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The Sense Of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind by Rupert Sheldrake
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Have you ever had a premonition, the feeling of being watched, or a telepathic experience? Renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake explores the intricacies of the mind and discovers that our perceptive... -
Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology Magarita Diaz-Andreu 9780415518932
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €65.43Archaeologists are increasingly aware of issues of gender when studying past societies; women are becoming better represented within the discipline and are attaining top academic posts. However,... -
Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By by Timothy Wilson
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Redirect by Timothy D. Wilson, author of Strangers to Ourselves, whose work has been acclaimed by writers such as Malcolm Gladwell, is a groundbreaking book of psychology that shows how changing the... -
The Quark Machines: How Europe Fought the Particle Physics War, Second Edition by Gordon Fraser
RRP: €44.02Booksplease Price: €42.17Relating the story of the transatlantic struggle for subnuclear domination, The Quark Machines: How Europe Fought the Particle Physics War, Second Edition covers the history, the politics, and the... -
Our Shrinking Planet Massimo Livi-Bacci (University of Florence) 9781509515844
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.25In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly... -
An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds Jonathan Silvertown (The Open University) 9780226757735
Booksplease Price: €29.51The story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. With "An Orchard Invisible", Jonathan Silvertown presents the oft-ignored seed with the natural history it deserves, one nearly as varied... -
How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense Robin George Andrews 9781324050193
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.41There are approximately 25,000 "city-killer" asteroids in near-Earth orbit-and most are yet to be found. Small enough to evade detection, they are capable of large-scale destruction and represent our... -
Cambridge Scientific Minds by P. M. Harman 9780521781008
Booksplease Price: €121.99Since the 'scientific revolution' of the seventeenth century, a great number of distinguished scientists and mathematicians have been associated with the University of Cambridge. Cambridge Scientific... -
Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity by Olle H^D"aggstr^D"om 9780198723547
Booksplease Price: €54.74There is a widely held conception that progress in science and technology is our salvation, and the more of it, the better. This, however, is an oversimplified and even dangerous attitude. While the... -
The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, With a New Preface by Ernst Mayr 9780674272262
RRP: €52.30Booksplease Price: €43.74Biology was forged into a single, coherent science only within living memory. In this volume the thinkers responsible for the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology and genetics come together to... -
Butterflies: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Behavior by Dick Vane-Wright 9781501700170
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.67Butterflies immediately catch our attention with their beautiful wing patterns and colors. They exemplify metamorphosis with the creeping caterpillar transforming into a soaring butterfly. They have... -
What We Need to Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future by Chris Goodall
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we get there? Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around the world, Chris... -
The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money Brett Scott 9780745333502
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €22.15Following the bank bailout and the Global Financial Crisis, anger towards the financial system reached new heights. Yet the practical workings of the system remain opaque to many people, this... -
Where Do Camels Belong?: The story and science of invasive species by Ken Thompson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. They evolved in North America, retain their greatest diversity in South America, and the... -
The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton
Booksplease Price: €73.60The former Soviet Union covers a vast area of land, and over the last 200 years, many dozens of extraordinary dinosaurs and other fossil amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals have been found in... -
The Long and the Short of it: The Science of Life Span and Aging by Jonathan Silvertown 9780226757896
Booksplease Price: €27.29Everything that lives will die. That's the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly in their patterns of aging and their life spans - and that variation is... -
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms by Gerd Gigerenzer 9780141995045
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Enlightening, impassioned, powerful' The Times From dating apps and self-driving cars to facial recognition and the justice system, the increasing presence of AI has been widely championed - but... -
The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds by Mark Humphries 9780691241487
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.55The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains workWe see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse... -
Among African Apes: Stories and Photos from the Field Martha M. Robbins 9780520267107
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €54.80These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Tai National Park in Cote d'Ivoire for an intimate... -
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Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow 9781586488185 [USED COPY]
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €3.89For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet in Africa, more than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related... -
Fans: A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging by Michael Bond
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.96'A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' - TLSFans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of... -
Training Secrets of the World's Greatest Footballers: How Science is Transforming the Modern Game James Witts 9781472948458
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €16.02'Incredibly well-researched and loaded with modern-day, high-tech football insights' - Tony Strudwick, Head of Performance, Wales national football team Professional football is more demanding... -
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals by Rupert Sheldrake
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Many people who have ever owned a pet will swear that their dog or cat or other animal has exhibited some kind of behaviour they just can't explain. How does a dog know when its owner is returning... -
Our Shrinking Planet by Massimo Livi Bacci 9781509515837
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.31In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly... -
The Oxford Companion to Cosmology by Andrew Liddle 9780199560844
RRP: €22.00Booksplease Price: €16.65The Oxford Companion to Cosmology is a comprehensive but accessible encyclopedic overview of this enduringly popular subject. With over 350 in-depth entries - ranging from cosmic inflation and dark... -
Lightning Warrior: Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua by Matthew George Looper 9780292705562
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.00The ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between Copan in the southeastern Maya highlands and the major centers of the Peten heartland. Though always a relatively small city, Quirigua... -
How Do You Find an Exoplanet? by John Asher Johnson 9780691156811
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.41Alien worlds have long been a staple of science fiction. But today, thanks to modern astronomical instrumentation and the achievements of many enterprising observational astronomers, the existence of... -
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky 9781035013746
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €20.77Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and... -
Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen 9780125184069
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €44.51Written by the author of the best-selling HyperText & HyperMedia, this book is an excellent guide to the methods of usability engineering. The book provides the tools needed to avoid usability... -
Spacefaring: The Human Dimension by Albert A. Harrison 9780520236776
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €31.08The stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. This book explores the human side of spaceflight: why people are willing... -
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The Great Mathematical Problems by Ian Stewart 9781846683374 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.00There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the enigmas which define mathematics. The Great... -
Among African Apes: Stories and Photos from the Field by Martha M. Robbins 9780520274594
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.37These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Tai National Park in Cote d'Ivoire for an intimate... -
Trestle by Stewart Pringle
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.91'We're not here forever. You've got to take a chance from time to time. Sometimes you've got to see something you like and grab hold. Don't let it go.' Harry feels like life is beginning to tick... -
The Life and Legacy of G. I. Taylor by G. K. Batchelor
Booksplease Price: €56.26G. I. Taylor was one of the most distinguished physical scientists of the last century, using his deep insight and originality and mathematical skill to increase greatly our understanding of... -
Introduction to Laser Technology by C. Breck Hitz
RRP: €132.03Booksplease Price: €107.97The only introductory text on the market today that explains the underlying physics and engineering applicable to all lasers Although lasers are becoming increasingly important in our high-tech... -
The God Species: How Humans Really Can Save the Planet... by Mark Lynas
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.47The green movement has got it very wrong. Nature no longer controls our planet - it is humanity, 'the god species', that must save the environment we have inflicted unprecedented damage... -
The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology by Michael Hannon 9780367754686
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30As political discourse had been saturated with the ideas of "post-truth", "fake news", "epistemic bubbles", and "truth decay", it was no surprise that in 2017 The New Scientist declared:... -
The Science of Harry Potter by Roger Highfield
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €23.88Behind the magic of Harry Potter-a witty and illuminating look at the scientific principles, theories, and assumptions of the boy wizard's world, newly come to life again in Harry Potter and the... -
The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Professor Steve Jones 9780349123486
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a... -
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Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott 9780141976327 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €3.06'I think we're fucked' Stephen EmmottTen Billion is a book about us.It's a book about you, your children, your parents, your friends. It's about every one of us. It's about our failure: failure as...