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Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide by Darian Leader 9781848311831
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian... -
In Search of the Light by Susan J. Blackmore 9781573920612
Booksplease Price: $27.13"True skepticism has nothing to do with disbelief," says Susan Blackmore. "It is about taking people's claims seriously and trying to understand them." As a starry-eyed student, Blackmore was... -
The Life of Isaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.72Isaac Newton was indisputably one of the greatest scientists in history. His achievements in mathematics and physics marked the culmination of the movement that brought modern science into being... -
Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics by John L. Cardy
Booksplease Price: $77.49This text provides a thoroughly modern graduate-level introduction to the theory of critical behaviour. Beginning with a brief review of phase transitions in simple systems and of mean field theory,... -
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean by Christina Gerhardt
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $33.55"A stunning atlas of the present and future."—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York "An impassioned plea to save... -
Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired by Till Roenneberg
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $23.30Winner of a British Medical Association Book AwardA Brain Pickings Best Science Book of the YearEarly birds and night owls are born, not made. Sleep patterns may be the most obvious manifestation... -
Extreme Planet: The Deep by Laura Cowan
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $7.52Are you brave enough to delve into the chilling darkness of... THE DEEP? With no light, no heat and miles of sea above you, it might be the strangest, most extreme place on Earth. So, climb inside... -
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 9781783780563
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for... -
The Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future by Mason Inman 9780393239683
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.06In 1956, geophysicist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert forecast that American oil production would peak surprisingly soon and decline steadily thereafter. Hubbert's prediction outraged... -
Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone Ivars Peterson 9780471315704
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.76There s a new amusement park in town. Come on in and find out allthe exciting ways you can have fun with math in everyday life.Wander through the fractal forest, take a ride on the... -
Science a la Mode: Physical Fashions and Fictions by Tony Rothman 9780691604831
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.25These iconoclastic and witty essays are about what happens when scientists jump on band-wagons. Tony Rothman applies creative skepticism to contemporary fashions in science, including the "standard... -
Talking Climate: From Research to Practice in Public Engagement by Adam Corner 9783319835761
Booksplease Price: $71.40This book describes a fresh approach to climate change communication: five core principles for public engagement that can propel climate change discourse out of the margins and into the mainstream... -
Architectural Theory. Pioneering Texts on Architecture from the Renaissance to Today Bernd Evers 9783836599627
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $33.54If you've ever wondered what goes through architects' minds when they design buildings, you'll be happy to know that there's no shortage of brilliant reading material to satisfy your curiosity... -
Life On The Edge by Michael Gross 9780738204451
Booksplease Price: $16.54Can life exist in the Antarctic ice, in the deep subsurface, in dilute sulfuric acid, in hot springs-even on Mars? What degree of high or low temperature, pressure, or salt concentration can living... -
Fosse v Luffs: Leicestershire's Forgotten Football Rivalry Nigel Freestone 9781836800040
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.86Fosse v Luffs is a story filled with drama, excitement, controversy - and violence - about a footballing rivalry as intense as any in modern English football. The Fosse (forerunner of Leicester City)... -
Polar: Explore the Earth's Coldest, Wildest Places by DK 9780241778784
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.38Dive into the coldest corners of our planet with this stunning guide to the Arctic and Antarctic. Explore towering glaciers, crimson Blood Falls, and snow-covered tundra teeming with life. From... -
Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning by Mary Midgley
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $40.24What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion... -
Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology by Sally Shuttleworth
Booksplease Price: $63.52This innovative and critically acclaimed study successfully challenges the traditional view that Charlotte Bronte existed in a historical vacuum, by setting her work firmly within the context of... -
Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life Helen Scales 9781399602785
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.38Dive beneath the waves to meet 80 of the ocean's strangest and most surprising inhabitants.This beautifully illustrated aquatic world tour tells the fascinating stories of beguiling sea creatures and... -
Guitar Zero: The Science of Learning to be Musical by Gary Marcus 9781851689620
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.29On the eve of his fortieth birthday, renowned cognitive scientist Gary Marcus decided to fulfil a lifelong dream and learn to play the guitar. He had tried many times before - failing miserably. This... -
A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century by Jeffrey T. Richelson 9780195113907
