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The Origin of Life by Paul C. W. Davies 9780141013022
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78From award-winning science writer Paul Davies, The Origin of Life reveals the remarkable new theories set to transform the understanding of our place in the universe. Is life written into the laws... -
The Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Scientists Britannica 9781845298647
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Who are the most important men and women whose notions and theories have changed the world? When Isaac Newton claimed that he only saw further because he stood on the shoulders of giants, he alluded... -
The Cosmic Microwave Background: How It Changed Our Understanding of the Universe by Rhodri Evans 9783319099279
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £30.41Rhodri Evans tells the story of what we know about the universe, from Jacobus Kapteyn's Island universe at the turn of the 20th Century, and the discovery by Hubble that the nebulae were external to... -
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time by Huw Price 9780195117981
Booksplease Price: £26.61`splendidly provocative ... enjoy it as a feast for the imagination.' John Gribbin, Sunday Times Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the... -
The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world - permanently. The face of the earth,... -
The Infinity Puzzle: The personalities, politics, and extraordinary science behind the Higgs boson by Frank Close
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £12.17We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago, three brilliant, yet little-known scientists - an American, a Dutchman, and an Englishman - made breakthroughs which later inspired... -
Understanding the Heavens: Thirty Centuries of Astronomical Ideas from Ancient Thinking to Modern Cosmology by Jean Claude Pecker 9783642083259
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £32.98Astronomy is the oldest and most fundamental of the natural sciences. From the early beginnings of civilization astronomers have attempted to explain not only what the Universe is and how it works,... -
Farewell to Reality: How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth by Jim Baggott 9781780334929
Booksplease Price: £20.70Modern physics is heady stuff. It seems that barely a week goes by without some new astounding science story; some revelation about hidden dimensions, multiple universes, the holographic principle or... -
Understanding the Heavens: Thirty Centuries of Astronomical Ideas from Ancient Thinking to Modern Cosmology by Jean Claude Pecker 9783540631989
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.16Astronomy is the oldest and most fundamental of the natural sciences. From the early beginnings of civilization astronomers have attempted to explain not only what the Universe is and how it works,... -
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The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? by Paul Davies 9780141023267 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Paul Davies' The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? gets to the heart of what makes the universe tick - and what makes our place in it so special. It's not too hot, it's... -
Doing Physics, Second Edition: How Physicists Take Hold of the World by Martin H. Krieger
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90Doing Physics makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H... -
Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd 9780099455370
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE BIT...The universe is made of bits of information and it has been known for more than a century that every piece of the the universe - every electron, atom and molecule -... -
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers Paulina Rowinska 9781035007066
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'If you have ever wondered why an airliner bound from London to Los Angeles flies over Greenland, how we know what lies inside the Earth, or how computers correct errors, then this is for you' - John... -
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G... -
New Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation by John D. Barrow
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £11.87Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe? The quest for the theory of everything -... -
The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives by Brian Clegg 9781848318465
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The stone age, the iron age, the steam and electrical ages all saw the reach of humankind transformed by new technology. Now we are living in the quantum age, a revolution in everyday life led by our... -
Life: an Unauthorized Biography by Richard A. Fortey 9780006384205
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers. What do any of us... -
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers by Paulina Rowinska 9781035007042
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.70A gripping exploration of how cartography shapes our world and the impact of maps on our everyday lives.'If you have ever wondered why an airliner bound from London to Los Angeles flies over... -
Ten Physicists who Transformed our Understanding of Reality Rhodri Evans 9781472120373
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Acclaimed popular-science writer Brian Clegg and popular TV and radio astronomer Rhodri Evans give us a Top Ten list of physicists as the central theme to build an exploration of the most exciting... -
Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination Joyce Appleby (UCLA) 9780393349795
Booksplease Price: £13.90When Columbus first returned to Europe from the Caribbean, he presented King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers and bits of gold. The search for riches spurred... -
Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers by Paulina Rowinska 9781035007059
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.50How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie... -
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski 9780393355475
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Storm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski's lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking... -
On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject by Anthony Zee 9780691174389
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75A brief introduction to gravity through Einstein's general theory of relativityOf the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least understood and yet the one with which we are most... -
Antimatter by Frank Close
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.02Antimatter explores a strange mirror world, where particles have identical yet opposite properties to those that make up the familiar matter we encounter everyday; where left becomes right, positive... -
The Quantum Story: A history in 40 moments by Jim Baggott
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £9.99The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very... -
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Rebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun by Colin Stuart 9781789290431 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.49A fascinating and comprehensive guide to the sun - our home star - which remains the greatest mystery in the solar system, and why understanding it is pivotal to our future existence here on Earth.In... -
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters by Henry Gee
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Winner of the Royal Society Science Book.'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer' - The TimesFor billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably... -
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser 9780393342314
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.81Today, quantum information theory is among the most exciting scientific frontiers, attracting billions of dollars in funding and thousands of talented researchers. But as MIT physicist and historian... -
Rebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun Colin Stuart 9781789290431
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.35A fascinating and comprehensive guide to the sun - our home star - which remains the greatest mystery in the solar system, and why understanding it is pivotal to our future existence here on Earth.In... -
Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination Joyce Appleby (UCLA) 9780393239515
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.10When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches,... -
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser 9780393342314 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Today, quantum information theory is among the most exciting scientific frontiers, attracting billions of dollars in funding and thousands of talented researchers. But as MIT physicist and historian... -
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe by Hugh Aldersey-Williams 9781509893355
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' - Simon Ings, Spectator'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.' -... -
Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial by Peter Stott 9781838952518
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.59***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2022******SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2022***'Fascinating... timely, understandable and informative' Forbes Ours is the age... -
The Perfect Wave: With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time by Heinrich Pas 9780674725010
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £38.01Almost weightless and able to pass through the densest materials with ease, neutrinos seem to defy the laws of nature. But these mysterious particles may hold the key to our deepest questions about... -
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies 9780141993720
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Brilliant. You won't find a clearer, more engaging guide to what we know (or would like to know) about the universe and how it is put together' Bill BrysonCelebrated physicist and global bestselling... -
The Neutrino Hunters: The Chase for the Ghost Particle and the Secrets of the Universe by Ray Jayawardhana 9781780746470
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.37Before the Higgs boson, there was a maddening search for another particle that holds the secrets of the universe - the neutrino. First detected in 1956, it teased the answers to science's greatest... -
The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, and Public Intellectual by Roland Jackson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.64Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain. In science, he is... -
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion by Sean Carroll 9780861546145
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.31THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical universe of working physicists. Magnificent!' ... -
The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, and Public Intellectual by Roland Jackson 9780198788942
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £22.07Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain. In science, he is... -
Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close 9781780747460
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £27.10The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he...