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Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life by Rob Eastaway 9781911622277
RRP: £9.99£6.64An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And which classic puzzle was destroyed by Allied... -
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb 9781529304848
RRP: £10.99£6.47'VISIONARY' Stephen GreenblattHarvard's top astronomer takes us inside the mind-blowing story of the first interstellar visitor to our solar system In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed a strange object soaring through our inner... -
The Science of Everyday Life: Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns and Light Bulbs Shine by Marty Jopson
RRP: £8.99£6.03Have you ever wondered why ice floats, how the GPS on your mobile phone works (and what it has to do with Einstein), or why woollen jumpers shrink in the wash?In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show's resident scientist... -
Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do by Wallace J. Nichols
RRP: £12.99£8.60Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on,... -
The Science of Bakery Products by William P. Edwards 9780854044863
RRP: £24.95£20.87Ever wondered why bread rises? Or why dough needs to rest? From cakes and biscuits to flat breads and standard loaves, the diversity of products is remarkable and the chemistry behind these processes is equally fascinating. The Science of Bakery Products... -
The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves by Charles Fernyhough
RRP: £12.99£9.09We all hear voices. Ordinary thinking is often a kind of conversation, filling our heads with speech: the voices of reason, of memory, of self-encouragement and rebuke, the inner dialogue that helps us with tough decisions or complicated problems. For... -
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll 9781786076335
RRP: £20.00£15.11Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revolutionary theory is truly illuminating. It stands as the best explanation of the fundamental nature of our world. 'An authoritative and... -
The Keys to Kindness: How Kindness Unlocks Wellbeing, Success and Purpose by Claudia Hammond 9781838854485
RRP: £10.99£7.32Kindness can be your super-power. It feels good to be kind to others. And it feels good to receive kindness. Making the world better, in however small a way, feels good and does good. Did you know kinder bosses are more successful bosses? That paying it... -
The Planet Factory by Elizabeth Tasker
RRP: £11.99£8.43Forget about rockets to Mars - the future of space science lies with the search for exoplanets Twenty years ago, the search for planets outside the Solar System was the preserve of science-fiction writers. Now it's one of the fastest-growing fields in... -
Our Human Story by Louise Humphrey 9780565093914
RRP: £16.99£10.39Our Human Story is a guide to our fossil relatives, from what may be the earliest hominins such as Sahelanthropus, dating back six to seven million years, through to our own species, Homo sapiens. Over the past 25 years there has been an explosion of... -
Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language by Emma Byrne
RRP: £10.99£7.77Swearing, it turns out, is an incredibly useful part of our linguistic repertoire. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, help stroke victims recover their... -
The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who'Ve Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner 9781426207556
RRP: £6.99£5.00A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits. If you adopt the right lifestyle, experts say, chances are you may live up to a decade longer. So what's the formula for success? National Geographic... -
Does Anything Eat Wasps: And 101 Other Questions by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£7.40Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the 'Last Word' column - regularly voted the most popular section of the magazine.Does... -
Teenagers: A Natural History by David Bainbridge 9781846271229
RRP: £8.99£6.08During the second decade of human life, the body and brain undergo a profound and complex transformation, with emotions and intellect changing as rapidly and unpredictably as weight and height. These changes can be baffling - to teenagers and to those... -
What Doesn't Kill Us: the bestselling guide to transforming your body by unlocking your lost evolutionary strength by Scott Carney
RRP: £10.99£7.32A New York Times bestseller and a Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and The Times. Is getting a little less comfortable the key to living a happier, healthier life? When journalist Scott Carney came across a picture of a man in his fifties... -
Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe by George Musser 9780861547197
RRP: £25.00£17.62Distant galaxies, dark matter, black holes - elusive, incomprehensible and inhospitable - these are the building blocks of modern physics. But where do we fit in this picture? 'A delightful account of one of the deepest and most fascinating... -
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World by David Bodanis
RRP: £10.99£6.47For centuries, electricity was viewed as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention,... -
OCR Gateway GCSE Biology 9-1 Student Book (GCSE Science 9-1) by Anne Pilling
RRP: £20.99£20.09Exam Board: OCRLevel & Subject: GCSE BiologyFirst teaching: September 2016 Next exams: June 2024 OCR endorsed GCSE Science is changing and OCR Gateway GCSE (9-1) Biology from Collins has been developed to embed the skills your... -
Beyond Measure by James Vincent
RRP: £18.99£12.83THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARNEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYA revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew.'A wildly... -
The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age by Henk van Nierop 9789463725101
RRP: £62.95£59.89Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire, he is best known as the chief propaganda artist working for stadtholder and... -
The Music of the Primes: Why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters by Marcus du Sautoy
RRP: £10.99£7.2520 years later The Music of the Primes is still a groundbreaking popular science book. This new edition features updates from the author and a foreword by actor and director, Simon McBurney. In 1859, the German mathematician Bernhard Riemann... -
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
RRP: £35.00£25.89**WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS** The Road to Reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying... -
Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants by Monica Gagliano
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172435Author Monica GaglianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Personality: A User's Guide by Nikita Mikhailov 9781472147936
RRP: £16.99£11.54'The best introduction to personality psychology I have ever read' Robert Hogan, founder and president, Hogan Assessment SystemsWe are each born with a particular genetic makeup and traits that are further shaped by our individual environments and life... -
Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating by Charles Spence
RRP: £10.99£7.77A ground-breaking book by the world-leading expert in sensory science: Freakonomics for food'Popular science at its best' - Daniel Levitin Why do we consume 35% more food when eating with one more person, and 75% more when with three? Why are 27% of... -
Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World by Catherine Whitlock
RRP: £14.99£9.80'These minibiographies of women who persisted will move anyone with an avid curiosity about the world.' Publishers Weekly With a foreword by Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge and Master of Churchill College.Ten... -
Trilobite! by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: £10.99£7.25'In Richard Fortey's capable hands the humble grey trilobite has been transformed into the E.T. of the Lower Palaeozoic - a remarkable and fascinating book.' SIMON WINCHESTER Richard Fortey is one of Britain's leading popular scientists. Life:... -
BTEC Level 2 First Applied Science Student Book by Patricia Rhodes
£36.71Covers all 22 units of the specification giving learners everything they need to know in one textbook, and allowing tutors to tailor the course around their learners' needs and interests.Achieve your potential: Assessment activities and grading tips... -
Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths by Eugenia Cheng
RRP: £16.99£15.11Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What's the point of algebra? Is maths even real? From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Eugenia Cheng - mathematician, writer and woman... -
Chance: The science and secrets of luck, randomness and probability by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99£7.40For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the... -
The Beak Of The Finch by Jonathan Weiner
RRP: £15.99£11.61This is one of the easiest-to-read, most exciting books on evolution of the past twenty years. It describes evolution happening before our eyes among the isolated bird populations of the Galapagos - the very finches observed by Darwin on his Beagle... -
Introducing Plato: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: £7.99£3.42"Introducing Plato" begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on... -
Hunt For Zero Point by Nick Cook
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1966 a group of highly respected aerospace engineers revealed that US scientists were perfecting ways to control gravity. They predicted a breakthrough would come by the end of the decade, ushering in an era of limitless, clean propulsion for a new... -
The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug by Barry Werth 9780671510572
£11.85Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research.Founded by Joshua Boger, a... -
The Consolations of Physics: Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy by Tim Radford
RRP: £8.99£3.32'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... -
Time Travel by James Gleick
RRP: £12.99£8.48AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our... -
The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine
RRP: £10.99£7.77From the author of the groundbreaking, international bestseller The Female Brain comes this eagerly awaited follow-up.Did you know that the male brain...*is a lean, mean problem-solving machine that uses analytical brain structures, not emotional ones,... -
Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain by Usha Goswami 9781138923911
£48.57Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour textbook has been updated with the latest research in cognitive... -
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £12.99£8.60In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition of the principles governing every branch of learning. ... -
Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds by Linda Geddes
RRP: £10.99£7.77The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood. 'A sparkling and illuminating study, one of those rare books that could genuinely improve your life' Sunday Times 'Life changing' Daily Mail ...