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BTEC First in Applied Science: Principles of Applied Science Unit 1 Revision Guide by Jennifer Stafford-Brown
$8.99Resources designed to support learners of the new next generation BTEC First in Applied Science: Principles of Applied Science specification*. This Revision Guide has been specifically written for externally assessed Unit 1: Principles of science in... -
Trees: 10 Things You Should Know by Carolyn Fry 9781399613897
RRP: $14.18$9.55Discover the wonders at the centre of our planet's ecosystem.In ten short and accessible essays, science and nature writer Carolyn Fry takes us on an awe-inspiring journey of the Earth's lungs. From what makes a plant a tree and the incredible impact of... -
New Turing Omnibus by A. K. Dewdney
RRP: $30.95$25.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805071665Author A. K. DewdneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 725g -
The Faber Book of Science by John Carey
RRP: $21.92$15.45The Faber Book of Science introduces hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos. In his acclaimed anthology, John Carey plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory. The... -
The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
RRP: $16.76$12.09The Third Chimpanzee was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and poses fascinating questions. If we share more than... -
Foundations of Surface Science by Stephen Jenkins 9780198835134
RRP: $38.69$36.77The renowned Oxford Chemistry Primers series, which provides focused introductions to a range of important topics in chemistry, has been refreshed and updated to suit the needs of today's students, lecturers, and postgraduate researchers. The rigorous,... -
The Naked Surgeon: the power and peril of transparency in medicine by Samer A. M. Nashef 9781925228694
RRP: $14.18$9.44Apologies 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 -
Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science by Athene Donald
RRP: $21.92$15.84Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the scientific workforce? Not Just For the Boys looks back at how society has historically excluded women... -
The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels by Thomas Gold 9780387952536
RRP: $32.24$24.85This book sets forth a set of truly controversial and astonishing theories: First, it proposes that below the surface of the earth is a biosphere of greater mass and volume than the biosphere the total sum of living things on our planet's continents and... -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9781035038619
RRP: $14.18$9.18The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman's cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne.'No dead woman has done more for the living . . ... -
The Case Against Fragrance by Kate Grenville
RRP: $16.76$11.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature 2017 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781925355956Author Kate GrenvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Weird Maths: At the Edge of Infinity and Beyond by David Darling
RRP: $14.18$10.02Is anything truly random? Does infinity actually exist? Could we ever see into other dimensions? In this delightful journey of discovery, David Darling and extraordinary child prodigy Agnijo Banerjee draw connections between the cutting edge of modern... -
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
RRP: $14.18$10.02Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how... -
13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks
RRP: $14.18$10.02Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the... -
Reasons to be Hopeful: what remains consoling, inspiring and beautiful by The School of Life
RRP: $25.79$17.92An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times. In a world that isn't short of darkness, there could be few more urgent priorities than to spend time rehearsing for ourselves why life - despite all its challenges - still has so... -
Apollo 11: The Inside Story by David Whitehouse 9781785786181
RRP: $12.89$8.64'Terrific and enthralling' New Scientist'An authoritative account of Apollo 11 and the end of the space race, shedding light on the true drama behind the mission.' ObserverFifty years ago, in July 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land... -
The Brain: A Very Short Introduction by Michael O'Shea
RRP: $11.60$8.32How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain... -
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics by Gary Zukav
RRP: $25.79$18.42This is an account of the essential aspects of the new physics for those with little or no knowledge of mathematics or science. It describes current theories of quantum mechanics, Einstein's special and general theories of relativity and other... -
The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley 9780415610247
RRP: $21.92$19.63With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. - The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract;... -
Cambridge IGCSE (R) & O Level Essential Biology: Workbook Third Edition by Ron Pickering 9781382006101
RRP: $14.82$14.47The Cambridge IGCSE (R) & O Level Essential Biology Workbook, part of the successful Essential Science series, supports independent practice both inside and outside the classroom. The workbook builds and reinforces skills step-by-step to equip EAL... -
Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide by J. P. McEvoy 9781840468502
