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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... -
Euphonics: A Poet's Dictionary of Sounds by John Michell 9781904263432
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94One of the oldest and most secret magical arts of the ancient world, Euphonics is the study of the natural meanings of sounds in words and language. First discussed over 2,000 years ago in Plato's... -
Multidimensional Programming by Edward A. Ashcroft 9780195075977
Booksplease Price: £104.57This book describes Lucid, a multidimensional declarative language based on intensional logic. The mathematical underpinnings of Lucid enable programs to be amenable to verification and... -
Divination: Elements of Wisdom by Jewels Rocka 9781904263845
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.28How did the Oracle of Delphi obtain her prophecies? Can you access information just by holding an object? Are itches actually messages? Is it really possible to read the future in the bottom of a... -
Cyanotype Imperfections: Photographs of British Algae by Mandy Barker 9781915423795
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £33.87The overconsumption and waste of cheap clothing, garments often worn only a fewtimes (sometimes never at all), and then discarded. For this new work the artist has recoveredwaste clothing from 121... -
Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Design 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.39Genetic 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: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19The 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: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68The 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.87We 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: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.23What 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: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What 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... -
Narrative: Telling the Story by Amy Jones 9781907155475
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.23What is the best way to tell a story? In first-person peripheral, or third-person focalised? Unfolding in the present, or as events in the past? Where is the camera? What is the lens? Where is the... -
The Theory of Probability by Sir Harold Jeffreys 9780198503682
Booksplease Price: £107.59Another title in the reissued Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, Jeffrey's Theory of Probability, first published in 1939, was the first to develop a fundamental theory of... -
Genre and Trope Amy Jones 9781907155666
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What is a literary genre? What are tropes? What genre does a creaky door suggest? Or a man and a woman stuck in an elevator? When should you use tropes? When should you avoid them? In this concise... -
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African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity by Chris Stringer 9780712673075 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £2.80The essential statement , by the world's leading authority on the subject, of the thesis that modern humans originated in Africa and spread around the world; and a definitive defence of our common... -
Rewilding: Real Life Stories of Returning British and Irish Wildlife to Balance by David Woodfall
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.75A hopeful yet practical collection of essays exploring the many opportunities and benefits of rewilding and how to get involved today. Highly illustrated with nature photography tracing... -
Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds by Shane O'Mara 9781847926487
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62'Enjoyable' New Scientist'Delightfully well-written, accessible, surprisingly reflective and humorous' Irish Times'Thoughtful' Irish IndependentFrom neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning... -
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made by Gaia Vince 9780099572497 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.53** 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... -
Going Inside John McCrone 9780571201013
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Going Inside is about something that happens in less than the blink of an eye: a single moment of consciousness. With great clarity and stunning detail, John McCrone takes the reader inside the... -
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by Ed Regis
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.61Bold and provocative, Regenesis tells of recent advances that may soon yield endless supplies of renewable energy, increased longevity and the return of long-extinct species.", New Scientist In ... -
Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology by Paul Rabinow 9780226701479
Booksplease Price: £23.87This is a behind-the-scenes account of the invention of one of the most significant biotechnological discoveries in our time - the polymerase chain reaction. Transforming the practice and potential... -
Altered States: Minds, Drugs and Culture by Ben Sessa 9781904263852
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What actually happens to you when you drink a cup of coffee?Is chocolate really an aphrodisiac? How do drugs like alcohol and cannabis work? Did psychedelics play a part in human evolution? In... -
Evolution and Ecology of Macaque Societies by John E. Fa 9780521021715
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £52.79The genus Macaca is the most widely distributed of non-human primates and is found in 20 countries in South-East Asia and North Africa. Over the comparatively short time span of 5 million years,... -
Digital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionizing Science, Medicine, and Business by Glyn Moody
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £31.29A behind-the-scenes look at the most lucrative discipline within biotechnology Bioinformatics represents a new area of opportunity for investors and industry participants. Companies are spending... -
Lords Of The Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, And The Future Of Food by Dan Charles 9780738207735
Booksplease Price: £21.86Biotech companies are creating designer crops with strange powers-from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories. They promise great benefits:... -
Biological Diversity: The Coexistence of Species by Michael A. Huston 9780521369305
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £80.60The key to preserving and managing biodiversity is understanding which processes are important at different scales, and how changes affect different components of biodiversity. In this book, existing... -
Basic Abstract Algebra by P. B. Bhattacharya 9780521466295
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £55.69This book represents a complete course in abstract algebra, providing instructors with flexibility in the selection of topics to be taught in individual classes. All the topics presented are... -
The Best Australian Science Writing 2016 by Jo Chandler 9781742235035
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.14The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of... -
The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution by Motoo Kimura
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £75.62Motoo Kimura, as founder of the neutral theory, is uniquely placed to write this book. He first proposed the theory in 1968 to explain the unexpectedly high rate of evolutionary change and very large... -
A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations Alan L. Mackay 9780750301060
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.64Science affects us all-in the words of Albert Einstein, "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." It is therefore fascinating to discover the thoughts of... -
A Tenth of a Second: A History by Jimena Canales 9780226093192
Booksplease Price: £28.55In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they... -
The Little Book of the Big Bang: A Cosmic Primer by M. Rees 9780387983851
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.86What do we know about the origins of the Universe, and more important, how do we know it? In a small, easy-to-read package, this book introduces you to all of the important ideas about the Big Bang... -
How the Web Was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web by James Gillies 9780192862075
Booksplease Price: £35.55In 1994 a computer program called the Mosaic browser transformed the Internet from an academic tool into a telecommunications revolution. Now a household name, the World Wide Web is part of the... -
Mega Builds: Ten Colossal Construction Projects That Will Change Our World by Fred Mills 9780753561614
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.17'The best new popular science books of 2026' - New ScientistConstruction is the most important industry in the world. The homes we wake up to, the schools we raise our children in, the transport... -
The Archaeology of Northeast China: Beyond the Great Wall Sarah Milledge Nelson 9780415513470
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98An up-to-date synthesis of the archaeology and prehistory of the region called Dongbei by the Chinese, but known in the west as Manchuria. Based on recent archaeological discoveries, the book... -
Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction Luciano Floridi 9780415180252
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Philosophy and Computing explores each of the following areas of technology: the digital revolution; the computer; the Internet and the Web; CD-ROMs and Mulitmedia; databases, textbases, and... -
Schrodinger's Kittens: And The Search For Reality John Gribbin 9781857994025
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Accessible exploration of one of the most exciting areas of scientific inquiry - the nature of light.Following on from his bestseller, SCHRODINGER'S CAT, John Gribbin presents the recent dramatic...