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Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises by John Gribbin 9781785786563
RRP: £9.99£7.51John 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... -
Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We’re Losing to Technology by Graham Lee 9781789295252
£13.65Our 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... -
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... -
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature by Janine M Benyus 9780060533229
RRP: £21.99£12.69Apologies 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: £16.95£11.57Apologies 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: £3.99£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... -
The Feynman Processor: Quantum Entanglement And The Computing Revolution by Gerard Milburn 9780738201733
RRP: £19.99£14.80Quantum computing, the reduction of computing elements to sizes far smaller than that of present-day chips, down to the size of individual atoms, presents new problems, problems on the quantum level. But thanks to new discoveries by Gerard Milburn 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... -
Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth by Don Ihde
£20.84"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... -
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 9781472955531 [USED COPY]
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Reinventing the Wheel by Bronwen Percival
RRP: £11.99£8.43**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... -
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: £5.99£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... -
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... -
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 9781845296742 [USED COPY]
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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... -
Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society by Bruno Latour
£24.42Science 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 Square Root of 2: A Dialogue Concerning a Number and a Sequence by David Flannery 9780387202204
RRP: £37.99£24.58An elegantly dramatized and illustrated dialog on the square root of two and the whole concept of irrational numbers.ReviewsFrom the reviews: "Written by an expert teacher as a conversation between a 'master' and a 'pupil' on the threshold of... -
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 9781517902377 [USED COPY]
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
RRP: £27.95£17.87Living 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... -
The Story Of God by Robert Winston 9780553817430 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Men of Mathematics by E. Bell 9780671628185
RRP: £22.00£14.64From 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... -
BTEC First in Application of Science - Study and Exam Practice by CGP Books 9781847628695 [USED COPY]
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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... -
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... -
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... -
Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
RRP: £18.99£12.67Called a madman by some, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was, without a doubt, a trail blazer who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming,... -
Placebo: Mind over Matter in Modern Medicine by Dylan Evans 9780007126132 [USED COPY]
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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... -
Free: the End of the Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith 9780731604951
£12.58Apologies 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... -
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...