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Giraffe Reflections by Dale Peterson 9780520266858
RRP: £34.00£27.97The most comprehensive book on giraffes to appear in the last fifty years, this volume presents a magnificent portrait of a group of animals who, in spite of their legendary elegance and astonishing gentleness, may not entirely survive this century. Dale... -
Hasselblad & the Moon Landing Deborah Ireland 9781781453346
RRP: £9.99£6.90On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people ever to set foot on the Moon, their iconic "small steps" captured forever by the camera the astronauts carried with them: the Hasselblad 500EL. This book looks at the history of the... -
Insectpedia: A Brief Compendium of Insect Lore by Eric R. Eaton
RRP: £10.99£8.92A fun and fact-filled A-Z treasury for the insect lover in all of usInsectpedia introduces you to the wonders of the insect world while inviting you to make discoveries of your own. Featuring dozens of entries on topics ranging from murder hornets and... -
The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Ian Stewart
£20.85Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a... -
This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World by Wellcome Collection 9781788166911
RRP: £14.99£9.11We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just as an attractive background to our own lives. But it's time to change our minds. New research shows that plants can think, plan - and may even... -
Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science by Ian Hacking
RRP: £39.99£33.26This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific... -
Elementary!: Puzzles for the Chemically Curious and the Periodically Perplexed by Paul Board
RRP: £19.99£16.97Do you know your arsole from your electron? Whether tritium or trivium, this periodically puzzling collection of over 400 different quiz questions, word games and brain teasers will challenge the chemist in you. Drawing on an illustrated cornucopia of... -
Capturing the Universe: A Photographer's Guide to Deep-Sky Imaging by Chris Woodhouse
RRP: £39.99£35.46This book provides a thorough introduction to and exploration of deep sky astrophotography for the digital photographer. With over 280 images, graphs, and tables, this introductory book uses a progressive and practical style to teach readers how to image... -
The Soul of the White Ant by Eugene N Marais 9780980297652
£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980297652Author Eugene N MaraisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams)... -
Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior by Sara J. Shettleworth 9780195319842
RRP: £82.00£67.13How do animals perceive the world, learn, remember, search for food or mates, communicate, and find their way around? Do any nonhuman animals count, imitate one another, use a language, or have a culture? What are the uses of cognition in nature and how... -
The Geology Of Cornwall by E. B. Selwood 9780859894326
RRP: £30.00£26.47Cornwall is renowned for the diversity and complexity of its geology. This geology, and its relation to the mineral wealth of the county, has been the subject of continuing investigation since the end of the seventeenth century. A literature of great... -
Racing Green: How Motorsport Science Can Save the World by Kit Chapman
RRP: £20.00£19.45Racing Green is the story of how advances in motorsport science are changing the world, helping it become smarter and more environmentally friendly. Motor racing is already one of the most scientifically demanding sports: it involves a combination of... -
Path of the Puma: The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion by Jim Williams
RRP: £17.99£12.70"These cats are like emissaries from the raw landscapes out West, probing the rest of the nation, showing us where patches of wildness remain, and bring a fuller dimension of wildness to them. It's as if they're testing to find out just what folks have... -
The Mysterious World of the Human Genome by Frank Ryan 9780007549085
RRP: £10.99£8.52How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work? Over the past 50 years we have deciphered the inner workings of the human genome. From the... -
Sciences for the IB MYP 4&5: By Concept: MYP by Concept Paul Morris 9781510425781
£48.11Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Sciences presented in global contexts.* Develop conceptual understanding with key... -
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition by Andrew H. Knoll 9780691165530
RRP: £16.99£12.37Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly... -
Design with Nature Ian L. McHarg 9780471114604
RRP: £57.95£50.62"In presenting us with a vision of organic exuberance and humandelight, which ecology and ecological design promise to open up forus, McHarg revives the hope for a better world." --LewisMumford ". . . important to America and all the rest of the world... -
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission by Col. Eileen M. Collins, USAF (Retired)
RRP: £20.00£13.26The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well... -
Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding the Mind by Simulating the Brain by Randall C. O'Reilly 9780262650540
£76.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262650540Author Randall C. O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1157g -
Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes 9781472937490
RRP: £28.00£18.23'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari Kindred is the definitive guide to the... -
Hydrodynamic Instabilities by Francois Charru 9780521143516
