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![Eureka!: The Birth of Science by Andrew Gregory 9781785781919 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9690597/10707313/9781785781919__92124.1781311847.jpg?c=1 "Eureka!: The Birth of Science by Andrew Gregory 9781785781919 [USED COPY]")
Eureka!: The Birth of Science by Andrew Gregory 9781785781919 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $2.41Medicine, 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... -
Maker.Wild: 15 step-by-step projects for the great outdoors Mike Warren 9781787393981
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20There's nothing like exploring the great outdoors. Getting out and appreciating nature can be as simple as spending time in your own back garden or local park, or as adventurous as hiking up a... -
Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape by Oliver Rackham
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.05A beautifully written classic of nature writing.'A masterly account...of supreme interest...a classic' Country LifeLong accepted as the best work on the subject, Oliver Rackham's book is both a... -
Butterflies: Beautiful Flying Insects by Julianna Photopoulos
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.41Butterflies 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... -
A Companion to Ethics Peter Singer (Princeton University) 9780631187851
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $34.68In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live,... -
Against Methodology in Science and Religion: Recent Debates on Rationality and Theology by Josh Reeves
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Since its development as a field over the last part of the twentieth century, scholars in science and religion have been heavily concerned with methodological issues. Following the lead of Thomas... -
Spear by Nicola Griffith
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $20.20She left all she knew to find who she could be . . . She grows up in the wild wood, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake drift to her on the spring breeze, scented with... -
Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations by Stephen Ornes
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.58From geometry in motion to the possibilities of pi, this stunning volume reveals how art inspired the beauty and poetry of mathematical principles. The worlds of visual art and mathematics come... -
Andean Archaeology Helaine Silverman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 9780631234012
RRP: $57.99Booksplease Price: $54.84This book provides an introduction to one of the most fascinating and well-known centers of ancient civilization. Explores the rise of civilization in the Central Andes from the time of the region's... -
The Connected Species: How the Evolution of the Human Brain Can Save the World by Mark A. Williams 9781538179000
Booksplease Price: $43.52Argues that by understanding human connection, we can work together towards a less divided, more sustainable, future.About the AuthorMark A. Williams is a professor of cognitive neuroscience with... -
The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness by Joan Roughgarden 9780520258266
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.38Are selfishness and individuality - rather than kindness and cooperation - basic to biological nature? Does a 'selfish gene' create universal sexual conflict? In "The Genial Gene", Joan Roughgarden... -
No One Likes a Burp by Zoë Foster Blake 9780593753118
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.05From the author of No One Likes a Fart comes a hilarious companion picture book that highlights the adventures of Burp and her friend Fart as they help others and learn that kindness can overcome... -
Electron: A Centenary Volume by Michael Springford 9780521078894
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $48.30This book marked the centenary of the discovery of the electron by J. J. Thomson in 1897, an event which occurred at a great turning point in the history of scientific ideas, and the impact of which... -
Plant Functional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change by T. M. Smith 9780521566438
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $52.62Attempts to model the effects of global change are inhibited by a lack of information about how individual plant and animal species will respond. One way of reducing the problem is to develop models... -
Mistaken Identification: The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law by Brian L. Cutler 9780521445726
RRP: $52.89Booksplease Price: $51.72The criminal justice system has devised several procedural safeguards to protect defendants from erroneous conviction resulting from mistaken eyewitness identification. Mistaken Identification: The... -
The Way of Z: Practical Programming with Formal Methods by Jonathan Jacky 9780521559768
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $69.88This 1997 book is a self-contained tutorial on Z, a formal notation for modelling, specifying and designing computer systems and software, for experienced professionals and serious students in... -
Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan by Morris Low 9780521654258
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $32.30This book explores the dynamic relationship between science, technology and Japanese society, examining how it has contributed to economic growth and national well-being. It presents a synthesis of... -
Sciencia: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Astronomy for All Burkard Polster 9781907155765
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $19.94Curious about quarks, quasars and the fantastic universe around you? Ever wanted to explore a mathematical proof? Need some trigonometry fast? Want to swat up on physics, chemistry, or learn some new... -
![A Companion to Ethics by Peter Singer 9780631187851 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9710266/10726945/9780631187851__50008.1781369764.jpg?c=1 "A Companion to Ethics by Peter Singer 9780631187851 [USED COPY]")
A Companion to Ethics by Peter Singer 9780631187851 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $3.11In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live,... -
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... -
Science the Sh*t Out of Life: Nerdy Solutions to Life's Little Problems Colin Stuart 9780233005881
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95While geeks' obsessive desire for data makes them constant curators of useless information, it also drives them to great lengths to find the solutions to everyday problems. How do you make the... -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $24.81A 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... -
Constellations: The Story of Space Told Through the 88 Known Star Patterns in the Night Sky by Govert Schilling
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $26.88In CONSTELLATIONS, award-winning astronomy writer Govert Schilling takes us on an unprecedented visual tour of all 88 constellations in our night sky. Much more than just a stargazer's guide,... -
Grass-Fed Nation: Getting Back the Food We Deserve by Graham Harvey
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08For years we've been told that traditional foods are unhealthy because of their saturated fat content. In place of grass-fed meat, grass-fed dairy products, and eggs from hens running on pasture, we... -
Utopias, Dolphins and Computers: Problems in Philosophical Plumbing by Mary Midgley
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Why do the big philosophical questions so often strike us as far-fetched and little to with everyday life? Mary Midgley shows that it need not be that way; she shows that there is a need for... -
The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O'Shea 9780141032382
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62The Poincare Conjecture tells the story behind one of the world's most confounding mathematical theories. Formulated in 1904 by Henri Poincare, his Conjecture promised to describe the very shape of...