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Life, Almost: Miscarriage, misconceptions and a search for answers from the brink of motherhood by Jennie Agg
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Vital and heart-wrenchingly intimate' Leah Hazard'Urgent, fascinating and thought-provoking' Julia Bueno'Thoughtfully researched and beautifully written' Pippa VosperAfter losing four pregnancies with no obvious cause, Jennie Agg set out to understand... -
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
RRP: £12.99£8.18'A tale of Machiavellian plots and coups d'etat, it's just all so gripping' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2THE ULTIMATE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS STORYSince 2006, Twitter has grown from the accidental side project of a failing internet start-up, to a global icon... -
Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains by Uta Frith
RRP: £18.99£15.29'Charming and addictively accessible' STEVEN PINKER 'Original, authoritative and beautiful' BRIAN COX 'The most wonderful adventure' ROBIN INCE A brilliantly illustrated journey through the wonders and mysteries of the human brain - from a... -
Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis by Simon Mundy
RRP: £9.99£6.64As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times' best books of 2021 In this compelling journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy traces how the struggle to... -
The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus by Professor Gunnar Broberg
RRP: £35.00£27.21A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and workCarl Linnaeus (1707-1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and popularized the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants... -
Repeat Prescription: Hilarious True Stories from a Country Practice (Book 2 in the Country Doctor series) by Michael Sparrow
RRP: £9.99£6.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788420730Author Michael SparrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PreludePublisher Duckworth Books -
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
RRP: £9.99£6.52NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURED DIRECTED BY AND STARRING CHIWETEL EJIOFOR - AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the... -
Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games by Sid Meier
RRP: £12.99£11.10Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier's... -
An Imperfect Offering: Dispatches from the medical frontline by James Orbinski
RRP: £16.99£12.28Born in Britain in 1960, James Orbinski's family moved to Canada when he was seven years old. As a young man, he became a medic to learn how to help, and deal with, the suffering of others. From then on he was plunged into many highly demanding... -
Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine by Antonio Garcia Martinez
RRP: £14.99£10.95NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn adrenaline-fuelled expose of life inside the tech bubble, Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets, power plays and lifestyle excesses of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists and money cowboys who are revolutionising... -
Isambard Kingdom Brunel by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: £14.99£10.95Engineering genius, technical innovator and one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom Brunel changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions. L. T. C. Rolt's masterly... -
No More Blood: A Life in Vascular Surgery by Peter Harris
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528980012Author Peter HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Spare Parts: An Unexpected History of Transplants by Paul Craddock
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Compelling' Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times'A fascinating book' Daily Mail_______________________________________________________________We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world -- but it's a lot older than you... -
Crusader: John Cobb's ill-fated quest for speed on water by Steve Holter 9781910505618
RRP: £30.00£24.04The tale of Crusader, the jet-powered boat of 1952, appears to be a simple one about the ambition of John Cobb and Reid Railton, two unassuming but deeply gifted men, to break the water speed record on Loch Ness only for their efforts to end in tragedy... -
The Best of Health: Tales out of Medical School by John A. T. Duncan
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398413276Author John A. T. DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Brian Cox: The Unauthorised Biography of the Man Who Brought Science to the Nation by Ben Falk
RRP: £7.99£3.34Professor Brian Cox is among the best-known physicists in the world. As presenter of hit television series Human Universe, Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe, his affable charm and infectious enthusiasm have brought science to a... -
Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Dreger 9780143108115
RRP: £18.90£14.46"Smart, delightful . . . a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism, and science." -The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) An impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility,... -
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown... -
What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin by Donovan Moore
RRP: £24.95£19.48A New Scientist Book of the YearA Physics Today Book of the YearA Science News Book of the YearThe history of science is replete with women getting little notice for their groundbreaking discoveries. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a tireless innovator who... -
Stephen Hawking: Friendship and Physics by Leonard Mlodinow
RRP: £9.99£7.11CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND BBC SCIENCE FOCUS'An intimate, unique, and inspiring perspective on the life and work of one of the greatest minds of our time. Filled with insight, humour, and... -
Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives by Albert Einstein 9780691160238
RRP: £15.99£12.61Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery... -
Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg by Peter Scott-Morgan 9780241447093
RRP: £16.99£15.11The incredible book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg'A remarkable account of what it means to be human and what technology can really achieve' Sunday Telegraph'Peter's story is one of the most extraordinary you will... -
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel 9780393329377
RRP: £15.99£14.86Memory binds our mental life together. We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember. But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of... -
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
RRP: £9.99£6.23Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there;... -
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla
£5.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868143Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm -
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle
RRP: £10.99£7.05'Forget geek stereotypes. Parsons' life seems straight out of a Hollywood thriller ... Pendle's book leaves us with a taste of genius's energy and fragility' Los Angeles Magazine'You couldn't make it up' Physics World'As a history of space travel,... -
Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great: The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution by Anthony Burton
RRP: £15.99£11.96Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the Industrial Revolution forward, but included twisted and... -
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks 9781529087444
RRP: £10.99£7.71Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped... -
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson 9781501139154
RRP: £40.00£28.20The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and... -
Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science by John Tyler Bonner 9780674007635
RRP: £45.95£29.20Beginning with the discovery of genes on chromosomes and culminating with the unmasking of the most minute genetic mysteries, the twentieth century saw astounding and unprecedented progress in the science of biology. In an illustrious career that spanned... -
Power Play: Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins
RRP: £10.99£7.12*A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller*'A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride' --Walter Isaacson'A masterclass in narrative journalism' --Bradley Hope'Exemplary' --The Times'An exceptional work' --Washington Post Inside... -
Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult by Richard B. Spence 9781932595338
RRP: £21.99£14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595338Author Richard B SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 430g -
Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles
RRP: £20.99£13.86In 1966 the author, newly graduated from college, went to work for the MIT laboratory where the Apollo guidance system was designed. His assignment was to program the complex lunar landing phase in the Lunar Module's onboard computer. As Apollo 11... -
Safety is No Accident: From 'V' Bombers to Concorde: A Flight Test Engineer's Story by John R W Smith 9781526769442
RRP: £25.00£18.62Flying, as everyone knows, is generally regarded as the safest means of transportation. Yet for that to be the case an enormous amount of testing is undertaken. Central to this, of course, are the test pilots, who fly the aircraft, but it is the men... -
Becoming Steve Jobs: The evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader by Brent Schlender 9781444762013
RRP: £12.99£7.86THE SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - with a new foreword by Silicon Valley legend Marc Andreessen.'For my money, a better book about Jobs than Walter Isaacson's biography' New Yorker'A fascinating reinterpretation of the Steve Jobs story'... -
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder 9780316491976
RRP: £19.99£12.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316491976Author Tracy KidderFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Race for Tomorrow: The Scramble for Riches and Survival on a Changing Planet by Simon Mundy
RRP: £20.00£11.82As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times' best books of 2021 In this extraordinary journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy meets the... -
I Don't Talk to Dead Bodies: The Curious Encounters of a Forensic Psychiatrist by Dr. Rhona Morrison 9781912300785
RRP: £12.99£8.18Prepare to be intrigued, amazed and astonished as you join Dr Rhona Morrison on an often funny, and at times downright bizarre, thought-provoking and eye-opening rollercoaster ride through some of the most curious encounters of her career as a leading... -
Charles Frederick Ball: From Dublin's Botanic Gardens to the Killing Fields of Gallipoli by Brian Willian
RRP: £16.95£11.05When Charles Frederick Ball was killed at Gallipoli in 1915 The Irish Times called him 'one of the best known botanists and horticulturists in Ireland'. Fred Ball (to friends and family) trained in horticulture at Kew Gardens in the UK, moved to Dublin... -
100 Science Discoveries: That Changed the World by Colin Salter
RRP: £14.99£10.10Arranged 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 breakthroughs in scientific understanding. ...