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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Why do human beings behave as they do? 'Awe-inspiring... You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of And Finally.We are capable of... -
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Professor Brian Cox 9780008390648
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.94A Brief History of Time for the 21st Century At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It's time... -
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner by Andrea Wulf
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.92WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express'Extraordinary... -
The Physics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £12.23Learn about the Big Bang theory, astrophysics and gravity in The Physics Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow... -
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future Ed Conway 9780753559178
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award**Picked as a Book of the Year by FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST and NEW STATESMANA BBC RADIO 4 Book... -
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times)'An utter joy' (Adam Rutherford)'A hugely engaging book... Rovelli is a charming, thought-provoking tour guide' (Manjit Kumar... -
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies... -
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman 9780393355628
Booksplease Price: £9.24Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that "can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist" (Detroit Free Press), Feynman... -
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81#1 Bestseller in both hardback and paperback: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE _______'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian'Jaw-dropping.' - The... -
Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and scienceShortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize'A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science,... -
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A majestic story' David Bodanis, Financial Times From the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the FutureThis is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of... -
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll 9780861546480
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.92THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Neat, and extremely simple: only a deep thinker such as Sean Carroll could introduce the complexity of Einstein's general relativity in such a luminous and... -
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Firstenberg
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93'This seminal book...will transform your understanding ...of the environmental and health effects of electricity and radio frequencies' Paradigm Explorer 'Firstenberg is a pioneer in the sense... -
Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): new from the stars of BBC Radio 4 by Adam Rutherford
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Explores just about every area of life' DAILY MAIL'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all the time . . . The pair have such a gift for making... -
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion by Sean Carroll 9780861546145
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical universe of working physicists. Magnificent!' ... -
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes 9780007149537
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.16Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking... -
The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything Marcus Chown 9781474601887
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.41The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017'Does Einstein proud . . . Eminently readable' Guardian'No one has covered the topic with such a light touch and joie de vivre . . . a delight' Brian... -
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.37On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun.United by this... -
The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from... -
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in... -
Isaac Newton by James Gleick 9780007163182
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith. Isaac Newton was the chief... -
Fermat's Last Theorem Simon Singh 9781841157917
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and... -
A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking 9780593056974
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses... -
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll 9780062853929
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP)"A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED reviewHow well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds... -
Natural Theology by William Paley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does not know.' In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the... -
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery by Seb Falk
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-written, it's a charismatic evocation of another... -
Comets, Cosmology and the Big Bang: A history of astronomy from Edmond Halley to Edwin Hubble by Allan Chapman
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.18This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the developments and discoveries of the last three centuries. He... -
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universeIn this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and... -
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.The story begins in an... -
What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches by Erwin Schrodinger
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.55Nobel laureate Erwin Schroedinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to the birth of... -
The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table by Sam Kean
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te,... -
How Things Work: The Inner Life of Everyday Machines by Theodore Gray
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Theodore Gray has become a household name among fans, both young and old, of popular science and mechanics with his bestselling trilogy of books: The Elements, Molecules, and Reactions. In How Things... -
The Double Helix by James Watson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The story of the most significant biological breakthrough of the century - the discovery of the structure of DNA.'It is a strange model and embodies several unusual features. However, since DNA is an... -
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent 9780571354221
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE 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... -
Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved by Marcia Bartusiak
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92The contentious history of the idea of the black hole-the most fascinating and bizarre celestial object in the heavens For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated... -
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, From Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks by Chad Orzel
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.01'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... -
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima by James Mahaffey 9781605986807
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents,... -
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts 9781529400465
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.81The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task:... -
Can Science Explain Everything? by John Lennox
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784984113Author John LennoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Nick Mann
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.05With more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, The Elements is the most entertaining, comprehensive, and visually arresting book on all 118 elements in the periodic table.Includes a poster of...