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Free: the End of the Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith 9780731604951
RRP: £14.99£12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780731604951Author Mr Jeremy GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint WTM Publishing & Communications Pty LtdPublisher WTM Publishing & Communications... -
Hasselblad & the Moon Landing by Deborah Ireland 9781781453346
RRP: £9.99£6.80On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people ever to set foot on the Moon, their iconic "small steps" captured forever by the camera the astronauts carried with them: the Hasselblad 500EL. This book looks at the history of the... -
Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion by Kate Cole-Adams
RRP: £12.99£9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award 2017 (Australia) and Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Media Award 2017 (Australia). Short-listed for... -
We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World by Mark Stevenson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Our systems are failing. Old models - for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply - are creaking under the weight of modern challenges. As the world's population heads towards 10 billion, it's clear we need new approaches... -
Poisonous Tales: A Forensic Examination of Poisons in Fiction by Hilary Hamnett
RRP: £24.00£20.12Dangerous, dark and difficult to detect, poisons have been a common character in literature from ancient times to the modern day. Their ability to perform deadly deeds at a distance is a common device for creating dramatic tension and playing on our real... -
Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See by Donald Hoffman
RRP: £19.99£17.37Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman's exploration of the extraordinary creative genius of the mind's eye "has many virtues, of which sheer intellectual excitement is the foremost" (Nature). Hoffman explains that far from being a passive recorder of a... -
Ontogenetic Basis Human Anat by Erich Blechschmidt
RRP: £27.00£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556435072Author Erich BlechschmidtFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works by Marc Dingman 9781399801201
RRP: £14.99£9.80The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But the brain is not just the most brilliant of evolutionary wonders. It's also one of the most... -
Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer by Tom Lean
RRP: £18.99£14.27How did computers invade the homes and cultural life of 1980s Britain? Remember the ZX Spectrum? Ever have a go at programming with its stretchy rubber keys? How about the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, or Commodore 64? Did you marvel at the immense... -
Stephen Hawking: A Life Well Lived by Kitty Ferguson
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. Defying all the odds, he died in March 2018 at age seventy-six as the most celebrated scientist in the world. This carefully researched and updated biography and tribute gives a rich picture of... -
My Father's Brain: Understanding Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s by Sandeep Jauhar
RRP: £18.99£13.61A son's journey through his father's dementia. As a cardiologist, Sandeep Jauhar is trained to think logically and dispassionately about medical problems, and primed to offer his patients reassurance and solutions. But when his father is diagnosed... -
Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt 9781786493095
RRP: £16.99£11.98'Beginners belongs on the list of books that have changed the way I understand my own limitations.'Malcolm GladwellFor many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an age which reveres expertise but looks down on the... -
Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists by Dennis Shasha 9780387982694
RRP: £24.99£21.47Imagine living during the Renaissance and being able to interview that era's greatest scientists about their inspirations, discoveries, and personal interests. The latter half of our century has seen its own Renaissance--informations technology has... -
First on the Moon: The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Experience by Rod Pyle
RRP: £25.00£17.38In honor of the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Apollo 11 mission, this lavishly illustrated book--featuring stunning photographs and many rarely seen images and documents--tells the incredible story of the first men on the Moon. Acclaimed... -
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age by Nathan D. Wolfe
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Wolfe has an important story to tell and as a virologist at the forefront of pandemic forecasting, he is the perfect person to tell it' GuardianIn The Viral Storm award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe - known as 'the Indiana Jones of virus hunters' for... -
The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins by Alan H. Guth
RRP: £14.99£10.95This classic Big Bang text neatly describes what happened after the bang. Yet, until recently, particle physicists and cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the Big Bang Theory still couldn't answer, primarily: If matter can neither be created... -
Human Origins by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£7.40Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's... -
Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People by Steven Vogel 9780393319903
RRP: £22.50£19.48Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the same gravity. Why, then, do their designs diverge so sharply? Humans, for instance, love right angles, while nature's angles are... -
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life by Rob Eastaway
RRP: £9.99£6.64A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Have you ever wondered how the meter in a taxi works? Or why a lift takes so long to respond... -
Youniverse: A Short Guide to Modern Science by Elsie Burch Donald
RRP: £9.99£6.75Your guide to science, from the Big Bang to AI Whether you wish to discover the basics of science or catch up on its latest developments, this short accessible guide is for you. YOUNIVERSE describes in simple terms the world you are inseparably a... -
