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Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A scientist’s guide to the biggest challenges facing our species today by Luke O'Neill 9780717186396 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.01$21.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here’s the Science: A scientist’s guide to the biggest challenges facing our species today by Luke O'Neill
RRP: $59.95$44.55In his fascinating and thought-provoking new book, Professor Luke O'Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them: Do we have control... -
Impossible, Possible, and Improbable: Science Stranger Than Fiction by John Gribbin 9781785788833
RRP: $20.57$14.46'Gribbin has inspired generations with his popular science writing' Jim Al-KhaliliA scintillating collection of short essays that really does cover 'life, the Universe, and everything'.From the mysteries of the subatomic world to the curious property of... -
Know Thyself: How The New Science of Self Awareness Gives Us The Edge by Stephen Fleming
RRP: $34.31$22.90From the ancient Greeks to Buddhism, our ability to check reality and recalibrate has fascinated philosophers for thousands of years. Yet it is only recently that we've developed the technology to create a rigorous science of self-awareness, what we call... -
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence Krauss
RRP: $34.31$22.06'Probably the most readable, exciting and authoritative writer on science we have. A new Lawrence Krauss book always goes to the top of the curious mind's wish list.' Stephen Fry 'A great educator as well as a great physicist ' Richard DawkinsIn the... -
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes 9780618057078
RRP: $44.58$28.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618057078Author Julian JaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 708g -
The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects: By The Former Head Of Project Blue Book by Edward J Ruppelt 9781440462375
RRP: $19.86$18.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440462375Author Edward J RuppeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos by John Brockman 9780062296085
RRP: $27.43$17.63John Brockman brings together the world's best-known physicists and science writers-including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winner Frank Wilczek, Benoit Mandelbrot, and Martin Rees-to explain the universe in all wondrous splendor. In The... -
Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code by Lily E. Kay 9780804734172
RRP: $68.61$54.96This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of the information age and its impact on representations of nature, heredity, and society. Drawing on... -
Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand
RRP: $22.28$14.68The green movement used to protect the earth from mankind; now they need to protect mankind from the earth. In Whole Earth Discipline, Stewart Brand argues that in order to do this, they urgently need to abandon much conventional environmental wisdom,... -
Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer by Jim Holt 9781846682452 [USED COPY]
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Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer by Jim Holt
RRP: $18.85$13.33'Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?' remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking, the celebrated essayist Jim Holt... -
Counterexamples in Topology by Lynn Arthur Steen 9780486687353
RRP: $23.14$14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486687353Author Lynn Arthur SteenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski: The Life and Ideas of a Popular Science Icon by Timothy Sandefur
$25.25Best remembered today for his blockbuster documentary series The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski spent decades explaining scientific ideas to laypersons on television and radio. A true Renaissance man, Bronowski was not only a scientist, but a philosopher... -
The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader by Stephen Jay Gould
RRP: $29.14$21.06There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. Yet few would have grudged this accolade to Stephen Jay Gould, whose writings on history - both of the natural world and... -
The Science of Harry Potter: The Spellbinding Science Behind the Magic, Gadgets, Potions, and More! by Mark Brake
RRP: $18.85$12.01How does magic in J. K. Rowling's universe work? Finally, the scientific secrets are revealed! The story of the boy who lived has brought the idea of magic and sorcery into mainstream fruition more than any other book series in history. Modern muggle... -
The Angina Monologues: stories of surgery for broken hearts by Samer Nashef 9781911617785
RRP: $25.71$16.81A pioneering cardiac surgeon expertly sews up the heart of surgery, the health of the nation, and the NHS. The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor's heart up the motorway hard shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive... -
Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide by Brian Clegg
RRP: $8.56$6.02Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers - and provoked and shocked others.The ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave... -
Caribbean Primary Science Kindergarten Book by Karen Morrison
$19.88Open up the world of science to your students, enthusing and encouraging them to become focused, questioning and successful scientists, thinkers and problem-solvers. Science and technology encompass some of the most important skills children need to... -
The Science of Doctor Who: The Scientific Facts Behind the Time Warps and Space Travels of the Doctor by Mark Brake 9781510757868
RRP: $18.85$12.01Geek out over the TARDIS, aliens, alternate timelines, parallel worlds, and all your favorite characters from the Doctor Who Universe!Doctor Who arrived with the Space Age, when the Doctor first began exploring the universe in a time-traveling spaceship... -
Ebola: Profile of a Killer Virus by Dorothy H. Crawford
RRP: $34.29$25.11First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa. Thousands of... -
Wednesday Is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia by Richard E. Cytowic
$64.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516709Author Richard E. CytowicFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story by Randy Olson
$25.20Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you'll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they'll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great stories, with all the drama and action that... -
Graphic Science: Seven Journeys of Discovery by Darryl Cunningham 9780993563324
RRP: $29.14$19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993563324Author Darryl CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
How Pleasure Works: Why we like what we like by Paul Bloom
RRP: $18.85$13.33Pleasure is one of the most fascinating aspects of being human. But what is it?Exploring child development, philosophy, neuroscience and behavioural economics, Paul Bloom uncovers how universal habits explain what we like and why we like it.The average... -
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency by Jonty Claypole
RRP: $25.71$19.47'TIMELY' David Mitchell 'MOVING ... REMARKABLE' SUNDAY TIMES 'ONE OF THOSE RARE BOOKS I HADN'T REASLISED I'D BEEN WAITING FOR UNTIL I READ IT.' Owen Sheers 'OPEN-MINDED, THOUGHTFUL AND WISE... A LIBERATING BOOK' Colm Toibin In an age of... -
Faster: Our Race Against Time by James Gleick 9780349112923 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.85$3.74Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Microcosmos by Brandon Broll
RRP: $25.64$20.45Microcosmos is a remarkable photo-journey into everyday life through spectacular microscopic images. This new edition lifts the book to breathtaking realms. The extraordinary images, produced with the latest microphotography technologies, are displayed... -
The Big Ideas in Science: A complete introduction by Jon Evans
RRP: $22.28$14.75By the simple expedient of asking questions and conducting experiments to answer them, science has transformed our understanding of the world. It has made us who we are, and revealed a universe that is older, bigger and stranger than we could ever have... -
The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Ian Stewart
RRP: $29.14$23.98Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a... -
The Biggest Number in the World: A Journey to the Edge of Mathematics by David Darling
RRP: $18.85$12.01From cells in our bodies to measuring the universe, big numbers are everywhere We all know that numbers go on forever, that you could spend your life counting and never reach the end of the line, so there can't be such a thing as a 'biggest number'... -
Viruses: More Friends Than Foes (Revised Edition) by Karin Moelling 9789811224744
RRP: $42.88$37.38Coronavirus, AIDS, and Ebola: Viruses are normally defined as pathogens. Most viruses are, however, not enemies or killers. Well-known virologist and cancer researcher Karin Moelling describes surprising insights about a completely new and unexpected... -
Max Maths Primary A Singapore Approach Grade 1 Student Book by Tony Cotton 9781380008749
$28.61Max Maths Primary - A Singapore Approach is a six-level course in mathematics for young learners. It offers a complete solution for schools following the Cambridge Primary maths curriculum framework, and has been specifically designed to support students... -
Theories Of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation by John D. Barrow 9780099983804 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.43$3.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution by Skylar Tibbits
$27.26From the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a manifesto for the dawning age of active materialsThings in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are... -
The Science of Consequences: How They Affect Genes, Change the Brain, and Impact Our World by Susan M. Schneider 9781616146627
RRP: $23.93$14.31Actions have consequences--and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on earth. While it's easy enough to see that consequences are important (where would we be without positive reinforcement?), few have heard there's a science of... -
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived by Clive Finlayson
RRP: $22.28$15.59Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they... -
Why the Mind is Not a Computer: A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology by Raymond Tallis 9780907845942
RRP: $15.35$14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907845942Author Raymond TallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained by Robert L. Wolke 9780393329421
RRP: $29.07$19.88"Wolke, longtime professor of chemistry and author of the Washington Post column Food 101, turns his hand to a Cecil Adams style compendium of questions and answers on food chemistry. Is there really a difference between supermarket and sea salt? How is... -
Can Reindeer Fly?: The Science of Christmas by Roger Highfield
RRP: $18.85$12.69An irresistible stocking-filler: a hilarious romp through the science of Christmas.How does snow form? Why are we always depressed after Christmas? How does Santa manage to deliver all those presents in one night? (He has, in fact, little over two...