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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow 9780141026473
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world.Randomness and uncertainty surround everything we do. So... -
The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides David Grene 9780226844695
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.98Chicago's renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume. Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond... -
Primate Cognition: Volume 1: Social Cognition Josep Call 9780198910626
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.34First published in 1997, Primate Cognition was a groundbreaking and highly successful book that set the agenda for a new field of study. Borrowing theoretical constructs and paradigms from human... -
The Essential Questions: Uncover Your Family History and Build Deeper Bonds Between the Generations Elizabeth Keating 9781835982389
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10What are the questions you'd regret not asking when they're gone?In Your Family Story, anthropologist Elizabeth Keating helps you to uncover the unique memories of your parents and grandparents and... -
Our Bodies, Our Planet: A Parasite's History of Us Marcus Hall 9781836391074
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Parasites and parasitic relationships are fundamental to life on Earth and to human history. Our Bodies, Our Planet explores how vital they are. Unlike harmful pathogens, parasites may produce no ill... -
Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology by Laura Otis
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.' John Tyndall, 1874 Although we are used to... -
Vector Media Leonardo Impett 9781517921675
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Dispelling the notion of "generative" AINeural networks are designed to dissolve all media into the vector space-a universal space of commensurability. In Vector Media, Leonardo Impett and Fabian... -
Natural Theology by William Paley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does not know.' In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the... -
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind Brian Butterworth 9781529411256
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75'What I like best about this fascinating book is the detail. Brian Butterworth doesn't just tell us stories of animals with numerical abilities: he tells us about the underlying science. Elegantly... -
Is God an Illusion?: The Great Debate Between Science and Spirituality by Deepak Chopra 9781846043055
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Hawking have had a major impact on the loud and popular debate between 'aggressive atheists' and religion. The huge sales of their bestselling books... -
Economic Methods for Lawyers by Emanuel V. Towfigh 9781788111249
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £31.47Responding to the growing importance of economic reasoning in legal scholarship, this innovative work provides an essential introduction to the economic tools which can usefully be employed in legal... -
Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory by Stuart P. Green 9780197507483
RRP: £39.49Booksplease Price: £37.97Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence. On the one hand, the law became significantly more... -
Post-Democracy by Colin Crouch 9780745633152
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.79Post-Democracy is a polemical work that goes beyond current complaints about the failings of our democracy and explores the deeper social and economic forces that account for the current malaise. ... -
Science and the Life-World: Essays on Husserl's <I>Crisis of European Sciences</I> by David Hyder 9780804756044 [USED COPY]
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £6.00This book is a collection of essays on Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences by leading philosophers of science and scholars of Husserl. Published and ignored under the Nazi dictatorship, Husserl's... -
Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice Ruth Dukes 9781509548996
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are fissured and... -
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler by Philip Ball 9780099581642
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any 'Jewish ideas', many others made compromises and concessions as... -
Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.53The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the neo-nationalist,... -
Quantum Theory (A Concise Edition) Niels Bohr 9781804175682
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A concise, uncluttered edition for the modern reader, with a new introduction. Quantum Theory contains two foundational works of quantum research from the early years of the 20th Century,... -
Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time by Peter Galison 9780393326048
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £20.59A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps is "part history, part science, part... -
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms by Gerd Gigerenzer 9780141995045
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Enlightening, impassioned, powerful' The Times From dating apps and self-driving cars to facial recognition and the justice system, the increasing presence of AI has been widely championed - but... -
Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In Euclid's Window, Leonard Mlondinow takes us on a brilliantly entertaining journey through 3,000 years of genius and geometry, introducing the people who revolutionized the way we see the world... -
Critical Encounters: Capitalism, Democracy, Ideas by Wolfgang Streeck
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32From the acclaimed author of How Will Capitalism End? comes an omnibus of long-form critical essays engaging with leading economists and thinkers. Critical Encounters draws on Wolfgang Streeck's... -
Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms by Shai Shalev-Shwartz 9781107057135
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £48.61Machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science, with far-reaching applications. The aim of this textbook is to introduce machine learning, and the algorithmic paradigms it... -
The Secret Science of Baby: The Surprising Physics of Creating a Human, from Conception to Birth--and Beyond by Michael Banks
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Parents and parents-to-be are bombarded with information, from what to expect to what to do (and not to do) when it happens. But what they may not realize is that from the chemistry of pregnancy... -
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by John Tresch 9781250849403
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.49We all think we know Poe - the most popular American writer around the world, dissolute puzzle-maker, pioneer of detective fiction, and author of haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was... -
The Principia. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Concise edition) Sir Isaac Newton 9781804175644
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40New concise edition with a new introduction, abridged for the modern reader. The Principia. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy is one of the most important scientific works ever to have... -
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Genes in Development: Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm by Eva M. Neumann-Held 9780822336563 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £8.80In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipulation of stem cells, the idea that genes carry... -
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Einstein: A Biography by Jurgen Neffe 9780745642208 [USED COPY]
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £12.64Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most famous for his theory of relativity, which is considered the founding principle of modern physics. He... -
Palmyra 1885: The Wolfe Expedition and the Photographs of John Henry Haynes by Benjamin Anderson 9780956594877
Booksplease Price: £21.94European adventurers began exploring Palmyra's priceless Roman ruins in the 17th century, but it wasn't until the advent of photography that the public became aware of its scale and majesty. In 1885,... -
Ideas on the Nature of Science David Cayley 9780864925442
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where... -
The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies Adrian Favell (University of California) 9781509549405
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19The notion of 'immigrant integration' is used everywhere - by politicians, policy makers, journalists and researchers - as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding 'unity from diversity' after... -
On The Origin of Species by Sabina Radeva
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The first ever picture-book retelling of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species.'A long, long time ago, before humans even existed, the living world looked very different from how it looks today... -
Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures Karina Reiss, Ph.D. 9781645020578
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Does the race for vaccine development make sense? What are the chances of success? Will the vaccine be safe? Will people accept it?? In June 2020, Corona, False Alarm? exploded into the German... -
Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism by Lorraine Daston 9780231130394
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful... -
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just... -
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Corona, False Alarm?: Facts and Figures by Karina Reiss 9781645020578 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Does the race for vaccine development make sense? What are the chances of success? Will the vaccine be safe? Will people accept it?? In June 2020, Corona, False Alarm? exploded into the German... -
The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern History by Ute Frevert
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £25.42In a brilliant procession through the last 250 years, Ute Frevert looks at the role that public humiliation has played in modern society, showing how humiliation - and the feeling of shame that it... -
Physics Around the Clock: Adventures in the Science of Everyday Living Michael Banks 9781803995823
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.07'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... -
The Ascendancy of Finance Joseph Vogl 9781509509300
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped... -
Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit Philip Cunliffe (University College London) 9781509553204
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny...