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Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe JohnJoe McFadden 9781529364958
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of... -
A Little History of Science William Bynum 9780300283211
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages"In Mr. Bynum's telling, a little history goes a long way."-Alan Hirshfeld, Wall Street Journal Science is key to... -
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked The Universe by JohnJoe McFadden 9781529364934
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.44'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of... -
Born to Explore: John Casani’s Grand Tour of the Solar System Jay Gallentine 9781496206657
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.15Once, there were giants in the heavens: billion-dollar machines of wonder and science that flew to the outermost planets and told us what secrets had been lying in wait. In charge of the people and... -
University of Cambridge: Build Your Own Solar System Anja Sušanj 9781805132776
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84A creative and beautiful introduction to the universe around us, published in collaboration with the University of Cambridge.Discover the wonders of our Solar System, then build your very own 3D... -
The Scientific Intellectual: The Psychological & Sociological Origins of Modern Science by Lewis S. Feuer 9781560005711
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.79The birth of modern science was linked to the rise in Western Europe of a new sensibility, that of the scientific intellectual. Such a person was no more technician, looking at science as just a job... -
Space Exploration: A History in 100 Objects Sten Odenwald 9781615196142
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.24From Galileo's telescope to the International Space Station - a photo-filled tour through the milestones of space exploration This eclectic pop history of space exploration, by scientist-educator... -
Outer Space Activity Book by Brett Ortler 9781591937081
Booksplease Price: £7.28Many children grow up dreaming about becoming an astronaut and exploring outer space. Utilize that fascination to introduce them to the wonders of space exploration. Brett Ortler presents an... -
How Philosophy Works by DK
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.81What is the meaning of life? Are we truly free? How can we make ethical choices? Discover the answers to life's greatest questions.Demystifying the key ideas of the world's greatest philosophers, and... -
Deep Space Communications by Jim Taylor
RRP: £134.95Booksplease Price: £119.73DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS A COLLECTION OF SOME OF THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY'S SPACE MISSIONS SELECTED TO REPRESENT THE PLANETARY COMMUNICATIONS DESIGNS FOR A PROGRESSION OF VARIOUS TYPES OF... -
When Science and Christianity Meet by David C. Lindberg 9780226482163
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £20.85This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and... -
Reading <I>H</I><I>ayy Ibn-Yaq</I><I>z</I><I>an</I>: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism by Avner Ben-Zaken 9780801897399
Booksplease Price: £57.76Commonly translated as "The Self-Taught Philosopher" or "The Improvement of Human Reason," Ibn-Tufayl's story ayy Ibn-Yaq an inspired debates about autodidacticism in a range of historical fields... -
When Science and Christianity Meet by David C. Lindberg
Booksplease Price: £26.98This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and... -
Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb 9781399807913
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.45'LOEB IS AN ASTRONOMICAL SHERLOCK HOLMES' Washington Post'A JOY IN CONJECTURE AND AN OMNIVOROUS SPIRIT OF INQUIRY. . . CARL SAGAN WOULD HAVE LIKED THIS BOOK' The Times In 2017, Avi Loeb, Chair of... -
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes Eric Cochrane 9780226111513
Booksplease Price: £34.04The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance. But most histories of Florence go no further than the first decades... -
Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth Avi Loeb 9781399807937
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'LOEB IS AN ASTRONOMICAL SHERLOCK HOLMES' Washington Post'A JOY IN CONJECTURE AND AN OMNIVOROUS SPIRIT OF INQUIRY. . . CARL SAGAN WOULD HAVE LIKED THIS BOOK' The Times In 2017, Avi Loeb, Chair of... -
The Modern Stage and Other Worlds by Austin E. Quigley 9781138804524
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.09Modern plays are strikingly diverse and, as a result, any attempt to locate an underlying unity between them encounters difficulties: to focus on what they have in common is often to overlook what is... -
Bertolt Brecht Meg Mumford 9780815396895
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Bertolt Brecht's methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the most important contributors to the theory and... -
Relativity In Our Time Mendel Sachs 9780748401185
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94"Relativity In our Time" is a book concerning the relevance of Einstein's theory to human relations in contemporary times. lt is physics and it is philosophy. lt is a discussion about one of the... -
Cosmic Roots: The Conflict Between Science And Religion And How It Led To The Secular Age by Ira Mark Egdall
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76Cosmic Roots traces the five-thousand-year conflict between science and religion - and how it has shaped our modern secular worldview.Told with rare clarity and striking insight, this fascinating and... -
Cosmic Roots: The Conflict Between Science And Religion And How It Led To The Secular Age by Ira Mark Egdall 9789811251382
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £88.11Cosmic Roots traces the five-thousand-year conflict between science and religion - and how it has shaped our modern secular worldview.Told with rare clarity and striking insight, this fascinating and... -
