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It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations Of Modern Science by Graham Farmelo
RRP: £9.99£6.70The exact sciences have an immense weight and influence in our culture. At the heart of their effectiveness lies the mathematical equation. The difficult form of the great equations - particularly those of modern physics - has often acted as an obstacle... -
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by John Brinckerhoff Jackson 9780300063974
RRP: £20.00£19.40J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Because we live in urban and industrial environments that... -
BTEC First in Applied Science: Application of Science - Unit 8 Revision Workbook by Jennifer Stafford-Brown
£6.97This Revision Workbook has been specifically written for Unit 8: Scientific Skills in Application of Science of the Level 2 BTEC Firsts in Applied Science. With lots of revision practice and guided questions, guidance on how to answer the... -
Forbidden Science: From Ancient Technologies to Free Energy by J. Douglas Kenyon 9781591430827
RRP: £15.99£10.48Following the model of his bestselling Forbidden History and Forbidden Religion, J. Douglas Kenyon has assembled from his bimonthly journal, Atlantis Rising, material that explores science and technology that has been suppressed by the orthodox... -
Taking Chances: Winning with Probability by John Haigh
RRP: £12.99£9.09What are the odds against winning the Lottery, making money in a casino, or backing the right horse? Every day, people make judgements on these matters and face other decisions that rest on their understanding of probability: buying insurance, following... -
The Science of Cooking by Peter Barham 9783540674665
RRP: £74.99£68.13A kitchen is no different from most science laboratories and cookery may properly be regarded as an experimental science. Food preparation and cookery involve many processes which are well described by the physical sciences. Understanding the chemistry... -
Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It by Jane Setter
RRP: £22.99£16.69Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Setter explores these and other fascinating questions in this engaging introduction to the power and the... -
Jupiter by William Sheehan
RRP: £20.00£14.29Now available in paperback, this beautifully illustrated volume ranges across the entire history of Jupiter studies, from the naked-eye observations of the Babylonians and the Greeks, through the telescopic discoveries of Galileo and T.E.R. Phillips, to... -
Weirder Maths: At the Edge of the Possible by David Darling
RRP: £9.99£7.11Even the most enthusiastic of maths students probably at one time wondered when exactly it would all prove useful in 'real life'. Well, maths reaches so far and wide through our world that, love it or hate it, we're all doing maths almost every minute of... -
Big Data by Timandra Harkness 9781472920072 [USED COPY]
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Big Data by Timandra Harkness
£9.79What is Big Data, and why should you care? Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll be the victim of crime and when you'll have a heart... -
Eloquent Science - A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker and Scientist by David M. Schultz 9781878220912
RRP: £34.00£33.37"Eloquent Science" evolved from a workshop aimed at offering atmospheric science students formal guidance in communications, tailored for their eventual scientific careers. Drawing on advice from over twenty books and hundreds of other sources, this... -
God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science by David C. Lindberg
£26.61Since the publication in 1896 of Andrew Dickson White's classic "History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom", no comprehensive history of the subject has appeared in the English language. Although many twentieth-century... -
The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by Susan Solomon 9780300099218
RRP: £22.50£22.08"These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale." So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the interrupted... -
Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond by Patricia Gosling 9783031114168
RRP: £19.99£17.61This bestselling book guides PhD students through their graduate years and beyond. Filled with practical advice on getting started, communicating with your supervisor, staying the course, and planning for the future, this book is an indispensable guide... -
Astrobiology: The Search for Alien Life: The Illustrated Edition by Andrew May
RRP: £20.00£13.10A NEW, FULLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF ANDREW MAY'S ILLUMINATING GUIDE TO LIFE NOT ON EARTHThe possibility that alien life exists in the universe is among the most profound of human conjectures, which today is being investigated not just by science-fiction... -
Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It by Jane Setter 9780192843029
RRP: £14.99£10.95Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Setter explores these and other fascinating questions in this engaging introduction to the power and the... -
Zoom: How Everything Moves, from Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees by Bob Berman 9781780745497 [USED COPY]
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Zoom: How Everything Moves, from Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees by Bob Berman 9781780745497
£6.85Sitting still in a quiet room, you might just be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents swirl about you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. And the planet you are on is whizzing through... -
