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Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement by Andrew Rowell
RRP: $70.94$62.07The tide is turning against environmentalism as the political right, industry and governments fight back.Green Backlash is a controversial expose of the anti-environmental movement. Tracing the rise of the backlash from the Wise Use movement in the USA,... -
Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History by E.G. Richards
$60.97Mapping Time is an account for the general reader of the history and underlying basis of each of the most important calendars of the world, from antiquity to modern times. There are descriptions of prehistoric calendars, of those devised by the... -
In Pursuit of Butterflies: A Fifty-year Affair by Matthew Oates
RRP: $16.76$12.76The butterflies of Britain, in the words of one of their greatest champions. Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poetry, he has devoted himself to these exalted creatures: to their... -
Group Theory in Physics: Volume 1 by John F. Cornwell 9780121898038
$71.29Techniques of physics find wide application in biology, medicine, engineering and technology generally. This series is devoted to techniques which have found and are finding application. The aim is to clarify the principles of each technique, to... -
Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their role in our changing world by Marcus Byrne 9781776142347
RRP: $36.11$31.14In this sweeping history of more than 3 000 years, beginning with Ancient Egypt, scientist Marcus Byrne and writer, Helen Lunn capture the diversity of dung beetles and their unique behaviour patterns. Dung beetles' fortunes have followed the shifts from... -
Weirdest Maths: At the Frontiers of Reason by David Darling
RRP: $12.89$8.67Maths is everywhere, in everything. It's in the finest margins of modern sport. It's in the electrical pulses of our hearts and the flight of every bird. It is our key to secret messages, lost languages and perhaps even the shape of the universe of... -
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? by Vinciane Despret
RRP: $30.95$27.30"You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don't mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to." -Bruno... -
Tilings and Patterns by Branko Grunbaum 9780486469812
RRP: $59.33$39.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486469812Author Branko GrunbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Vanishing Mew Gull: A Guide to the Bird Names of the Western Palaearctic by Ray Reedman 9781784274627
RRP: $83.85$68.41Modern taxonomic studies have created a revolution in the genetic sequencing of bird families and have resulted in confusing changes to the names of many species, particularly in the scientific nomenclature. This book presents all the birds of the... -
Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct by Abigail Tucker 9781501192852
RRP: $36.12$22.50From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of motherhood that "is witty, reassuring, and takes motherhood out of the footnotes and places it front and... -
Understanding Flying Weather by Derek Piggott
RRP: $21.92$16.98The second edition of Derek Piggott's introduction to meteorology for glider and light aeroplane pilots. Understanding Flying Weather explains in simple and accessible terms how atmospheric phenomena can be used to improve flying performance and to... -
The Scientist As Rebel Freeman J. Dyson 9781590172940
RRP: $27.09$18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172940Author Freeman J. DysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson 9780141986340
RRP: $14.18$10.31'An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey SachsThe legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most philosophically probing work to date'Creativity is the unique... -
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: $18.05$13.35Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him-how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious, political, and social issues of his day. Now, a... -
Whales in the Desert: The Use of Metaphors in Therapy by Jonathan Lloyd 9780244415990
RRP: $25.77$22.72"In this richly argued and illustrated book, Dr Jonathan Lloyd shows how transformative metaphors can be. He reveals just how metaphorical language, used well, can illuminate the past and present, as well as the therapeutic process." Professor... -
The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry by S. Joshua Swamidass 9781514003831
RRP: $27.08$21.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514003831Author S. Joshua SwamidassFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 152mm... -
Marijuana Chemistry: Genetics, Processing, Potency by Michael Starks 9780914171393
RRP: $23.21$17.80Describes the psychoactive constituents of cannabis and the effects on potency of growth conditions, genetics, harvesting techniques, and processing. Includes variations in THC and CBD content, species differentiation, seeds, grafting, cloning, bonsai... -
What Is Philosophy for? by Mary Midgley
RRP: $28.37$24.28Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good and influence our lives? "Engaging and accessible,... -
Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds by Billy Collins
RRP: $19.34$15.67In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries... -
Molecular Biology: Principles of Genome Function by Nancy Craig
RRP: $86.42$83.49The biological world operates on a multitude of scales - from molecules to cells to tissues to organisms to ecosystems. Throughout all these levels runs a common thread: the communication and onward passage of information - from cell to cell, from... -
Earth Energies: A Quest for the Hidden Power of the Planet by Serge King 9780835606820
RRP: $12.89$11.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835606820Author Serge Kahili KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S. -
