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Cut in Half: The Hidden World Inside Everyday Objects by Mike Warren 9781452168623
RRP: $32.24$30.78What exactly is inside a laptop, a golf ball, a vacuum cleaner, or a novelty singing fish toy? The insides of these and dozens of other objects are revealed in this photographic exploration of the stuff all around us, exposed and explained. With the help... -
Power Engineering: Advances and Challenges Part B: Electrical Power Viorel Badescu 9780367780586
RRP: $59.33$51.77Traditionally, power engineering has been a subfield of energy engineering and electrical engineering which deals with the generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electric power and the electrical devices connected to such systems... -
The Nature of Physical Computation by Oron Shagrir 9780197552384
RRP: $90.30$82.22This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Computing systems are... -
Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model by Matthew D. Schwartz
RRP: $87.71$79.36Providing a comprehensive introduction to quantum field theory, this textbook covers the development of particle physics from its foundations to the discovery of the Higgs boson. Its combination of clear physical explanations, with direct connections to... -
Feynman Lectures on Computation: Anniversary Edition by Tony Hey 9780367857332
RRP: $64.49$55.68The last lecture course that Nobel Prize winner Richard P. Feynman gaveto students at Caltech from 1983 to 1986 was not on physics but on computerscience. The first edition of the Feynman Lectures on Computation, publishedin 1996, provided an overview of... -
Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe by Ian Stewart
RRP: $14.18$10.31Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the formation of the Earth and its Moon to the planets and asteroids of the solar system and from there out into the galaxy and the universe. He describes the architecture of space and time,... -
The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change by Sheila Watt-Cloutier
RRP: $23.21$20.83A "courageous and revelatory memoir" (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-Cloutier traveled only by dog team. Today there are... -
Uranus and Neptune by Carolyn Kennett
RRP: $32.25$23.61The most distant planets in our solar system, Uranus and Neptune were unknown by the ancients - Uranus was discovered in the 1780s and Neptune only in the 1840s. Our discovery and observation of both planets has been hampered by their sheer distance from... -
Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction by Eberhard O. Voit
RRP: $11.60$8.58Systems biology came about as growing numbers of engineers and scientists from other fields created algorithms which supported the analysis of biological data in incredible quantities. Whereas biologists of the past had been forced to study one item or... -
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane
RRP: $16.76$15.34Selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of shuttle astronauts, Mike Mullane completed three missions and logged 356 hours aboard the Discovery and Atlantis shuttles. It was a dream come true. As a boy, Mullane could only read about... -
Flora of Connemara and the Burren by D.A. Webb 9780521233958
RRP: $65.78$59.66Connemara and the Burren are two adjacent but strongly contrasted regions of the west of Ireland which have long been famous among botanists - professional and amateur alike - for their wealth of rare and interesting plants. But in spite of their renown... -
The Scandinavian Skincare Bible: the definitive guide to understanding your skin by Johanna Gillbro
RRP: $21.92$15.45If you want beautiful, healthy, glowing skin, whatever your age, then look no further. This Scandinavian bestseller will revolutionise how you care for your body's largest organ. What does the latest research tell us about our skin? How do our hormones,... -
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives by Peter H Diamandis
RRP: $25.80$21.87From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global... -
WJEC/Eduqas AS/A-level Geography Student Guide 3: Glaciated landscapes and Tectonic hazards by Kevin Davis
$16.37Reinforce geographical understanding throughout the course with clear topic summaries and sample questions and answers to help your students target higher grades. Written by teachers with extensive examining experience and fully updated for 2020 by... -
Water: A Very Short Introduction by John Finney
RRP: $11.60$8.58Water dominates the surface of Earth and is vital to life on our planet. It is a remarkable liquid which shows anomalous behaviour. In this Very Short Introduction John Finney introduces the science of water, and explores how the structure of water... -
The Green Self-build Book: How to Design and Build Your Own ECO-Home by Jon Broome
RRP: $36.11$28.81Whether you want a turf roof, solar-powered hot water, or a super-insulated (and cost-efficient) house, you need to know the essential elements of the selfbuild process. In The Green Self-Build Book, Jon Broome gives an overview of the different methods... -
Chemistry Workbook For Dummies with Online Practice Chris Hren 9781119357452
RRP: $24.50$16.69Take the confusion out of chemistry with hundreds of practice problems Chemistry Workbook For Dummies is your ultimate companion for introductory chemistry at the high school or college level. Packed with hundreds of practice problems, this workbook... -
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
RRP: $14.18$10.31One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention.Interweaving lyrical... -
Folk Tales of the Cosmos by Janet Dowling 9781803994178
RRP: $19.34$15.78'Janet Dowling is magic and her stories bring the wonders of the night sky onto the page. She has journeyed from Polar ice to Pacific islands in search of tales which will re-enchant the heavens under which we all live and which so many of us forget.' -... -
Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis by Simon Mundy
RRP: $14.18$9.62As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times' best books of 2021 In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to... -
The Dance of Life: Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
RRP: $19.34$14.33'Quite simply the best book about science and life that I have ever read' - Alice Roberts How does life begin? What drives a newly fertilized egg to keep dividing and growing until it becomes 40 trillion cells, a greater number than stars in the galaxy?... -
Birds of France by James Lowen
RRP: $15.47$13.51An authoritative pocket guide on the birds of France. With 85 million tourists in 2015, France is the largest tourist destination in the world. This new photographic guide for general wildlife-watchers by naturalist James Lowen and French photographer... -
Boom!: The Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, and Earthly Mayhem that Shook our Universe by Bob Berman
RRP: $12.89$9.44Looking at the night sky, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's all quiet up there in space. But you'd be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision... -
The Boy in the Post by Holly Rivers 9781912626045
RRP: $10.31$9.44A charming action-packed adventure across the Atlantic from acclaimed author Holly Rivers! 'Energetic, lively and charming' READING ZONE Siblings Orinthia and Seafra Shalloo accept a summer job from eccentric... -
Modern Elementary Particle Physics: Explaining and Extending the Standard Model by Gordon Kane
RRP: $67.07$59.16This book is written for students and scientists wanting to learn about the Standard Model of particle physics. Only an introductory course knowledge about quantum theory is needed. The text provides a pedagogical description of the theory, and... -
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies
RRP: $14.18$10.31Paul Davies' The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? gets to the heart of what makes the universe tick -- and what makes our place in it so special. It's not too hot, it's not too cold, and its forces act together in a way... -
Rochdale Canal by John Evans
RRP: $20.63$14.00Twenty years have passed since the Rochdale Canal reopened following a restoration scheme that faced almost impossible hurdles. One of three commercial waterways across the Pennines, the canal links the industrial North West and North East, flowing... -
Men of Mathematics by E. Bell 9780671628185
$18.55From one of the greatest minds in contemporary mathematics, Professor E.T. Bell, comes a witty, accessible, and fascinating look at the beautiful craft and enthralling history of mathematics.Men of Mathematics provides a rich account of major... -
The Missing Musk: A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World by Bob Gilbert
RRP: $25.80$17.48'Utterly fascinating and intriguing' Neil Ansell, author of The Last Wilderness'A captivating dive into the mysteries of nature' Lee Schofield, author of Wild FellIn 1913 all the musk plants in the world stopped smelling. Unable to resist the lure of... -
Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition by Steven F. Railsback 9780691190839
RRP: $74.82$59.26The essential textbook on agent-based modeling-now fully updated and expandedAgent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling has become the standard textbook on the subject for classroom use and self-instruction. Drawing on the latest version of NetLogo and... -
Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution, and the Public Voice of Science by Prof Andrew Steane 9780198878551
RRP: $38.69$33.46Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science is a presentation of science for the general reader, with an emphasis on correcting widely held misconceptions, and a call to liberate science from 'private ownership' in... -
Introduction to Classical Mechanics: With Problems and Solutions by David Morin
RRP: $78.68$70.61This textbook covers all the standard introductory topics in classical mechanics, including Newton's laws, oscillations, energy, momentum, angular momentum, planetary motion, and special relativity. It also explores more advanced topics, such as normal... -
Born to be Wild: celebrating new life for vulnerable wildlife by Hannah Dale
RRP: $12.89$9.30A charmingly illustrated ode to increasingly threatened wildlife. The much-loved illustrations of Hannah Dale celebrate a new generation of wildlife around the world, including many endangered animals. Born to Be Wild features 50 charming portraits of... -
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy by Stephen Hawking
RRP: $28.38$20.67ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking explains how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics... -
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They? by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: $14.18$8.58Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up with the ingenious solutions and surprising discoveries that will define our future. So here, Jim Al-Khalili and his crack team of... -
A470: Poems for the Road/ Cerddi'r Ffordd: 2022 by Sian Northey 9781913665555
RRP: $12.89$9.29Arguably the most famous road in Wales, the A470 is 186 miles from shore to shore through the backbone of Wales, linking north to south. Peaceful and picturesque or slow and never-ending: the road out of here, the road home, the beginnings of... -
Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation by Sudeep Sen 9781913738389
RRP: $25.79$18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsJoint winner of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2022 (India).Book InformationISBN 9781913738389Author Sudeep SenFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Pippa Rann Books &... -
The Einstein Paradox: And Other Science Mysteries Solved By Sherlock Holmes by Colin Bruce 9780738200231
$18.71In this marvellous book, the reader is introduced to the bizarre concepts of modern physics as the only way to solve a casebook of otherwise impossibly paradoxical crimes. Murder on a royal train. Divers dead of heatstroke at the bottom of an icy sea. An... -
An Illustrated Guide to Pruning by Edward F. Gilman 9781111307301
$117.43Well written and easy to understand, An ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO PRUNING, Third Edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the pruning and maintenance of trees. Filled with updated illustrations, photographs, and examples, this completely updated guide... -
Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland by Jens Christian Schou 9780691251011
RRP: $122.55$85.18The first comprehensive guide to the aquatic plants of the regionBeneath the surface of bodies of freshwater-springs, streams, rivers, ponds and lakes-there is a world of plants of great variety and beauty, a realm that is often poorly known and...