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A Fractured Profession: Commercialism and Conflict in Academic Science by David R. Johnson 9781421423531
RRP: €51.17€44.53The 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... -
Einstein Relatively Simple: Our Universe Revealed In Everyday Language by Ira Mark Egdall
RRP: €27.37€24.42'Outstanding Academic Title for 2014' by CHOICEEinstein Relatively Simple brings together for the first time an exceptionally clear explanation of both special and general relativity. It is for people who always wanted to understand Einstein's ideas but... -
We Have Never Been Modern by Bruno Latour
RRP: €33.26€25.82With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an... -
The Happy Brain: The Science of Where Happiness Comes From, and Why by Dean Burnett
RRP: €13.08€8.71'Funny, wise and absolutely fascinating.' Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to HurtDo you want to be happy? If so - read on. This book has all the answers*In The Happy Brain, neuroscientist Dean Burnett delves deep into the inner workings of our minds to... -
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions by New Scientist
RRP: €13.08€8.81From the phenomenal New Scientist series, with over 2,500,000 copies soldDo Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly... -
The Possibility of Life: Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green
RRP: €23.80€16.53One of the most potent questions we ask about the cosmos is: are we alone? From astrobiology to exoplanets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', Jaime Green traces our understanding of what and where life in the universe could be, drawing on the long tradition of... -
The Beauty of Numbers in Nature: Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World by Ian Stewart
RRP: €32.07€21.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534284Author Ian StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 714gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 170mm * 21mm -
This Book Could Save Your Life: The Science of Living Longer Better by New Scientist 9781529311303
RRP: €17.84€11.66AN FT SUMMER BOOK OF 2020We all want to be healthier, stronger and live longer, but what really works? From stress to saturated fats, HIIT to HRT, veganism to vitamins, This Book Could Save Your Life debunks the fads and explores the real science of... -
Endless Universe: Beyond The Big Bang by Paul J. Steinhardt
RRP: €11.89€8.09A radical, yet accessible, new theory of the origins and future of the universe by two of the world's leading cosmologistsThe first serious challenge to the widely accepted 'Big Bang' model of the universe. According to 'Big Bang' theory, space and time... -
The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution by New Scientist
RRP: €13.08€8.81Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of cryptocurrencies - digital currencies conceived by computer hackers and... -
Gulp: Travels Around the Gut by Mary Roach
RRP: €14.27€10.03For fans of Gut by Giulia Enders Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal - let alone have... -
Plane Crash: The Forensics of Aviation Disasters by George Bibel 9781421424484
RRP: €31.54€27.63Melding a pilot's practical view of life in the cockpit with the expertise of an engineering professor to give readers an insider look at plane crashes.One of the most amazing feats of modern life is the frequency with which airplanes safely take off and... -
How to Destroy the Universe: And 34 other really interesting uses of physics by Dr. Paul Parsons
RRP: €13.08€8.81How to survive an earthquake. How to make an invisibility cloak. How to turn lead into gold. How to read someone's mind. Physics = tedious and unfathomable, right? No longer. If you thought physics was all about measuring the temperature of an ice bucket... -
Nonzero: History, Evolution & Human Cooperation by Robert Wright
RRP: €15.46€10.23In a book sure to stir argument for years to come, Robert Wright challen+ges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing game theory - the logic of 'zero-sum' and 'non-zero-sum' games - Wright... -
The Science Of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett
RRP: €17.84€13.51Acclaimed The Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction... -
The Music Of The Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe by Jamie James
RRP: €14.27€9.52From the 5th century BC, when Pythagoras first composed his laws of Western music and science, until the flowering of Romanticism over 2000 years later, scientists and philosophers perceived the cosmos musically, as an ordered mechanism whose smooth... -
Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We’re Losing to Technology by Graham Lee 9781789296136
RRP: €17.84€13.03Our increasing reliance on digital technology has had a profound impact on our own abilities as humans. What can we do about it?In a fascinating journey through history and science, Human Being offers an insightful and provocative survey of twelve vital... -
The Black Death by Philip Ziegler
RRP: €29.75€22.07A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the 14th century caused the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. One third of the people in Europe were killed over a period of just three years, and there was social and... -
The Moon by Bill Leatherbarrow
RRP: €29.75€21.44Our nearest celestial neighbour, the Moon, has always been the most conspicuous feature in our night sky. It has compelled observers since the dawn of humankind, and all have tried to make sense in their own ways of the puzzles it poses and the questions... -
The Unofficial Countryside by Richard Mabey 9780956254559
RRP: €16.66€11.61During the early 1970s Richard Mabey set about mapping his unofficial countryside. He walked crumbling city docks and overgrown bomb sites, navigating inner city canals and car parks, exploring sewage works, gravel pits, rubbish tips. What he discovered... -
Beneath the Night: How the stars have shaped the history of humankind by Stuart Clark
RRP: €15.46€10.19The awe-inspiring history of humanity told through our relationship with stars and the night sky.'Excellent . . . This books makes you rethink the traditional story of the history of astronomy . . . Effortlessly readable.' BBC Sky at Night'Stuart Clark's... -
The Annotated And Illustrated Double Helix by James D. Watson 9781476715490
RRP: €42.83€29.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476715490Author James D. WatsonFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 977g -
Blood of the Isles by Bryan Sykes
RRP: €14.27€10.03Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today.In 54BC Julius Caesar launched the first Roman invasion of Britain... -
To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World? by Lucy Siegle
RRP: €15.46€10.09An expose on the fashion industry written by the Observer's 'Ethical Living' columnist, examining the inhumane and environmentally devastating story behind the clothes we so casually buy and wear. Coming at a time when the global financial... -
The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience by Jamie Ward
€61.81Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly updated fourth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to cognitive neuroscience. Jamie Ward provides an... -
The Quantum World: The disturbing theory at the heart of reality by Scientist New
RRP: €13.08€8.81Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behaviour... -
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everythingin the Cosmos, fromOu r Brains to Black Holes by Charles Seife 9780143038399
RRP: €28.56€19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038399Author Charles SeifeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm... -
An Introduction to Information Theory, Symbols, Signals and Noise by John R. Pierce 9780486240619
RRP: €22.00€14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486240619Author Engineering EngineeringFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
RRP: €13.08€8.71Is science the only path to knowledge?In this sparkling and provocative book, Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers, painters and composers, Lehrer shows us how... -
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World by Amanda Little
RRP: €13.08€8.33Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world. She explores the past along with the... -
Hormonal: How Hormones Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, and Make Us Wiser by Martie Haselton
RRP: €11.89€8.46Provocative, ground-breaking and entertaining, the world's leading expert on sexuality and the ovulation cycle reveals the hidden intelligence of hormones. In this paradigm-shifting book, Martie Haselton explains how hormonal intelligence works -... -
Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being by George Lakoff
RRP: €29.75€23.56This book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in the everyday physical world. Where Mathematics Comes... -
Science Blogging: The Essential Guide by Christie Wilcox
RRP: €23.79€20.19Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience. Drawing on the cumulative experience of... -
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe by Peter D. Ward
RRP: €33.31€25.92What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and... -
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger by David Spiegelhalter
RRP: €11.89€8.46Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9", just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week. He likes a drink, doesn't do enough exercise and occasionally treats himself to a bar of chocolate (milk). He's a pretty average kind of guy. In fact, he is the average guy in this... -
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip Thorne 9780393312768
RRP: €19.03€16.92Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are... -
The Anatomical Venus by Joanna Ebenstein
RRP: €29.75€20.68Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente Susini's Anatomical Venus (c. 1790), a perfect object whose luxuriously bizarre existence challenges belief. It - or, better, she - was conceived of as a means... -
The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society by Norbert Wiener
RRP: €15.46€10.23Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics,the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system,Wiener was... -
Black Holes And Baby Universes And Other Essays by Stephen Hawking
RRP: €11.89€8.46Readers worldwide know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time. In this collection of essays and other pieces - on subjects that range from warmly personal to the wholly scientific- he is revealed variously... -
Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor
RRP: €9.51€6.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823431939Author Laurie LawlorFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Holiday House IncPublisher Holiday House IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 251mm *...