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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the... -
The Universal Translator: Everything you need to know about 139 languages that don't really exist by Yens Wahlgren
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.88If you think about it, all languages are made up - some are just more open about it than others.In The Universal Translator, Yens Wahlgren heads up an expedition through time, space and multiple... -
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow 9780141026473
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world.Randomness and uncertainty surround everything we do. So... -
Play Like Your Football Heroes: Pro tips for becoming a top player by Matt Oldfield
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16From Matt Oldfield, the author of Ultimate Football Heroes, and former professional footballer, Seth Burkett, comes an exciting new book for young football stars in the making. In bite-size chapters,... -
The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O'Shea 9780141032382
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The 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... -
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus Hannah Fry 9781784162740
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46____________How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list ? Can you predict Her Majesty's Christmas Message? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily... -
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics by Anthony Aguirre
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A gem of a book' Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics'A unique and beautifully written masterpiece' Max Tegmark, author of Life 3.0Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust?... -
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47From cyborgs, starships, UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognition, Michio Kaku's Physics of the Impossible is an exciting look at how science fiction... -
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus by Hannah Fry 9781784162740 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.99____________How do you apply game theory to select who should be on your Christmas shopping list ? Can you predict Her Majesty's Christmas Message? Will calculations show Santa is getting steadily... -
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Trouble with Physics is a groundbreaking account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange and bizarre predictions of... -
Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life by Robin Wilson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Lewis Carroll's books have delighted children and adults for generations, but behind their exuberant fantasy and delightful nonsense was the mind of a brilliant mathematician. Now his forgotten... -
Mysteries of the Quantum Universe by Thibault Damour
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.33The bestselling French graphic novel about the mind-bending world of quantum physicsTake an incredible journey through the quantum universe with explorer Bob and his dog Rick, as they travel through... -
Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by M. R. James
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15The only annotated edition of M. R. James's writings currently available, Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James's ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an... -
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper: Making Sense of the Numbers in the Headlines by John Allen Paulos 9780140251814 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.87From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? John Allen Paulos, travels through the pages of an average... -
'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling scientific genius Richard P. Feynman. Richard... -
Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life brilliantly illuminates the harmony underlying our existence. ... -
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott Shapiro 9780141993843
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them beforeFancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian... -
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An extraordinary and challenging synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory, and the theories of Computation, Knowledge and Evolution, Deutsch's extraordinary book explores the deep connections... -
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper: Making Sense of the Numbers in the Headlines by John Allen Paulos
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? John Allen Paulos, travels through the pages of an average... -
How to win games and beat people: Defeat and demolish your family and friends! by Tom Whipple
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Are you fed up losing at family board game nights? Do you want to learn how to destroy the competition?Get the inside tips from preposterously overqualified experts on how to win a range of common... -
Is Maths Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths by Eugenia Cheng 9781788169530
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023 A NEW SCIENTIST BEST BOOK OF 2023 WINNER OF THE LA TIMES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023 BOOK PRIZE 'A generous tour of mathematics for anyone whose instincts tend less... -
Caesar's Last Breath: The Epic Story of The Air Around Us by Sam Kean
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **'Popular science at its best'Mail on Sunday'Eminently accessible and enjoyable'ObserverWith every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On... -
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers Kate Kitagawa 9780241994351
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do... -
Does God Play Dice?: The New Mathematics of Chaos by Ian Stewart 9780140256024
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Since the dramatic discovery of the mathematical concept of chaos in 1989, the controversy of its contents has settled down. This revised edition of Does God Play Dice? takes a fresh look at its... -
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very... -
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven Strogatz
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'SYNC' IS A STORY OF A DAZZLING KIND OF ORDER IN THE UNIVERSE, THE HARMONY THAT COMES FROM CYCLES IN SYNC. THE TENDENCY TO SYCHRONIZE IS ONE OF THE MOST FAR- REACHING DRIVES IN ALL OF NATURE. IT... -
The University Challenge Quiz Book Steve Tribe 9781846078569
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05For almost 50 years, University Challenge has served as a bastion of general knowledge, regularly testing our finest young minds with a dizzying array of subjects. Now - if you think you're up to the... -
The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird... -
The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An entertaining tour that will change how you see the world' Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply HiddenIs there a secret formula for improving your life? For making... -
The University Challenge Quiz Book by Steve Tribe 9781846078569 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.40For almost 50 years, University Challenge has served as a bastion of general knowledge, regularly testing our finest young minds with a dizzying array of subjects. Now - if you think you're up to the... -
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times)'An utter joy' (Adam Rutherford)'A hugely engaging book... Rovelli is a charming, thought-provoking tour guide' (Manjit Kumar... -
T.J. and the Winning Goal by Theo Walcott
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The Parkview team are off to compete in the Regional Championship tournament, but their striker is in trouble. The team is improving all the time, but Tulsi, once the star, is getting left behind... -
Football Academy: Boys United by Tom Palmer 9780141324678 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.95Boys United: the first book in the Football Academy series by Tom PalmerJake loves football and dreams of becoming a professional footballer. He's worried about his height though - what if he's too... -
Football Academy: Reading the Game by Tom Palmer 9780141324708 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Ben is at his happiest playing for United and is getting top marks from the coach. But every day at school is a trial for Ben, as he struggles to hide a huge secret from his teachers and classmates... -
Football Academy: Boys United by Tom Palmer
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Boys United: the first book in the Football Academy series by Tom PalmerJake loves football and dreams of becoming a professional footballer. He's worried about his height though - what if he's too... -
Glory Gardens 2 - Bound For Glory by Bob Cattell 9780099461210
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17GLORY GARDENS C.C. are now in the North County Under Thirteen League, and the pressure is really on. Hooker, as captain, worries that the team won't be able to hold it together: arrogant Clive is... -
T.J. and the Winning Goal by Theo Walcott 9780552562485 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.87The Parkview team are off to compete in the Regional Championship tournament, but their striker is in trouble. The team is improving all the time, but Tulsi, once the star, is getting left behind... -
T.J. and the Cup Run by Theo Walcott
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73TJ and his friends get a terrible shock when their old teacher, Mr Potter, returns from illness to take over from Mr Wood as PE teacher at Parkview School. Worse still, they are about to play in the... -
T.J. and the Cup Run by Theo Walcott 9780552562478 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.87TJ and his friends get a terrible shock when their old teacher, Mr Potter, returns from illness to take over from Mr Wood as PE teacher at Parkview School. Worse still, they are about to play in the... -
Football Academy: Reading the Game by Tom Palmer
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.19Ben is at his happiest playing for United and is getting top marks from the coach. But every day at school is a trial for Ben, as he struggles to hide a huge secret from his teachers and classmates...