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Bodytalk: A World Guide to Gestures by Desmond Morris
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The first book to bring together the many different everyday gestures that are used all over the world. Desmond Morris has travelled to over 60 countries while making field studies of human body... -
What the F*ck is 5G? Kit Eaton 9781529350883
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40What the f*ck is 5G, and how does it even work?The world loves 4G phones, tablets and other gizmos and we take the tech for granted...but when that 4 grew up into the next-gen 5, it seems everyone... -
The Short Story of Science: A Pocket Guide to Key Histories, Experiments, Theories, Instruments and Methods by Tom Jackson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The Short Story of Science is a new introduction to the complete subject of science. Covering 60 key experiments, from Archimedes' investigations of buoyancy to the discovery of dark matter, and then... -
Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies by Michael Brooks 9781786496959
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A wonderful book... Delightfully varied... As with all the best science writing, this book doesn't just give answers, it also asks interesting questions.' Daily Mail'Captivating and intelligent! Who... -
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The Secret Lives of Numbers: The Curious Truth Behind Everyday Digits by Michael Millar 9780753540862 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.84This is a book for the observant and the curious. A book for people who take in their surroundings and wonder at the smallest detail: why? Above all, it's a book about numbers - those that surround... -
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist,... -
How to Read a Rock: Our Planet's Hidden Stories by Jan Zalasiewicz 9780750999953
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50Earth's history is embedded in its rocks, from dinosaur-trodden landscapes to new plastic-and-rock combinations. How to Read a Rock unearths stories buried in everything from grains of sand to... -
Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden 9780241565551
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty yearsIn 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented... -
What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe 9781473680630
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.75WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the... -
What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe 9781399811149
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Totally brilliant' Tim HarfordWHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former... -
Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty yearsIn 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented... -
Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In Euclid's Window, Leonard Mlondinow takes us on a brilliantly entertaining journey through 3,000 years of genius and geometry, introducing the people who revolutionized the way we see the world... -
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Michio Kaku, the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible, gives us a stunning and provocative vision of the future of the mindRecording memories, mind reading, videotaping our... -
Did You Spot The Gorilla? by Richard Wiseman
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46In a recent series of ground-breaking psychological experiments, volunteers were shown a 30-second film of some people playing basketball and told to count the number of passes made with the ball. ... -
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond by Dr. Bruce Greyson, MD
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15After is a ground-breaking book for anyone curious about the scope of the human mind, the nature of consciousness, and the pursuit of a meaningful life.'Absorbing and convincing' Daily MailAn... -
The The Sumerians trilogy - Ninshubar Emily H. Wilson 9781803364445
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.77The conclusion to the enthralling and lyrical fantasy Sumerians trilogy, retelling The Epic of Gilgamesh, that will captivate readers of Madeline Miller, Jennifer Saint and Lucy Holland."A god is... -
What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the... -
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Erwin Schroedinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive... -
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.The story begins in an... -
Child of the Anzu Emily H. Wilson 9781803364421
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.77The second book in the enthralling and lyrical Sumerians trilogy, retelling the Epic of Gigamesh, perfect for fans of Madeline Millar, Lucy Holland and Jennifer Saint. It was an autumn day, in the... -
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... -
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The Book of the Year by No Such Thing As A Fish 9781847948199 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.53In a year when much of the news was believable but fake, comes a book packed with stories that are unbelievable but true. The Book of the Year is a hilarious guide to 2017's most extraordinary... -
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The Book of the Year 2018: Your Definitive Guide to the World's Weirdest News by No Such Thing As A Fish 9781847948397 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.31__________'My favourite geeks. Hilarious. Sideways. Brilliant.' Tim MinchinIn a year dominated by Russian collusion and Brexit confusion, The Book of the Year returns with another dose of barely... -
The Book of the Year 2018: Your Definitive Guide to the World's Weirdest News by No Such Thing As A Fish 9781847948397
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.30__________'My favourite geeks. Hilarious. Sideways. Brilliant.' Tim MinchinIn a year dominated by Russian collusion and Brexit confusion, The Book of the Year returns with another dose of barely... -
Where the Universe Came From: How Einstein s relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos by Scientist New
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02How did it all begin? Where is it all going?A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of... -
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... -
Genomics (WIRED guides): How genome sequencing will change healthcare by Rachael Pells
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Genome sequencing is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs of the past thirty years. But what precisely does it involve and how is it developing? In this brilliantly wide-ranging,... -
Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens Chris Lintott 9781804995914
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroids, radio waves, new stars and alien life.'A... -
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... -
The Copernicus Complex: The Quest for Our Cosmic (In)Significance by Caleb Scharf
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A thrilling journey through the recent discoveries in astronomy that point to our cosmic significanceIn The Copernicus Complex, the renowned astrophysicist and author Caleb Scharf takes us on a... -
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum by Lee Smolin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Quantum mechanics is perhaps the most successful theory ever formulated. The only problem with it, argues Lee Smolin, is that it is wrong ... a fount of provocative ideas ... lucid, upbeat and,... -
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P Feynman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATESIn this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a... -
Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains Helen Thomson 9781473611771
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'Wonderfully clear, fluent and eye-opening' THE TIMES'A stirring scientific journey, a celebration of human diversity and a call to rethink the "unthinkable"' NATURE'An utterly fascinating romp... -
It's a Gas: The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World Mark Miodownik 9780241376386
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62'A delight' Dara O Briain'A witty, smart writer who has a great talent' Bill Gates'A winning blend of education and anecdote' Clive Cookson, FTWhy are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless?... -
The Common Thread by John Sulston 9780552159609
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47John Sulston was director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge from 1993 to 2000. There he led the British arm of the international team selected to map the entire human DNA sequence, a feat that was... -
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform The World by David Deutsch
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything from scientific understanding and technology to... -
Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength by Roy F. Baumeister
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Immensely rewarding...filled with ingenious research, wise advice and insightful reflections on the human condition' New York Times Book ReviewCan you resist everything except temptation? In a... -
The Okinawa Way: How to Improve Your Health And Longevity Dramatically by Bradley J Willcox 9780241345603
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.67LEARN THE SECRETS TO A LONG, HEALTHY AND HAPPY LIFE IN JUST 4 WEEKSThe bestselling, evidence-based fitness, diet and lifestyle plan inspired by the world's healthiest population'Read this book and... -
A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking 9780593056974
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses... -
Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens by Chris Lintott 9781911709183
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.05An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroids, radio waves, new stars and alien life.'A...