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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
RRP: £18.00£10.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385531108Author Mike BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction by Michelle Nijhuis
RRP: £13.99£12.25In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realisation: their rapidly industrialising and globalising societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle... -
Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind by Susan Schneider 9780691180144
RRP: £20.00£16.13Hailed by the Washington Post as "a sure-footed and witty guide to slippery ethical terrain," a philosophical exploration of AI and the future of the mind that Astronomer Royal Martin Rees calls "profound and entertaining"Humans may not be Earth's most... -
Atlas of Great Comets by Ronald Stoyan 9781107093492
RRP: £41.99£36.41Throughout the ages, comets, enigmatic and beautiful wandering objects that appear for weeks or months, have alternately fascinated and terrified humankind. The result of five years of careful research, Atlas of Great Comets is a generously illustrated... -
Biodiversity in Dead Wood by Jogeir N. Stokland
RRP: £56.99£47.91Fossils document the existence of trees and wood-associated organisms from almost 400 million years ago, and today there are between 400,000 and 1 million wood-inhabiting species in the world. This is the first book to synthesise the natural history and... -
The Smallest Lights In The Universe by Sara Seager 9780008328276
RRP: £9.99£6.00Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology in 2020 'A stunningly original memoir ... her most human tale of love, loss and redemption is illuminated and given meaning by this backdrop. A beautiful and... -
Emerging Zoonotic and Wildlife Pathogens: Disease Ecology, Epidemiology, and Conservation by Dr Dan Salkeld 9780198825937
RRP: £39.99£38.05This accessible book describes a fascinating range of emerging infectious disease outbreaks affecting humans, including rabies, Ebola virus, Lyme disease, bubonic plague, and of course, Covid-19. The book also covers emerging infectious diseases in... -
Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green by Claudia Pasquero 9780367768010
RRP: £32.99£29.16Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green investigates the potential of nature-based technology for shaping the evolution of contemporary architecture and design. It takes on the now pervasive topic of design intelligence, extending its... -
A Tale of Seven Elements by Eric Scerri 9780195391312
RRP: £28.49£22.91In 1913, English physicist Henry Moseley established an elegant method for 'counting' the elements. Soon afterwards, it became clear that there were precisely seven elements missing from the periodic table--those that had yet to be isolated among the 92... -
Mad about Physics: Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities Christopher Jargodzki 9780471569619
RRP: £21.00£13.96Why is there eight times more ice in Antarctica than in the Arctic? Why can you warm your hands by blowing gently, and cool your hands by blowing hard? Why would a pitcher scuff a baseball?Which weighs more-a pound of feathers or a pound of iron? Let... -
Elementary Science Education: Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding, Vol. II, grades 3-5, 2nd ed. by Bernard J Nebel Phd 9781478769163
£32.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478769163Author Bernard J Nebel PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 998g -
One Language by Anastasia Taylor-Lind 9781914914102
RRP: £10.99£7.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914102Author Anastasia Taylor-LindFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books -
Movement Matters: Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement by Katy Bowman 9781943370030
RRP: £13.99£9.36Human beings have always moved for what they need until recently. We know how a lack of movement impacts our bodies but how does culture-wide sedentarism impact the world? Movement Matters is a Foreword Indies GOLD-winning collection of essays, in... -
The Practice of Social Research by Earl Babbie
£74.15Known as the gold standard for research methods, Babbie's THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH gives you a definitive guide to research as practiced by social scientists. Combining a straightforward approach with the author's renowned sense of humor, this... -
Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Jonathan Pevsner (The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA) 9781118581780
RRP: £111.95£100.43The bestselling introduction to bioinformatics and genomics - now in its third edition Widely received in its previous editions, Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics offers the most broad-based introduction to this explosive new discipline. Now in a... -
Better Posters: Plan, Design and Present an Academic Poster by Zen Faulkes 9781784272357
RRP: £30.00£24.57Better posters mean better research. Distilling over a decade of experience from the popular Better Posters blog, Zen Faulkes will help you create a clear and informative conference poster that delivers maximum impact. Academics have used posters... -
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense by Barney Shaw
RRP: £8.99£4.21Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph - so why is it so little understood? Armed with a hungry curiosity and a willingness to self-experiment, author Barney... -
Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and What We Can Do About It Genevieve LeBaron (University of Sheffield) 9781509513673
RRP: £15.99£14.41Over the last decade, the world's largest corporations - from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever - have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. Yet, by most measures, across many sectors and regions, severe labour exploitation... -
Professional School Leadership: Dealing with Dilemmas Daniel Murphy 9781780460185
RRP: £40.00£35.79The ideal school leader is often portrayed heroically, as someone who is able to drive forward an agenda of change and improvement whatever the challenges. Yet the experience of school leadership is more complex. School leaders often find gaps between... -
Horticulture as Therapy: Principles and Practice by Sharon Simson
RRP: £68.99£57.02Did you know that plants and plant products can be used to improve people's cognitive, physical, psychological, and social functioning? Well, they can, and Horticulture as Therapy is the book to show you how! If you are already familiar with the healing... -
The Material Basis of Evolution by Richard B. Goldschmidt 9780300028232
£31.95In this book, Goldschmidt inquires into the types of hereditary differences that produce new species. Goldschmidt used a wide range of research to formulate his own picture of evolution. Contrary to near-unanimity among scientists, he insisted that the... -
Worm by Kevin Butt 9781789147940
RRP: £13.95£9.83Worms are remarkable but often underrated creatures. Exploring their roles from gardener's friend to toothache culprit, this book offers an insight into the mysterious world of worms. The reader is introduced to all manner of 'worms', even though many... -
How to Be Human: The Ultimate Guide to Your Amazing Existence by New Scientist 9781473699809
RRP: £19.95£9.34If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN.Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction?What about the fact that you are as hairy as a chimpanzee,... -
Bat Workers' Manual Tony Mitchell-Jones 9781907807336
RRP: £32.00£26.23Detailed information on all aspects of bat surveying - The Bat Workers' Manual is an essential reference for anyone wishing to obtain a licence to carry out bat work in the UK. With excellent drawings by Tom McOwat. The manual incorporates required... -
Functions, Spaces, and Expansions: Mathematical Tools in Physics and Engineering by Ole Christensen 9780817649791
£70.63This graduate-level textbook is a detailed exposition of key mathematical tools in analysis aimed at students, researchers, and practitioners across science and engineering. Every topic covered has been specifically chosen because it plays a key role... -
Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe by George Smoot 9780061344442
RRP: £16.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061344442Author George SmootFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Democracy Disconnected: Participation and Governance in a City of the South by Fiona Anciano
RRP: £41.99£36.75Why is dissatisfaction with local democracy endemic, despite the spread of new participatory institutions? This book argues that a key reason is the limited power of elected local officials, especially to produce the City. City Hall lacks control over... -
Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials by Michael Michaud 9780387285986
RRP: £29.99£25.57This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn... -
The Visual Elements—Photography: A Handbook for Communicating Science and Engineering by Felice C. Frankel 9780226827025
RRP: £16.00£13.84For novice or pro, primary investigator or postdoc, the essentials for photographing science and technology for journals, grant applications, and public understanding. Award-winning photographer Felice C. Frankel, whose work has graced the covers of... -
Nano Comes to Life: How Nanotechnology Is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology by Sonia Contera
RRP: £15.99£13.11The nanotechnology revolution that will transform human health and longevityNano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale-the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet-and introduces readers to... -
Rare Trees: The Fascinating Stories of the World's Most Threatened Species by Sara Oldfield
RRP: £35.00£23.80Discover the secrets and beauty of the world's rarest trees in this fantastic book filled with more than 300 color photographs. Did you know that the resin of the dragon tree was so prized that it was used and traded as medicine by the Roman Empire? Or... -
Birds of the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and Socotra by Nigel Redman 9781408157350
RRP: £40.00£30.54This is the second edition of the first field guide to the birds of this fascinating region, and a companion to Birds of East Africa by two of the same authors. The Horn of Africa has the highest endemism of any region in Africa, and around 70... -
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021 by Ed Yong
RRP: £16.99£13.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358400066Author Ed YondFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing... -
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey
RRP: £21.00£13.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702617Author Richard ForteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 364gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
The Crowd and the Cosmos: Adventures in the Zooniverse by Chris Lintott 9780198842224
RRP: £22.99£16.69The world of science has been transformed. Where once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote locations, praying for clear skies, now they have no need to budge from their desks, as data arrives in their inbox. And what they receive... -
The Companion to Development Studies Vandana Desai 9781444167245
RRP: £64.99£58.30The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary... -
The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs by Stephen Barry Johnson 9780801885426
RRP: £26.50£23.66How does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space-exploration program? Stephen B. Johnson here explores the answer-systems management-in a groundbreaking study that involves Air Force planners, scientists,... -
Inorganic Materials Chemistry by Mark T. Weller 9780198557982
RRP: £29.99£28.50The chemistry of solid inorganic materials has become a central theme in research and in the teaching of chemistry. This area is, however, ignored by the main inorganic text books which concentrate almost solely on molecular inorganic chemistry. The... -
Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence by Paul M. Sutter 9781633884724
RRP: £17.99£13.84An astrophysicist presents an in-depth yet accessible tour of the universe for lay readers, while conveying the excitement of astronomy. How is a galaxy billions of lightyears away connected to us? Is our home nothing more than a tiny speck of blue in... -
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams 9781324050452
RRP: £13.99£10.43When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn't expect is that she'll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to...