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Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes: The Strange Maths Behind the Modern World Richard Elwes 9781780871608
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.06What can we learn from fish in a pond? How do social networks connect the world? How can artificial intelligences learn? Why would life be different in a mirror universe? Mathematics is everywhere,... -
Leys: Secret Spirit Paths in Ancient Britain by D.P. Sullivan 9781904263388
RRP: $13.55Booksplease Price: $11.58Many ancient peoples built their sacred sites in dead straight lines. The magical paths involved astronomy and geomancy, and were used for spirit flight both by the living as they slept or travelled... -
Fractals: On The Edge Of Chaos by Oliver Linton 9781904263982
RRP: $13.55Booksplease Price: $11.58What are fractals? Why are they such fun? How do you make one? Why is a dripping tap not as random as it seems? What is chaos? Is the Mandelbrot Set really the most complex object in mathematics? In... -
How Experiments End by Peter Galison 9780226279152
Booksplease Price: $59.92"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... -
British Medicine in an Age of Reform Roger French 9781138868175
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66British 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... -
Plot: The Art of Story by Amy Jones
RRP: $13.55Booksplease Price: $11.58Why 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: $13.55Booksplease Price: $10.20How 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99In 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: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40The 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: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.60Leaps 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: $144.28Nurses 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... -
Man and Natural Resources: An Agricultural Perspective by Cedric Stanton Hicks 9781032473970
Booksplease Price: $210.83Originally 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: $71.62Mechanisms 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.97From 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... -
Sane: How I shaped up my mind, improved my mental strength and found calm Emma Young 9781473619272
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Emma 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: $13.55Booksplease Price: $11.58How 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: $100.09Many 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: $104.66Through 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... -
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48The 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45** 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89A 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... -
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities Professor Ian Stewart 9781846683459
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89School 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Colin 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Connectome, 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43THE 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
Booksplease Price: $38.22Until 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... -
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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart 9781846683459 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.84School 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 Science Of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.83Acclaimed 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Featured 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.03Welcome 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: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.45The 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... -
The Secret Life of Birds: Who they are and what they do by Colin Tudge
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49In 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: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.01* 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... -
Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it first appeared in 1971; it has become the world's most widely read book on design and is an essential text in many... -
Babel's Shadow: Genetic technologies in a fracturing society by Pete Moore
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.36Genetic sciences are creating technologies that radically influence our understanding of life, death and what it is to be human. The current policy of letting the market set the pace according to... -
Personal Transport and the Greenhouse Effect by Peter Hughes 9781138978225
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $60.82The issue of 'sustainability' in the developed world is nowhere more critical than in the field of personal travel, which in many countries has become the fastest-growing contributor to global... -
Personal Transport and the Greenhouse Effect by Peter Hughes 9781844079810
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $176.83The issue of 'sustainability' in the developed world is nowhere more critical than in the field of personal travel, which in many countries has become the fastest-growing contributor to global... -
A Natural History of Seeing: The Art and Science of Vision by Simon Ings 9780393067194
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $36.80We spend about one-tenth of our waking hours completely blind. Only one percent of what we see is in focus at any one time. There is no direct fossil evidence for the evolution of the eye. In... -
Mathematical Functions by Oliver Linton 9781907155444
RRP: $13.55Booksplease Price: $10.20What is a mathematical function? Why are they so important? How does plotting the graph of a function help us understand it? And where do gradients, differentials and calculus fit in? In this unique... -
Proportion: In Art and Architecture by Michael Schneider 9781907155482
RRP: $13.55Booksplease Price: $11.58What is the difference between ratio and proportion? When is a harmonic rectangle also geometric? Do pentagons, hexagons and heptagons really each have their own characters? Is there a secret to...