RRP: £71.99£61.18The instability of fluid flows is a key topic in classical fluid mechanics because it has huge repercussions for applied disciplines such as chemical engineering, hydraulics, aeronautics, and geophysics. This modern introduction is written for any... -
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions New Scientist 9781473651234
RRP: £10.99£7.50From the phenomenal New Scientist series, with over 2,500,000 copies soldDo Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly... -
WJEC Physics for A2: Student Book by Gareth Kelly
£37.75The Student Book is written by experienced authors and examiners and is endorsed by WJEC, offering high quality support you can trust. / Each topic includes detailed explanations and underpinning knowledge, all written in clear uncomplicated language. /... -
A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of Australia (2nd) by John Nielsen
RRP: £12.99£9.34A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of Australia is an introductory photographic guide to 280 butterfly species commonly seen in Australia, and is perfect for residents and visitors alike. The 2nd edition includes extensive updates to the text,... -
Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters by David J. Hand
RRP: £25.00£20.30A practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing dataIn the era of big data, it is easy to imagine that we have all the information we need to make good decisions. But in fact the data we have are never complete, and may be only the tip... -
Guide to Research Techniques in Neuroscience by Matt Carter
RRP: £56.95£51.31Modern neuroscience research is inherently multidisciplinary, with a wide variety of cutting edge new techniques to explore multiple levels of investigation. This Third Edition of Guide to Research Techniques in Neuroscience provides a comprehensive... -
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig 9781447234814
£17.13In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious... -
Foundations of Astrophysics by Barbara Ryden 9781108831956
RRP: £59.99£53.29Foundations of Astrophysics provides a contemporary and complete introduction to astrophysics for astronomy and physics majors. With a logical presentation and conceptual and quantitative end-of-chapter problems, the material is accessible to... -
Advanced Classical Electromagnetism by Robert Wald
RRP: £50.00£39.42A modern approach to classical electromagnetismElectromagnetism is one of the pillars of modern physics. Robert Wald provides graduate students with a clear, concise, and mathematically precise introduction to the subject, covering all the core topics... -
Counterexamples in Topology by Lynn Arthur Steen 9780486687353
RRP: £13.49£8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486687353Author Lynn Arthur SteenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Caribbean Primary Science Kindergarten Book Karen Morrison 9781510478985
£11.59Open up the world of science to your students, enthusing and encouraging them to become focused, questioning and successful scientists, thinkers and problem-solvers. Science and technology encompass some of the most important skills children need to... -
Staithes: A Place Apart by Gloria Wilson 9781907206634
RRP: £20.00£16.69In photographs, artworks, and words Gloria Wilson celebrates the rugged fishing village where she was brought up, and from which she set her course to a career recording, both visually and verbally, the North Sea fishery she loves. She writes: In this... -
The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds by Christopher E. Mason
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543842Author Christopher E. MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Geometry of Musical Rhythm: What Makes a "Good" Rhythm Good?, Second Edition by Godfried T. Toussaint
RRP: £49.99£43.90The original edition of The Geometry of Musical Rhythm was the first book to provide a systematic and accessible computational geometric analysis of the musical rhythms of the world. It explained how the study of the mathematical properties of musical... -
The Great Re-Think: A 21st Century Renaissance by Colin Tudge
RRP: £15.00£12.59All too plausibly, it seems, popes and scientists are warning us of impending collapse-yet humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: at least a million years of peace and personal fulfilment, with... -
Principles of Neutron Scattering from Condensed Matter by Andrew T. Boothroyd
RRP: £73.00£69.66Neutron scattering is arguably the most powerful technique available for looking inside materials and seeing what the atoms are doing. This textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the many different ways neutrons are being used to... -
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species Rob Dunn 9781399800136
RRP: £12.99£8.70Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life's... -
The Grand Delusion: What We Know But Don't Believe Steve Hagen 9781614296782
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614296782Author Steve HagenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Ants: The ultimate social insects by Richard Jones
RRP: £40.00£31.14'Brilliant, fantastic and significant' - Dr George McGavin Ants are seemingly everywhere, and this familiarity has led to some contemptuous and less than helpful stereotypes. In this compelling insight into the natural and cultural history of ants,... -
The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration by Donald Goldsmith
RRP: £21.95£18.30A History Today Book of the YearA world-renowned astronomer and an esteemed science writer make the provocative argument for space exploration without astronauts.Human journeys into space fill us with wonder. But the thrill of space travel for astronauts...