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Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language by Dean Falk 9780465002191
Booksplease Price: $41.14Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, tool making, and warfare, and eventually developed into... -
The Edge of Solitude Katie Hale 9781837260751
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A NEW SCIENTIST BEST SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF 2024'Beautifully written and exquisitely tense' C.J. COOKE 'A masterwork of vision and power' MANDA SCOTTA lone ship journeys south, heading for the... -
Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash by Fred Pearce 9781905811397
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Wherever we look, population is the driver of the most toxic issues on the political agenda. But the population bomb is being defused. Half the world's women are having two children or fewer. Within... -
Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental and Physical Ability Rowan Hooper 9781408709467
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03Sunday Times Book of the YearThis is a book about what it feels like to be exceptional - and what it takes to get there. Why can some people achieve greatness when others can't, no matter how hard... -
Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental and Physical Ability by Rowan Hooper 9780349142715
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Sunday Times Book of the YearThis is a book about what it feels like to be exceptional - and what it takes to get there. Why can some people achieve greatness when others can't, no matter how hard... -
Snakes: From Vipers to Boa Constrictors by Julianna Photopoulos
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.64Few animals strike as much fear as snakes, which kill either through their poisonous venom or through suffocation. Numbering more than 3000 species, snakes can be found in virtually every environment... -
Discrete Mathematics: for New Technology by Rowan Garnier
Booksplease Price: $73.58In a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow manner, Discrete Mathematics for New Technology follows the progression from the basic mathematical concepts covered by the GCSE in the UK and by high-school... -
Logic and Information by Keith Devlin
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $43.60Intelligence can be characterised both as the ability to absorb and process information and as the ability to reason. Humans and other animals have both of these abilities to a greater or lesser... -
Cutting-Edge Science: Up-to-the-Minute Discoveries, Facts and Inventions by Colin Barras
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.93How did the atom bomb help save the elephant? Have we found the secret to eternal youth? Could a parasite be manipulating you right now? This dazzling collection of stories reveals the key recent... -
Zed by Joanna Kavenna 9780571245161
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.07'Fun and erudite' Sunday Times'Snort-inducingly funny' Daily Mail'One of the cleverest books you'll read this year' TelegraphEvery system, however immaculate, has a few little glitches.The latest in... -
Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting by Thomas D. Seeley 9780691191409
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.01A how-to book on an exhilarating outdoor activity and a unique meditation on the pleasures of the natural worldFollowing the Wild Bees is a delightful foray into the pastime of bee hunting, an... -
Research Methods for Postgraduates Tony Greenfield (Industrial Research Consultant) 9781118341469
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $52.64An indispensable reference for postgraduates, providing up to date guidance in all subject areas Methods for Postgraduates brings together guidance for postgraduate students on how to organise, plan... -
Freethinking: Protecting Freedom of Thought Amidst the New Battle for the Mind by Simon McCarthy-Jones 9780861544578
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.25For humanity to survive there must always be people performing the minute-to-minute miracle of thought. 'Excellent and beyond timely.' A. C. Grayling Scientific advances and new technologies... -
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver by Arthur Allen 9780393331561
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $30.95Vaccine juxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses on the role of military and medical authority in... -
Billy Bonkers: Billy Bonkers and the Wacky World Cup! Giles Andreae 9781408330586
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15Put your trainers on, Billy Bonkers is back with more amazing adventures! This time he's landing a plane and flying through the air in a hot-air balloon to watch the World Cup's final. Billy and his... -
Core Organic Chemistry by Joshua Howarth 9780471983330
RRP: $70.89Booksplease Price: $63.64This innovative new textbook covers an entire first course in organic chemistry within a single, compact volume. It can be used either as a stand-alone text, or together with a general chemistry,... -
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Big Questions: Incredible Adventures in Thinking by Matthew Morrison 9781840466706 [USED COPY]
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $3.19The sequel to the hugely acclaimed "Big Numbers", "Big Questions" brings the most challenging issues about life, the universe and everything to 10-13 year olds. Is there a reason for everything? Can... -
Invisible Rivals: How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World Jonathan R Goodman 9780300274356
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.28A multidisciplinary view of how our competitive and cooperative natures make us human For centuries, people have argued about whether humans are moral animals-good or bad, cooperative or... -
Codes and Ciphers Steven Goodwin 9781907155680
RRP: $8.97Booksplease Price: $7.66What is the difference between a code and a cipher? How did Caesar send secret messages? How do you beat frequency analysis? What is a side channel attack? How does RSA end-to-end encryption actually... -
Curious World: The Fastest, the Weirdest, the Loudest… of Everything Mick O'Hare 9781835013045
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A mind-bending adventure the whole family will enjoy!Packed with amazing trivia, weird world records, and mind-blowing facts, this book is perfect for curious kids, trivia-loving teens, and even... -
Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform by Finis Dunaway 9780226173269
Booksplease Price: $35.63In "Natural Visions", Finis Dunaway shows how visual imagery - such as wilderness photographs, New Deal documentary films, and Sierra Club coffee-table books - shaped modern perceptions of the... -
The Evolving Brain: How to Thrive in a World We Weren't Made For by Dr Paul Goldsmith 9781035426461
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.38Neurologist and neuroscientist Dr Paul Goldsmith reveals compassionate, practical insights on the evolutionary origins of our brain and how we can best use it to thrive in our daily lives. 'A... -
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Football School 20 Fantastic Football Stories: World Book Day 2021 by Alex Bellos 9781529500509 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $2.30Discover 20 mind-blowing football stories in this awesome collection created for World Book Day 2021.Find out the true stories of the star players, top teams and game changers who have shaped... -
Butterflies by Julianna Photopoulos
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Butterflies and moths hold an enduring fascination for their unusual life cycle, as they change from one creature into another. Butterflies is an outstanding collection of photographs showcasing... -
The Psychology of Babies: How relationships support development from birth to two by Lynne Murray
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.19An instructive and accessible account of the psychological development of children aged 0-2 years and how it can be supported by social relationships. The first two years are critical in a child's... -
Eureka!: The Birth of Science by Andrew Gregory
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $5.17Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to... -
The Big Ideas in Science: A complete introduction Jon Evans 9781529397956
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55By the simple expedient of asking questions and conducting experiments to answer them, science has transformed our understanding of the world. It has made us who we are, and revealed a universe that... -
Supernovae and Nucleosynthesis: An Investigation of the History of Matter, from the Big Bang to the Present by David Arnett
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $93.82This book investigates the question of how matter has evolved since its origin in the Big Bang, from the cosmological synthesis of hydrogen and helium to the generation of the complex set of nuclei... -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin 9780008333409
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and... -
Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics by Martin Gardner 9780393325720
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.13Martin Gardner-"one of the most brilliant men and gracious writers I have ever known," wrote Stephen Jay Gould-is the wittiest, most devastating debunker of scientific fraud and chicanery of our time... -
Snakes Julianna Photopoulos 9781838864446
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Few animals strike as much fear as snakes, which kill either through their poisonous venom or through suffocation. Numbering more than 3000 species, snakes can be found in virtually every environment... -
The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation by John Casti 9780349108537
Booksplease Price: $19.65By 1949, the idea of duplicating human thought processes in a computer was starting to surface, as the outgrowth of code-breaking work done by Alan Turing and others in Britain during the Second... -
Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa by Ioan James 9780521017060
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $54.77The 250 years from the second half of the 17th century saw the birth of modern physics and its growth into one of the most successful of the sciences. The reader will find here the lives of 55 of the... -
Football School Facts: A Fact for Every Day of the Year Alex Bellos 9781529526004
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Packed with stats, facts and trivia and funny illustrations this is the perfect gift for any young football fan."We love this book series!" Match of the Day WeeklyIt is time to kick off a year of... -
Sustainability: All That Matters by Chris Goodall 9781444174403
Booksplease Price: $18.37Sustainability: All That Matters, by award-winning writer and campaigner Chris Goodall argues that building a sustainable society is perhaps the greatest test that the world has ever faced. Today's... -
Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization Bill McKibben 9781324130628
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.97Every eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant's-worth of solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt the poles, poison our bodies and drive global inequality. It is... -
Voyage (The Nasa Trilogy, Book 1) by Stephen Baxter 9780008134518
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.36What if John F. Kennedy survived? President Nixon, with the help of former president JFK, has just green-lit NASA's first manned expedition to Mars. Aboard, Natalie York, a... -
Alpha Beta by John Man 9780553819656
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09The idea behind the alphabet - that language with all its wealth of meaning can be recorded with a few meaningless signs - is an extraordinary one. So extraordinary, in fact, that it has occurred... -
Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do by Wallace J. Nichols
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing... -
The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe by Brian W. Ogilvie
Booksplease Price: $42.05Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals...