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![Y: The Descent Of Men by Professor Steve Jones 9780349113890 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9912372/10928903/9780349113890__61767.1786478807.jpg?c=1 "Y: The Descent Of Men by Professor Steve Jones 9780349113890 [USED COPY]")
Y: The Descent Of Men by Professor Steve Jones 9780349113890 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $3.93Men, 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... -
An Entertainment for Angels (Icon Science): Electricity in the Enlightenment by Patricia Fara
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $8.42Electricity was the scientific fashion of the Enlightenment, 'an Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men'. Lecturers attracted huge audiences to marvel at sparkling fountains, flaming drinks,... -
Microsculpture: Portraits of Insects by Levon Biss
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $49.69"You will never look at a beetle or a moth the same way again." --WIRED "Art meets science to dazzling effect." --The Guardian Microsculptureis a unique photographic study of insects in... -
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime by Adrian Raine
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.55Are some criminals born, not made? What causes violence and how can we treat it? An Anatomy of Violence introduces readers to new ways of looking at these age-old questions. Drawing on the latest... -
Fermi Remembered by James W. Cronin
Booksplease Price: $59.96Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-54) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement... -
The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion by Jonathan S. Adams
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94Most people would feel a great loss if elephants, rhinos, or gorillas were to become extinct, but would we willingly move our families, change our means of earning a living, and disrupt our culture... -
Practical Physics by G. L. Squires
Booksplease Price: $109.62Practical Physics demonstrates the purposive and critical approach that should be made to all experimental work in physics. It does not describe a systematic course of experiments, but is intended as... -
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson 9780141015903
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $22.07George Dyson's fascinating account of the early years of computers: Turing's Cathedral is the story behind how the PC, ipod, smartphone and almost every aspect of modern life came into being.In 1945... -
This is Improbable Too: Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research by Marc Abrahams 9781780743615
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $46.07The mind behind the infamous Ig Nobel Prizes presents an addictive collection of improbable research all about us - and you Marc Abrahams collects the odd, the imaginative and the brilliantly... -
Extinction M Schlossman 9781781454534
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $41.18Extinction is an attempt to understand, through photographs and text, the factors threatening numerous species of animal and plant with extinction and to explore man s relationship with life on Earth... -
The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the Twenty-First Century by Gordon Conway 9780801486104
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $37.82Today more than three quarters of a billion people go hungry in a world where food is plentiful. A distinguished scientist here sets out an agenda for addressing this situation. Initially published... -
The Cambridge Guide to the Constellations by Michael E. Bakich 9780521449212
Booksplease Price: $110.25What figures do the constellations of the night sky represent? What are the properties of the stars that they comprise? And which constellations are 'new', and which have become extinct? This unique... -
Design in Nature: Learning from Trees by W. Linnard 9783540629375
RRP: $251.98Booksplease Price: $235.45The chicken bone you nibbled yesterday and threw away was a high-tech product! Not only that: it was a superlative light-weight design, functionally adapted to its mechanical requirements. No... -
Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare: How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears by Gordon H. Orians 9780226271828
Booksplease Price: $37.15In this ambitious and unusual work, evolutionary biologist Gordon H Orians explores the role of evolution in human responses to the environment, beginning with why we have emotions and ending with... -
Promethean Ambitions: Alchemy and the Quest to Perfect Nature by William R. Newman 9780226575247
Booksplease Price: $67.83"In Promethean Ambitions", William R. Newman uses alchemy as a means to discuss the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. Focusing primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700,... -
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
Booksplease Price: $166.03How 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: $47.19A 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... -
Wild Wellington Ngā Taonga Taiao: A Guide to the Wildlife and Wild Places of Te Upoko-o-te-Ika Michael Szabo 9781991165572
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $49.43WHAT 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: $36.96BEFORE: 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... -
Guide to the Sun by Kenneth J. H. Phillips 9780521397889
Booksplease Price: $139.17The Sun has been an object of scientific interest since the time of the ancient Greeks. The vast amounts of observational data acquired in recent years have led to a greatly improved knowledge of the... -
Magic Molecules: How Drugs Work by Susan Aldridge 9780521044158
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $75.58All 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... -
Understanding Organic Reaction Mechanisms by Adam Jacobs 9780521467766
Booksplease Price: $170.16An understanding of organic reaction mechanisms is an essential part of any undergraduate chemistry course. This book describes the principles that govern chemical reactivity, and shows how these... -
Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything by Douglas Macdougall 9780520249752
RRP: $111.30Booksplease Price: $100.07'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... -
The Little Book of Planet Earth by Rolf Meissner 9781441929242
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $34.65Acknowledgments 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... -
The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Chris 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... -
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus 9781804185865
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.38The Martian meets 127 Hours in this powerfully humane thriller about a scuba diver who's been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs... -
Starter Villain: A turbo-charged tale of supervillains, minions and a hidden volcano lair . . . John Scalzi 9781509835416
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'Starter Villain establishes Scalzi as SF's leading humourist' - SFXLocus and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi brings us a turbo-charged tale of a family business with a difference - as Charlie... -
![The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron" by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga 9781944648541](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8381653/9417371/9781944648541__78699.1749651609.jpg?c=1 "The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron" by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga 9781944648541")
The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron" by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga 9781944648541
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.30If we lose our memories, are we still ourselves? Is identity merely a collection of electrical impulses? What separates us from animals, or from computers? From Plato to Westworld, these questions... -
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes our Past by Douwe Draaisma
Booksplease Price: $184.63Is it true, as the novelist Cees Nooteboom once wrote, that 'Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases'? Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why is it that as we grow... -
The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects by Roberto Abadie 9780822348146
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39The Professional Guinea Pig documents the emergence of the professional research subject in Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development. Until the mid-1970s Phase I trials were... -
Conversations with a Mathematician: Math, Art, Science and the Limits of Reason by Gregory J. Chaitin 9781852335496
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $65.44G. 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... -
The Inner Clock: Living in Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms Lynne Peeples 9781526649096
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.00Sleep better. Feel more energised. Reset your body clock.'The Inner Clock explores the science of why your circadian rhythms fall out of sync - and how to get them back on track' JAMES NESTOR,...