Meditations on First Philosophy by Andreas Vrahimis 9781912302970
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Rene Descartes's 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy is a cornerstone of the history of western thought. One of the most important philosophical texts ever written, it is also a masterclass in the... -
Thomas Harriot and His World: Mathematics, Exploration, and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England Robert Fox 9781138110144
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This second volume of papers on Thomas Harriot edited by Professor Robert Fox is based on the annual Harriot lectures delivered at Oriel College, Oxford between 2000 and 2009. It complements the... -
The Scientific Revolution by Peter Harman 9780415851565
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Originally published in 1983.This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and... -
An Objective Theory of Probability (Routledge Revivals) Donald Gillies 9780415618656
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94This reissue of D. A. Gillies highly influential work, first published in 1973, is a philosophical theory of probability which seeks to develop von Mises' views on the subject. In agreement with von... -
Explorations in Neuroscience, Psychology and Religion by Kevin S. Seybold
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29In the 1990s great strides were taken in clarifying how the brain is involved in behaviors that, in the past, had seldom been studied by neuroscientists or psychologists. This book explores the... -
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Dr. Kelly Weinersmith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.65What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith give us a snapshot of... -
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery by Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781426223303
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.33No one can make the mysteries of the universe more comprehensible and fun than Neil deGrasse Tyson. Drawing on mythology, history, and literature - alongside his trademark wit and charm - Tyson and... -
People Managing Forests: The Links Between Human Well-Being and Sustainability by Carol J. P. Colfer 9781891853067
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.38How do we extend the 'conservation ethic' to include the cultural links between local populations and their physical environments? Can considerations of human capital be incorporated into the... -
Novelties in the Heavens: Rhetoric and Science in the Copernican Controversy by Jean Dietz Moss 9780226542355
Booksplease Price: £31.53In this fascinating work, Jean Dietz Moss shows how the scientific revolution begun by Copernicus brought about another revolution as well-one in which rhetoric, previously used simply to explain... -
How Structures Work: Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings David Yeomans (formerly University of Liverpool) 9781119012276
Booksplease Price: £61.41Structural engineering is central to the design of a building. How the building behaves when subjected to various forces - the weight of the materials used to build it, the weight of the occupants or... -
Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: Girls of Tomorrow by Anna Borgos
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book explores the life, scholarly oeuvre and intellectual connections of the significant "first generation" Hungarian female psychoanalysts, situating their lives within the wider context of... -
The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences by James Robert Brown 9780415095792
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though... -
Cosmic Queries: Startalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by Professor Neil DeGrasse Tyson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.99In this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world's most important philosophical questions about the universe with wit,... -
The Modern Stage and Other Worlds by Austin E. Quigley
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £114.69Modern plays are strikingly diverse and, as a result, any attempt to locate an underlying unity between them encounters difficulties: to focus on what they have in common is often to overlook what is... -
Novelties in the Heavens: Rhetoric and Science in the Copernican Controversy by Jean Dietz Moss
Booksplease Price: £117.21In this fascinating work, Jean Dietz Moss shows how the scientific revolution begun by Copernicus brought about another revolution as well--one in which rhetoric, previously used simply to explain... -
The Uncertain Sciences Bruce Mazlish 9781412806305
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This sweeping inquiry into the present condition of the human sciences addresses the central questions: What sort of knowledge do the human sciences claim to be offering? To what extent can that... -
National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky: 2nd Edition Andrew Fazekas 9781426220159
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Explore the star-studded cosmos with this fully updated, user-friendly skywatcher's guide, filled with charts, graphics, photographs, and expert tips for viewing -- and understanding -- the wonders... -
The Last Man in Tehran: A Novel by Mark Henshaw 9781501161278
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.70Decorated current CIA analyst Mark Henshaw continues the "authentic, compelling, and revealing" (Jason Matthews) Red Cell series following agent Kyra Stryker who must work to save the CIA from being... -
Italy in the Seventeenth Century Domenico Sella 9780582035959
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £55.61In his comprehensive overview of 17th century Italy, Professor Sella challenges the old view that Italy was in general decline, instead he shows it to have been a time of sharp contrasts and shifts...