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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery by Rob Dunn 9780316225793
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.44The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart... -
Advanced Amateur Astronomy by Gerald North 9780521574303
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £48.64This book, first published in 1997, is for amateur astronomers and telescope users who want to move beyond elementary stargazing to more challenging projects. Written by an accomplished amateur... -
The Little Book of Sleep: The Art of Natural Sleep Dr Nerina Ramlakhan 9781841815961
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78What does it mean to get a good night's sleep?It's not just about quantity. It's about getting the right type and quality of sleep. To sleep deeply we need to live deeply. This means that we need to... -
Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution by Ray Jackendoff 9780199264377
Booksplease Price: £52.65How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at... -
Science from Fisher Information: A Unification by B. Roy Frieden 9780521009119
Booksplease Price: £103.01This book develops and applies an analytical approach to deriving the probability laws of science in general. It is called 'extreme physical information' or EPI. EPI is an expression of the... -
Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution by Kathleen R. Gibson 9780521485418
Booksplease Price: £105.49The question addressed by this volume is how human beings have evolved as creatures who can make and use more complex tools, communicate in more complex ways and engage in more complex forms of... -
The Planet Observer's Handbook by Fred W. Price 9780521789813
Booksplease Price: £56.43This is an informative, up-to-date and well-illustrated guide to planetary observations for amateurs. After a brief description of the solar system and a chapter on the celestial sphere, readers are... -
Swamp Rat: The Story of Dixie's Nutria Invasion by Theodore G. Manno 9781496811943
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.03Theodore G. Manno traces the history of nutria from their natural range in South America to their status as an invasive species known for destroying the environmentally and economically important... -
Poisonous People: Psychopathy, Narcissism, Manipulation, Sadism: How to Resist Them and Improve Your Life by Leanne ten Brinke 9781398535619
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.30You definitely know one.This book is about the poisonous people who walk among us. The romantic partner who twists every conversation, the office bully who keeps being promoted, or the reckless... -
Cancer Activism: Gender, Media, and Public Policy by Karen Kedrowski 9780252077777
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01The first comparison of the breast cancer and the prostate cancer movementsCancer Activism explores the interplay between advocacy, the media, and public perception through an analysis of breast... -
Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything by Douglas Macdougall 9780520261617
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84'Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting,' writes Doug Macdougall. 'It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper.' In "Nature's Clocks", Macdougall tells how scientists who... -
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks 9781861976475 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.87Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar... -
Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants: Darwin's Botany Today by Ken Thompson
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Most 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: £58.49The 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Collected 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: £40.60Owing 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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.92When 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05The 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: £53.74Major 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: £18.18In 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: £89.86Language 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: £29.55Millions 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40From 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... -
The Little Book of Planet Earth by Rolf Meissner 9780387952581
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.89Acknowledgments chapter 1 The Roots of Earth Sciences 1 Classical Scientific Thought 1 The Copernican Revolution 2 From Physics and Philosophy to Geology 4 The Age of the Earth 6 chapter 2 The Earth... -
Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound by Trevor Cox
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46As an acoustic engineer, Trevor Cox has spent his career eradicating unwanted noises - echoes in concert halls, clamour in classrooms. Until the day he heard something so astonishing that he had an... -
Conversations with a Mathematician: Math, Art, Science and the Limits of Reason by Gregory J. Chaitin 9781447111047
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £30.39G. J. Chaitin is at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. He has shown that God plays dice not only in quantum mechanics, but even in the foundations of mathematics, where Chaitin... -
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The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer 9780141037202 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Chris Stringer's bestselling The Origin of our Species tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth. Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we... -
Great Discoveries in Medicine by William Bynum
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50An 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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.77This 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: £58.00Booksplease Price: £54.80What 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: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38Many 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
Booksplease Price: £79.06How 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46How 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: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.81When 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: £14.95This 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: £23.05A 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68'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... -
Wild Wellington Ngā Taonga Taiao: A Guide to the Wildlife and Wild Places of Te Upoko-o-te-Ika Michael Szabo 9781991165572
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £23.54WHAT TO SEE WHERE, WHEN AND HOW IN THE WELLINGTON REGION Te Upoko-o-te-Ika Wellington has an amazing variety of landscapes and seascapes that are home to an impressive range of wildlife. This handy... -
Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan 9780374175412
Booksplease Price: £17.60BEFORE: In Bristol's centre lies the Croft, a digital no-man's-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the...