan's famous line, How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch sets out on a journey to unearth everything we know about our universe: how it started,... -
Living as a Bird Vinciane Despret 9781509547272
RRP: £14.99£10.45In the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis. After a long winter of migration and peaceful coexistence, they suddenly begin to sing with all their might, varying each series of notes as if it were an audiophonic novel. They... -
What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day Christopher Lloyd 9781408834831
RRP: £25.00£18.90In What on Earth Happened?, Christopher Lloyd tells our story from the very beginning of time to the present day, taking giant narrative leaps across millennia and continents. Along the way, he explains exactly how Muslim conquest gave Spain its paella,... -
This Book Could Fix Your Life: The Science of Self Help New Scientist 9781529311419
RRP: £12.99£8.83We all want to be happier, more successful and less stressed, but what really works? From building confidence and boosting creativity to forming better relationships and getting smarter (and healthier), This Book Could Fix Your Life explores the real... -
AQA A Level Biology Year 1 and AS Student Book (Collins AQA A Level Science) by Mary Jones
RRP: £17.99£17.42Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: AS BiologyFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 AQA approved Written by our expert authors for the 2015 AQA specification, this Student Book covers AS and A-level Year 1. It combines the... -
The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions David Quammen 9780712673334
RRP: £20.00£14.91Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this... -
Complexity Science: The Study of Emergence by Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
RRP: £39.99£36.21Ecosystems, the human brain, ant colonies, and economic networks are all complex systems displaying collective behaviour, or emergence, beyond the sum of their parts. Complexity science is the systematic investigation of these emergent phenomena, and... -
Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore by Lawrence Millman 9780691194721
RRP: £10.99£8.92"This little book is big fun."-Michael PollanAn illustrated mini-encyclopedia of fungal lore, from John Cage and Terence McKenna to mushroom sex and fairy ringsFungipedia presents a delightful A-Z treasury of mushroom lore. With more than 180 entries-on... -
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird Tim Birkhead 9781408830543
RRP: £14.99£11.11What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and... -
Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell 9780195124415
RRP: £28.49£21.70As science probes the nature of life, society, and technology ever more closely, what it finds there is complexity. The sophisticated group behavior of social insects, the unexpected intricacies of the genome, the dynamics of population growth, and the... -
The Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions Lars OEhrstroem 9781788010948
RRP: £19.99£17.23Pink warships that vanish at dusk, urinary maladies of an emperor, and a gold test for cocaine - behold the chemistry of metal ions as never before. In this book you will learn about the sarcophagus molecule, the Chen-Kao test, and how murderers can... -
The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World by Dr. Adam Gazzaley
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2017 PROSE Awards, Biomedicine and Neuroscience category 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780262534437Author Adam GazzaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint... -
30 Animals That Made Us Smarter by Patrick Ayree
RRP: £16.99£11.27Did you know that mosquitoes' mouthparts are helping to develop pain-free surgical needles? Who'd have thought that the humble mussel could inspire so many useful things, from plywood production to a 'glue' that cements the crowns on teeth and saves... -
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George Andrews 9780393542066
RRP: £21.99£18.55Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon and can even tip entire planets over... -
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language by Richard M. Roberts
RRP: £21.00£13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529808Author Richard RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 16mm -
Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex by Rupert Darwall 9781594039355
RRP: £18.99£16.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039355Author Rupert DarwallFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA -
The Moon by Bill Leatherbarrow
RRP: £25.00£18.30Our nearest celestial neighbour, the Moon, has always been the most conspicuous feature in our night sky. It has compelled observers since the dawn of humankind, and all have tried to make sense in their own ways of the puzzles it poses and the questions... -
BIOS Instant Notes in Ecology Aulay MacKenzie 9781859962572
RRP: £27.99£25.06This book is designed to give students rapid and easy access to key ecological material to assist learning and revision. Key topics such as populations and interactions, ecosystems, population genetics, community patterns and many more are structured... -
Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A Scientific Detective Story by A.G. Cairns-Smith
RRP: £15.99£12.83This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features of a case to... -
The Nerves and Their Endings: essays on crisis and response by Jessica Gaitan Johannesson
RRP: £9.99£6.90The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress. In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitan Johannesson explores how we... -
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Huxleys in Nature and Culture by Alison Bashford 9780241434321
RRP: £30.00£21.95In his early twenties, poor, racked with depression, becalmed in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with Henrietta Heathorn, a young Englishwoman in Sydney, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And... -
Science is Beautiful: Botanical Life: Under the Microscope by Colin Salter
RRP: £20.00£15.13The plant world has always been appreciated for its visual appeal, but its true beauty can be revealed when you look under the electron microscope. This collection unearths some of the most wonderful microscopic images of flowers, trees and grasses ever... -
Cambridge Checkpoint Lower Secondary Science Student's Book 9: Third Edition by Peter Riley
RRP: £25.00£24.27Stage 9 is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.Help learners engage with and fully understand topics they are studying with captivating content following the new Cambridge Lower Secondary Science curriculum framework (0893). -...