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Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret by Scott Olsen 9781904263470
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What was the golden secret known to Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Can there really be a key to nature and life itself? In this small but compact volume, internationally... -
Mythological Animals: from Basilisks to Unicorns by Tam O'Malley 9781904263142
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What is the difference between a ghost and a ghoul? How do you tell a good Jinn from a bad one? Where would you find a chimera or a manticore? What did Herodotus have to say about werewolves? In... -
Alchemist's Kitchen: Extraordinary Potions and Curious Notions by 9781904263524
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What is the secret meaning of alchemical symbolism? Why was the Royal Art kept secret for so long? Could ancient images really turn molten lead into gold with a mere pinch of the Philosopher's Stone?... -
Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information by Vlatko Vedral
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £8.99For a physicist, all the world is information. The Universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information. We are all transient patterns of information, passing on the recipe for our basic... -
Stone Circles by Hugh Newman 9781904263951
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What are stone circles? When were they built, and why? How come so many of them egg-shaped, or geometrically flattened? What do they have to do with the landscape, Sun, Moon and stars? In this... -
Thomas Gray in Copenhagen: In Which the Philosopher Cat Meets the Ghost of Hans Christian Andersen by Philip J. Davis 9781475743685
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.42The further adventures of a feline philosopher and friend. Could it be? Hans Christian Andersen - who wrote so lovingly of inchworms and ugly ducklings - an unrepentant despiser of cats? That's the... -
Kinetics for the Life Sciences: Receptors, Transmitters and Catalysts by H. Gutfreund 9780521485869
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £68.92The aim of the book is to introduce the reader to the kinetic analysis of a wide range of biological processes at the molecular level. It is intended to show that the same approach can be used to... -
Complexity and Information by J. F. Traub 9780521485067
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £43.00The twin themes of computational complexity and information pervade this 1998 book. It starts with an introduction to the computational complexity of continuous mathematical models, that is,... -
Trees: And How They Work by Olavi Huikari 9781907155703
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What is a tree? Why are they so important to life on Earth? How do they eat, breathe, grow, communicate, and regenerate themselves? How many different kinds of tree are there and where do they live?... -
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark 9780199773688
Booksplease Price: £31.45When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's notes, he saw it as a "record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were... -
Cyberspace Divide: Equality, Agency and Policy in the Information Society by Brian D. Loader 9780415169691
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04The dramatic advances in computer and telecommunications technologies such as the Internet, virtual reality, smart cards or multimedia applications are increasingly regarded as ushering in a new form... -
Brave New Mind: A Thoughtful Inquiry into the Nature and Meaning of Mental Life by Peter C. Dodwell 9780195089059
Booksplease Price: £45.60Brave New Mind is a historical and critical account of the development of the computational metaphor on the mind. According to this metaphor, the mind is viewed simply as an "outgrowth" or "emergent... -
How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill 9780008363420
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'Fascinating' Greta Thunberg 'Extraordinary' Merlin Sheldrake 'A must-read' New Scientist 'Enthralling' George Monbiot 'Brilliant' Philip Hoare ... -
Literary Devices by Amy Jones
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What is the difference between literal and figurative writing? Is there really a secret set of tricks used by top authors to make their writing even better? Why not use these tricks all the time?... -
The Dark Abyss of Time: History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico by Paolo Rossi 9780226728322
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.80"A rich historical pastiche of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy, science, and religion."-G. Y. Craig, New Scientist "This book, by a distinguished Italian historian of philosophy, is a worthy... -
Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century by Michio Kaku 9780192880185
Booksplease Price: £34.54New in paperback, from the bestselling author of Hyperspace, this spellbinding book brings together the cutting-edge research of today's foremost scientists to explore the science of tomorrow. Michio... -
Glyph-Breaker by Steven R. Fischer 9781461274902
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.44After successfully deciphering the Rongorongo script of Easter Island, Steven Roger Fischer gained a unique place in the pantheon of glyphbreakers: he is the only person to have deciphered not one... -
Blue Revolution: Integrated Land and Water Resources Management by Ian R. Calder
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94'Blue Revolution upturns some environmental applecarts - not for the hell of it, but so we can manage our environment better.' Fred Pearce, New Scientist This updated and revised edition of The Blue... -
Dowsing: A Journey Beyond Our Five Senses by Hamish Miller
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.23What is the most widely-used paranormal human ability? Why was this extraordinary subtle magical art brought to England by sixteenth century German miners? Does it really work? If so, how? In this... -
The Scary Science Fair John Sazaklis 9781398254671
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.43Twins Nico and Letta are ready for the big science fair. Their volcano is going to blow the competition away! But will a strange new scientist ruin their entire project? With short chapters,... -
Shadows: in Nature, Life and Art by William Vaughan 9781904263838
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.63Whats the difference between a cast shadow and a form shadow? Why do shadows become increasingly important in Western art? Can we only ever see shadows, not objects themselves, as Plato claimed? In... -
The Anthropology of War by Jonathan Haas 9780521380423
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £111.93The book brings together a group of authors who are addressing the nature and causes of warfare in simpler, tribal societies. The authors represent a range of different opinions about why humans... -
Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music by Anthony Ashton 9781904263364
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94Why did Pythagoras pause outside a Blacksmith's workshop? Can the nature of Harmony really be understood visually? Why do harmonies leave gaps or 'commas' when added together? In this charming little... -
Antarctica by Gabrielle Walker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or... -
The Lost Girls of Autism: The Untold Story of Women on the Spectrum by Gina Rippon 9781035011643
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A truly fascinating must-read' - Elinor Cleghorn, bestselling author of Unwell WomenWinner of the Popular Science Award from the British Psychological SocietyA Book of the Year in the Daily... -
Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body by Jo Marchant 9780857868855
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME PRIZEALL IN THE MIND? - Can meditation fend off dementia? - Can the smell of... -
How to Solve the Da Vinci Code: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics Richard Elwes 9780857388384
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Can you outrun a bullet? How do you build an electronic brain? Could you slow down time? How do you unleash chaos? From Plato's classification of regular polyhedra to making a million on the stock... -
Platonic and Archimedean Solids by Daud Sutton
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.28What sort of things happen when space crystallises? Why were primordial sages fascinated with five simple forms? Does the three-dimensional jigsaw fit simply together? If so how? Find out about... -
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets by Jo Marchant 9780306818615
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.56In Decoding the Heavens , Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she... -
The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4 by Colin A. Ronan 9780521338738
Booksplease Price: £41.37Three previous volumes of this series by Colin Ronan are each available in hardback as well as paperback. Volume I introduces the reader to the country of China: its history, geography and language... -
A Course in Group Theory by J. F. Humphreys 9780198534594
Booksplease Price: £77.80This book is an excellent and self-contained introduction to the theory of groups, covering all topics likely to be encountered in undergraduate courses. It aims to stimulate and encourage... -
Kinetics for the Life Sciences: Receptors, Transmitters and Catalysts by H. Gutfreund 9780521480277
RRP: £121.00Booksplease Price: £116.70The aim of the book is to introduce the reader to the kinetic analysis of a wide range of biological processes at the molecular level. It is intended to show that the same approach can be used to... -
The Solid State by H. M. Rosenberg 9780198518709
Booksplease Price: £76.06This is a textbook for students new to solid-state physics or materials science, and covers topics ranging from basic crystal structure to superconductivity. Each chapter features a set of problems,... -
Telomerase, Aging and Disease: Volume 8 by M. P. Mattson 9780444506900
Booksplease Price: £119.08This volume of Advances in Cell Aging and Gerontology critically reviews the rapidly advancing area of telomerase research with a focus at the molecular and cellular levels. The clearly established... -
Joseph Harris: Scientist, Artisan, Assay Master by Martin Griffiths 9781837723003
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Joseph Harris, elder brother of the methodist preacher Howell Harris, made important contributions to the sciences and public life of Great Britain in the eighteenth century. A protege of Edmond... -
British Medicine in an Age of Reform Roger French 9781138868175
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49British Medicine in an Age of Reform, charts the nature and dynamics of the radical changes which occurred between 1780 and 1850 - a great turning point in British medicine. Medicine was reformed... -
Man and Natural Resources: An Agricultural Perspective by Cedric Stanton Hicks 9781032473970
Booksplease Price: £108.12Originally published in 1975, yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man's ecological destruction in an industrial framework. As well as discussing the destruction of... -
Mechanisms of Organic Reactions by Howard Maskill 9780198558224
Booksplease Price: £36.73Mechanisms of Organic Reactions is aimed at first and second year chemistry undergraduates. This authorative and up-to-date overview begins with a chapter in which modern terminology, definitions,... -
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The Way Science Works: Discover the Secrets of Science by DK 9781405331937 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.55From lightning bolts to robotics, bring science to life with incredible experiments From the principles that explain the world to the theories behind today's fast changing technology, help your child... -
Time, Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology by James A. McGlade
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93In a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. This is due to the history of the western...