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Taming the Infinite: The Story of Mathematics Ian Stewart 9781847247681
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings us his definitive history of mathematics. In his famous straightforward style, Professor Stewart explains each major... -
Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform by Professor Martin J. S. Rudwick
Booksplease Price: $86.94The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth, Martin J. S. Rudwick's "Worlds Before Adam" picks up where his celebrated "Bursting the Limits of Time" leaves off... -
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A New Translation by Michael Hulse by Michael Hulse
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche conducts his protagonist through his great journey of life - the quest for meaning, and fulfilment, and for a way to live with the knowledge of death. In this... -
The Earth: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Redfern
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.23For generations, the ground beneath the feet of our ancestors seemed solid and unchanging. Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet... -
Painkillers by Simon Ings
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $7.12A mysterious box that he cannot open is all that might save Adam's autistic son as they are plunged into a world of old corruptions and new terrors.In PAINKILLERS, Simon Ings deftly teases out his... -
Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America by Leslie J. Reagan 9780520274570
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43"Dangerous Pregnancies" tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This... -
Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform by Professor Martin J. S. Rudwick 9780226731285
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $136.16The first detailed account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth, Martin J. S. Rudwick's "Worlds Before Adam" picks up where his celebrated "Bursting the Limits of Time" leaves off... -
Urban Astronomy by Denis Berthier 9780521531900
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $64.66Light pollution has spread so much in the last few decades that it often compromises our view of the stars. It is becoming more and more difficult to find an observing site with clear, dark skies... -
Y: The Descent Of Men by Professor Steve Jones 9780349113890
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been dispensed with. Dolly the Sheep - conceived without... -
Common Families of Flowering Plants by Michael Hickey 9780521576093
Booksplease Price: $101.98Provides a basic introduction to twenty five commonly occurring families of flowering plants, chosen for their economic, ornamental and ecological importance. It is designed to enable students of... -
Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy lessons by Clifford A. Pickover 9780195130065
Booksplease Price: $92.53Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook,... -
Magic Molecules: How Drugs Work by Susan Aldridge 9780521584142
Booksplease Price: $186.69All of us are drug users, in the broadest sense of the word. Drugs can be medicines, they can be used for pleasure, and they can also be used to protect our long-term health. It is important that we... -
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The Book Of Nothing by John D. Barrow 9780099288459 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.06How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing? Where does it begin and where does it end?From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty... -
To Have or To Hold: Finding Symbiosis in a Changing World Sophie Pavelle 9781399412162
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.00A thrilling exploration of nature's symbiotic relationships, some comforting and familiar, others wildly alien, by the award-winning author of Forget Me Not.What can nature teach us about living... -
The Rise of the Scientist-Bureaucrat: Survival Guide for Researchers in the 21st Century by Jose Luis Perez Velazquez 9783030123284
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $49.41"Perez Velazquez has written a little gem that I advise reading to anyone persuing a scientific career, as well as for the general public interested in the sociological aspects of science. It alerts... -
Reason to Be Happy: Why logical thinking is the key to a better life by Kaushik Basu 9781911709282
Booksplease Price: $39.21'Reason to Be Happy is a wise and witty book that shows how thinking clearly can help us find happiness in our daily lives, get more of what we want, and even make the world a better place' Hannah... -
The Story of Birds: An Evolutionary History of the Dinosaurs That Live Among Us by Steve Brusatte 9781035032518
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13The riveting story of the dinosaurs that live among us.A New Scientist most anticipated book of 2026'Dinosaurs did NOT go extinct! They are all around us, and there are more of them than ever? . . ... -
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The Forensics Handbook by Pete Moore 9781903070352 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $5.48Put on your lab coat and step inside the laboratories of the world's leading forensics scientists. The Forensics Handbook is your first day primer, the most up-to-date log of forensic techniques... -
Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants: Darwin's Botany Today by Ken Thompson
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.50Most of us think of Darwin at work on The Beagle, taking inspiration for his theory of evolution from his travels in the Galapagos. But Darwin published his Origin of Species nearly thirty years... -
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World by Abraham Pais
Booksplease Price: $122.83The history of physics since the discovery of X-rays would be too simplistic a description of this book. Certainly it covers the historical period from the late nineteenth century to the present day,... -
Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20) by Terry Pratchett
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.73'Has the energy of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland' Sunday TimesThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat... -
Oceanic by Greg Egan
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Collected together here for the first time are twelve stories by the incomparable Greg Egan, one of the most exciting writers of science fiction working today.In these dozen glimpses into the future... -
On the Origin of Phyla James W. Valentine 9780226845494
Booksplease Price: $85.26Owing its inspiration and title to "On the Origin of Species", James W. Valentine's ambitious book synthesizes and applies the vast treasury of phyla theory and research collected in the century and... -
Origin Of The Species by Charles Darwin
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $33.43When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory... -
Fireflies, Honey, and Silk by Dr. Gilbert Waldbauer 9780520268074
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.81The ink our ancestors wrote with, the beeswax in altar candles, the honey on our toast, the silk we wear - This enchanting book is a highly entertaining exploration of the myriad ways insects have... -
Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems by Paul Selden 9780226746418
Booksplease Price: $112.85Major advances in our understanding of the history of life on Earth have been achieved through the study of exceptionally well-preserved fossil sites, known scientifically as fossil Lagerstatten. The... -
The Search For Earth's Twin by Stuart Clark 9781848665859
Booksplease Price: $38.18In 1995 two Swiss astronomers discovered a planet circling a star other than our Sun. This changed our perception of the Universe forever, proving that Earth and the other celestial bodies in our... -
The Ascent of Babel: An Exploration of Language, Mind, and Understanding by Gerry T. M. Altmann 9780198523772
Booksplease Price: $188.71Language is one of the faculties that sets humans apart from animals, the crucial thing which makes our complex social interactions possible. The Ascent of Babel explores the ways in which the mind... -
Ecological Debt: Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations by Andrew Simms 9780745327273
Booksplease Price: $62.06Millions of people in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create,... -
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Taming the Infinite: The Story of Mathematics by Ian Stewart 9781847247681 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $5.04From ancient Babylon to the last great unsolved problems, Ian Stewart brings us his definitive history of mathematics. In his famous straightforward style, Professor Stewart explains each major... -
Great Discoveries in Medicine by William Bynum
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.05An unrivalled account of turning points and breakthroughs in medical knowledge and practice, from ancient Egypt, India and China to the latest technology. Sickness and health, birth and death,... -
A Dictionary of Science by Jonathan Law
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.82This bestselling dictionary contains more than 9,500 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth sciences, computer science, and astronomy. This fully... -
Perfect Form: Variational Principles, Methods, and Applications in Elementary Physics by Don S. Lemons
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $115.08What does the path taken by a ray of light share with the trajectory of a thrown baseball and the curve of a wheat stalk bending in the breeze? Each is the subject of a different study yet all are... -
The Politics of the Real World: A Major Statement of Public Concern from over 40 of the UK's Leading Voluntary and Campaigning Organisations by Real World Coalition
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $51.20Many people today feel that something has gone wrong with British society and British politics. The quality of like seems to be declining. Crime soars. Traffic and pollution spiral. Mass unemployment... -
The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (University of Washington) 9780521509909
RRP: $155.38Booksplease Price: $149.92How did psychoanalysis attain its prominent cultural position? How did it eclipse rival psychologies and psychotherapies, such that it became natural to bracket Freud with Copernicus and Darwin? Why... -
The Book Of Nothing by John D. Barrow
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87How do you begin to understand the concept of nothing? Where does it begin and where does it end?From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty... -
On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail 9780520258129
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $41.12When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a... -
Rock Trails Snowdonia: A hillwalker's guide to the geology & scenery by Paul Gannon 9781906095420
Booksplease Price: $31.40This book explains to the hillwalker, in easy to understand but accurate terms, how geology has shaped the landscape of Snowdonia. A selection of seventeen guided walks is used to illustrate this in... -
Carl Sagan by Keay Davidson 9780471395362
Booksplease Price: $48.28A penetrating, mesmerizing biography of a scientific icon, now in paperback "Absolutely fascinating ...Davidson has done a remarkable job."-Sir Arthur C. Clarke "Engaging ...accessible, carefully... -
The Geek Guide to Life: Science's Solutions to Life's Little Problems Colin Stuart 9780233005058
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.63'Full of tips and life hacks that are backed up by cold, hard science' - Sun'Contains a staggering amount of common sense, scientifically solid advice, much of it new information to this particular...