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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Paabo
RRP: £14.99£9.32ONE OF AMAZON'S TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2014 Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer this question: what can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian... -
Get Clean: with Martin John by Oliver Pritchard 9781906670603
RRP: £9.99£7.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906670603Author Oliver PritchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint St James's HousePublisher St James's House -
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: The Life of an Engineering Genius by Colin Maggs
RRP: £12.99£8.48In his time Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the world's greatest engineer. His list of achievements is truly breathtaking: the Thames Tunnel, the first underwater tunnel in the world; the SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven ship; the Clifton... -
The Archers Year Of Food and Farming: A celebration of Ambridge's most delicious produce, from the fields to the kitchens, with a side order of gossip by Keri Davies
RRP: £18.99£4.11'What's for tea, Clarrielove?' From the fabled kitchens of Ambridge come the recipes and gossip that fuel the nation's favourite village. Whether it's Susan's spicy chilli con carne on the hob or Helen's dramatic tuna bake in the oven, Jill's flapjacks... -
Mary Seacole by Ron Ramdin
RRP: £9.99£6.85Mary Seacole's remarkable life began in Jamaica, where she was born a 'free person,' the daughter of a black mother and white Scottish army officer. Ron Ramdin - who, like Seacole, was born in the Caribbean and emigrated to the UK - tells the remarkable... -
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist by Jo Willett
RRP: £25.00£14.36300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was living... -
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
RRP: £14.99£10.95The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant step' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 250,000 miles away. 'A... -
This Is It!: The Secret Lives of Dr. Conrad Murray and Michael Jackson by Conrad Murray 9780692741078
RRP: £20.99£14.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692741078Author Conrad MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Bruce Farr Creative PublishingPublisher Bruce Farr Creative PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Sex And Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter
RRP: £15.99£10.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922915972Author John CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 379g -
The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses by Meredith Wadman
RRP: £10.99£7.77**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE****A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Riveting ... invites comparison to Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'NatureThe epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology... -
The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space by Michael G. Smith 9781612498416
RRP: £29.95£24.13The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space focuses on the golden era of space exploration between 1946 and 1966, specifically the life and times of Purdue University's Dr. Maurice J. Zucrow, a pioneering teacher and... -
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
RRP: £12.99£8.48Previously published in paperback as October Sky. Three years in the life of Homer 'Sonny' Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of a prizewinning rocket. In 1957,... -
To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science by Luke O'Neill 9780241542422
RRP: £22.00£16.02*The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller*LOOKING FOR A GIFT FOR THE CURIOUS MIND IN YOUR LIFE? YOU'VE FOUND IT.'A lively, gossipy, story-filled delight, filled with fascinating factoids' - SUNDAY INDEPENDENT'Even the scientifically illiterate, like myself,... -
Einstein's Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric by Allen Esterson
£35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538978Author Allen EstersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 21mm -
The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Azcel 9780743422994
£13.17From the end of the nineteenth century until his death, one of history's greatest mathematicians languished in an asylum, driven mad by an almost Faustian thirst for universal knowledge. THE MYSTERY OF THE ALEPH tells the story of Georg Cantor... -
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike
RRP: £20.00£12.96'Outstanding' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryThe remarkable untold story of how a group of sixteen determined women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. This is a... -
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery by Dr Barbara K.Lipska
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Completely compelling and powerful, and hard to put down.' Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, prize-winning author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain- Who are we if our brain fails?- How do we think?- How do we feel?- How do we move, if we... -
The Book Of My Life by Girolamo Cardano
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170168Author Girolamo CardanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour 9780062428738
RRP: £18.99£13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062428738Author Porochista KhakpourFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £8.95£6.00Linear B is Europe's oldest readable writing, dating from the middle of the second millennium BC. This book, newly available in paperback, tells the life story of Michael Ventris, interlaced with that of his decipherment of Linear B. First discovered in... -
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers by James Essinger
RRP: £10.99£8.94Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times-when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting... -
Headstrong by Rachel Swaby
RRP: £13.99£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553446791Author Rachel SwabyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
RRP: £12.99£9.09Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far... -
Darwin: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Howard
RRP: £8.99£6.45Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value... -
Hope Heals: A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love by Katherine Wolf
RRP: £13.99£9.10When all seems lost, where can you find hope?Katherine and Jay Wolf married right after college and sought adventure far from home in Los Angeles, CA. As they pursued their dreams--she as a model and he as a lawyer--they planted their lives in the city... -
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe 9780099479376
£5.63A wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test `What is it' asks Tom Wolfe, `that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle...and wait for someone to... -
Galileo: And the Science Deniers by Mario Livio 9781501194733
RRP: £28.00£16.18Galileo's story may be more relevant today than ever before. At present, we face enormous crises-such as the minimization of the dangers of climate change-because the science behind these threats is erroneously questioned or ignored. Galileo... -
Alfred Russel Wallace by Peter Raby
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast - his work of decades was about to... -
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine by Harry Parker 9781788163101
RRP: £14.99£10.95*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity and how robotics and AI are altering our... -
How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling
RRP: £10.99£7.05BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness.This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about... -
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Goedel by Stephen Budiansky 9780198866336
RRP: £21.49£15.68A remarkable account of Kurt Goedel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval. At age 24, a brilliant Austrian-born mathematician published a mathematical... -
An Astronomer's Tale: A Bricklayer's Guide to the Galaxy by Gary Fildes
RRP: £12.99£9.09A Bricklayer's Guide to the Galaxy . . . The inspirational memoir of a former brickie who followed his passion for the stars and built his own observatory. Perfect for readers of Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald and James Rebanks - as well as fans of... -
The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown by Michael Patrick F. Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.25A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy' DAVID LIPSKY 'After... -
The Life and Ideas of James Hillman: Volume III by Dick Russell 9781956763577
RRP: £55.00£33.99Volume III of Dick Russell's monumental biography, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, takes up the final decades of the pioneering depth psychologist's explorations of "Soul in the World." Hillman's twenty-three-year relationship and ultimately... -
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan 9780300101621
£19.35A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher's Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year "Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever... -
Models of My Life by Herbert A. Simon
RRP: £57.00£39.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262691857Author Herbert A. SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Center of the Cyclone: An Autobiography of Inner Space by John C Lilly 9780998580180
RRP: £19.95£17.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998580180Author John C LillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Float onPublisher Float onWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm -
Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story by Benjamin Oren Black 9781911107569
RRP: £20.00£14.05Courage meets crisis in a doctor's extraordinary true account on the frontlines of maternal healthcare during a deadly epidemic in Sierra Leone. In May 2014, as the country grapples with the highest maternal mortality rate globally, a new, invisible... -
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni 9781476766690
RRP: £18.99£11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476766690Author Jimmy SoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm... -
Feynman by Jim Ottaviani 9781596438279
RRP: £18.99£13.25In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, and world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman...