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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore
RRP: $24.51$18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767916530Author Wendy MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 209mm *... -
Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power by David Adger
RRP: $29.66$21.53All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages... -
Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America by Klaus Malling Olsen 9780713670875
$73.40The standard text on the identification of the northern hemisphere's gulls, this book covers the plumage variation through age and subspecies of all 80 species in the region. With exhaustive coverage, detailed maps, and superb plates and photos, this... -
The Trouble with Testosterone by Robert M. Sapolsky 9780684838915
$14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684838915Author Robert M. SapolskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 224g -
Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome by Robert E. Adler 9780471401759
$29.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471401759Author Robert E. AdlerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway 9780525540397
RRP: $11.60$8.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525540397Author Scott GallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 106mm *... -
Twenty-Five December Lane by Helen Ward 9781787419841
RRP: $9.02$6.55In all the bustling streets on Christmas Eve, one girl can't find anywhere selling the right present. That is, until she finds one warm shop on a very cold street, with a pointy-eared shopkeeper welcoming her into Twenty-Five, December Lane. Inside is... -
Your Human Geography Dissertation: Designing, Doing, Delivering by Kimberley Peters 9781446295205
RRP: $45.14$36.75An undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with geographical research, first-hand. But completing a student project can be a stressful and complex process. Your Human Geography Dissertation breaks the task down into three helpful... -
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate 9781529075724
RRP: $12.89$8.99'Vanessa Nakate continues to teach a most critical lesson. She reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm, we are not all in the same boat.' - Greta ThunbergNo matter your age, location or skin colour, you can be an effective activist... -
How to win games and beat people: Defeat and demolish your family and friends! by Tom Whipple
RRP: $16.76$12.89Are you fed up losing at family board game nights? Do you want to learn how to destroy the competition?Get the inside tips from preposterously overqualified experts on how to win a range of common family games, board games and more. * A mime artist... -
Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe by Lisa Randall
RRP: $16.76$12.05Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2011.We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest), and when these breakthroughs come, they will revolutionise what... -
Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos by Travis Zadeh
RRP: $43.80$35.63"As Zadeh concludes, reformers and modernists have closed the rich and varied archive revealed in Wonders and Rarities...In this beautifully written and engaging text, Zadeh takes his readers back to the world of surprise and enchantment that preceded... -
Radium and the Secret of Life by Luis A. Campos
RRP: $39.99$38.95Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. Physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element in... -
The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy by Blaine T. Bettinger
RRP: $29.66$27.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440300578Author Blaine T. BettingerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Family Tree BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc -
Rhododendron Dissected: Flora in Close-up by David Purvis
RRP: $21.92$18.73Rhododendrons are seen from a very different perspective in this beautiful new book from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Rhododendron Dissected features photographs that capture the macro and micro floral and leaf characteristics of rhododendrons,... -
Rspb Id Spotlight - Butterflies by Marianne Taylor
RRP: $5.81$5.02RSPB ID Spotlight Butterflies is a reliable fold-out chart that presents illustrations of all 57 of the UK's resident butterflies by renowned artist Richard Lewington. Whether you are admiring a butterfly flying high up in the tree canopy or basking... -
Tidal Streams Between Portland Bill and St Alban's Head Bruce Peter 9781871680171
$10.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871680171Author Bruce PeterPage Count 20Imprint Boldre MarinePublisher Boldre MarineWeight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 146mm * 6mm -
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers by Joanna Bourke 9780199689422
RRP: $29.66$22.60Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. ... -
Edmond Halley: The Many Discoveries of the Most Curious Astronomer Royal by David K. Love 9781633888913
RRP: $25.79$18.42Edmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the nature of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery is enough to make the career of any scientist, Halley's massive contributions to the fields of astronomy,... -
Reconstructions Klaus Staubermann 9781905267484
RRP: $12.90$10.85Historic reconstructions have become a decisive tool in the history of science and technology over the last few decades. This book is based on a workshop held at national Museums Scotland and brings together key studies of 15 recent reconstruction... -
The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work: Explore His Life, Mind and Science Through the Objects in His Study by Roger Highfield 9780241630662
RRP: $25.80$19.72A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers. In 2021, the Science Museum made a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition of the contents of Stephen Hawking's office. This book delves into that remarkable... -
Lake District Mountain Landforms by Peter Wilson 9781904244561
RRP: $25.80$18.95Written with fell walkers and other countryside enthusiasts in mind this thoroughly engaging and absorbing book shows that there is much more to the Lake District than simply 'stanes and watter'. Have you ever wondered why Scafell is different from... -
Top Drugs: Their History, Pharmacology, and Syntheses by Jie Jack Li
RRP: $58.04$48.09Drugs like Lipitor, Plavix, Taxol, and Zoloft are integral in today's medicinal world. These widely used products save lives and improve the quality of lives, playing a crucial role in everything from cholesterol management to cancer treatment. These... -
Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science by C. Marjorie Malley 9780199766413
RRP: $38.69$25.17This is the story of a new science. Beginning with an obscure discovery in 1896, radioactivity led researchers on a quest for understanding that ultimately confronted the intersection of knowledge and mystery. Mysterious from the start, radioactivity... -
Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact by T.J. Trenn 9780226253251
RRP: $30.96$29.71Originally published in German in 1935, this monograph anticipated solutions to problems of scientific progress, the truth of scientific fact and the role of error in science now associated with the work of Thomas Kuhn and others. Arguing that every... -
Astronomical: From Quarks to Quasars, the Science of Space at its Strangest Tim James 9781472144324
RRP: $19.34$12.77'In the same light-heartedly informative spirit as his previous Elemental, Tim James gives us an entertaining gallop through light years of space science, from the big bang to UFOs'Andrew Crumey, author of The Great Chain of UnbeingPRAISE FOR THE... -
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death, the Sunday Times bestseller from the author of DO NO HARM by Henry Marsh
RRP: $18.05$14.41As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to me. This book is the story of how I became a patient... -
The Faber Book of Science by John Carey
RRP: $21.92$16.29The Faber Book of Science introduces hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos. In his acclaimed anthology, John Carey plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory. The... -
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science by Roy Porter 9780521572439
RRP: $166.41$141.36This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new... -
How the Chicken Crossed the World: The Story of the Bird that Powers Civilisations by Andrew Lawler
RRP: $12.89$8.98Queen Victoria was obsessed with it. Socrates' last words were about it. Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur made their scientific breakthroughs using it. Hailed as a messenger of the gods, powerful sex symbol, gambling aid, all-purpose medicine and handy... -
The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica by David G Campbell 9780618219216
RRP: $28.37$20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618219216Author David G CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386g -
The Principle of Least Action: History and Physics by Alberto Rojo 9780521869027
RRP: $166.41$141.85The principle of least action originates in the idea that, if nature has a purpose, it should follow a minimum or critical path. This simple principle, and its variants and generalizations, applies to optics, mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, and... -
Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud by Thomas Laqueur
RRP: $37.35$30.01This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to... -
General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists by M. P. Hobson
RRP: $87.71$77.55General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists provides a clear mathematical introduction to Einstein's theory of general relativity. It presents a wide range of applications of the theory, concentrating on its physical consequences. After reviewing... -
Climate Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling by Gordon Bonan 9781107619074
RRP: $67.07$58.30Climate models have evolved into Earth system models with representation of the physics, chemistry, and biology of terrestrial ecosystems. This companion book to Gordon Bonan's Ecological Climatology: Concepts and Applications, Third Edition, builds on... -
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 9781645178644
RRP: $14.18$10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178644Author Charles DarwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,... -
Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste by Eduardo Garcia
RRP: $21.92$16.36What if we could help to save our planet through small habit changes in our homes? Learn what you can do right now to live a greener life your carbon footprint with this inspiring, accessible, stunningly illustrated book based on Eduardo Garcia's popular... -
When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be by Martin Williams
RRP: $28.38$23.26The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the worldThe Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was... -
Relativity Made Relatively Easy by Andrew M. Steane 9780199662869
RRP: $58.68$55.59Relativity Made Relatively Easy presents an extensive study of Special Relativity and a gentle (but exact) introduction to General Relativity for undergraduate students of physics. Assuming almost no prior knowledge, it allows the student to handle all... -
Birds of China by Liu Yang 9780691237527
RRP: $45.15$30.86A comprehensive, fully illustrated field guide to the birds of ChinaChina is home to some of the most spectacular birdlife to be found anywhere in the world. This richly illustrated field guide covers every species found throughout the region, including...