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Does Science Need a Global Language?: English and the Future of Research by Scott L. Montgomery 9780226535036
RRP: €23.80€23.09In early 2012, the global scientific community erupted with news that the elusive Higgs boson had likely been found, providing potent validation for the Standard Model of how the universe works. Scientists from more than one hundred countries contributed... -
Reptiles: A Very Short Introduction by T. S. Kemp
RRP: €10.70€7.68For millions of years reptiles have walked, crawled, and slithered over the face of our Earth. From the mighty dinosaurs who dominated the land, the pterosaurs who took to the air, and the marine adapted ichthyosaurs, to the living reptiles today such as... -
Spite: and the Upside of Your Dark Side by Simon McCarthy-Jones
RRP: €20.22€15.09Have you ever done something stupid, dangerous or self-sabotaging just to get one over someone else? Most of us have. Simon McCarthy-Jones draws on psychology, current affairs, literature and genetics to illuminate - whether we admit it or not - our... -
Print Is Dead: Books in our Digital Age by Jeff Gomez 9780230527164
RRP: €39.26€32.26For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating literacy rates, the book has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to... -
Supersense: From Superstition to Religion - The Brain Science of Belief by Bruce Hood 9781849010306 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.23Why is it that Tony Blair always wore the same pair of shoes when answering Prime Minister's Questions? That John McEnroe notoriously refused to step on the white lines of a tennis court between points? And that President-elect Barack Obama played a game... -
Supersense: From Superstition to Religion - The Brain Science of Belief by Bruce Hood
RRP: €13.08€8.81Why is it that Tony Blair always wore the same pair of shoes when answering Prime Minister's Questions? That John McEnroe notoriously refused to step on the white lines of a tennis court between points? And that President-elect Barack Obama played a game... -
Disturbing The Universe by Freeman Dyson 9780465016778
€25.35Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, through his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, his early friendship with Richard Feynman, and... -
How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper by Barbara Gastel
RRP: €34.50€26.91An essential guide for succeeding in today's competitive environment, this book provides beginning scientists and experienced researchers with practical advice on writing about their work and getting published. This brand new, updated edition also... -
Make - Volume 68 by Mike Senese 9781680455748
RRP: €9.51€6.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680455748Author Mike SeneseFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Make Community, LLCPublisher O'Reilly MediaWeight(grams) 194gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 212mm... -
Engineering Analysis of Flight Vehicles by Holt Ashley 9780486672137
RRP: €20.22€18.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486672137Author Holt AshleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 530gDimensions(mm)... -
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 by Sam Kean 9781328987808
RRP: €19.03€13.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328987808Author Tim FolgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *... -
Plant Cell Walls by Peter Albersheim
RRP: €115.42€111.30Plant cell walls are complex, dynamic cellular structures essential for plant growth, development, physiology and adaptation. Plant Cell Walls provides an in depth and diverse view of the microanatomy, biosynthesis and molecular physiology of these... -
How Do You Get An Egg Into A Bottle?: Scientific puzzles to baffle and bemuse your brain by Erwin Brecher
RRP: €17.84€12.14Containing around 200 fascinating science puzzles posing real-world questions for you to ponder and solve at home. The answer to each problem explains a scientific principle in easy-to-understand terms, so not only are you solving puzzles, you are also... -
A Journey Through the Universe: A Traveler's Guide from the Center of the Sun to the Edge of the Unknown by New Scientist
RRP: €13.08€8.81There's a whole universe out there...Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way?The... -
Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide by Brian Clegg
RRP: €10.70€3.32Infinity 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... -
A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein by Stephen Hawking 9780762435647
€22.66With commentary by the greatest physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, this anthology has garnered impressive reviews. PW has called it a gem of a collection" while New Scientist magazine notes the thrill of reading Einstein's own words." From the... -
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates by Howard Bloom 9781633881426
RRP: €19.03€15.03How does the cosmos do something it has long been thought that only gods could achieve? How does an inanimate universe generate stunning new forms and unbelievable new powers without a Creator? How does the cosmos create? That's the central question of a... -
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined - and redefined - nature by Beth Shapiro
RRP: €13.08€8.33A Times Best Book of 2021 From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs - the human history of remaking nature. Virus-free mosquitoes, resurrected dinosaurs, designer humans - such is the power of the science of tomorrow. But the idea... -
Pascal's Pensees: Thoughts on God, Religion, and Wagers by Blaise Pascal 9780979127670
€13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979127670Author Blaise PascalFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Suzeteo EnterprisesPublisher Suzeteo EnterprisesWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Curious World of Science: A visual miscelllany of stories, theories, discoveries & curiosities plucked from the scientific world by Simon Flynn
