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Time Travel: In Einstein's Universe Richard Gott 9780753813492
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40One of the world's most outstanding astrophysicists provides a state-of-the-art investigation into the possibility of time travel.Human beings have a strong desire to travel through time. Although... -
No One Likes a Fart by Zoe Foster Blake
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.11Fart is desperate to make friends and have fun. But no one likes a fart -- not even a fart with a heart. With plenty of laughs and even more heart, this delightful picture book shows that even the... -
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Young Readers Edition) by Sam Kean
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te,... -
A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down by Robert B. Laughlin
Booksplease Price: £20.82In this age of superstring theories and Big Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as impossibly distant from our everyday lives. But in A Different Universe , Nobel Laureate Robert... -
Evolution: The Whole Story by Steve Parker
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.03Evolution: The Whole Story contains everything you need to know about the development and survival of life on Earth. Each chapter of this accessible and lavishly illustrated book takes a major living... -
Dragons in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard Megalania by Ralph E. Molnar
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56Just 50,000 years ago the world was filled with fabulous creatures that are now forever gone. Australia's giant lizard, Megalania, was one of those. These frightful beasts could reach 19 feet in... -
The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else by William Hartston
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.99A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows.Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a... -
QED: Beauty in Mathematical Proof (Q.E.D.) by Burkard Polster 9781904263500
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.23Which famous proof did Archimedes inscribe on his tombstone? How and why do knots make perfect pentagons? Have you ever seen a proof so completely that it is just obvious? In this delicious little... -
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos by Ian Stewart 9780631232513
Booksplease Price: £25.91The revised and updated edition includes three completely new chapters on the prediction and control of chaotic systems. It also incorporates new information regarding the solar system and an account... -
Fantastic Voyages: Learning Science Through Science Fiction Films by Leroy W. Dubeck 9780387004402
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £39.63By revealing the facts behind the fiction of some of the finest films in the sci-fi genre, "Fantastic Voyages" offers a novel approach to teaching science: using scenes from science fiction films to... -
Resistance to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information Technology and Biotechnology by Martin Bauer 9780521599481
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.94This book compares resistance to technology across time, nations, and technologies. Three post-war examples - nuclear power, information technology, and biotechnology - are used in the analysis. The... -
What If You Didn't Make Snot?: And Other Amazing Human Body Questions Emma Young 9780241733318
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.70What would happen if you never slept? Or if your blood turned blue? Or your bones turned to jelly? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with science author Emma Young!Prepare to... -
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Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide by Darian Leader 9781848311831 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.34Jacques 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... -
Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning by Mary Midgley
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19What 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
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £44.52This 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: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80Dive 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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.83On 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: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.33Spy-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: £21.00Booksplease Price: £19.04A 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
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98From 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
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.41Smart 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: £30.81This 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: £80.61With 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Take 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Uncover 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
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.88Would 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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.83A 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
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £50.52Most 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: £27.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Are 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: £16.70Opening 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: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What 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: £48.62A 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: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.05Saturn 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
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.14In 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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Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling by David Canter 9780753513262 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.61'Criminals reveal who they are and where they live not just from how they commit their crimes, but also from the locations they choose.' So claims renowned criminal psychologist and profiler David... -
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: £47.08Funding 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: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94Lost 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?... -
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction by Henry Gee 9781035032259
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02‘Brilliant’ – The Times‘Hugely informative and entertaining’ – New Scientist‘Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately’ – Eric IdleFrom the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book... -
Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas by Edward B. Burger 9780393329315
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80A book for the eternally curious, Coincidences fuses a professor's understanding of the hidden mathematical skeleton of the universe with the sensibility of a stand-up comedian, making life's big... -
Mustn't Grumble: The surprising science of everyday ailments and why we’re always a bit ill by Graham Lawton 9781472283641
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.52'...an unexpected literary genre: the compulsively readable medical reference book. You start with the things that currently plague you, and then you keep on reading, happily passing entire...