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The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader by Sandra Harding 9780822349570
RRP: £25.99£22.89For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding... -
Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A guide to building a better world by Klaus Schwab
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum contribute significantly to one of the most important issues of our time-how to move forward in the Fourth Industrial Revolution' -Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba GroupWorld Economic Forum Founder and... -
Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White 9780195002669
RRP: £18.49£13.34This study examines the role of technological innovation during the rise of social groups in the Middle AgesAbout the AuthorLynn White is Founding Director of UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles... -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn 9780226458113
RRP: £42.00£40.41A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas... -
Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps by Daniel Marty
RRP: £32.00£30.61The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups cover the most essential topics in the study of dinosaur tracks. Some assess and demonstrate... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology by Helge Kragh 9780198896548
£41.09Scientific and popular literature on modern cosmology is very extensive; however, scholarly works on the historical development of cosmology are few and scattered. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology offers a comprehensive and... -
Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science by Lorraine J. Daston
RRP: £22.00£17.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951443Author Lorraine J. DastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Lost Fens: England's Greatest Ecological Disaster by Ian D. Rotherham 9780752486994
RRP: £25.00£18.94The loss of the great fenlands of eastern England is the greatest single removal of ecology in our history. So thorough was the process that most visitors to the regions, or even people living there, have little idea of what has gone. For many, the... -
Geometric Algebra for Physicists by Chris Doran
RRP: £80.99£69.22Geometric algebra is a powerful mathematical language with applications across a range of subjects in physics and engineering. This book is a complete guide to the current state of the subject with early chapters providing a self-contained introduction... -
Woods: A Celebration by Robert Penn
RRP: £20.00£14.34A tribute to the natural history of some of our most iconic British woods. The National Trust manages hundreds of woods, covering over 60,000 acres of England and Wales. They include many of the oldest woodlands in the land and some of the oldest... -
Mountain Gorillas: Biology, Conservation, and Coexistence by Gene Eckhart 9780801890116
RRP: £35.00£32.84Tucked into one of the most beautiful and conflicted regions of the world are the last of the mountain gorillas. These apes have survived centuries of human encroachment into their habitat and range and decades of intense conflict and violence. The... -
Genetics: Genes, genomes, and evolution by Philip Meneely
RRP: £69.99£68.29Recent advances that allow scientists to quickly and accurately sequence a genome have revolutionized our view of the structure and function of genes as well as our understanding of evolution. A new era of genetics is underway, one that allows us to... -
Bioinformatics Data Skills: Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools by Vince Buffalo
RRP: £43.99£29.03Learn the data skills necessary for turning large sequencing datasets into reproducible and robust biological findings. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to use freely available open source tools to extract meaning from large complex biological... -
A Student's Manual for A First Course in General Relativity by Robert B. Scott
RRP: £22.99£20.51This comprehensive student manual has been designed to accompany the leading textbook by Bernard Schutz, A First Course in General Relativity, and uses detailed solutions, cross-referenced to several introductory and more advanced textbooks, to enable... -
Food: A Very Short Introduction by Lord John Krebs
RRP: £8.99£6.45In this Very Short Introduction, Prof Lord John Krebs provides a brief history of human food, from our remote ancestors 3 million years ago to the present day. By looking at the four great transitions in human food - cooking, agriculture, processing, and... -
Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature: 22 Pull-Out Posters by ,Ernst Haeckel
RRP: £19.99£14.28Perfect for display or close observation, the posters in this elegantly produced collection of Ernst Haeckel's exquisite illustrations of natural forms demonstrate his exceptional artistry. Biologist, physician, philosopher, and artist, Ernst Haeckel was... -
Cambridge IGCSE (TM) Physics Revision Guide (Letts Cambridge IGCSE (TM) Revision) by Letts Cambridge IGCSE
RRP: £9.99£6.64Exam Board: Cambridge Level: IGCSESubject: Physics First teaching: September 2015; First exams: June 2017Suitable for the 2020 exams Letts Cambridge IGCSE (R) Physics Revision Guide provides clear and accessible revision content to support all... -
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray 9780520343306
RRP: £14.99£12.15Gen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice. A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The "climate generation"-late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z-is demanding... -
Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress by Hasok Chang 9780195337389
RRP: £40.99£27.89What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with them throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In Inventing Temperature, Chang examines how scientists first... -
Stochastic Differential Equations: An Introduction with Applications by Bernt Oksendal
RRP: £49.99£42.63This edition contains detailed solutions of selected exercises. Many readers have requested this, because it makes the book more suitable for self-study. At the same time new exercises (without solutions) have beed added. They have all been placed in the... -
Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design by Matthew Carmona
£46.39Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensively... -
Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter by Alex Pentland
RRP: £18.00£10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126331Author Alex PentlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm... -
Marx And The Earth: An Anti-Critique by Paul Burkett 9781608467051
RRP: £30.00£19.88Over a decade ago Foster and Burkett introduced a revolutionary understanding of the ecological foundations of Marx's thought, demonstrating that Marx's concepts of the universal metabolism of nature, social metabolism, and metabolic rift prefigured much... -
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe by Harry Cliff 9781529026214
RRP: £9.99£7.27'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,... -
OCR Geology AS & A2 Student Book by Debbie Armstrong
£47.94Produced in partnership with OCR for the 2008 OCR A Level Geology specification, thisAS/A2 Student Book is the first ever course-specific geology textbook produced for A Level students. Written by experienced examiners for tailored support to the new... -
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine by Harry Parker 9781788163101
RRP: £14.99£10.95*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity and how robotics and AI are altering our... -
Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners by Ben Hubbard
£20.19"As every amateur toxicologist knows, the difference between a poison and medicine is often simply the dose."There is no weapon as insidious, as seductive or as mysterious as poison. In this terrifying account of history's silent assassin, discover the... -
How to Write a Better Thesis by David Evans
£25.45From proposal to examination, producing a dissertation or thesis is a challenge. Grounded in decades of experience with research training and supervision, this fully updated and revised edition takes an integrated, down-to-earth approach drawing on case... -
Chemical Warrior: Saving lives on the frontline of modern warfare by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
RRP: £20.00£11.90GRIPPING, MOVING AND INSPIRING: the remarkable life of a world-leading expert in chemical weapons defence. "His work has saved lives and given hope." - Professor David Nott, bestselling author of War DoctorFor thirty years, Hamish has served and... -
Essex Rock: Geology Beneath the Landscape by Ian Mercer
RRP: £29.99£21.94All landscapes are built on rock: from hard stone for building with, to the softest clay or sand. Each piece of rock is a storehouse of prehistorical information; even a simple pebble from the garden has its own complex tale to tell. Geology is the great... -
Lenin Walked on the Moon: The Mad History of Russian Cosmism by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: £14.99£9.80How a Soviet cosmic dream is becoming a modern reality Cheating death and raising the dead. Creating life. Freeing the spirit. Colonising space. These projects, of which some have been achieved and some will soon, have a shared Russian history,... -
The Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth by John Bellamy Foster
RRP: £14.95£12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583672181Author John Bellamy FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species by Rob Dunn 9781399800129
RRP: £25.00£16.38Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees to enormous one-crop fields, we continue to try to reshape nature for our purposes - so much so it seems we... -
That One Patient: Doctors and Nurses' Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever by Ellen de Visser
RRP: £9.99£6.64THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn't... -
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith Carney
RRP: £22.00£17.36The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. "In the Shadow of Slavery" provides a startling new assessment of the... -
The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice by Paolo Mancosu 9780199296453
RRP: £112.50£105.78Contemporary philosophy of mathematics offers us an embarrassment of riches. Among the major areas of work one could list developments of the classical foundational programs, analytic approaches to epistemology and ontology of mathematics, and... -
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
RRP: £18.00£11.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1995. Nominated for ALA Best Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780679733379Author Jonathan WeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint... -
Scottish Plant Names: An A to Z by Gregory Kenicer
RRP: £16.99£14.12Dr Gregory Kenicer brings us a concise but through exploration of plants and their names in the Scots language through the ages. Presented as a dictionary, and covering a vast variety of flower, funghi and mosses, this book seeks to present the rich... -
Eight Improbable Possibilities: The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths by John Gribbin
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . . a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.' Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night MagazineA mind-warping excursion into the wildly... -
Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer by Jo Marchant
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck near the island of Antikythera dating from around 70 BC.Lying unnoticed for months amongst their hard-won haul was what appeared to be a formless...