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This book is packed with practice questions for students taking the GCSE Biology OCR 21st Century course. It covers all the topics for the year 10 and 11 exams with a range of exercises that test what you know and how well you can apply your knowledge...

This book (with free Online Edition) is full of detailed revision notes and clear diagrams for GCSE Biology students. It covers every topic for the OCR Gateway year 10 and 11 exams. The whole thing's designed to make revision straightforward - each...

This book (with free Online Edition) is full of detailed revision notes and clear diagrams for Edexcel GCSE Biology. It's designed to make revision straightforward - each section is split into a topic per page, with questions at the end to check what...

This book is full of clear revision notes and exam practice questions for A2 Biology students. It covers all the topics in the current Biology course for the OCR, Edexcel and AQA exam boards, and it's easy to read and revise from - everything's explained...

The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael Brooks, bestselling author of 13 Things that Don't...

Why do birds sing at dawn? What's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? And how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?, the eagerly-awaited new 'Last Word' collection, has the answers to...

The latest in the bestselling New Scientist Last Word series All science begins with questions...- Why is the night sky black, even though it's full of stars? - How do pebbles skim on water? - Why doesn't your own snoring wake you up? - And why is the...

Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? (2005) and the even...

Illustrated for the first time, with eighty full-colour photographs showing the beauty, complexity and mystery of the world around us, here is the next eagerly awaited volume of science questions and answers from New Scientist magazine. From ripples in...

Two pioneers in health--Dr Deepak Chopra and Prof Rudolph E. Tanzi, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes of Alzheimer's--share a bold new understanding of the brain and a prescriptive plan for how we can use it to achieve physical, mental...

This book (with free Online Edition) is full of detailed revision notes and clear diagrams for Higher Level Edexcel GCSE Science. It covers every topic for the Year 10 exams. Each section is split into a topic per page, with questions to check what...

This book (with free Online Edition) is full of clear revision notes and diagrams for Higher Level OCR Gateway GCSE Core Science. It includes a section on 'How Science Works', loads of exam advice and revision summary questions. Everything's explained in...

This book is packed with practice questions for GCSE Biology students. It covers the major topics for the AQA, Edexcel and OCR exams with a range of exercises that test what you know and how well you can apply your knowledge. The answers are in the back...

This book is packed with practice questions for Higher level GCSE Science students. It covers the major topics for the AQA, Edexcel and OCR exams with a range of exercises that test what you know and how well you can apply your knowledge. The answers are...

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This book is full of clear notes and exam-style practice questions covering every A2 Biology topic for the AQA Exam Board. The whole thing's designed to make revision straightforward - everything you need to know is explained simply and thoroughly,...

Every 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...

The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts address the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846681318Author New ScientistFormat HardbackImprint Profile Books LtdPublisher Profile Books Ltd

Using both time-lapse and conventional photography as well as digital video, the Extreme Ice Survey is the most extensive visual study ever conducted to illustrate the catastrophic melting of glacial ice. The result is a dramatic and timely demonstration...

The history of science is replete with ideas that were considered socially, morally or emotionally dangerous in their time. The Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are obvious examples -- radical, brilliant insights that did not so much push the...

This Student Book has been written by experienced teachers and subject experts specifically for the 2011 AQA GCSE Science specification, providing differentiated content to support, stretch and challenge all abilities. How Science Works is integrated...

Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs presents a series of clear and concise essays that explain the fundamentals of some of the most exciting and important science concepts you really need to know. Paul Parsons profiles the important, ground-breaking, and...

The collaborative character of science and scholarship, whether formal or informal in nature, is the focus of this discussion by a master of the subject. The world of scholarly communication is evolving with exponential speed. Propelled by the Web and...

Illustrated throughout in colour, this is a concise edition of Flora Britannica. It is organised thematically, rather than botanically and includes the personal anecdotes, observations and regional knowledge of people from all over Britain.Book...

Can time run backwards? Can we live forever? Could our universe have been created as a DIY experiment by superior beings in another universe? These questions may sound crazy but they explore the limits of our current knowledge and highlight the key...

In Lost in Space, Greg Klerkx argues that ever since the triumphant Apollo moon missions, the Space Age has been stuck in the wrong orbit, and that NASA, the agency whose daring once fueled the world's extra-terrestrial vision, has been largely...

This is shortlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2013. Is Usain Bolt a superhuman one-off? Are sports stars like Paula Radcliffe and Tiger Woods born or made? Could we all be Olympians if we trained hard enough? And is the answer to be found...

A highly successful general science course, the enduring popularity of Starting Science stems from its built-in differentiation, colourful, straightforward style, and its content-based approach. *Specifically designed for use in mixed-ability classes...

This book is full of clear revision notes and exam practice questions for GCSE Biology students. It covers all the important topics you need to learn to improve your grades in the AQA, Edexcel, OCR Gateway and OCR 21st Century exams. It's easy to read...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877462764Author Kent PryorFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Biozone International LtdPublisher Biozone International LtdWeight(grams) 210g

An exploration of how the human body works, what happens when things go wrong and ways to make things ri ght, all in an authoritative reference complete with the mos t current medical advances and information. 'Book InformationISBN 9780792271482Author...

Reaching back as far as Babylon (for the origins of mathematics) and the Etruscans (who thought they could handle lightning), this book takes us through the revolutions in electrical communications and technology that made the theory of relativity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858545325Author David CullenFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint BrimaxPublisher Five MileWeight(grams) 558g

This book (with free Online Edition) is full of clear revision notes and diagrams for Foundation Level Edexcel GCSE Core Science. It includes a section on 'How Science Works', loads of exam advice and revision summary questions. Everything's simply...

In August 2007 the world reacted with consternation as Russia planted a flag beneath the ice of the North Pole, symbolising the Kremlin' s claim to the Arctic with its vast mineral resources, and firing the starting gun on the world' s last colonial...

In 30 years' time will you be holidaying on the moon? In 100 years' time could you genetically engineer your own pet? In 1000 years' time will you travel through space in an anti-matter-drive spaceship? This eye-opening guide predicts the future with a...

I have struggled, harder and more explicitly than for anything else in my life as a writer, to develop a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great scientific issues in the context of biography -and to do so not by the factual chronology of a...

Touch by David J. Linden - The astonishing secrets of our senses, and how to harness them to change your personal and professional life Why can't we tickle ourselves? Why do footballers who hug score more goals? Why does holding a hot coffee make us feel...

The human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe. Learning how it works, the relationship between mind and brain, is one of the most fundamental and important of scientific questions and neurobiology one of the fastest growing research...