RRP: €23.80€16.49To some, science is simply a means to an end; to others it is an almost spiritual meditation on theoriesand formulae.The Curious World of Science embraces both views and much more besides. Focusing on the human endeavours at the heart of science, it... -
Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man's Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science by Curtis Ebbesmeyer 9780061558429
RRP: €11.89€11.41Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. He's been a consulting oceanographer for multinational firms and a lead scientist on international research expeditions, but he's never held a conventional academic appointment. He seized the world's... -
The Maze P: Seeing the World through Mathematical Eyes by STEWART 9780471350651
RRP: €15.46€13.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471350651Author STEWARTFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company -
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner
RRP: €26.17€17.16Apologies 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 -
Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler
RRP: €23.80€14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385199735Author Eric DrexlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
What Your Food Ate: How to Restore Our Land and Reclaim Our Health by David R. Montgomery
RRP: €19.03€14.51We know that our diet influences our health. But is there more to the adage "you are what you eat?" Connecting the dots from agriculture to medicine, geologist David R. Montgomery and biologist Anne Bikle argue we overlook the other half of a healthy... -
Ebola: Profile of a Killer Virus by Dorothy H. Crawford
RRP: €23.79€17.87First 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... -
Every Breath You Take: A User's Guide to the Atmosphere by Mark Broomfield 9780715653708 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€3.20A fascinating journey through the atmosphere that will leave you breathless. With seven million early deaths a year linked to air pollution, air quality is headline news around the world. But how do we measure air pollution and what on earth is an... -
Every Breath You Take: A User's Guide to the Atmosphere by Mark Broomfield
RRP: €13.08€8.78A fascinating journey through the atmosphere that will leave you breathless. With seven million early deaths a year linked to air pollution, air quality is headline news around the world. But how do we measure air pollution and what on earth is an... -
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
RRP: €13.08€10.03From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction could soon become science fact. Albert Einstein said, 'If... -
Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine by Isabelle Dussauge 9780199689583
RRP: €139.83€131.15Many deep concerns in the life sciences and medicine have to do with the enactment, ordering and displacement of a broad range of values. This volume articulates a pragmatist stance for the study of the making of values in society, exploring various... -
The Next Million Years by Sir Charles Galton Darwin 9780837168760
€57.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837168760Author Sir Charles Galton DarwinFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age by Sue Armstrong
RRP: €20.22€14.61As featured on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week 'A rich, timely study for the era of "global ageing"'- Nature The ageing of the world population is one of the most important issues facing humanity in the 21st century - up there with climate change in... -
Adventures of a Mathematician by S. M. Ulam
RRP: €24.99€19.79This autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory... -
The Invention That Changed the World by Robert Buderi 9780684835297
€29.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684835297Author Robert BuderiFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 836gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Eight Improbable Possibilities: The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths by John Gribbin 9781785789793
RRP: €11.89€7.76'Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . . a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.' Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night MagazineA mind-warping excursion into the wildly... -
Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For Animals by Jane Goodall 9780738204376
€25.35Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched... -
The Practice of Social Research by Earl Babbie
€91.08Known as the gold standard for research methods, Babbie's THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH gives you a definitive guide to research as practiced by social scientists. Combining a straightforward approach with the author's renowned sense of humor, this... -
Dr. Quantum's Little Book of Big Ideas: Where Science Meets Spirit by Fred Alan Wolf 9781930491083
RRP: €15.46€11.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930491083Author Fred Alan WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Moment Point Press Inc,USPublisher Moment Point Press Inc,US -
Rats, Lice and History: The Classic Account of Infectious Disease and Human History by Hans Zinsser
RRP: €11.89€8.03"Swords and lances, arrows, machine guns and even high explosives have had far less power over the fate of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea and the yellow-fever mosquito." Both shocking and entertaining, this masterpiece of popular... -
The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge by William Poundstone 9780486490984
RRP: €17.24€10.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486490984Author William PoundstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...