Beyond the Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith 9780646039947
RRP: £14.99£12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646039947Author Mr Jeremy GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint FHA Publishing & Communications Pty Ltd,Publisher WTM Publishing & Communications... -
Your Conscious Mind by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£3.51What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a person's life. It makes us aware of the world around us and... -
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque
RRP: £10.99£7.12SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2020 To be an astronomer is to journey to some of the most inaccessible parts of the globe, braving... -
The Science of Star Trek: The Scientific Facts Behind the Voyages in Space and Time by Mark Brake
RRP: £10.99£7.00Boldly go where no man has gone before and discover the real science behind the cyborgs, starships, aliens, and antimatter of the Star Trek galaxy.Star Trek is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. It has changed our cultural... -
Raising the Skirt: The Unsung Power of the Vagina by Catherine Blackledge
RRP: £9.99£5.96'A meticulous guide not only to the vagina but to changing perceptions of womanhood' OBSERVER'An empowering and enlightening book' IRISH TIMESThe vagina is the ultimate symbol of female power. Sexual power, creative power and the power to prevent harm... -
Humanology: A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence by Luke O'Neill
RRP: £27.99£20.61Taking us on an incredible journey across centuries and galaxies, accompanied by his characteristic wit, Professor Luke O'Neill explains how it all began, how it all will end and everything in between. Readers will benefit from Luke's insatiable... -
The Great Deception: Anglo-American Power and World Order by Mark Curtis 9780745312347
RRP: £26.99£17.59An original and radically revised view of British and US foreign policy, exposing the extent to which Anglo-American interests have shaped and damaged the current world order.About the AuthorMark Curtis has published widely on British and US foreign... -
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir by Callum Roberts
RRP: £12.99£9.09Reef Life is the story of how Callum Roberts, Britain's pre-eminent marine conservation scientist, fell in love with coral reefs and embarked on a thirty-year career. He began as a young university student who had never been abroad, spending a summer... -
Choke by Sian Beilock
RRP: £10.99£7.40In the tradition of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, popular psychologist Sian Beilock, an expert on performance and brain science, reveals the astonishing new science of why we choke under pressure. She explains what happens in the body and mind when... -
The Human Mind by Robert Winston
RRP: £14.99£10.95It is the most complex and mysterious object in the universe. Covered by a dull grey membrane, it resembles a gigantic, convoluted fungus. Its inscrutability has captivated scientists, philosophers and artists for centuries. It is, of course, the human... -
The Cloud Book: How to Understand the Skies by The Met Office 9780715328088
£13.06Clouds have been the object of fascination throughout history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variability providing food for thought for scientists and daydreamers alike. Clouds may have many individual shapes, but there are a few basic forms... -
Short-cut Mathematics by G. W. Kelly
RRP: £6.49£5.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486246116Author G.W. KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 146gDimensions(mm)... -
From Science Fiction to Science Fact: How Writers of the Past Invented Our Present by Joel Levy
RRP: £20.00£13.59The iconic futurist artist and designer Syd Mead once described science fiction as "reality ahead of schedule". In From Science Fiction to Science Fact, Levy explores the visions of the writers, futurists and far-sighted inventors who made those... -
Graph Theory (on Demand Printing Of 02787) by Frank Harary
RRP: £74.99£73.85An effort has been made to present the various topics in the theory of graphs in a logical order, to indicate the historical background, and to clarify the exposition by including figures to illustrate concepts and results. In addition, there are three... -
Plants That Kill: A Natural History of the World's Most Poisonous Plants by Elizabeth Dauncey 9781842466575
RRP: £25.00£18.62Plants That Kill is not a field guide, clinical care manual, or pharmacology textbook-it is a fascinating and beautifully presented natural history of the world's most poisonous plants, the extraordinary strategies they employ for survival, and the... -
This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman
RRP: £14.99£10.95Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, strategies and arguments that will help all of us understand our world, and its future, better. Includes contributions from:Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Daniel... -
Facts And Mysteries In Elementary Particle Physics (Revised Edition) by Martinus J. G. Veltman
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works. We are introduced to the known particles of the world we live in. An elegant explanation of... -
Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide by Eileen Magnello 9781848310568
RRP: £8.99£6.63From the medicine we take, the treatments we receive, the aptitude and psychometric tests given by employers, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear to even the beer we drink, statistics have given shape to the world we inhabit. For the media, statistics... -
Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle by Colin Burgess 9780387360539
RRP: £44.99£36.66Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into... -
The Scent Of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense Of Smell by Rachel Herz 9780060825386
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060825386Author Rachel HerzFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)...