RRP: $11.60$8.55Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. At the subatomic level, one particle seems to know what the others are doing, and according to Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle", there is a limit... -
You Don't Want to Know: the grisly, macabre and most forgotten moments from history, science and beyond by James Felton
RRP: $16.76$11.09With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you'll then wish you could forget.Ever wondered why the chainsaw was invented?* How authorities dealt with a beached whale... -
The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology by Anil Ananthaswamy
RRP: $12.89$8.71A scientific and globetrotting exploration of the physics experiments changing the ways we understand our universe. Why is the universe expanding? What is the nature of dark matter? Do other universes exist? In this timely and original book, science... -
Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe by John Hands
RRP: $21.92$15.57A Daily Telegraph and TLS Book of the Year 'An audacious tour of all that science can teach us' Edward O. Wilson Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began... -
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll 9781851688951
RRP: $16.76$10.55Twenty years after Stephen Hawking's 9-million-copy selling A Brief History of Time, pioneering theoretical physicist Sean Carroll takes our investigation into the nature of time to the next level. You can't unscramble an egg and you can't remember the... -
The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics by Heinrich Päs 9781837730308
RRP: $15.47$10.23In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Pas presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.This idea, called monism, has a rich 3,000-year history: Plato believed that 'all is one', but monism was later... -
A User's Guide To The Brain by Dr. John J. Ratey
RRP: $16.76$11.09Bringing order and relevance to the cascade of recent brain findings, Dr John Ratey explains the brain's most important systems, the role they play in determining how we interact with the world and ways in which we can influence their operations for the... -
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $14.18$10.02A dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kindsCover note: Each copy of the new edition of Unweaving the Rainbow features a unique wavelength pattern. No two covers are exactly alike.Keats accused Newton of destroying the... -
The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity by Robin Ince 9781786492623
RRP: $23.21$15.74'A delightful and scintillating hymn to science.' Carlo RovelliComedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell in love and he now... -
Advanced Calculus by David V. Widder
RRP: $38.04$18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486661032Author D C SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 655gDimensions(mm)... -
The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World by Sean Carroll
RRP: $15.47$10.87Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books A Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial Times, and New Scientist It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to... -
Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: $16.76$10.94From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the paperback edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it. With the end of the Cold War... -
How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the known universe by Scientist New
RRP: $14.18$9.55Ever wondered what's going on inside your head?You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences of the world, are somehow conjured up by 1.4 kilograms of grey matter inside your skull. That might seem impossible, but science... -
The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius by Dr. Gail Saltz 9781472139948
RRP: $14.18$9.55The Power of Different is an illuminating and uplifting examination of the link between brain differences and aptitude. Psychologist and bestselling author Gail Saltz presents the latest scientific research and profiles famous geniuses and lay... -
The Planet in a Pebble: A journey into Earth's deep history by Jan Zalasiewicz
RRP: $14.18$10.02This 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... -
Universal: A Journey Through the Cosmos by Brian Cox
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Inspirational' Buzz AldrinWhen exactly did life begin? What really happened during the big bang - and before it? Is the universe expanding? Is dark matter real? Do we live in one of many worlds? What's more, how can we prove any of this?This book is... -
How to Calculate Quickly: Full Course in Speed Arithmetic by Henry Sticker 9780486202952
RRP: $10.95$7.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486202952Author Henry StickerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385415804Author William PoundstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 238g -
Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking by Herve This
RRP: $18.05$14.38An international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy, or the scientific investigation of culinary practice, Herve This is known for his ground-breaking research into the chemistry and physics behind everyday cooking. His work is consulted... -
The Science of Love and Betrayal by Robin Dunbar
RRP: $14.18$9.44Falling in love is one of the strangest things we can do - and one of the things that makes us uniquely human. But what happens to our brains when our eyes meet across a crowded room? Why do we kiss each other, forget our friends, seek a 'good sense of...