Crinoids: Fossil Focus Guide by Mark Woods 9780852723302
$3.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852723302Author Mark WoodsImprint British Geological SurveyPublisher British Geological Survey -
Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits by John D. Barrow 9780099772118
RRP: $21.92$15.84What can we never do? Barrow looks at what limits there might be to human discovery, and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable. Science is a big success story, but where will it end? And, indeed, will it end? Weaving... -
It's Not Bloody Rocket Science: Life and Leadership Hacks via Neuroscience, Psychology and Common Sense - Second Edition: Life and Leadership Hacks via Neuroscience, Psychology and Common Sense - Second Edition by Dulcie Swanston 9781916085343
RRP: $16.76$12.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916085343Author Dulcie SwanstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Top Right ThinkingPublisher Top Right ThinkingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 198mm... -
The Fires of Alchemy: A Transpersonal Viewpoint Barbara Somers 9780954271237
RRP: $28.38$20.99Barbara Somers leads us into this world with a sure touch. Those among us who were fortunate enough to hear her in person remember the ease, elegance and wisdom with which she handled the weightiest subjects. Here, too, she guides us into the very centre... -
Contemporary Quantum Mechanics in Practice: Problems and Solutions by Lilia M. Woods 9781009355445
RRP: $38.69$33.19This helpful and pedagogical book offers problems and solutions in quantum mechanics from areas of current research, rarely addressed in introductory courses or textbooks. It is based on the authors' own experience of teaching undergraduate and graduate... -
The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man's Best Friend by Professor Bryan Sykes 9780008244453
RRP: $12.89$8.82The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. Sykes paints a vivid picture of the dog... -
Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein, The by Sharon Ruston
RRP: $32.25$24.60What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science,... -
Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey
$22.50A tour of the Solar System's tallest, hottest, coldest and weirdest volcanoes - and a look inside what makes them erupt. The volcano - among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena. However, Earth isn't the only... -
The Fabled Coast: Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland by Sophia Kingshill
RRP: $21.92$15.84Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen's prayers and sailors' rituals - the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions.In The Fabled Coast, renowned... -
Foundation Mathematics for the Physical Sciences by Ken F. Riley 9780521192736
RRP: $73.52$66.22This tutorial-style textbook develops the basic mathematical tools needed by first and second year undergraduates to solve problems in the physical sciences. Students gain hands-on experience through hundreds of worked examples, self-test questions and... -
Biology and Conservation of Musteloids by David Macdonald 9780198759812
RRP: $90.30$87.08The musteloids are the most diverse super-family among carnivores, ranging from little known, exotic, and highly-endangered species to the popular and familiar, and include a large number of introduced invasives. They feature terrestrial, fossorial,... -
Sex, Time and Power by Shlain Leonard 9780142004678
RRP: $24.64$19.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142004678Author Shlain LeonardFormat PaperbackImprint Penguin Books AustraliaPublisher Penguin Books AustraliaWeight(grams) 435g -
Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century by Istvan Hargittai 9780195365566
RRP: $29.01$22.47If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the 20th century in the same neighborhood in Budapest: Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. Through immigration... -
A Course in Modern Mathematical Physics: Groups, Hilbert Space and Differential Geometry by Peter Szekeres 9780521829601
RRP: $113.51$94.89This book, first published in 2004, provides an introduction to the major mathematical structures used in physics today. It covers the concepts and techniques needed for topics such as group theory, Lie algebras, topology, Hilbert space and differential... -
Chicken Encyclopedia by Gail Damerow
RRP: $19.34$18.50From addled to wind egg and crossed beak to zygote, the terminology of everything chicken is demystified in The Chicken Encyclopedia. Complete with breed descriptions, common medical concerns, and plenty of chicken trivia, this illustrated A-to-Z... -
Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys by Alexander Maitland
RRP: $32.25$22.73Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role in mankind's development. For almost two hundred years, the Royal Geographical Society has recognised... -
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World by Paul Hawken
RRP: $18.05$16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113652Author Paul HawkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S... -
How to Succeed in Organic Chemistry by Mark C. Elliott 9780198851295
RRP: $41.27$39.64'How to succeed in organic chemistry' gives the reader a solid understanding of the principles of organic reaction mechanisms, such that they can draw structures, stereoisomers and reaction mechanisms with confidence. Throughout, the author speaks the... -
Beyond Einstein: Superstrings and the Quest for the Final Theory by Michio Kaku 9780192861962
RRP: $34.17$28.86What is superstring theory and why is it important? Can superstrings offer the fulfilment of Einstein's lifelong dream of a Theory of Everything? Co-authored by Michio Kaku, one of the leading pioneers of superstrings, this is a thrilling account of the...