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Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified by Richard Wolfson
RRP: £19.00£15.75In clear, understandable terms, physicist Richard Wolfson explores the ideas at the heart of relativity and shows how they lead to such seeming absurdities as time travel, curved space, black holes, and new meaning for the idea of past and future... -
The Biosphere by Vladimir I. Vernadsky 9781461272649
RRP: £29.99£22.96Long unknown in the West, The Biosphere established the field of biogeochemistry and is one of the classic founding documents of what later became known as Gaia theory. It is the first sustained expression of the idea that life is a geological force that... -
The Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenetics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology by Michael C. Gerald 9781454910688
RRP: £25.00£17.98This title comes from the incredibly popular Sterling Milestones series. From the emergence of life, to Leewenhoek's microscopic world, to GMO crops, The Biology Book presents 250 landmarks in the most widely studied scientific field. Brief, engaging,... -
100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything by Mark Z. Jacobson
RRP: £43.99£38.05Numerous laws - including the Green New Deal - have been proposed or passed in cities, states, and countries to transition from fossil fuels to 100% clean, renewable energy in order to address climate change, air pollution, and energy insecurity. This... -
Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics by A. A. Abrikosov 9780486632285
RRP: £17.49£12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486632285Author A.A. AbrikosovFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
How the World Looks to a Bee: And Other Moments of Science by Don Glass
RRP: £11.99£10.94What can you learn about your world in just a moment? Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Or whether dogs can read our facial expressions? Don Glass and experts in their fields answer these questions and many more. Written for readers of all ages... -
Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy, With a New Afterword by Govert Schilling
RRP: £15.95£13.30A Physics Today Best Book of the YearA Forbes "For the Physics and Astronomy Lover in Your Life" Selection"Succinct, accessible, and remarkably timely... This book is a rare find."-Physics Today"Belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in learning the... -
Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator by Jason M. Colby 9780190673093
RRP: £24.99£18.46Orcas are the most profitable and controversial display animal in history, and since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on their plight. Yet no historical account has explored how we came to care... -
Hiding in the Mirror: The Quest for Alternate Realities, from Plato to String Theory (by way of Alice in Wonderland, Einstein, and The Twilight Zone) by Lawrence M. Krauss 9780143038023
RRP: £19.01£14.54An exploration of mankind's fascination with worlds beyond our own-by the bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek Lawrence Krauss -an international leader in physics and cosmology-examines our long and ardent romance with parallel universes,... -
Ancient Medicine Vivian Nutton (University College London, UK) 9781032282824
RRP: £37.99£33.12The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the past decade.This revised volume... -
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua by Stephen Kinzer
RRP: £20.95£18.77In 1976, at age twenty-five, Stephen Kinzer arrived in Nicaragua as a freelance journalist-and became a witness to history. He returned many times during the years that followed, becoming Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe in 1981 and... -
Edexcel GCSE Science: GCSE Science Student Book Mark Levesley 9781846908897
£34.05This Student Book: features high quality, engaging content to motivate and support studentshelps students achieve their potential with a range of exam-style questions, sample student answers and step-by-step guidance on the new question typesprovides... -
William MacGillivray's a Hebridean Naturalist's Journal by William MacGillivray
RRP: £15.00£12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861524419Author William MacGillivrayFormat PaperbackImprint AcairPublisher Acair -
The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium by Jay M. Pasachoff 9781108431385
RRP: £65.99£59.81The fifth edition of The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium provides you with the fundamentals of astronomical knowledge that have been built up over decades, with an expanded discussion of the incredible advances that are now taking place in this... -
The Metamorphosis of the World: How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World Ulrich Beck (Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich) 9780745690223
RRP: £17.99£16.29We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they... -
Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes Chris Impey (University of Arizona in Tucson) 9781324000938
RRP: £20.99£17.75Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, yet every galaxy harbours a black hole at its centre. In Einstein's Monsters, Chris Impey builds on this profound discovery to explore questions at the cutting edge of cosmology, such as what... -
A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time by Adrian Bardon 9780199301089
RRP: £28.49£20.76Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short yet thorough introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. Its treatment is roughly... -
Discover the Stars: Starwatching Using the Naked Eye, Binoculars, or a Telescope by Richard Berry 9780517565292
RRP: £18.00£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517565292Author Richard BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson
RRP: £12.99£11.22Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist, one who can speak as easily and brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight effectively on hold, Tyson's views on the future of space... -
Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music by Angela Myles Beeching
£26.63Widely considered a classic, Beyond Talent is the "go to" guide for musicians. This newly revised and updated 3rd edition cracks the code of how to build a creatively fulfilling career in music. With key insights into the mindset issues that often plague... -
Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic by Emily Monosson
RRP: £24.99£20.48Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless, some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on Earth, and a fungus that can persist in the environment without its host is here for the long haul... -
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 9781541724709
RRP: £22.00£17.78Science, like most fields, is set up for men to succeed, and is rife with racism, sexism, and shortsightedness as a result. But as Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein makes brilliantly clear, we all have a right to know the night sky. One of the leading... -
Marx And The Earth: An Anti-Critique by Paul Burkett 9781608467051
RRP: £30.00£19.88Over a decade ago Foster and Burkett introduced a revolutionary understanding of the ecological foundations of Marx's thought, demonstrating that Marx's concepts of the universal metabolism of nature, social metabolism, and metabolic rift prefigured much... -
Seven Sisters of the Pleiades: Stories from Around the World by Munya Andrews
RRP: £19.95£13.76Around the world, people looked to the skies to tell them when to sow and harvest their crops, and when the rains would come. The 'sailing stars' have guided explorers and endless migrations of people. In Old Europe, among the Ainu of Japan and in... -
From c-Numbers to q-Numbers: The Classical Analogy in the History of Quantum Theory by Olivier Darrigol
RRP: £42.00£33.04This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Climate and the Oceans by Geoffrey K. Vallis 9780691150284
RRP: £30.00£23.66The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them... -
The Craft of Scientific Writing by Michael Alley 9781441982872
RRP: £29.99£28.38The Craft of Scientific Writing is designed to help scientists and engineers - both professionals already active in the disciplines as well as students preparing to enter the professions - write about their work clearly and effectively. Written for use... -
Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology: A Basic Introduction by Ta-Pei Cheng
RRP: £38.99£34.45Einstein's general theory of relativity is introduced in this advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level textbook. Topics include special relativity, in the formalism of Minkowski's four-dimensional space-time, the principle of equivalence,... -
The Starchild Skull -- Genetic Enigma or Human-Alien Hybrid? by Lloyd Pye 9780979388149
RRP: £11.00£8.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979388149Author Lloyd PyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bell Lap Books Inc.Publisher Bell Lap Books Inc.Weight(grams) 390g -
Introducing Darwin: A Graphic Guide by Jonathan Miller
RRP: £7.99£2.38Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for undermining belief in God's creation was remarkable timid. He spent most of his life in seclusion; a semi-invalid,... -
Planetary Geoscience by Harry Y. McSween, Jr 9781107145382
£65.13For many years, planetary science has been taught as part of the astronomy curriculum, from a very physics-based perspective, and from the framework of a tour of the Solar System - body by body. Over the past decades, however, spacecraft exploration and... -
Key Concepts in Planning by Gavin Parker 9781847870773
RRP: £38.99£31.62"I have been looking for a book which does this for ages! It provides a clear explanation of the different elements and concepts which underpin how the planning system works and which are fundamental to the operation of the UK system. It also provides... -
On Light and Other High Frequency Phenomena by Nikola, Tesla 9780809501618
RRP: £8.99£8.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809501618Author Nikola, TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Plant Ecology and Conservation by Andrew Lack
RRP: £45.99£44.46Plant Ecology & Conservation is an introduction to the world of plant ecology. It includes the main areas of current research including ideas about plant populations, nutrition and plant community ecology and has a particular emphasis on the interactions... -
Entropy: The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth by Arieh Ben-Naim 9789813147676
RRP: £18.00£15.96'Ben-Naim convincingly argues that SMI not only gives a simpler and more broadly applicable definition of entropy, but also clears up much of the historical and modern confusion surrounding the second law. This book will interest any individual who wants... -
CBAC FFISEG U2 LLYFR GWAITH ADOLYGU (WJEC PHYSICS FOR A2 LEVEL - REVISION WORKBOOK) Gareth Kelly 9781912820955
£15.95Welsh language editionThis Revision Workbook provides a comprehensive collection of examination-style questions covering each topic from the WJEC A2 Physics specification.- Ideal for examination preparation, exam question practice and for improving... -
Cosmic Rays: Multimessenger Astrophysics and Revolutionary Astronomy by Alessandro De Angelis 9783031385599
RRP: £27.99£25.44In recent years, cosmic rays have become the protagonists of a new scientific revolution. We are able today to film the Universe with telescopes of completely novel conception, recording information from many different messengers and accessing previously... -
Hot Color, Dry Garden by Nan Sterman 9781604694574
RRP: £18.99£18.97"Eye-popping proof that water-wise gardens are bold, beautiful and brilliantly hued." -San Diego Home and Garden Dry weather defines the Southwest, and it's getting dryer. As water becomes more precious, our gardens suffer. If we want to keep gardening,... -
Photosynthetic Life: Origin, Evolution, and Future by Denis Murphy 9780198815723
RRP: £23.99£22.37Written primarily for mid- to upper-level undergraduates, this title the mechanisms of photosynthesis, its role in the evolution of plant-related organisms, from cyanobacteria to flowering plants, and its wider ecological and climatic significance. ... -
The Medicine Cabinet: The story of health & and disease told through extraordinary objects by Natasha McEnroe
RRP: £25.00£18.62The Medicine Cabinet is a beautifully curated and expertly written compendium of over 100 astonishing objects related to the story of medicine. Each object is cared for by London's Science Museum, which houses one of the largest and most significant...