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Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.07Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our... -
Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics: The Mind, Volume 2 Jinpa Thupten 9781614294740
RRP: $30.15Booksplease Price: $23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614294740Author Jinpa ThuptenFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint -
Uncertainty by David Lindley
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079964Author David LindleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Now You're Talking: Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence by Trevor Cox
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'A lively, intelligent and persuasive history of speech...Expertly and patiently explained' The TimesWhy are human beings the only animals that can speak? And why does it matter?If you've ever felt... -
Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud by Thomas Laqueur
RRP: $38.79Booksplease Price: $33.26This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in... -
100 Science Discoveries: That Changed the World by Colin Salter
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.95Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World charts the great... -
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to AD 1450 by David C. Lindberg
Booksplease Price: $33.63When it was first published in 1992, "The Beginnings of Western Science" was lauded as the first successful attempt to present a unified account of both ancient and medieval science in a single... -
Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World by Dorrik Stow
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $13.11This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Named after a Greek sea nymph, there is a sense of mystery about such a vast, ancient ocean, of which all that... -
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox 9780060985080
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060985080Author Brenda MaddoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Lydia Kang
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.17From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that... -
Instant Science: Key thinkers, theories, discoveries and concepts explained on a single page by Jennifer Crouch 9781787393387
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.59Instant Science pulls together all the pivotal scientific knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in... -
Reverse Mathematics: Proofs from the Inside Out by John Stillwell 9780691177175
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $36.22This book presents reverse mathematics to a general mathematical audience for the first time. Reverse mathematics is a new field that answers some old questions. In the two thousand years that... -
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.82The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of... -
The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality by Luciano Floridi
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $14.02Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication... -
Tesla Papers: Nikola Tesla on Free Energy and Wireless Transmission of Power by Nikola Tesla 9780932813862
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $28.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813862Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint < -
The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind Professor A. C. Grayling 9781408870020
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from... -
Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest: The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography by Doug Macdougall
RRP: $30.15Booksplease Price: $27.58A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger, an expedition that laid the foundations for modern oceanography From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans... -
Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know® by Jerry Kaplan 9780197773543
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and... -
Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design by Ken Ham 9780310080978
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.99Evolution--or the broader topic of origins--has enormous relevance to how we understand the Christian faith and how we interpret Scripture. Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design... -
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn 9780330391955
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75An extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave the clouds the names by which they... -
The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science by Jeffrey Orens
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil. In 1911, some of the greatest minds... -
The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother by Ulinka Rublack 9780198736783
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.71Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus s sun-centred universe, he famously... -
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein 9788175994652
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $8.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788175994652Author Albert EinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint -
One Good Turn: a Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski 9780684867304
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684867304Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 173Imprint -
Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle by G. E. R. Lloyd
Booksplease Price: $23.03This study traces Greek science through the work of the Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic writers, Plato, the fourth-century B.C. astronomers, and Aristotle. G. E. R... -
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $15.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385531108Author Mike BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Introducing Stephen Hawking: A Graphic Guide by J. P. McEvoy 9781848310940
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.34'An ideal introduction [to Stephen Hawking]' - Independent 'Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself' - Focus Stephen Hawking was a world-famous physicist with a cameo in... -
Gas! Gas! Quick Boys: How Chemistry Changed the First World War by Michael Freemantle
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys! reveals for the first time the true extent of how chemistry rather than military strategy determined the shape, duration and outcome of the First World War. Chemistry was not... -
Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics by Peter Woit 9780099488644
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Not Even Wrong is a fascinating exploration of our attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle of all: how does the universe work at its most fundamnetal level?The... -
Look Up: Our story with the stars by Sarah Cruddas 9780008358273
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.56'Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will never stop looking up.' Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins Most of us have never been to space... -
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect by Paul Halpern
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the father of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung. In... -
The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Armand Marie Leroi 9781408836224
Booksplease Price: $17.63In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It was here, over two thousand years ago, that Aristotle... -
Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study by George E. Vaillant
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $22.12At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our... -
Science Museum - Genius Inventions: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Technological Breakthroughs by Jack Challoner
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.44Genius Inventions gives readers an unprecedented insight into the events, people and histories behind technological and scientific developments that have helped shape modern civilization. Discover... -
Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution by Russell Bonduriansky 9780691157672
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $42.34How genes are not the only basis of heredity-and what this means for evolution, human life, and diseaseFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of... -
What Evolution Is: From Theory to Fact Ernst Mayr 9780753813683
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41What we do and do not know about evolution, by one of the field's pioneering thinkers.Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implications that go far beyond science. But despite more... -
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel by Benjamin Wardhaugh
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and... -
This Way to the Universe: A Journey into Physics by Michael Dine
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.77'Everything you wanted to know about physics but were afraid to ask' Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens__________________________When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael... -
Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics: The Science of the Material World His Holiness the Dalai Lama 9781614294726
RRP: $30.15Booksplease Price: $22.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614294726Author His Holiness the Dalai LamaFormat HardbackPage Count 448< -
The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick by Jessica Riskin
Booksplease Price: $40.59Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural...