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The Science of Monsters: Why Monsters Came to Be and What Made Them so Terrifying Matt Kaplan 9781472101150
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38Modern audiences do not find dragons frightening. Fascinating as mythical creatures, yes, but terrifying, no. Yet, present them with a story about a virus that can kill a healthy adult in hours and... -
Golden Wings and Other Stories about Birders and Birding by Pete Dunne 9780292716230
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.79Dubbed the "Bard of America's Bird-Watchers" by the Wall Street Journal, Pete Dunne knows birders and birding-instinctively and completely. He understands the compulsion that drives other birders to... -
The Lighter Side of Gravity by Jayant Vishnu Narlikar 9780521550093
Booksplease Price: $167.48Gravity is the most enigmatic of all known basic forces in nature. Yet it controls everything from the motion of ocean tides to the expansion of the entire Universe. Many books use technical jargon... -
Dynamic Earth: Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection by Geoffrey F. Davies 9780521599337
Booksplease Price: $190.83Dynamic Earth presents the principles of convection in the earth's mantle in an accessible style. Mantle convection is the process underlying plate tectonics, volcanic hotspots and, hence, most... -
The Kindness of Strangers by Curious Directive 9781472529770
Booksplease Price: $31.12It's 7:03pm on the front line of the NHS ambulance service.Sylvia is on her last shift. Lisa is on her first shift. The two women patrol the city streets, encountering the full spectrum of human... -
Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self-injury, and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry by Armando R. Favazza 9780801899652
Booksplease Price: $139.31A quarter century after it was first published, Bodies under Siege remains the classic, authoritative book on self-mutilation. Now in its third edition, this invaluable work is updated throughout... -
Mastering Geometry Puzzles Paulo Ferro 9781041245865
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $60.14This book will challenge mathematical skills in a totally different way from the usual geometric puzzles. These 120 puzzles are visually intriguing. Mastering Geometry Puzzles has 5 chapters of... -
Reaching for the Extreme: How the Quest for the Biggest, Fewest, and Weirdest Makes Math by Ian Stewart 9780691268996
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $43.16From bestselling author and mathematician Ian Stewart, the fascinating story of the extreme problems that have driven math forward from antiquity to today"Stewart has a genius for explanation."-New... -
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The End of Overeating: Taking control of our insatiable appetite by David Kessler 9780141047812 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $4.14Uncover the truth behind our food addiction - and learn how to break the cycle Many of us find ourselves powerless in front of a bag of crisps, a packet of biscuits, the last slice of pizza. Why is... -
I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 9780099749714
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Throughout his work Gould has developed a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great... -
Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not to be essential for comprehending human... -
The Biggest Number in the World: A Journey to the Edge of Mathematics by David Darling
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25From cells in our bodies to measuring the universe, big numbers are everywhere We all know that numbers go on forever, that you could spend your life counting and never reach the end of the line,... -
The Story Thief Graham Carter 9781783448937
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.94From Waterstones Book Prize shortlisted Graham Carter comes this story perfect for little bookworms, and those who haven't quite discovered the magic of books yet... Olive is a shy girl who prefers... -
Human Instinct by Robert Winston
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87From caveman to modern man ...Few people doubt that humans are descended from the apes; fewer still consider, let alone accept, the psychological implications. But in truth, man not only looks, moves... -
Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information by Eva Hemmungs Wirten
Booksplease Price: $44.21In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the... -
The End of Overeating: Taking control of our insatiable appetite by David Kessler
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Uncover the truth behind our food addiction - and learn how to break the cycle Many of us find ourselves powerless in front of a bag of crisps, a packet of biscuits, the last slice of pizza. Why is... -
H2O: A Biography of Water by Philip Ball
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is... -
Headless Males Make Great Lovers: And Other Unusual Natural Histories by Marty Crump
Booksplease Price: $31.25The natural world is filled with diverse - not to mention quirky and odd - animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and... -
Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity Andrew Simms 9780349122922
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if everything could turn out, well, even better than before? ... -
Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network by Roberto J. Gonzalez
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network-without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J... -
A History of Beer and Brewing by Ian S. Hornsey 9780854046300
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $100.36A History of Beer and Brewing provides a comprehensive account of the history of beer. Research carried out during the last quarter of the 20th century has permitted us to re-think the way in which... -
Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics by Peter Woit 9780099488644
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Not Even Wrong is a fascinating exploration of our attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle of all: how does the universe work at its most fundamnetal level?The... -
The Colours of Life: An Introduction to the Chemistry of Porphyrins and Related Compounds by Lionel R. Milgrom 9780198559627
Booksplease Price: $192.53Why are leaves green and blood red? The answer lies with one family of pigments, the porphyrins and their relatives. These pigments are also responsible for the fundamental energetic processes that... -
A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics by Jean-Louis Tassoul 9780691165929
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.13This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times. Two theoretical astrophysicists who have been active in the field... -
Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks by Mark Buchanan 9780393324426
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $33.73"If you ever wanted to know how many links connect you and the Pope, or why when the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank sneezes the global economy catches cold, read this book," writes John L. Casti (Santa Fe... -
Real Quanta: Simplifying Quantum Physics for Einstein and Bohr by Martijn van Calmthout 9781459740495
RRP: $29.40Booksplease Price: $24.76Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr walk into the famous Hotel Metropole and sit down at the author's table to discuss the state of quantum mechanics today. Particles that exist in two places at once,... -
Make It a Green Peace!: The Rise of a Countercultural Environmentalism by Frank Zelko 9780199947089
Booksplease Price: $119.64The emergence of Greenpeace in the late 1960s from a loose-knit group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists fundamentally changed the nature of environmentalism--its purpose, philosophy, and... -
Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist by Ernst Mayr 9780674896666
RRP: $58.70Booksplease Price: $51.14A collection of twenty-eight essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and... -
How to Talk to AI: (And How Not To) by Jamie Bartlett 9780753561980
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.68A BBC ‘BOOK YOU NEED TO READ IN 2026’Discover how artificial intelligence thinks and reasons, and how we can make the most of their super-human abilities, in the must read new book from the... -
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We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What everyday things tell us about the universe by Marcus Chown 9780571244034 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $4.39Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there... -
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael... -
A Slice Through Time: Dendrochronology and Precision Dating M.G.L. Baillie 9780713476545
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $104.77The dramatic development of European oak chronologies over the last ten years parallels and supplements the bristlecone-pine chronology in the United States. Dendrochronologists can now provide a... -
Since Megalopolis: The Urban Writings of Jean Gottman by Jean Gottmann
Booksplease Price: $56.91In 1961 Jean Gottmann published his pioneering study of urban sprawl along the Boston-Washington corridor. The book's title soon became a household word, and its author gained worldwide acclaim for... -
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Seven Patterns of Innovation by Steven Johnson
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70From the author of Emergence and The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From: The Seven Patterns of Innovation identifies key principles that are the driving force of creativity. ... -
Degrees Of Freedom: Living In Dynamic Boundaries by A. D. M Rayner 9781860940378
RRP: $128.10Booksplease Price: $115.14Drawing especially on insights emerging from studies of the cellular networks formed by fungi, this book describes the fundamental indeterminacy that enables life forms to thrive in and create... -
Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery by John Waller 9780198609391
Booksplease Price: $49.75The great biologist Louis Pasteur suppressed 'awkward' data because it didn't support the case he was making. John Snow, the 'first epidemiologist' was doing nothing others had not done before... -
Women Scientists in America: Forging a New World since 1972: Volume 3 by Margaret W. Rossiter 9781421403632
Booksplease Price: $98.81The third volume of Margaret W. Rossiter's landmark survey of the history of American women scientists focuses on the pioneering efforts and contributions of these women from 1972 to the present... -
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson 9781847390547
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.47NOW A MAJOR SERIES 'GENIUS' ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, PRODUCED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING GEOFFREY RUSHEinstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair,... -
Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science by E. Brian Davies 9780199586202
Booksplease Price: $138.66This book discusses deep problems about our place in the world with a minimum of technical jargon. It argues that 'absolutist' ideas dating back to Plato continue to mislead generations of... -
Beyond the Quartic Equation by R. Bruce King 9780817648367
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $190.18One of the landmarks in the history of mathematics is the proof of the nonex- tence of algorithms based solely on radicals and elementary arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication,...