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European Art: A Neuroarthistory by John Onians
RRP: £47.50£41.24A bold revision of the history of European art, told through the lens of neuroscience Ambitious and much anticipated, this book celebrates the value of recent neuroscientific discoveries as tools for art-historical analysis. Case studies ranging across... -
The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man's Best Friend by Professor Bryan Sykes 9780008244453
RRP: £9.99£6.64The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. Sykes paints a vivid picture of the dog... -
Biology and Conservation of Musteloids by David Macdonald 9780198759812
RRP: £70.00£67.50The musteloids are the most diverse super-family among carnivores, ranging from little known, exotic, and highly-endangered species to the popular and familiar, and include a large number of introduced invasives. They feature terrestrial, fossorial,... -
The Truth About Fat: Why Obesity is Not that Simple by Anthony Warner
RRP: £9.99£7.11Most people try out diets just to see if they work. One friend cuts out sugar, a second cuts out fat. Another mumbles something about gut microbes. Even scientists still seem to be arguing about what causes obesity, so what hope is there for the rest of... -
Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals by Matt J. Keeling 9780691116174
RRP: £88.00£69.15For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a timely and comprehensive introduction to the modeling of infectious... -
Teeth: A Very Short Introduction by Peter S. Ungar
RRP: £8.99£6.45Teeth are amazing - the product of half a billion years of evolution. They provide fuel for the body by breaking apart other living things; and they must do it again and again over a lifetime without themselves being broken in the process. This means... -
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 9780393311037
RRP: £22.50£18.41Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging and illuminating exponent. Exploring the "peculiar and mysterious particulars of nature," Gould... -
Conversations with Birds: The Metaphysics of Bird and Human Communication by Alan Powers
RRP: £14.00£8.77For decades Alan Powers has studied bird vocalizations, developing the remarkable ability to imitate birds' songs and get them to respond and even change tunes. Through his years of study, he has discovered that birds can teach us important lessons about... -
Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos by Garrett Hardin 9780195093858
RRP: £18.99£13.29Population is a prominent topic of debate following the world conference at the end of last year. This book tackles the problem of overpopulation with an honesty and fearlessness that is unrivalled, and makes a forceful case for dramatically changing the... -
Ending Plague: A Scholar's Obligation in an Age of Corruption by Dr. Francis W. Ruscetti 9781510764682
RRP: £26.99£16.23"An engrossing expose of scientific practice in America." -KIRKUS REVIEWS From the authors of the New York Times bestselling Plague of Corruption comes the prescription on how to end the plague infecting our medical community.Ending Plague continues the... -
A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle 9780689870644
RRP: £8.99£6.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780689870644Author Eric CarleFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Little SimonPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Biological Universe: Life in the Milky Way and Beyond by Wallace Arthur 9781108836944
RRP: £22.99£17.97Are we alone in the universe, or are there other life forms 'out there'? This is one of the most scientifically and philosophically important questions that humanity can ask. Now, in the early 2020s, we are tantalizingly close to an answer. As this book... -
An Introduction to Genetic Analysis by Anthony J.F. Griffiths
£73.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319114770Author Anthony J.F. GriffithsFormat HardbackPage Count 891Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co LtdPublisher Macmillan Learning -
Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals by Ginny Smith
RRP: £11.99£9.08A NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Our lives are ruled by one particular group of chemicals. These are the hormones and neurotransmitters that regulate and drive our brains. Overloaded looks at the roles these chemicals play in all aspects of our... -
Biodiversity and Climate Change: Transforming the Biosphere by Thomas E. Lovejoy
RRP: £30.00£25.25An essential, up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change that will serve as an immediate call to action The physical and biological impacts of climate change are dramatic and broad-ranging. People who... -
An Enthusiasm for Orchids: Sex and Deception in Plant Evolution by John Alcock 9780195182743
£46.15The male thynnine wasp's extreme sexual enthusiasm is crucial to reproduction of hammer orchids in the wild. Hammer orchids have co-evolved to produce odors identical to those manufactured by female thynnine wasps. The male wasp's superb sensitivity to... -
Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn by Sanjay Sarma 9781472139115
RRP: £14.99£4.11'Sarma's book may be the most important work on education written this century' - SkepticAs the head of Open Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has a daunting job description: to fling open the doors of the MIT experience for the benefit of the wider world... -
Ecology of Freshwaters: Earth's Bloodstream by Brian R. Moss
RRP: £62.95£55.44The new edition of this established textbook, now with full colour illustration, has been extensively revised and continues to provide a comprehensive, stimulating, readable and authoritative coverage of freshwater habitats, their communities and their... -
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour by Kevin N. Laland 9780199586967
RRP: £43.99£37.55Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret human behaviour. But the legitimacy of this exercise is at the centre of a heated controversy that has... -
Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time and Self by Marc Wittmann
RRP: £23.00£14.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038317Author Marc WittmannFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life by Robert L. Trivers
£22.23A New York Times Notable Book of 2012Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive- but deceit and self-deception carry... -
Shark: The world’s most misunderstood predator by Paul de Gelder 9780008529703
RRP: £10.99£7.12From shark attack survivor to the shark's biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them. Something happens to you the first time... -
Phylogenetics by Charles Semple 9780198509424
RRP: £132.50£103.17'Phylogenetics' is the reconstruction and analysis of phylogenetic (evolutionary) trees and networks based on inherited characteristics. It is a flourishing area of intereaction between mathematics, statistics, computer science and biology. The main role... -
Making Eden: How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet by David Beerling 9780198798309
RRP: £22.99£16.28Over 7 billion people depend on plants for healthy, productive, secure lives, but few of us stop to consider the origin of the plant kingdom that turned the world green and made our lives possible. And as the human population continues to escalate, our... -
Botany of Gin, The by Chris Thorogood
RRP: £15.00£11.87From its roots in ancient Greek herbal medicine, the popular spirit we now know as gin was established by the Dutch in the sixteenth century as a juniper-infused tincture to cure fevers. It gained notoriety during the London 'gin craze' in the eighteenth... -
Early Humans (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 134) by Nicholas Ashton 9780008150334
RRP: £60.00£40.13Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume... -
Evolution: Making Sense of Life by Douglas J. Emlen
£63.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319322199Author Douglas J. EmlenFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co LtdPublisher Macmillan Learning -
Argentina Birds: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species by James Kavanagh
RRP: £5.99£4.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620053430Author James KavanaghPage Count 2Imprint Waterford Press LtdPublisher Waterford Press Ltd -
The Wild Cat Book: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cats by Fiona Sunquist
RRP: £40.00£34.59From the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, to the prophet Muhammad's favorite cat, Muezza, and our contemporary obsession with online cat videos, felines have long held a place of honor in their human counterparts' homes and cultures. But the... -
Nightingales in November: A Year in the Lives of Twelve British Birds by Mike Dilger
RRP: £11.99£9.08Have you ever wondered what 'our' birds get up to when they're not pinching our peanuts, pilfering our pyracantha berries or nesting under the eaves of our homes? The One Show's natural history star Mike Dilger tells us the answers in Nightingales in... -
The Boy Who Wasn’t Short: human stories from the revolution in genetic medicine by Edwin Kirk
RRP: £16.99£11.58A geneticist tells the stories of men, women, and children whose genes have shaped their lives in unexpected ways. It was while listening to a colleague tell the parents of a newborn girl that their daughter was going to die that a lifelong interest in... -
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer 9781571313560
RRP: £14.99£12.54Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal,... -
von Martius. The Book of Palms by H. Walter Lack 9783836566148
£63.46On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves. These were a reference to... -
Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna and the Future of our Oceans by Karen Pinchin 9780008467814
RRP: £22.00£14.31This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry... -
The Science of Stretching by Alex Reid
RRP: £16.99£14.10The Science of Stretching is a research-based book that brings together the scientific principles of many different modalities of stretching and its application to the general and sporting populations. The book reviews static stretching, dynamic... -
Raptor Prey Remains: A Guide to Identifying What's Been Eaten by a Bird of Prey by Ed Drewitt
RRP: £24.99£20.29Are you curious about the remains of an animal you have found? This compilation of the most likely found body parts of animals eaten by raptors will help you identify your discovery. Including over 100 species of bird and mammal prey of raptors such as... -
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd
RRP: £23.95£19.54A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects-anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics,... -
The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution by Clive Finlayson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes. Finlayson argues that environmental change, particularly availability of water, played... -
The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate by Nicolas Mathevon
RRP: £28.00£21.80Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by soundWhat is the meaning of a bird's song, a baboon's bark, an owl's hoot, or a dolphin's clicks? In The Voices of Nature, Nicolas Mathevon explores... -
Resource and Environmental Management: Third Edition by Bruce Mitchell 9780190885823
RRP: £53.00£33.26In order to optimally manage the environment and natural resources, it is vitally important to recognize that there is much more to consider than just the environment itself and the natural resources it provides. A key consideration is also the...