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How Experiments End by Peter Galison 9780226279152
Booksplease Price: £30.73"Galison provides excellent histories of three experimental episodes: the measurement of the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron, the discovery of the mu meson, or muon, and the discovery of weak... -
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... -
Surrogate Motherhood: Politics and Privacy by Lawrence O. Gostin
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76" . . . glimpses of intriguing changes in social arrangements and cultural understandings in relation to surrogacy. Disturbing motherhood indeed." -New Scientist"Larry Gostin has put together the... -
The Creation of a University System by Michael Shattock 9780631203001
RRP: £18.75Booksplease Price: £17.69This volume brings together a selection of articles published over the fifty year life of the Universities/Higher Education Quarterly which provides a critical overview of the development of... -
Relativity by Albert Einstein 9780415253840
Booksplease Price: £17.03Time's 'Man of the Century', Albert Einstein is the unquestioned founder of modern physics. His theory of relativity is the most important scientific idea of the modern era. In this short book... -
The Girl Who Broke the Sea by A. Connors 9780702317583
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87"An atmospheric, satisfying YA sci-fi thriller" - Guardian "An ominous, evocative science-fiction thriller" - New Scientist Lily's emotional problems... -
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... -
Plot: The Art of Story by Amy Jones
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.94Why do some books grab you from the very first line?What did Aristotle have to say about the art of telling stories?Is there a secret structure to stories known by all the best writers? In this neat... -
Stonehenge by Robin Heath 9781904263029
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.23How do you predict eclipses using Stonehenge? Why were `blue' stones brought all the way from Wales? What is the secret geometry of seven eights? Packed with rare old engravings, clear explanations... -
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780393350364
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union voted Pluto out of planethood. It is a wonder Pluto has any fans, yet during the mounting debate over Pluto's status, people rallied behind the... -
The Origins of Agriculture in Europe I. J. Thorpe 9780415208079
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The Origins of Agriculture in Europe takes a look at current ideas in the light of a considerable mass of literature and archaeological evidence; examining the transition to agriculture through the... -
Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation by Nicholas Humphrey 9780387987200
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.72Leaps of Faith is a compelling and highly praised critique of beliefs in paranormal phenomena, miracles, and the like, written by the noted British psychologist Nicholas Humphrey. The author argues... -
Nurses: The Inside Story of the Nursing Profession Donald Gould 9781041112136
Booksplease Price: £73.99Nurses now, just as when this book was originally published in 1988, are underpaid and overworked and thousands are leaving the profession every year. But why do many more highly intelligent and... -
Sane: How I shaped up my mind, improved my mental strength and found calm Emma Young 9781473619272
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Emma Young has no history of mental illness, just like everyone else, occasionally she gets down, anxious and disproportionately stressed. Disappointed that her mind does not always deal well with... -
Celtic Pattern: Visual Rhythms of the Ancient Mind by Adam Tetlow 9781904263708
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94How do you draw Celtic knotwork? What are the secrets of keys? Are there tricks for drawing Celtic spirals? What do these mysterious patterns actually mean? Who drew them? Where did they come from?... -
Beginning Mathematics for Chemistry by Stephen K. Scott 9780198559306
Booksplease Price: £51.33Many first year undergraduate chemistry students are daunted by the mathematical content of their courses. Mathematics in chemistry often presents an obstacle, preventing the student from grasping... -
Through Our Eyes Only?: The Search for Animal Consciousness by Marian Stamp Dawkins 9780198503200
Booksplease Price: £53.67Through Our Eyes Only? is an immensely engaging exploration of one of the greatest remaining biological mysteries: the possibility of conscious experiences in non-human animals. Dawkins argues that... -
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities Professor Ian Stewart 9781846683459
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years..... -
The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Colin Tudge's The Secret Life of Trees: How they Live and Why they Matter explores the hidden role of trees in our everyday lives - and how our future survival depends on them. What is a tree? As... -
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are by Sebastian Seung
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Connectome, by Sebastian Seung is 'One of the most eagerly awaited scientific books of the year ... intellectually exhilarating, beautifully written, exquisitely precise yet still managing to be... -
Downfall: The breakneck conclusion to the gripping cyberthriller series by Louise Carey 9781473230033
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40THE SAFETY OF INTECH'S RESIDENTS IS PARAMOUNT.INSURRECTION WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.Tanta and Cole may have stopped the mass murder of InTech's residents, but the cost was severe. Despite their efforts,... -
Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals by Sharon Levy 9780195370126
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.60Until about 13,000 years ago, Europe and North America were home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become our cities and streets. Then, just as... -
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G... -
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made by Gaia Vince
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 **We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has... -
Move!: The New Science of Body Over Mind by Caroline Williams 9781788164627
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A New Scientist best book of 2021 Shortlisted for the 'Sports Performance Book of the Year' Award for 2022 Did you know that walking can improve your cognitive skills? That strengthening your... -
The Secret Life of Birds: Who they are and what they do by Colin Tudge
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In The Secret Life of Birds, lifelong bird enthusiast Colin Tudge explores the extraordinary variety, secret history and hidden importance of birds around the world. Birds are beautiful, intriguing... -
The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess: Winner of Foyles Children's Book of the Year Tom Gauld 9781800781047
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16* Winner of the Foyles Children's Book of the Year ** New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book of the Year *When the log princess goes missing her brother, the little wooden... -
The Science Of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71Acclaimed The Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot... -
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth by Kate Greene 9781785787775
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Featured in New Scientist's Best Books of 2021'Filled with wonderment and awe ... Greene's eloquent memoir is equal parts escape and comfort.' Publishers WeeklyA powerful reflection on life in... -
Humans 3.0: The Upgrading of the Species by Peter Nowak 9780008113391
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Welcome to Human 3.0. Life for early humans wasn't easy. They may have been able to walk on two feet and create tools 4 million years ago, but they couldn't remember or communicate... -
EXODUS: The Helium Sea by Peter F. Hamilton 9781529073782
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18The epic conclusion of the far-future Archimedes Engine duology by legendary author Peter F. Hamilton.For millennia, the Crown Dominion has been at relative peace, with the Celestials in control and... -
Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth by Claire Horn
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50SELECTED AS A NEW SCIENTIST 'BOOKS TO EXPAND YOUR MIND' 'THOUGHTFUL ... EXAMINES THE BOUNDARIES OF MOTHERHOOD THROUGH AN UNUSUAL LENS: ARTIFICIAL WOMBS. ... A SKILLED WRITER WITH A CAREFUL GRASP... -
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.65'A unique insight into human consciousness and its possibilities' The Times'Incredible' New Scientist'This book is important for everyone . . . I love this book' Oprah WinfreyOn the morning of the... -
Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits by John D. Barrow 9780099772118
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16What can we never do? Barrow looks at what limits there might be to human discovery, and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable, undoable, or unthinkable. Science is a big success story,... -
The Wisdom of Science: Its Relevance to Culture and Religion by Hanbury Brown 9780521314480
Booksplease Price: £54.16We live in a culture which, while largely dependent on science for its material welfare, is largely ignorant of the new ideas and perspectives on which science is based. This book examines the true... -
An Informal Introduction to Gauge Field Theories by Ian J. R. Aitchison 9780521039543
Booksplease Price: £45.31Four forces are dominant in physics: gravity, electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces. Quantum electrodynamics - the highly successful theory of the electromagnetic interaction - is a... -
Flying Dinosaurs: How fearsome reptiles became birds by John Pickrell 9781742233666
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.14Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what you thought you knew and journey into the deep, dark depths of the Jurassic.The discovery of the...