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Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine by Sydnee McElroy
RRP: £12.99£9.09New for 2020! Join the 750,000 listeners of the Sawbones Podcast as Dr Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin humorously discuss centuries of medical myths, mishaps and mayhem, including modern day medicine and pandemics.Newly revised and updated for... -
The Universe In A Single Atom: How science and spirituality can serve our world by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the Dalai Lama
RRP: £10.99£7.40In this rare personal investigation, His Holiness the Dalai Lama discusses his vision of science and faith working hand in hand to alleviate human suffering. Drawing on a lifetime of scientific study and religious practice, he explores the great debates... -
Instant Science: Key thinkers, theories, discoveries and concepts explained on a single page by Jennifer Crouch
RRP: £14.99£9.80Instant Science pulls together all the pivotal scientific knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an... -
Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach 9781786078346
RRP: £16.99£12.68What's to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? Mary Roach delves into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. 'Delightful' Ed Yong, author of An Immense World Follow Mary... -
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
RRP: £10.99£8.43From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein said, 'If... -
A Short History Of Progress by Ronald Wright
RRP: £10.99£7.32Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd over a cliff had made too much. Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth... -
Life in the Universe: A Beginner's Guide by Lewis Dartnell 9781851685059
RRP: £9.99£6.41Astrobiology, the study of life and its existence in the universe, is one of the hottest areas of scientific research. Lewis Dartnell considers some of the fascinating questions facing researchers today. Could life exist anywhere else in the universe?... -
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by Roger Penrose 9780691119793
RRP: £25.00£19.58What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed... -
Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything by Nick Mann
RRP: £25.00£17.38In his highly anticipated sequel to The Elements, Theodore Gray demonstrates how the elements of the periodic table combine to form the molecules that make up our world.Everything physical is made up of the elements and the infinite variety of molecules... -
Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It by Gemma Milne
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and... -
Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We’re Losing to Technology by Graham Lee 9781789295252
RRP: £20.00£13.34Our 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... -
Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises by John Gribbin 9781785786563
RRP: £9.99£7.10John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of seven fundamental scientific truths that underpin our very existence.These 'pillars of science' also defy common... -
Demystifying Orchid Pollination: Stories of sex, lies and obsession by Adam P. Karremans
RRP: £30.00£28.39The fascinating natural history of orchids and the extraordinary means by which they reproduce. Author Adam P. Karremans reveals their hidden secrets, from the cruel obsession of sexual deception to sweet rewards and highlights the key role of... -
The Future Of Life by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £11.99£8.00Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the present century. These two contrasting themes--unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril--have originated... -
Velikovsky Heresies: Worlds in Collision and Ancient Catastrophes Revisited by Laird Scranton
RRP: £12.99£8.18* Provides new evidence from recent space probe missions to support Velikovsky's theories on the formation of Venus * Presents recently translated ancient texts from China, Korea and Japan that uphold the comet-like descriptions of Venus cited by... -
Cambridge IGCSE (TM) Combined Science Student's Book (Collins Cambridge IGCSE (TM)) by Malcolm Bradley 9780008191542
£34.03Collins Cambridge IGCSE (R) Combined Science provides full coverage of all core and extended topics in the new syllabus in one book. Carefully developed features including Science in Context, questions, Science Links and more allowing students to build... -
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature by Janine M Benyus 9780060533229
RRP: £21.99£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060533229Author Janine M BenyusFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 246g -
Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places by Trebbe Johnson
RRP: £15.99£11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172633Author Trebbe JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide by Steve Jones
RRP: £7.99£3.42Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes... -
Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth by Don Ihde
RRP: £23.99£20.41"A sophisticated celebration of cultural diversity and of its enabling technologies...perhaps the best single volume relating the philosophical tradition to the broad issues raised by contemporary technologies." -ChoiceDiscusses the role of tools and... -
How I Rescued My Brain: a psychologist's remarkable recovery from stroke and trauma by David Roland 9781922247421
RRP: £14.99£10.20As a psychologist specialising in court assessments, David Roland often saw the toughest, most heartbreaking cases. The emotional trauma had begun to take its toll - and then the global financial crisis hit, leaving his family facing financial ruin. So... -
Introducing Chaos: A Graphic Guide by Ziauddin Sardar 9781848310131
RRP: £8.99£6.63If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos theory attempts to answer such baffling questions. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical systems has evolved into a science that declares the... -
Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension by Rudolf V. B. Rucker
RRP: £9.99£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486234007Author Rudolf RuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 133Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Reinventing the Wheel by Bronwen Percival
RRP: £11.99£8.84**Wine and Spirits Book of the Year 2017** A fascinating look into the world of cheese and its creators. In little more than a century, the drive towards industrial and intensive farming has altered every aspect of the cheesemaking process, from... -
Scientists Who Changed History by DK
RRP: £18.99£14.61Delve into the lives, inspirations, motivations, and achievements of the greatest scientists in the world and through all time. Explore the stories of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential scientists with this innovative and... -
Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society by Bruno Latour
RRP: £30.95£23.93Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers,... -
The Human Body in Minutes by Tom Jackson
RRP: £10.99£7.40A concise and illuminating tour of the human body - learn about how our bodies work and why they work the way they do, in minutes. From the basic unit of the cell, through the tissues and organs that make up the body's systems, to how these systems work... -
The Consolations of Physics: Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy by Tim Radford
RRP: £8.99£4.11'A beautifully crafted love letter to physics.' Nature'A book more about life and passion than physics. People who have never cared a jot about physics (like me) must read this book.' SUZANNE O'SULLIVANThe Consolations of Physics is an eloquent manifesto... -
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane by Samanth Subramanian 9781786492845
RRP: £10.99£7.32Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and the British Society for the History of Science Hughes... -
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
RRP: £12.99£8.60For more than a century, we were restricted to studying evolution from the outside, observing its progress only through the fossil record. No longer. We can now also read the DNA record. As well as containing the operating instructions for everyday... -
The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots by Irene Maxine Pepperberg
£34.17Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Since the early 1900s, most studies on animal-human communication have focused on great apes and a few cetacean species. Birds were rarely used in similar studies on the grounds that they... -
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach 9781786070890
RRP: £9.99£7.11A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize 'The most entertaining writer in science' - The Times, Books of the Year War. Mention it and most of us think of history, of conflicts on foreign soil, of heroism and compromise,... -
The Plastic Mind by Sharon Begley
RRP: £12.99£8.60For decades, the conventional wisdom of neuroscience held that the hardware of the brain is fixed - that we are stuck with what we were born with. But recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity reveal that the brain is capable not only of altering... -
BTEC First in Application of Science - Study and Exam Practice by CGP Books
RRP: £5.95£5.43This book has everything students need to prepare effectively for the BTEC First in Application of Science exam (Unit 8: Scientific Skills). Each topic is clearly and colourfully summarised on a double-page spread, followed by two pages of accessible... -
Science and the Afterlife Experience: Evidence for the Immortality of Consciousness by Chris Carter 9781594774522
RRP: £18.99£12.67In this book, Chris Carter shows that evidence of life beyond death exists and has been around for millennia, predating any organized religion. Focusing on three key phenomena--reincarnation, apparitions, and communications from the dead--Carter reveals... -
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
RRP: £23.99£18.45Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced... -
One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins by Robert Weinberg 9780465072767
RRP: £18.99£12.31Cancer research has reached a major turning point, and no one is better qualified to explain the past two deacades' dramatic leaps forward in understanding this disease than world-renowned molecular biologist Robert Weinberg, director of the Oncology... -
Men of Mathematics by E. Bell 9780671628185
£14.55From one of the greatest minds in contemporary mathematics, Professor E.T. Bell, comes a witty, accessible, and fascinating look at the beautiful craft and enthralling history of mathematics.Men of Mathematics provides a rich account of major... -
Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of Plants, Poisons and Processed Foods by George Zaidan
RRP: £12.99£8.63Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. Hand sanitiser. George Zaidan reveals the weird science behind everyday items that may or may not kill you, depending on whom you ask. If you want easy answers, this book is not for you. But if you're curious... -
Uranus and Neptune by Carolyn Kennett
RRP: £25.00£18.02The most distant planets in our solar system, Uranus and Neptune were unknown by the ancients - Uranus was discovered in the 1780s and Neptune only in the 1840s. Our discovery and observation of both planets has been hampered by their sheer distance from...