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How Evolution Explains Everything about Life by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£3.51How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its... -
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time by Richard Fisher
RRP: £25.00£16.38'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN 'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future' DAVID ROBSON A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique... -
What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health by David R. Montgomery
RRP: £23.99£20.51We know that our diet influences our health. But is there more to the adage "you are what you eat?" Connecting the dots from agriculture to medicine, geologist David R. Montgomery and biologist Anne Bikle argue we overlook the other half of a healthy... -
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£4.59Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking.When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been... -
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams 9781324050452
RRP: £13.99£12.25When 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... -
2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration by Damon Gameau
£10.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760554149Author Damon GameauFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Macmillan AustraliaPublisher Pan Macmillan AustraliaWeight(grams) 1093gDimensions(mm)... -
Why Did it Have to be Snakes?: From Science to the Supernatural, the Many Mysteries of Indiana Jones by Lois H. Gresh 9780470225561
£12.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470225561Author Lois H. GreshFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
RRP: £12.99£9.33Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in... -
Mathematics for Biological Scientists by Mike Aitken
RRP: £53.99£52.56Mathematics for Biological Scientists is a new undergraduate textbook which covers the mathematics necessary for biology students to understand, interpret and discuss biological questions.The book's twelve chapters are organized into four themes. The... -
Prehistoric Australasia: Visions of Evolution and Extinction by Michael Archer 9780643108059
RRP: £71.00£58.31For most of the past 300 million years, the world's continents were interlinked as the supercontinents Pangaea and then Gondwana. Around 50 million years ago, Australia tore itself free from Antarctica to become the huge, splendidly isolated island it is... -
Brian Cox: The Unauthorised Biography of the Man Who Brought Science to the Nation by Ben Falk
RRP: £7.99£3.34Professor Brian Cox is among the best-known physicists in the world. As presenter of hit television series Human Universe, Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe, his affable charm and infectious enthusiasm have brought science to a... -
Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement by Cassidy R. Sugimoto
RRP: £29.95£23.19The first large-scale empirical analysis of the gender gap in science, showing how the structure of scientific labor and rewards-publications, citations, funding-systematically obstructs women's career advancement.If current trends continue, women and... -
Our Final Century: The 50/50 Threat to Humanity's Survival by Martin Rees
RRP: £15.99£11.61World authority on astrophysics, Sir Martin Rees, takes us on a journey through all the things which could wipe out mankind in the near future. From asteroids to disease to scientific discoveries gone wrong (from nanobots to the large Hadron collider)... -
Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power by David Adger
RRP: £21.49£15.67All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages... -
Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ by Giulia Enders 9781925228601
RRP: £9.99£7.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Australian Book Industry Awards, International Book of the Year 2016. Short-listed for British Book Industry Awards, Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2016 (UK)... -
Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World by Les Johnson
RRP: £14.99£11.26Two scientists give an enthusiastic, layperson's overview of a new supermaterial now in development that could transform many features of daily life, from creating new conveniences to improving health and safety. What if you discovered an... -
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Goedel by Rebecca Goldstein
RRP: £17.99£14.26Probing the life and work of Kurt Goedel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning-and brought him to the edge of madness.About the AuthorRebecca Goldstein is a MacArthur Fellow, a... -
Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch by Terry Pratchett
RRP: £14.99£10.95Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by... -
The Curious World of Science: A visual miscelllany of stories, theories, discoveries & curiosities plucked from the scientific world by Simon Flynn
RRP: £20.00£13.86To some, science is simply a means to an end; to others it is an almost spiritual meditation on theoriesand formulae.The Curious World of Science embraces both views and much more besides. Focusing on the human endeavours at the heart of science, it... -
Cat-ology: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Cats by Stefan Gates
RRP: £12.99£8.49Catology explores the bizarre and very funny world of feline science.Vital questions answered include:Why do cats have a secret second nose?Why don't cats fart (but dogs do)?Do cats feel guilt, love, happiness or jealousy?Why are cats' tongues covered in... -
The Gadget Show: The Big Book of Cool Stuff by Craig Charles
RRP: £19.99£16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912165353Author Craig CharlesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog Press -
Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg by Peter Scott-Morgan 9780241447093
RRP: £16.99£15.11The incredible book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg'A remarkable account of what it means to be human and what technology can really achieve' Sunday Telegraph'Peter's story is one of the most extraordinary you will... -
The Science Of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
RRP: £16.99£12.79The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld seriesWhen a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor... -
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel 9780393329377
RRP: £15.99£14.22Memory binds our mental life together. We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember. But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of... -
Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present by D.B. Paul 9781573923439
RRP: £19.99£18.13In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, or "eugenics" as... -
The Cerebral Cortex and Thalamus by W. Martin Usrey 9780197676158
RRP: £115.00£113.35For the first time, Drs. Usrey and Sherman, along with a who's who of luminaries in neuroscience research, seek to codify the roles that the cortex and thalamus and their interdependence on each other play for sensation, action, and cognition. The... -
Fundamental: How quantum and particle physics explain absolutely everything (except gravity) by Tim James
RRP: £14.99£9.80Fundamental does for physics what Tim's first book, Elemental, does for chemistry: it demystifies the topic in his trademark humorous, engaging style, including the most recent developments in the field.At the start of the twentieth century, science... -
The Things that Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything by William Hartston
RRP: £10.99£7.32HERE ARE MANY, MANY THINGS THAT NOBODY KNOWS . . .Why are so many giraffes gay?Has human evolution stopped?Where did our alphabet come from?Can robots become self-aware?Can lobsters recognize other lobsters by sight?What goes on inside a black hole?Are... -
Why the Universe Exists by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£7.40As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons.If the recent discovery of the Higgs... -
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Antonio Damasio
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Will give pleasure to anyone interested in original thinking about the brain...Breathtakingly original' Financial Times The trailblazing investigation of a question that has confounded us for centuries: how is consciousness created? In Self Comes to... -
Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motions of Planets Around the Sun by David L. Goodstein 9780099736219
RRP: £8.99£6.45On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'. For thirty years this remarkable lecture was believed to be lost. But now Feynman's... -
What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe 9781473680630
RRP: £16.99£11.61WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to... -
What We Cannot Know: From consciousness to the cosmos, the cutting edge of science explained by Marcus du Sautoy
RRP: £12.99£8.48'Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting' Bill Bryson Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. ... -
Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case For Intelligent Design by Stephen C. Meyer 9780062071484
RRP: £21.99£16.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062071484Author Stephen C. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 762g -
British Cenozoic Fossils by Natural History Museum
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Cenozoic era began about 70 million years ago and still continues. In British Cenozoic Fossils 354 species from this period are classified and illustrated with accurate line drawings. This new edition has been fully revised and updated by John Todd,... -
Wildhood: the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz 9781912854660
RRP: £16.99£11.98A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity. Teenagers: behind the banter, the tediously repetitive games and clicks, the moping and screaming, the fast living, and the jockeying... -
One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486256641Author George GamowFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks 9781529087444
RRP: £10.99£7.71Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped... -
A New Kind Of Science by Stephen Wolfram
RRP: £40.00£28.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579550080Author Stephen WolframFormat HardbackPage Count 1197Imprint Wolfram Media IncPublisher Wolfram Media IncWeight(grams) 2526g -
A Fractured Profession: Commercialism and Conflict in Academic Science by David R. Johnson 9781421423531
RRP: £43.00£37.42The commercialization of research is one of the most significant contemporary features of US higher education, yet we know surprisingly little about how scientists perceive and experience commercial rewards. A Fractured Profession is the first book to...