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Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures by Nessa Carey
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $4.15'An excellent, brisk guide to what is likely to happen as opposed to the fantastically remote.' - Los Angeles Review of BooksIn 2018 the world woke up to gene editing with a storm of controversy over... -
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $12.92In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate. Written in part as a... -
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality Adam Rutherford 9781474611251
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez'Seriously important' Bill Bryson'A fascinating debunking of racial... -
The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An intimate journey across our surface by Monty Lyman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68- Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019- A Sunday Times 'MUST READ'- 'An exciting introduction to a little-known microscopic universe.' Sunday Times- 'A seriously entertaining... -
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years?Why does eugenics still loom large in the 21st century, despite its genocidal past?Did eugenics work? Could it... -
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life by Professor Matthew Cobb 9781788167017
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.32A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'The ideal guide to what is not just a fiendishly complex area of science but also an ethical minefield' Mail on Sunday A new gene editing... -
The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix by Howard Markel
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.15Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and... -
Cartoon Guide to Genetics by Larry Gonick
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.75Have you ever asked yourself: Are spliced genes the same as mended Levis? Watson and Crick? Aren't they a team of British detectives? Plant sex? Can they do that? Is Genetic Mutation the name of... -
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life Prof Richard Dawkins 9781474606455
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.40A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal diagrams, six new 'tales' and the latest scientific developments.THE ANCESTOR'S TALE is a... -
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome by Nessa Carey
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.04For decades, 98 per cent of our DNA was written off as 'junk' on the grounds that it did not code for proteins.From rare genetic diseases to Down's Syndrome, from viral infections to the ageing... -
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jeniffer Raff 9781538749692
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538749692Author Jeniffer RaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were... -
Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life Dr Kat Arney 9781474609319
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'A lively study of the Big C, which makes the case that cancer is the price we pay for our marvellously complicated bodies.' The Times, best books of 2020'This book is packed with big ideas about... -
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Dr. Moalem
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.61An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina... -
Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes by Richard C. Francis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.42The burgeoning new science of epigenetics offers a cornucopia of insights-some comforting, some frightening. For example, the male fetus may be especially vulnerable to certain common chemicals in... -
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to... -
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama 9781861974952
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Is a baby whose personality has been chosen from a gene supermarket still a human? If we choose what we create what happens to morality? Is this the end of human nature? The dramatic advances in DNA... -
Faster, Stronger, Smarter: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.14* FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST *Throughout history, people have sought to improve society by reducing suffering, eliminating disease or enhancing desirable... -
At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future by Edward Dutton 9781845409852
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409852Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint -
Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life by Jonathan Silvertown 9780198876397
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.07For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation? Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of... -
Evolution: A Very Short Introduction by Brian Charlesworth
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72Less than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the centre of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in extent, and that the planets, sun, and stars all rotated... -
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Our understanding of the 'tree of life', with powerful implications for human genetics,... -
Circadian Rhythms: A Very Short Introduction by Russell Foster 9780198717683
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.65The earth's daily rotation affects just about every living creature. From dawn through to dusk, there are changes in light, temperature, humidity, and rainfall. However, these changes are regular,... -
Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments by Robert Bruce Thompson
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $27.83Experience the magic of biology in your own home lab. This hands-on introduction includes dozens of educational (and fun) experiments that let you explore this fascinating field on your own. Perfect... -
p53 by Sue Armstrong
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.55The BMA Medical Book Award-shortlisted story of the search for p53 - the most important gene in medicine. All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job - it... -
The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds by Christopher E. Mason
RRP: $30.82Booksplease Price: $21.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543842Author Christopher E. MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Im -
Genomics (WIRED guides): How genome sequencing will change healthcare by Rachael Pells
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15Genome sequencing is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs of the past thirty years. But what precisely does it involve and how is it developing? In this brilliantly wide-ranging,... -
Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Robin Dunbar
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior-who... -
Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction by Bernard Wood
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. Newly discovered fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past, whilst revolutionary technological advances in the study of... -
Introduction to Conservation Genetics by Richard Frankham
RRP: $81.74Booksplease Price: $71.09This impressive author team brings the wealth of advances in conservation genetics into the new edition of this introductory text, including new chapters on population genomics and genetic issues in... -
Genetics 101: From Chromosomes and the Double Helix to Cloning and DNA Tests, Everything You Need to Know about Genes by Beth Skwarecki 9781507207642
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A clear and straightforward explanation of genetics in this new edition of the popular 101 series. Our genetic makeup determines so much about who we are, and what we pass on to our children-from eye... -
The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man's Best Friend by Professor Bryan Sykes 9780008244453
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22The 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... -
The Common Thread by John Sulston 9780552159609
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71John Sulston was director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge from 1993 to 2000. There he led the British arm of the international team selected to map the entire human DNA sequence, a feat that was... -
Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are by Kevin J. Mitchell 9780691204154
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.44A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you thinkWhat makes you the way you are-and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading... -
Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life by Adam Rutherford
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Creation by Adam Rutherford tells the entire spellbinding story of life in two gripping narratives.'Prepare to be astounded. There are moments when this book is so gripping it reads like a thriller' ... -
The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness That Stole His Son by Tracie White 9780316492508
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $28.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316492508Author Tracie WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Redesigning Life: How genome editing will transform the world by John Parrington
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $14.12Since the birth of civilisation, human beings have manipulated other life-forms. We have selectively bred plants and animals for thousands of years to maximise agricultural production and cater... -
Genomes and What to Make of Them Barry Barnes 9780226054568
Booksplease Price: $21.20In 2003 the Human Genome Project announced that it had achieved a stunning scientific breakthrough: the full map of the human genome, and with it our first complete picture of the basic building... -
The Compatibility Gene by Daniel M. Davis
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Short-listed for the Society of Biology Book Award 2014 Long-listed for the Royal Society Winton prize for science books 2014In The Compatibility Gene, leading scientist Daniel M Davis tells the... -
Understanding DNA Ancestry by Sheldon Krimsky
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.76DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to date. Although evidently popular, the science...