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The Microbes Fight Back: Antibiotic Resistance Laura Bowater (University of East Anglia, UK) 9781782621676
RRP: £21.99£18.55Antibiotics are familiar drugs to us all, so familiar that we may take them for granted. They allow us to survive life-threatening infections, and allow us to protect the animals we farm for food. Many antibiotics have now become ineffective against... -
Guide to the British Stonefly (plecoptera) Families: Adults and Larvae by David Pryce 9781851532223
£4.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851532223Author David PrycePage Count 12Imprint Field Studies CouncilPublisher Field Studies Council -
Twelve Days of Terror: Inside the Shocking 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks by Richard G. Fernicola 9781493023240
RRP: £14.99£13.93Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have been the inspiration for Jaws--comes a reissue of the classic account and investigation. In July 1916, a time when World War I loomed over... -
Social Empiricism by Miriam Solomon 9780262693523
£22.97For the last forty years, two claims have been at the core of disputes about scientific change: that scientists reason rationally and that science is progressive. For most of this time discussions were polarized between philosophers, who defended... -
Beetles (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 136) by Richard Jones 9780008149529
RRP: £65.00£42.51'A truly excellent account' British Wildlife Beetles are arguably the most diverse organisms in the world, with nearly half a million beetle species described and catalogued in our museums, more than any other type of living... -
iMind: Artificial and Real Intelligence Mohamed I. Elmasry 9781032778747
RRP: £22.99£20.16Why has so much of our recent attention been focused on AI while RI is all but forgotten? And why are we spending so much energy debating the future of AI rather than that of its human original? Why can’t those who are concerned about AI and those who... -
Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Analysis of distribution, abundance and species richness in R and BUGS: Volume 1:Prelude and Static Models by Marc Kery 9780128013786
RRP: £70.99£66.02Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Distribution, Abundance, Species Richness offers a new synthesis of the state-of-the-art of hierarchical models for plant and animal distribution, abundance, and community characteristics such as species richness... -
Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges by Tim Lewens 9780198801191
£26.72Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the exceptional power of natural selection, many thinkers--typically working... -
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
RRP: £20.00£18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746728Author Anna LembkeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Building Your Permaculture Property: A Five-Step Process to Design and Develop Land by Rob Avis
RRP: £35.99£24.06The best person to design the property of your dreams is you. This book gives you the tools to succeed. Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design. It... -
The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, 1850-1914 by Janet Oppenheim 9780521347679
RRP: £29.99£27.59The Other World examines the public fascination with spiritualism and psychical research in Britain from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. It explores the variety of social background, education, and professional expertise that... -
Riemann Surfaces by Simon K. Donaldson 9780199606740
RRP: £48.99£45.89The theory of Riemann surfaces occupies a very special place in mathematics. It is a culmination of much of traditional calculus, making surprising connections with geometry and arithmetic. It is an extremely useful part of mathematics, knowledge of... -
First Snow on Fuji by Yasunari Kawabata 9781582431055
RRP: £12.99£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582431055Author Yasunari KawabataFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g -
Deep Time Reckoning by Vincent Ialenti
RRP: £24.00£16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539265Author Vincent IalentiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Choroidal Disorders by Jay Chhablani 9780128053133
RRP: £118.00£106.32Choroidal Disorders provides an overview on various chorioretinal disorders with a special emphasis on choroidal imaging. As our understanding of the choroid has significantly improved with the development of advanced optical coherence tomography (OCT)... -
Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code by Lily E. Kay 9780804734172
RRP: £32.00£28.39This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of the information age and its impact on representations of nature, heredity, and society. Drawing on... -
Essential Microbiology Stuart Hogg (University of Glamorgan, UK) 9781119978909
RRP: £46.95£41.66Essential Microbiology 2nd Edition is a fully revised comprehensive introductory text aimed at students taking a first course in the subject. It provides an ideal entry into the world of microorganisms, considering all aspects of their biology... -
Geostatistics Explained: An Introductory Guide for Earth Scientists by Steve McKillup 9780521746564
RRP: £47.99£39.51A reader-friendly introduction to geostatistics for students and researchers struggling with statistics. Using simple, clear explanations for introductory and advanced material, it demystifies complex concepts and makes formulas and statistical tests... -
Lab Skills for SQA Assessment - National 5 Physics Lab Skills for the revised exams of 2018 and beyond: Learn the Skills of Scientific Inquiry by Michael Murray
£5.10Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Physics First Teaching: 2017, First Exam: 2018 Covers all required techniques and apparatus... -
Introduction to Chemical Reactor Analysis R.E. Hayes 9781439867006
RRP: £61.99£54.19Introduction to Chemical Reactor Analysis, Second Edition introduces the basic concepts of chemical reactor analysis and design, an important foundation for understanding chemical reactors, which play a central role in most industrial chemical plants... -
David King's Weather Almanac: A Compendium of Knowledge by David King 9780995547872
£13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995547872Author David KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Green Magic PublishingPublisher Green Magic Publishing -
Tesla: Wizard At War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power by Marc Seifer
RRP: £21.99£14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806540962Author Marc SeiferFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. -
In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem by Paul J. Nahin
RRP: £22.00£17.66An engrossing look at the history and importance of a centuries-old but still unanswered math problemFor centuries, mathematicians the world over have tried, and failed, to solve the zeta-3 problem. Math genius Leonhard Euler attempted it in the 1700s... -
Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals by Ginny Smith
RRP: £11.99£9.18A NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Our lives are ruled by one particular group of chemicals. These are the hormones and neurotransmitters that regulate and drive our brains. Overloaded looks at the roles these chemicals play in all aspects of our... -
Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies by Andrew Maynard
RRP: £20.99£14.59Hard Science Fiction Films that Predict Future Technology"As the breakneck advance of technology takes us into a world that is both exciting and menacing, sci-fi films give us an inkling of what is to come, and what we should avoid." -Seth Shostak,... -
Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games by Prof. Ian Bogost
£32.17Play Anything is nothing short of brilliant... I will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone I know." u- Jane McGonigal, bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter ife is boring: filled with meetings and... -
Print Is Dead: Books in our Digital Age by Jeff Gomez 9780230527164
RRP: £32.99£27.11For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating literacy rates, the book has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to... -
Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator by Jason M. Colby
RRP: £18.49£15.92Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history. Yet, until now, no historical account has explained how we came to... -
Processes in Human Evolution: The journey from early hominins to Neanderthals and modern humans by Francisco J. Ayala 9780198739913
RRP: £65.00£61.54The discoveries of the last decade have brought about a completely revised understanding of human evolution due to the recent advances in genetics, palaeontology, ecology, archaeology, geography, and climate science. Written by two leading authorities in... -
This Is Planet Earth: Your Ultimate Guide to the World We Call Home by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£4.27The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special,... -
Disturbing The Universe by Freeman Dyson 9780465016778
£21.76Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, through his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, his early friendship with Richard Feynman, and... -
The Other Side of Happiness: Embracing a More Fearless Approach to Living by Brock Bastian
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Pain is bad, right? In this fascinating book, Brock Bastian will convince you otherwise. Drawing on both vivid everyday examples and surprising laboratory findings, he shows how pain, suffering, and struggle give us pleasure, make us kinder, focus... -
Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki 9781770466265
RRP: £25.00£17.97An internationally-renowned cartoonist and reluctant war vet details Japan's involvement in World War II. Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan continues Eisner award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's historical and autobiographical account of Japanese life... -
How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper by Barbara Gastel
RRP: £28.99£22.61An essential guide for succeeding in today's competitive environment, this book provides beginning scientists and experienced researchers with practical advice on writing about their work and getting published. This brand new, updated edition also... -
Brave Genius by Sean B. Carroll
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307952349Author Sean B. CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Predator Ecology: Evolutionary Ecology of the Functional Response by John P. DeLong 9780192895509
£97.27Predator-prey interactions are ubiquitous, govern the flow of energy up trophic levels, and strongly influence the structure of ecological systems. They are typically quantified using the functional response - the relationship between a predator's... -
The Field Description of Metamorphic Rocks Dougal Jerram (University of Olso, Norway) 9781118618752
RRP: £25.95£22.96The Field Description of Metamorphic Rocks The Field Description of Metamorphic Rocks, Second Edition This pocket-sized field guide describes how metamorphic rocks and rock masses may be observed, recorded and mapped in the field. Written at a level... -
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer 9781594202292
RRP: £28.00£17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (First Book) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781594202292Author Joshua FoerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher... -
The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community: Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment by Kelly Joan Whitmer
RRP: £35.00£33.91Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientific... -
The Taken Girls Glenn Cooper 9781800246348
RRP: £8.99£6.55They were taken. They returned. They never aged. A family is abducted. There are no signs of a struggle. Their Italian holiday villa is untouched. There are no ransom demands. The parents and two little girls, Victoria and Elizabeth, have simply...