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What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You by Brian Clegg 9781785786600
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23'Gets right to the heart of what makes us what we are. Read it!' Angela Saini, author of Inferior and Superior: The Return of Race ScienceThe popular science equivalent of Who Do You Think You Are?... -
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What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You by Brian Clegg 9781785786600 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.85'Gets right to the heart of what makes us what we are. Read it!' Angela Saini, author of Inferior and Superior: The Return of Race ScienceThe popular science equivalent of Who Do You Think You Are?... -
Nine Musings on Time: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and the Truth About Time Travel by John Gribbin
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible?Surprisingly, time travel is not forbidden by the laws of physics - and John Gribbin argues that if it is not impossible... -
The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics by Heinrich Päs
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $28.46In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Pas presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.This idea, called monism, has a rich 3,000-year history:... -
The Possibility of Life: Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.20One of the most potent questions we ask about the cosmos is: are we alone? From astrobiology to exoplanets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', Jaime Green traces our understanding of what and where life in the... -
Science and Islam (Icon Science): A History by Ehsan Masood
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering,... -
Eyes in the Sky: Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb by Andrew May 9781837731275
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Over 50 years ago, astronomers launched the world's first orbiting telescope. This allowed them to gaze further into outer space and examine anything that appears in the sky above our heads, from... -
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Professor Ian Stewart 9781781259429
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Stewart is Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' Alex Bellos 'The instructive equivalent of a Michelin-starred tasting menu' Tim Radford Many people think mathematics is... -
The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics by Heinrich Päs 9781837730308
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.04In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Pas presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.This idea, called monism, has a rich 3,000-year history:... -
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields by Sean Carroll 9780861546480
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $20.60THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Neat, and extremely simple: only a deep thinker such as Sean Carroll could introduce the complexity of Einstein's general relativity in such a luminous and... -
Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality Rhodri Evans 9781472120373
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45Acclaimed popular-science writer Brian Clegg and popular TV and radio astronomer Rhodri Evans give us a Top Ten list of physicists as the central theme to build an exploration of the most exciting... -
James Webb’s Ancient Cosmos: A Journey to the Beginning of Time by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock 9781789298321
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.18Written by The Sky at Night's Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, this is an essential guide to the latest James Webb images, revealing what these discoveries mean for our understanding of the universe and... -
Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields by Jim Baggott 9780198759720
RRP: $28.33Booksplease Price: $21.97Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We... -
The This by Adam Roberts 9781473230910
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of your mouth and it will grow into your brain, allow you to connect with others without... -
Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises by John Gribbin
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of seven fundamental scientific truths that underpin our very... -
Unsolved!: The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies by Craig P. Bauer
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.82A mathematical tour of some of the greatest unsolved ciphers of all timeIn 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia airport with a picture of a Nazi aircraft in his... -
Mayday!: A History of Flight through its Martyrs, Oddballs and Daredevils by David Darling
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.35In a world without aircraft, to believe flight might be possible required a certain kind of character. You had to be starry-eyed, a possessor of practical ingenuity, nerves of steel and a level of... -
Where Do Camels Belong?: The story and science of invasive species by Ken Thompson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. They evolved in North America, retain their greatest diversity in South America, and the... -
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe by Marcus Chown
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.63Bestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, our world and the universe with fifty fascinating and mind-bending facts.Our adventures in space,... -
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Neutrino by Frank Close 9780199695997 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $4.20What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they? Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most... -
Neutrino by Frank Close 9780199695997
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.91What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they? Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most... -
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion by Sean Carroll 9780861546145
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical universe of working physicists. Magnificent!' ... -
Metamorphosis: Unmasking the Mystery of How Life Transforms by Frank Ryan
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95In this enchanting work of scientific exploration, acclaimed science author Frank Ryan explains how metamorphosis - the intricate trick of nature by which caterpillars transform into butterflies -... -
The Spirit of Mathematics: Algebra and all that by Acheson 9780192845085
RRP: $34.63Booksplease Price: $27.64What makes mathematics so special? Whether you have anxious memories of the subject from school, or solve quadratic equations for fun, David Acheson's book will make you look at mathematics afresh... -
Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe by Jim Baggott
RRP: $28.33Booksplease Price: $21.97Combining clear discussions of both quantum theory and general relativity, this book offers one of the first efforts to explain the new quantum theory of space and time. Today we are blessed with... -
Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature by Peter Atkins 9780198813378
RRP: $36.73Booksplease Price: $29.78The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at... -
The AI Paradox: How to Make Sense of a Complex Future by Virginia Dignum 9780691269085
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $34.84A user's guide to navigating the intricate, often contradictory relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligenceArtificial intelligence will shape our future in unforeseen ways,... -
The Chemists' War: 1914-1918 Michael Freemantle 9781849739894
Booksplease Price: $45.63Within months of the start of the First World War, Germany began to run out of the raw materials it needed to make explosives. As Germany faced imminent defeat, chemists such as Fritz Haber and Carl... -
McCance and Widdowson's The Composition of Foods: Seventh Summary Edition Paul Finglas (Institute of Food Research) 9781849736367
Booksplease Price: $130.68McCance and Widdowsons's The Composition of Foods, Seventh Summary Edition provides a timely, authoritative and comprehensive update of the nutrient data for the most commonly consumed foods in the... -
The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything Marcus Chown 9781474601887
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017'Does Einstein proud . . . Eminently readable' Guardian'No one has covered the topic with such a light touch and joie de vivre . . . a delight' Brian... -
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The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything by Marcus Chown 9781474601887 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $5.65The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017'Does Einstein proud . . . Eminently readable' Guardian'No one has covered the topic with such a light touch and joie de vivre . . . a delight' Brian... -
Chancing It: The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work for You by Robert Matthews
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Everyone who's had to get to grips with chance knows how tricky even its simplest manifestations can be. Its workings are a constant challenge to common sense: a run of luck goes bad just when you... -
Six Impossible Things: The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World by John Gribbin
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019.'An accessible primer on all things quantum' - Sunday TimesQuantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be... -
Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature by Peter Atkins
RRP: $26.23Booksplease Price: $20.54The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at... -
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Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe by Marcus Chown 9781782439493 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $5.27Bestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, our world and beyond by examining some astonishing facts that reveal the vast complexities of the... -
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World Tom Chivers 9781399604055
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics,... -
Stargazers' Almanac: A Monthly Guide to the Stars and Planets: 2021: 2021 Bob Mizon 9781782506423
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $19.85Explore the night skies with this beautiful illustrated monthly guide to the stars and planets.This large-format almanac allows you to step outside and track the planets, locate the Milky Way,... -
Physics Around the Clock: Adventures in the Science of Everyday Living Michael Banks 9781803995823
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.35'This is one of those brilliant books where there is an amazing fact on every page showing just how much science underpins our everyday world.' Mark Miodownik, author of It's a Gas: The Magnificent... -
Big Data by Timandra Harkness
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.81What is Big Data, and why should you care? Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll... -
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane 9781324064503
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $31.67What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us...