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.52Spy-masters, moles, and double-agents. Ciphers, saboteurs, and atomic secrets. The shady world of real-life espionage is as alarming and mysterious as any John Le Carre novel or James Bond movie. ... -
Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough by Rebecca Stott 9780393325713
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $24.56A scientific detective story that illuminates the remarkable saga of Darwin's greatest achievement. Pairing Charles Darwin and a rare species of barnacle as her unlikely protagonists, Rebecca Stott... -
Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence by Terence Ranger 9780521558310
Booksplease Price: $58.45From plague to AIDS, epidemics have been the most spectacular diseases to afflict human societies. This volume examines the way in which these great crises have influenced ideas, how they have helped... -
Smart Structures: Analysis and Design by A. V. Srinivasan 9780521659772
Booksplease Price: $64.80Smart structures and structural components have unusual abilities: they can sense a change in temperature, pressure, or strain; diagnose a problem; and initiate an appropriate action in order to... -
The Nature of Chaos by Tom Mullin 9780198539902
Booksplease Price: $39.74This book captures the excitement of the expert contributors working at the forefront of this new area of science, detailing the latest developments in the different fields; from physics to biology,... -
Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations into Brain Function by Stanley Finger 9780195146943
Booksplease Price: $103.99With over 350 illustrations, this impressive volume traces the rich history of ideas about the functioning of the brain from its roots in the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the... -
The Wonder of Whales: Discover the Lives of Earth's Most Majestic Giants Melissa Hobson 9781577159155
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Take a deep dive into the mystery and magic of the world's largest mammals in this visually stunning and scientifically driven exploration. Full of fascinating scientific and historical insights and... -
Numbers: 10 Things You Should Know by Colin Stuart
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Uncover the language of our universe - numbers - in this wide-ranging whistle-stop tour of the history and majesty of mathematics.Our world simply wouldn't function if we didn't have numbers. But... -
Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9 by James Kozubek
Booksplease Price: $29.64Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and... -
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution by Susan Hockfield
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $21.71A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear power, computers,... -
Extreme Environmental Change and Evolution by Ary A. Hoffmann
Booksplease Price: $76.21Most natural populations intermittently experience extremely stressful conditions. This book discusses how such conditions can cause periods of intense selection, increasing both phenotypic and... -
How the Brain Works: The Facts Visually Explained by DK 9781465489791
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $22.24Are men's and women's brains really different? Why are teenagers impulsive and rebellious? And will it soon be possible to link our brains together via the Cloud?Drawing on the latest neuroscience... -
Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart 9780465017751
Booksplease Price: $21.21Opening another drawer in his Cabinet of Curiosities, renowned mathematics professor Ian Stewart presents a new medley of games, paradoxes, and riddles in Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical... -
Megalithic Ireland: Cairns, Tombs, Henges & Circles Hector McDonnell 9781907155659
RRP: $8.97Booksplease Price: $7.66What are Irish Court Cairns? And what are Portal Tombs? Are Irish megalithic sites really older than the Great Pyramid? What does Irish rock art mean? What were the ancients up to? In this unique... -
Folklore and Zoology Floe Foxon 9781032757674
Booksplease Price: $62.72A scientific excursion into folklore, zoology, and cryptozoology; the field, often called a pseudoscience, which seriously considers the possible existence of hidden or unknown animals not recognised... -
Mission to Saturn: Cassini and the Huygens Probe by David M. Harland 9781852336561
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $33.60Saturn is back in the news! The Cassini/Huygens spacecraft, a joint venture by NASA and the European Space Agency, is on its way to Saturn, where it will arrive in July 2004. During 2005 it will... -
Bubbles, Voids and Bumps in Time: The New Cosmology by James Cornell 9780521426732
Booksplease Price: $55.91In the last decade, advances made in observational instruments and computational techniques have allowed astronomers to look both deeper into space and, by implication, further back into time to... -
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The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor by Stephen Bates 9780715649572 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $4.08The greatest villain who ever stood trial at the Old Bailey, as Charles Dickens described him William Palmer was convicted in 1856 of murdering his best friend, but was suspected of poisoning more... -
Urban Air Quality - Recent Advances: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Urban Air Quality - Measurement, Modeling and Management Loutraki, Greece, 19-23 March 2001 by Ranjeet S. Sokhi 9789401039352
Booksplease Price: $60.73Funding Science: An Immense Challenge The real challenge in science should be hypothesis formation, experimental design and conducting the actual research under rigorous control and experimental... -
The Pocket Universe: Galaxies, Stars, Planets and Moons Matt Tweed 9781907155727
RRP: $8.97Booksplease Price: $7.66Lost in space? Muddling your quasars and your clusters? Wondering how everything got to be what it is today? Pondering the mystery of a universe which seems to have been born optimised for life?...