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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9780330533447
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.49A heartbreaking account of a medical miracle: how one woman's cells - taken without her knowledge - have saved countless lives. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a true story of race, class, injustice and exploitation.'No dead woman has done more... -
Biophysical Techniques by Iain Campbell 9780199642144
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.86Many current questions in biology are probed by using a range of biophysical methods, often in tandem. These increasingly powerful and sophisticated tools allow us to study the structure and dynamics of the complicated mixture of interacting molecules... -
Biochemistry For Dummies by John T. Moore
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.19It's alive! It's alive! (Thanks to biochemistry, that is.) Biochemistry is the science of the chemical processes that allow for...well...life. If it moves, breathes, eats, or sleeps, biochemistry can probably explain how. So, it stands to reason that... -
The Science of Spice: Understand Flavour Connections and Revolutionize your Cooking by Dr. Stuart Farrimond
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.47It's time to spice up your home cooking and transform your dishes from bland and boring to punchy and flavoursome with this definitive guide to spices!Taking the periodic table of spices as a starting point, this adventurous recipe book explores the... -
Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert by Professor David Nutt
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.45We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalisation and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to... -
The Cell: A Very Short Introduction by Terence Allen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87All living things on Earth are composed of cells. A cell is the simplest unit of a self-contained living organism, and the vast majority of life on Earth consists of single-celled microbes, mostly bacteria. These consist of a simple 'prokaryotic' cell,... -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9781035038619
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.55The 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 . . ... -
Oxygen: The molecule that made the world by Nick Lane
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.88Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans of nearly a metre. Researchers claim they could have flown only if the air had contained more... -
Molecular Biology: A Very Short Introduction by Aysha Divan
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87Molecular Biology is the story of the molecules of life, their relationships, and how these interactions are controlled. It is an expanding field in life sciences, and its applications are wide and growing. We can now harness the power of molecular... -
Chemistry for the Biosciences: The Essential Concepts by Jonathan Crowe
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £47.49Chemistry enables our eyes to detect the world around us; it determines whether something tastes sweet or sour; it helps genetic information pass accurately from one generation to the next. Ultimately, chemistry powers life itself. We don't need to dig... -
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology by Alison Snape
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £55.12Now in its sixth edition, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology provides the perfect balance between detail and conceptual understanding. Maintaining the much-praised clarity of previous editions, this edition incorporates both new techniques and pivotal... -
Biochemistry Terry Brown (Professor of Biomolecular Archaeology, University of Manchester) 9781907904288
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £37.19Biochemistry is a major new textbook designed and created specifically for briefer courses in the subject. Written by Prof. Terry Brown of the University of Manchester (author of Genomes and Gene Cloning), the book provides the necessary detail and... -
Smarter Not Harder: A Guide to Reclaiming and Optimizing Your Health by Dave Asprey 9780008625924
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.56World-renowned biohacker and bestselling author Dave Asprey reveals how to maximize your well-being with the minimum effort, by taking control of your body's operating system. If you want to lose weight, boost your... -
Biochemistry: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Lorch
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b From the simplest bacteria to humans, all living things are composed of cells of one type or another, all of which have fundamentally the same chemistry. This chemistry must provide mechanisms... -
Cannabis (seeing through the smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health by Professor David Nutt 9781529360523
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.83THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CANNABIS AND YOUR HEALTHUnderpinned by his two-year research trial in partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, involving up to 20,000 patients, which will create Europe's largest body of evidence on the plant's... -
The Chemistry of Life by Steven Rose 9780140272734 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.80First published in 1966, THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE has held its own as a clear and authoritative introduction to the world of biochemistry. This fourth edition has been fully updated and revised to include the latest developments in DNA and protein... -
The Chemistry of Life by Steven Rose
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56First published in 1966, THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE has held its own as a clear and authoritative introduction to the world of biochemistry. This fourth edition has been fully updated and revised to include the latest developments in DNA and protein... -
Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer by Thomas Seyfried
RRP: £124.95Booksplease Price: £108.22The book addresses controversies related to the origins of cancer and provides solutions to cancer management and prevention. It expands upon Otto Warburg's well-known theory that all cancer is a disease of energy metabolism. However, Warburg did not... -
Introduction to Bioinformatics by Arthur Lesk 9780198794141
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £43.17Active, accessible, and assuming no prior knowledge: the ideal text for biologists encountering bioinformatics for the first time. A vast amount of biological information about a wide range of species has become available in recent years as... -
Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism, Sixth Edition by David A. Bender
RRP: £68.99Booksplease Price: £59.05Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism equips readers with an understanding of the scientific basis of what we call a healthy diet. Now in its sixth edition, this highly recognized textbook provides clear explanations of how nutrients are metabolized... -
Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis: An Introduction T. A. Brown (University of Manchester) 9781119640783
RRP: £53.95Booksplease Price: £47.61Known worldwide as the standard introductory text to this important and exciting area of study, Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis: An Introduction, 8th Edition preserves the tradition of excellence created by previous editions. Comprehensive and... -
Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Master Regulators David C. Henshall 9781009466424
Booksplease Price: £30.57Take a journey into the fascinating world of microRNA, the genome's master controllers. Discovered in 1993, our genome's master controllers are critical to the evolution of complex life, including humans. This captivating book tells their story, from... -
The Longevity Diet: Slow Aging, Fight Disease, Optimize Weight by Valter Longo
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525534099Author Valter LongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
Toxic Cocktail: How Chemical Pollution Is Poisoning Our Brains by Barbara Demeneix 9780190260934
RRP: £29.49Booksplease Price: £24.47In today's world, everyone carries in their bloodstream a toxic assortment of dozens of industrially produced chemicals. Not only do these adversely affect the health of adults and children, but also, and more worryingly, they damage the development of... -
Cannabis (seeing through the smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health Professor David Nutt 9781529360493
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.62THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CANNABIS AND YOUR HEALTHUnderpinned by his two-year research trial in partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, involving up to 20,000 patients, which will create Europe's largest body of evidence on the plant's... -
Enzymes: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Engel
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87Enzymes are the astonishing, tiny molecular machines that make life possible. Each one of these small proteins speeds up a single chemical reaction inside a living organism many millionfold. Working together, teams of enzymes carry out all the processes... -
Clinical Biochemistry by Nessar Ahmed
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.55Biomedical scientists are the foundation of modern healthcare, from cancer screening to diagnosing HIV, from blood transfusion for surgery to food poisoning and infection control. Without biomedical scientists, the diagnosis of disease, the evaluation of... -
Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy: Principles and Practices Diana Noland 9783030307325
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £97.93This textbook is a practical guide to the application of the philosophy and principles of Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy (IFMNT) in the practice of medicine, and the key role nutrition plays in restoring and maintaining wellness... -
What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology by Addy Pross
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Seventy years ago, Erwin Schroedinger posed a profound question: 'What is life, and how did it emerge from non-life?' This problem has puzzled biologists and physical scientists ever since. Living things are hugely complex and have unique properties,... -
The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison by John Emsley
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.23This book is about elements that kill. Mercury, arsenic, antimony, lead, and thallium can be lethal, as many a poisoner knew too well. Emsley explores the gruesome history of these elements and those who have succumbed to them in a fascinating narrative... -
The Origin of Life Circus: A How To Make Life Extravaganza by Suzan Mazur 9780692308493
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £24.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692308493Author Suzan MazurFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Caswell BooksPublisher Caswell BooksWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Carbohydrate Chemistry by B.G. Davis
Booksplease Price: £30.09Carbohydrates are a vital part not only of metabolism, but are implicated as key coding molecules in a host of subtle biological events. The exploration of the role and the manipulation of this wonderful class of molecules is an exciting and ever... -
BIOS Instant Notes in Biochemistry by David Hames
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.10BIOS Instant Notes in Biochemistry, Fourth Edition, is the perfect text for undergraduates looking for a concise introduction to the subject, or a study guide to use before examinations. Each topic begins with a summary of essential facts-an ideal... -
Introduction to Protein Science: Architecture, Function, and Genomics by Arthur M. Lesk 9780198716846
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £55.12Over the last century, the centrality of proteins to life on earth has become increasingly clear - from forming enzymes acting as catalysts for specific reactions, to crucial molecules such as antibodies in the immune system, and as signalling molecules... -
Genomics: A Very Short Introduction by John M. Archibald
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87Genomics has transformed the biological sciences. From epidemiology and medicine to evolution and forensics, the ability to determine an organism's complete genetic makeup has changed the way science is done and the questions that can be asked of it. Its... -
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens - and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE 'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly biology' Richard Dawkins'Crawls with curious facts' Sunday Times_________________________We are unprepared... -
BIOS Instant Notes in Molecular Biology by Phil Turner
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.77Instant Notes in Molecular Biology, Fourth Edition is the perfect text for undergraduates looking for a concise introduction to the subject, or a study guide to use before examinations. Each topic begins with a summary of essential facts an ideal... -
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark A. Miodownik
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING, PRIZE-WINNING STUFF MATTERS Sometimes explosive, often delightful, occasionally poisonous, but always fascinating: the secret lives of liquids, from one of our best-known scientists________________A series of glasses of... -
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert Hazen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.93An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of every cell that makes up every living thing. It is the essential component of the food we eat, the fuel we burn,... -
Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable by Paul G. Falkowski
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.17The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to...