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The Brilliant Abyss: True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed by Helen Scales
RRP: £11.99£8.43The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet. This is the story of how we imagine, explore and exploit it. For centuries, myth-makers and storytellers have concocted imaginary monsters of the deep, and now scientists are looking there to... -
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection by John T. Cacioppo 9780393335286
RRP: £13.99£12.45University of Chicago social neuroscientist John T. Cacioppo pioneered research on the startling effects of loneliness: a sense of isolation or social rejection disrupts not only our ability to think and will power but also our immune systems, and can be... -
An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry by Graham Patrick
RRP: £52.99£51.95Medication is widely used to support the human body to fight against infection and pain. In an era of pharmaceutical and medicinal challenges, we have all become more familiar with drug production and distribution. However, do we really know what happens... -
Moral AI: And How We Get There by Jana Schaich Borg 9780241454749
RRP: £25.00£17.62A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there... -
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light by Paul Bogard 9780007428212
RRP: £10.99£8.29Streetlamps, neon signs - an ever-present glow that has changed the natural world and adversely affected our health; Paul Bogard illuminates the problems caused by a lack of darkness. We live awash in artificial light. But night's natural... -
The Fundamentals of Horticulture: Theory and Practice by Chris Bird 9780521707398
RRP: £43.99£39.63Essential reading for all studying horticulture and keen gardeners. This clear introduction to the principles underlying the practical applications of horticulture opens up the excitement of growing plants and garden development without readers wading... -
The Greywacke: How a Priest, a Soldier and a Schoolteacher Uncovered 300 Million Years of History by Nick Davidson
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE PRIZE 2022 'A joyful collision of science, history and nature writing' Helen Gordon, author of Notes from Deep Time Adam Sedgwick was a priest and scholar. Roderick Murchison was a retired soldier. Charles... -
The Fresh and the Salt: The Story of the Solway by Ann Lingard
RRP: £25.00£16.59Shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly... -
Peak District (Collins New Naturalist Library) by Penny Anderson 9780008257378
RRP: £65.00£42.51The Peak District, Britain's first national park, is a land of great natural beauty, visited by millions of people every year. This New Naturalist volume on the region highlights the wonder and magic of its windswept... -
Once Upon a Raven's Nest: a life on Exmoor in an epoch of change by Catrina Davies
RRP: £18.99£12.75'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration... -
Ulrich Beck: A Critical Introduction to the Risk Society by Gabe Mythen 9780745318141
RRP: £32.00£24.48Ulrich Beck has emerged as one of the leading thinkers of the age. His principal claim to fame is as author of the widely acclaimed 'Risk Society', first published in 1986. Since this time, Beck's work has had a profound effect on the trajectory of... -
Shark by Paul de Gelder
RRP: £16.99£15.11From shark attack survivor to the shark's biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them. Something happens to you the first time... -
The Launch Party: The ultimate locked room mystery set in the first hotel on the moon by Lauren Forry
RRP: £8.99£5.92Agatha Christie meets Andy Weir in the ultimate locked room mystery set in the first hotel on the moon. Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Anthony Horowitz and Hanna Jameson.FEATURED IN THE EVENING STANDARD'S BOOKS TO WATCH IN 2023THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH'S... -
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish by Patrik Svensson
RRP: £9.99£6.87'This is one of those special books . . . Even if it were only a book about eels, it would be wonderful.' - Sunday Times'I never thought I would see myself in an eel, until I read Svensson's beautiful book, in which he anthropomorphizes eels and shows... -
Woodpeckers of the World: The Complete Guide by Gerard Gorman
RRP: £45.00£35.03The first definitive photographic guide to woodpeckers, covering all 239 species. Woodpeckers remain one of the most popular families of birds, and they are certainly one of the more unusual. Their legendary ability to excavate holes in wood is well... -
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory by Neil Johnson 9781851686308
RRP: £10.99£7.77What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained using complexity, an unsolved puzzle that many researchers believe is the key to predicting - and ultimately solving-everything from terrorist attacks and... -
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean
RRP: £14.99£11.82Science is a force for good in the world-at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing-no matter the... -
Vargic's Curious Cosmic Compendium: Space, the Universe and Everything Within It by Martin Vargic
RRP: £25.00£18.62Take a trip to outer space with this weird and wonderful guide to our universe, the perfect gift for both young and old Vargic's beautifully innovative designs will help to explain all of the bizarre and fascinating aspects of the cosmos; from the... -
Understanding Food: Principles and Preparation by Amy Christine Brown 9781337557566
£78.79UNDERSTANDING FOOD: PRINCIPLES AND PREPARATION is your introductory guide to food, food preparation, food service and food science. Integrating these key topics with relevant information about nutrition and the food industry, this best-selling text gives... -
Neutrino by Frank Close 9780199695997
RRP: £10.49£7.63What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they? Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most matter with ease. These tiny, ghostly particles are... -
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by Professor Steve Jones
RRP: £10.99£7.40Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many... -
Cell Structure & Function by Guy Orchard 9780199652471
£53.78Biomedical scientists are the foundation of modern healthcare, from cancer screening to diagnosing HIV, from blood transfusion for surgery to food poisoning and infection control. Without biomedical scientists, the diagnosis of disease, the evaluation of... -
Essential Maths Skills for AS/A Level Chemistry by Nora Henry
RRP: £12.50£11.84If your students struggle with changing the subject of an equation or drawing tangents to find rate of change, this is the book for them. This textbook companion will help improve their essential maths skills for chemistry, whichever awarding body... -
And Then You're Dead: A Scientific Exploration of the World's Most Interesting Ways to Die by Paul Doherty
RRP: £10.99£7.32What would happen if you took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine wearing only Speedos? How long could you last if you stood on the surface of the sun? How far could you actually get in digging a hole to China?And Then You're Dead offers serious answers... -
Rocks: A Very Short Introduction by Jan Zalasiewicz
RRP: £8.99£6.45Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas giant planets. We live on the rocky surface of the planet, grow our food on weathered debris... -
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less by Guy Claxton
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Learning to loaf' - this books explores the ways of knowing that require more time, the ways we have unlearned or ignore, but that are crucial to our complete mental development. The human brain-mind will do a number of unusual, interesting... -
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us by Noson S. Yanofsky
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2013 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, presented by the... -
Symmetry by Hermann Weyl
RRP: £14.99£11.32Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginning with the idea that it represents a harmony of... -
World in My Mind, My Mind in the World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines by Igor Aleksander 9781845401023
£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401023Author Igor AleksanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Your Brain and You: A Simple Guide to Neuropsychology by Nicky Hayes
RRP: £14.99£9.80Most general knowledge about the brain and its workings is very dated, drawing on studies from the first part of the previous century or even earlier. However, the advent of brain scanning which allows the study of the ordinary working brain, rather than... -
Exam Insights for GCSE Biology by Emma Dougan
RRP: £5.50£5.42Improve your grade by focusing on the lessons learnt from previous exams. This write-in workbook targets the tricky topics in GCSE Biology with insights from the examiners' reports, model answers and practice questions to secure understanding and improve... -
Sekret Machines: Man: Sekret Machines Gods, Man, and War Volume 2 by Tom DeLonge 9781943272426
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943272426Author Tom DeLongeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint To the starsPublisher To the stars -
Practice makes permanent: 250+ questions for AQA A-level Biology by Pauline Lowrie
RRP: £18.99£17.34Practise and prepare for AQA A-level Biology with hundreds of topic-based questions and one complete set of exam practice papers designed to strengthen knowledge and prepare students for the exams.This extensive practice book raises students' performance... -
CLIMATE CHANGE and the road to NET-ZERO: Science - Technology - Economics - Politics by Mathew Hampshire-Waugh 9781527287969
£17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527287969Author Mathew Hampshire-WaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Crowstone PublishingPublisher Crowstone PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Astrophotography Manual: A Practical Approach to Deep Sky Imaging by Chris Woodhouse 9781032601236
RRP: £48.99£41.37The Astrophotography Manual's Third Edition is the most up to date and authoritative guide for enthusiasts who want to create beautiful images of nebulas, galaxies, clusters, and the stars with the latest professional tools and techniques.The book has... -
Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe by Trenton W. Holliday 9780231204972
RRP: £25.00£19.59During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as... -
An Optimist's Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with... -
The Mushroom Fan Club by Elise Gravel 9781770463226
RRP: £14.99£9.80Elise Gravel is back with a whimsical look at one of her family s most beloved pastimes: mushroom hunting! Combining her love of exploring nature with her talent for anthropomorphizing everything, she takes us on a magical tour of the forest floor and... -
RSPB Spotlight Snakes by Jules Howard
RRP: £12.99£9.79RSPB Spotlight: Snakes is packed with eye-catching, informative colour photos, and features succinct, detailed text written by a knowledgeable naturalist. Snakes are superbly secretive reptiles, celebrated by many for their highly tuned senses and... -
The Science of Talent: How to find, grow and keep the right people in your organisation by Kate O'Loughlin
RRP: £14.99£11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784521257Author Kate O'LoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...