Mathematical Physics by Francis Bitter 9780486435015
RRP: £12.95£8.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486435015Author Francis BitterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine by Don Norman 9780201626957
RRP: £19.95£14.16In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans... -
What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty by John Brockman 9781416522614 [USED COPY]
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What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty by John Brockman 9781416522614
RRP: £11.99£8.43""What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"" This was the question posed by John Brockman to a group of leading scientists and thinkers via his Edge.org website. The subsequent answers created a media storm and... -
The Book Of Nothing by John D. Barrow
RRP: £12.99£9.09How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing? Where does it begin and where does it end?From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum, from being and... -
The Drugs That Changed Our Minds: The history of psychiatry in ten treatments by Lauren Slater
RRP: £18.99£12.67'Poignant and lyrical...Slater's experience makes her a convincing travel guide into the history, creation and future of psychotropics.' - The New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking and revelatory story of the psychotropic drugs that have shaped our... -
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 9780393311037
RRP: £26.95£19.20Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging and illuminating exponent. Exploring the "peculiar and mysterious particulars of nature," Gould... -
The Infinite Mindfield by Anthony Peake
RRP: £14.99£9.80For thousands of years voyagers of inner space - spiritual seekers, shamans and mystics - have returned from their inner travels reporting another level of reality that is more real than the one we inhabit in 'waking life'. Others have claimed that... -
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination by Jacob Bronowski
RRP: £18.00£17.59"A gem of enlightenment. . . . One rejoices in Bronowski's dedication to the identity of acts of creativity and of imagination, whether in Blake or Yeats or Einstein or Heisenberg."-Kirkus Reviews "A delightful look at the inquiring mind."-Library... -
Keep Calm and Trust the Science: An Extraordinary Year in the Life of an Immunologist by Luke O'Neill
RRP: £16.99£12.28Take a front row seat with Professor Luke O'Neill on a high-octane year. Luke has become one of the most well-known and trusted voices of Ireland's COVID-19 pandemic. A world-renowned immunologist, he was thrust into the spotlight as we struggled to make... -
Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul by Giulio Tononi
RRP: £33.00£22.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307907219Author Giulio TononiFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 166mm *... -
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116721Author Tom ZoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g -
Is God an Illusion?: The Great Debate Between Science and Spirituality by Deepak Chopra
RRP: £16.99£12.28Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Hawking have had a major impact on the loud and popular debate between 'aggressive atheists' and religion. The huge sales of their bestselling books show just how much interest people have in their ideas... -
The Natural Laws of Children: Why Children Thrive When We Understand How Their Brains Are Wired by Celine Alvarez
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806731Author Celine AlvarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Curvology: The Origins and Power of Female Body Shape by David Bainbridge 9781846275524
RRP: £9.99£6.70In Curvology, Cambridge Veterinary Anatomist David Bainbridge applies the science of evolutionary biology to women's bodies, to explain why the human female is the only female animal to have curves and how these curves rule our lives, by influencing not... -
Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So by Ian Stewart 9780738206752
RRP: £17.99£12.80First there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes what Nature calls "a superb sequel." Through... -
Artificial Life by S Levy 9780679743897
RRP: £21.00£16.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679743897Author Steven LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 468gDimensions(mm)... -
Superbugs: the race to stop an epidemic by Matt McCarthy 9781911617433
RRP: £14.99£9.80Drug-resistant bacteria - known as superbugs - are one of the biggest medical threats of our time. Here, a doctor, researcher, and ethics professor tells the exhilarating story of his race to beat them and save countless lives. When doctor Matt... -
Citizenship and Social Class by T. H. Marshall 9780745304762
RRP: £26.99£20.84Over forty years after it first appeared, T.H. Marshall's seminal essay on citizenship and social class in post-war Britain has acquired the status of a classic. His lucid analysis of the principal elements of citizenship - namely, the possession of... -
Farewell to Reality: How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth by Jim Baggott 9781780334929
£12.73Modern physics is heady stuff. It seems that barely a week goes by without some new astounding science story; some revelation about hidden dimensions, multiple universes, the holographic principle or incredible cosmic coincidences. But is it true? What... -
The Comedy of Error: why evolution made us laugh by Jonathan Silvertown
RRP: £12.99£9.49What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes - the desire to laugh is universal. But why do we find some gags hilarious, whilst others fall flat? Why does...