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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
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750760Author Luke O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins
RRP: £8.99£5.82Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly... -
Delay Ageing: Healthy to 100 by Colin Rose 9780905553702
RRP: £12.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780905553702Author Colin RoseFormat PaperbackImprint Accelerated Learning Systems LtdPublisher Accelerated Learning Systems Ltd -
Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut by Marcus du Sautoy
RRP: £9.99£6.64How do you remember more and forget less? How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house? And how do you pack a car boot most efficiently? ... -
The Planet in a Pebble: A journey into Earth's deep history by Jan Zalasiewicz
RRP: £11.99£8.43This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative... -
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals by Rupert Sheldrake
RRP: £10.99£7.77Many people who have ever owned a pet will swear that their dog or cat or other animal has exhibited some kind of behaviour they just can't explain. How does a dog know when its owner is returning home at an unexpected time?Filled with captivating... -
One Thousand Exercises in Probability: Third Edition by Professor Geoffrey Grimmett
£43.17This third edition is a revised, updated, and greatly expanded version of previous edition of 2001. The 1300+ exercises contained within are not merely drill problems, but have been chosen to illustrate the concepts, illuminate the subject, and both... -
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... -
Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History Sarah Gilbert 9781529369854
RRP: £20.00£13.75THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Prospect, Guardian and The Times*This is the story of a race - not against other vaccines or other scientists, but... -
Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction by David Muir Wood
RRP: £8.99£6.45Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure. In this Very... -
Why Don't Things Fall Up?: and Six Other Science Lessons You Missed at School by Alom Shaha 9781529348163
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A great idea, beautifully executed.' Popular Science'A book of quiet wonder.' Ian Dunt 'I have learnt (and remembered) so much, and so easily. It's the mango ice cream of science books.' Hilary McKay'Everything Alom writes is a joy to ponder, his love... -
15 Million Degrees: A Journey to the Centre of the Sun by Lucie Green
RRP: £12.99£9.09110 times wider than Earth; 15 million degrees at its core; an atmosphere so huge that Earth is actually within it: come and meet the star of our solar systemLight takes eight minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But its journey within the... -
AQA GCSE Chemistry 9-1 Student Book (GCSE Science 9-1) by Ann Daniels
RRP: £21.99£20.99Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE ChemistryFirst teaching: September 2016 Next exams: June 2024 AQA approved GCSE Science is changing and AQA GCSE (9-1) Chemistry from Collins has been developed to embed the skills your students... -
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth 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... -
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe by Marcus Chown
RRP: £8.99£6.13Bestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, our world and the universe with fifty fascinating and mind-bending facts.Our adventures in space, our deepening understanding of the quantum world and huge... -
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler 9780062429667
RRP: £10.99£7.25In this groundbreaking book, New York Times-bestselling author Steven Kotler draws on cutting edge research and first-hand reporting as he explores what makes super performers tick and what we can learn from them. Why are business moguls going to Burning... -
Mathematics and the Physical World Morris Kline 9780486241043
RRP: £29.49£18.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486241043Author Morris KlineFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Real Science behind the X Files, Th by Simon 9780684856186
RRP: £19.99£14.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684856186Author SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 552g -
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
RRP: £11.99£7.12** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval... -
What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe 9781399811149
RRP: £10.99£7.78'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Totally brilliant' Tim HarfordWHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to move... -
The Naked Surgeon: the power and peril of transparency in medicine by Samer A. M. Nashef 9781925228694
RRP: £10.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925228694Author Samer NashefFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Scribe PublicationsPublisher Scribe PublicationsDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 16mm -
Awe: The New Science and Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Prof. Dacher Keltner
RRP: £25.00£17.62'I recommend [Awe] to everyone. Its ideas organized a lot of my experiences, observations, thoughts, and hopes in a powerful new way.' - Rebecca Solnit, (X)From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a groundbreaking exploration into the history,... -
How to Think About Abstract Algebra by Lara Alcock 9780198843382
RRP: £21.49£20.14How to Think about Abstract Algebra provides an engaging and readable introduction to its subject, which encompasses group theory and ring theory. Abstract Algebra is central in most undergraduate mathematics degrees, and it captures regularities that... -
The Science of Everyday Life: Why Teapots Dribble, Toast Burns and Light Bulbs Shine by Marty Jopson 9781782439608 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.13Have 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... -
No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality by Judith Rich Harris 9780393329711
RRP: £21.00£17.07Why do people-even identical twins reared in the same home-differ so much in personality? Armed with an inquiring mind and insights from evolutionary psychology, Judith Rich Harris sets out to solve the mystery of human individuality.About the... -
Reinvention Of Science, The: Slaying The Dragons Of Dogma And Ignorance by Bernard J T Jones 9781800613607
RRP: £45.00£39.49Throughout the history of science, different thinkers, philosophers and scientists postulated the existence of entities that, in spite of their not being visible or detectable in their time, or perhaps ever, were nevertheless useful to explain the real... -
How To: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Randall Munroe
RRP: £10.99£7.78Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Wonderful' Neil GaimanAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the... -
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... -
Symbiotic Planet: A New Look At Evolution by Lynn Margulis 9780465072729
RRP: £18.99£11.76Although Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the origins of species. Darwin and his modern... -
Shadows Of The Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose
RRP: £14.99£10.95'One of the most important works...of the twentieth century' The TimesShadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the human mind.A visionary description of what a new physics - one that is adequate to account... -
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... -
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll 9781786076335
RRP: £20.00£15.44Quantum 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... -
Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind by Ian Stewart 9780521571555 [USED COPY]
RRP: £80.00£2.65Is the universe around us a figment of our imagination? Or are our minds figments of reality? In this refreshing new look at the evolution of mind and culture, bestselling authors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen eloquently argue that our minds necessarily... -
Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind by Ian Stewart 9780521571555
RRP: £80.00£63.71Is the universe around us a figment of our imagination? Or are our minds figments of reality? In this refreshing new look at the evolution of mind and culture, bestselling authors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen eloquently argue that our minds necessarily... -
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben 9780805075199
RRP: £20.99£13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805075199Author Bill McKibbenFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company Inc -
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... -
Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language by Emma Byrne 9781781255780 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.13Swearing, 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... -
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... -
Molecules of Emotion The Science Behind Mind Body Medicine by Pert 9780684846347
£13.01Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780684846347Author PertFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 142mm * 25mm -
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, From Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks by Chad Orzel
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Entertaining and engrossing' Sean Carroll Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping. That need to tell the time connects you to over five thousand years of human history, from the...