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The Science Magpie: Fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science Simon Flynn 9781848315990
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities.Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on... -
A Practical Guide to Personal Finance: Budget, Invest, Spend Michael Taillard 9781785784705
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33Make your money workfor you.A Practical Guide toPersonal Finance is crammed full of practical advice on how to save, earn and getthe most out of your money. Economics expert Michael Taillard teaches... -
Ghost Riders: Operation Cowboy, the World War Two Mission to Save the World's Finest Horses by Mark Felton 9781785785092
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92April 1945. As Allied bombs rain down on Europe, a 400-year-old institution looks set to be wiped off the face of the Earth. The famous white Lipizzaner stallions of the Spanish Riding School in... -
The Bible for Grown-Ups: A New Look at the Good Book Simon Loveday 9781785782633
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.44'Loveday's case is that the mantle of historical truth and divine authority has placed upon the Bible an intolerable weight, crushing it as a creative work of immense imaginative and inspirational... -
Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It by Alice Vernon 9781785788680
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92** AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK IN DECEMBER 2022 **'Curious, lively, humble, utterly genuine ... a remarkable debut.' SUNDAY TIMESAlice Vernon often wakes up to find strangers in her... -
Ten Tantalising Truths: Why the Sky is Blue, and other Big Answers to Simple Questions by John Gribbin 9781837731008
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there is another way to probe the mysteries of the... -
Short Cuts: Philosophy: Navigate Your Way Through Big Ideas by Laura D’Olimpio 9781785789977
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04What is knowledge? What makes me, me? Do we have free will? People have been asking such fundamental questions about the nature of reality for centuries, but how can they help us make sense of our... -
I Hate the Office by Malcolm Burgess 9781840467796 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $2.98Office escapee Malcolm Burgess exploits the deep vein of negativity and rebelliousness that runs through every office - from the agony of the away day via Hot Desking, office politics, romances and... -
Thinking Small and Large: How Microbes Made and Can Save Our World Peter Forbes 9781837731701
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01The environmental crisis will not be solved by battery technology. We are looking for answers in the wrong places.Life began with the hydrogenation of CO2, and this is the process we must return to... -
Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin 9781837731305
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Even in the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than men. Two centuries ago, however, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when... -
There Will Be Headwinds: Kayaking the North-west Passage Mark Agnew 9781837732142
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.22Mark Agnew was part of the first team to ever kayak the north-west passage - spending 103 days in the Arctic.The infamous route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans had defeated countless... -
Autism Myths and Legends Stephanie Gernet 9781837732623
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $28.04Where does the myth of the refrigerator mother come from?Do vaccines cause autism?Do autistic people lack empathy?Discover the most common myths and legends about autism with Vera and her companions... -
The Bible for Grown-Ups: A New Look at the Good Book by Simon Loveday 9781785782633 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $4.69'Loveday's case is that the mantle of historical truth and divine authority has placed upon the Bible an intolerable weight, crushing it as a creative work of immense imaginative and inspirational... -
A Practical Guide to CBT: From Stress to Strength by Elaine Iljon Foreman 9781785783845 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $4.66Overcome fears, manage negativity and improve your life. Using the tools of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), understand your behaviour and how to change negative patterns, learn how to think... -
Introducing Cultural Studies by Ziauddin Sardar 9781840460742 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $5.97Cultural studies - indisputably the hottest subject on planet earth! But what exactly is it? Where does it come from? What is it for? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline, a critical... -
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder by Rachel McCarthy James 9781837733262
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837733262Author Rachel McCarthy JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272 -
Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future? by Yorick Wilks
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87Artificial intelligence has long been a mainstay of science fiction and increasingly it feels as if AI is entering our everyday lives, with technology like Apple's Siri now prominent, and... -
Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe by Brian Clegg
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $9.54On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time and astronomy changed for ever.Until then, investigation of the universe had depended on... -
Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos by Clancy Sigal
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40For me it begins in such an ordinary way ... with a gorilla, a blonde,and a gun ...Mid- 20th century Hollywood; 'RaymondChandler's LA before Pilates and cell phones'. Clancy Sigal (who would later... -
Outbreaks and Pandemics: Fighting Infection, From Smallpox to Coronavirus: The Illustrated Edition by Meera Senthilingam
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.22A NEW EYE-OPENING ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF MEERA SENTHILINGAM'S TIMELY GUIDEFor decades scientists have been warning of a global pandemic, and the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has realised their... -
Astroquizzical: A Curious Journey Through Our Cosmic Family Tree by Jillian Scudder
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own 'family tree'. Our parent the Earth and its sibling planets in our... -
Building Self-esteem: A Five-Point Plan For Valuing Yourself More by David Bonham-Carter
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $12.83Building Self-Esteem brings you easy-to-follow techniques for improving your self-image, so you can achieve a realistic and positive view of yourself and live a happier and more successful life. A... -
A Practical Guide to CBT: From Stress to Strength by Elaine Iljon Foreman
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33Overcome fears, manage negativity and improve your life. Using the tools of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), understand your behaviour and how to change negative patterns, learn how to think... -
Rock Bottom: A Music Writer's Journey into Madness by Michael Odell
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40'One of the best music books ever written, because Michael Odell knowsmusic isn't about the musicians - it's about what it does to the listener, evenif what it does ends up being wholly disastrous... -
Capitalism: A Graphic Guide by Sharron Shatil
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $26.58Capitalism shapes every aspect of our world, beyond just our economic structures; it moulds our values and influences the way we write laws, wage wars and even conduct personal relationships. From... -
Six Impossible Things: The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World by John Gribbin
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.87SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019.'An accessible primer on all things quantum' - Sunday TimesQuantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be... -
The Graphene Revolution: The weird science of the ultra-thin by Brian Clegg
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene - the thinnest substance in the world - by using sticky tape to separate an atom-thick layer from a... -
The Truth That Sticks: New Labour's Breach of Trust Martin Bell 9781840468229
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.30This is a timely, heartfelt and tough analysis of Britain's New Labour years from a hugely respected journalist and former politician. It is destined to become the definitive critique of the Blair... -
Breathless: Why Air Pollution Matters - and How it Affects You by Chris Woodford 9781785787096
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01An accessible and hard-hitting look at the facts behind air pollution in everyday life.Take a deep breath. You'll do it 20,000 times a day. You assume all this air is clean; it's the very breath of... -
The Jay, The Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild Things With My Kids by Richard Smyth 9781785788031
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40'Generous, moving and alive. A gift' - Tim Dee, author of Greenery'Intelligent, thought-provoking and always, always interesting' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'Smyth writes with warmth... -
Why Aren't They Here?: The Question of Life on Other Worlds by Surendra Verma 9781840468069
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Written by acclaimed science journalist Surendra Verma, this work is a fast-moving and accessible narrative. It outlines the historical, fictional, speculative and emerging scientific views of the... -
A Practical Guide to CBT: How to Change Elaine Iljon Foreman 9781837732678
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Change can often seem like an impossible task, but this practical book will help you put it into perspective. With guidance from two experts, you'll recognise the behaviours and thoughts that hold... -
Delusions of Paradise: Escaping the Life of a Taliban Fighter Maiwand Banayee 9781837731909
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.22When Maiwand Banayee was 16, he wanted to become a suicide bomber for the Taliban.In this inspiring tale of survival and self-discovery, the reader will follow Maiwand's journey down a dark path and... -
Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death Betina Anton 9781837733002
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.58Read the international sensation already translated into 10 languages!Unearthing the network that hid the 'Angel of Death,' the infamous Nazi doctor who escaped justice for more than three decades.In... -
Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World Casey Michel 9781837731886
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Foreign Policy, Most Anticipated Books of 2024A stunning investigation and indictment of the elements in United States' foreign lobbying industry and the threat they pose to democracy.For years, one... -
Slumlord: Peter Rachman and the Post-war London Underworld Neil Root 9781837732784
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.22Peter Rachman dominated housing in post-war London - he owned vast swathes in the west of the city, accumulating huge wealth as his tenants lived in squalor and fear of his hard-nosed collectors and... -
The Last Enchanted Places: The Spa Towns of Europe Ian Bradley 9781837732647
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $32.68Ian Bradley has been fascinated by spas since regularly taking the waters at Tunbridge Wells as a boy. He has visited, written and broadcast about spas across Europe and sampled the cures that they... -
The Electron: A Biography Brian Clegg 9781837733323
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.22As a fundamental particle, the electron is central to an understanding of the nature of matter.All of chemistry is dependent on the interaction of electrons on the outside of atoms. But the electron... -
Keeping the Dream Alive: An Insider's Account of a Tumultuous Decade in Scottish Politics Joanna Cherry 9781837733477
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.22In 2015, the landscape of British politics was changed forever - Westminster was suddenly the new workplace for dozens of freshly elected SNP members. What followed was one of the most remarkable... -
The Great Italian Breakout: The Most Audacious Escapes of the Second World War by Karen Farrington 9781837733736
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.22In 1943, there were more than 60 prisoner of war camps throughout Mussolini's Italy. Behind barbed wire and under the guards' dark gaze were captive Allied soldiers. After the Italian Armistice...