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Placebo: Mind over Matter in Modern Medicine by Dylan Evans 9780007126132 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27€2.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Poisonous Tales: A Forensic Examination of Poisons in Fiction by Hilary Hamnett
RRP: €28.56€23.94Dangerous, 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
€14.97Apologies 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: €23.79€20.67Cognitive 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: €32.13€21.41Apologies 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: €17.84€11.66The 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... -
Stephen Hawking: A Life Well Lived by Kitty Ferguson
RRP: €17.84€13.03In 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: €22.60€16.20A 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: €20.22€14.26'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: €39.26€25.59Imagine 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: €29.75€20.68In 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: €15.46€10.82'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: €17.84€13.03This 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: €13.08€8.81Where 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... -
Bridges: The science and art of the world's most inspiring structures by David Blockley
RRP: €16.65€11.60Bridges touch all our lives - every day we are likely to cross a bridge, or go under one. How many of us stop to consider how the bridge stands up and what sort of people designed and built something so strong? Bridge building is a magnificent... -
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life by Rob Eastaway
RRP: €11.89€7.90A 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 9780715654224 [USED COPY]
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Youniverse: A Short Guide to Modern Science by Elsie Burch Donald
RRP: €11.89€8.03Your 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... -
Your Conscious Mind by New Scientist
RRP: €5.94€4.18What 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: €13.08€8.47SHORTLISTED 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: €13.08€8.33Boldly 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... -
Beyond the Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith 9780646039947
RRP: €17.84€14.93Apologies 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... -
Raising the Skirt: The Unsung Power of the Vagina by Catherine Blackledge
RRP: €11.89€8.09'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... -
The Great Deception: Anglo-American Power and World Order by Mark Curtis 9780745312347
RRP: €32.12€20.93An 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... -
The Scientist's Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively throughout Your Scientific Career by Stephen B. Heard 9780691170220
€17.11The ability to write clearly is critical to any scientific career. The Scientist's Guide to Writing provides practical advice to help scientists become more effective writers so that their ideas have the greatest possible impact. Drawing on his own... -
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir by Callum Roberts
RRP: €15.46€10.82Reef 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: €13.08€8.81In 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 9780553816198 [USED COPY]
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The Human Mind by Robert Winston
RRP: €17.84€13.03It 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
RRP: €20.22€15.89Clouds 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: €7.72€6.53Apologies 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)... -
Humanology: A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence by Luke O'Neill 9780717180158 [USED COPY]
RRP: €33.31€6.51Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Humanology: A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence by Luke O'Neill
RRP: €33.31€24.53Taking 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... -
From Science Fiction to Science Fact: How Writers of the Past Invented Our Present by Joel Levy
RRP: €23.80€16.17The 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... -
NASA Operations Manual: 1958 onwards by David Baker 9781785211157 [USED COPY]
RRP: €27.36€12.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry by Marcus du Sautoy 9780007214624 [USED COPY]
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Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry by Marcus du Sautoy 9780007214624
RRP: €15.46€10.09This new book from the author of 'The Music of the Primes' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures in mathematics: the search for symmetry. This is the story of how... -
Graph Theory (on Demand Printing Of 02787) by Frank Harary
RRP: €101.14€87.88An 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... -
The Planets by Dava Sobel 9781841156217 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman
RRP: €17.84€13.03Over 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...