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A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter 9780141014418
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Craig Venter is no ordinary scientist, and no ordinary man. He is the first human being ever to read their own DNA - and see the key to life itself. Yet in doing so, he rocked the establishment and... -
The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49____________________ The inspiration for the BBC TV series, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Tom Burke, George MacKay and Thomas Turgoose WINNER OF THE 2018 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ... -
Qualityland: Visit Tomorrow, Today! Marc-Uwe Kling 9781409191155
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42WELCOME TO QUALITYLANDThis book is for you. Yes, you specifically.We hope you enjoy your trip to the happiest, most advanced place on earth.QualityLand is the world's first 2.0 country, where... -
The Idiot Gods by David Zindell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.12Quite simply the best book about a whale since Moby Dick. The Idiot Gods is an epic tale of a quest for a new way of life on earth, told by an orca... -
Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but... -
Football School Season 4: Where Football Explains the World by Alex Bellos
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.99Football School Season 4 is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud... -
Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals by Marc Bekoff
Booksplease Price: £21.05Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. With... -
The Human Mind by Robert Winston
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54It is the most complex and mysterious object in the universe. Covered by a dull grey membrane, it resembles a gigantic, convoluted fungus. Its inscrutability has captivated scientists, philosophers... -
Football School Season 3: Where Football Explains the World by Alex Bellos
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £4.70Football School Season 3 is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud... -
The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions by Paul B. Wignall
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into... -
Lasers, Death Rays, and the Long, Strange Quest for the Ultimate Weapon by Jeff Hecht 9781633884601
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18The whole story of laser weapons with a focus on its many interesting characters and sometimes bizarre schemes The laser--a milestone invention of the mid-twentieth century--quickly captured the... -
Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages by Patrick E. McGovern 9780520267985
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, "Uncorking the Past" tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. Following a tantalizing... -
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness: Our leading theories of how your brain really works by Patrick House 9781035400041
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"Stylish, witty and insightful" -The Wall Street Journal"Makes us look at ourselves and the human mind in a series of fascinating ways" - New Scientist"House is a pleasure to read. Like Oliver Sacks ... -
The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth by Fred Pearce 9781905811755
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy when they go shopping? Land. Parcels the size of... -
Fractal River Basins: Chance and Self-Organization by Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe 9780521004053
Booksplease Price: £116.90This book considers river basins and drainage networks in the light of their scaling and multi-scaling properties, and the dynamics responsible for their development. The hydrology of river basins,... -
Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861 by S. M. Walters 9780521117999
Booksplease Price: £56.43John Stevens Henslow is known for his formative influence on Charles Darwin, who described their meeting as the one circumstance 'which influenced my career more than any other'. As Professor of... -
Gate to Kagoshima Poppy Kuroki 9780861547609
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The only thing to fear about the past is it may destroy the future... 'Fun, romantic and heartbreaking. Serious Outlander vibes with a fresh new twist.' Pim Wangtechawat, author of The Moon... -
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World by Suzanne Simard 9780241763315
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.24'The Indiana Jones of trees' GuardianWhen the forest breathes out, we breathe in. When the forest thrives, we thrive. The world-renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard has transformed our... -
What The Bouncer Saw: Life on the Front Line of the Security Business by George Bass 9781472159427
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50'Undoubtedly one of the most refreshing and vital books about England I have read in years' AMOL RAJAN'A voice too rarely heard that relates to the hard graft of the everyday' LAURA KUENSSBERG'This... -
![The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus by Hannah Fry 9780857524607 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9715790/10732459/9780857524607__04238.1781378107.jpg?c=1 "The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus by Hannah Fry 9780857524607 [USED COPY]")
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus by Hannah Fry 9780857524607 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.70How 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 thinner -... -
![Life on Earth by David Attenborough 9780008294281 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9746965/10763577/9780008294281__97560.1781676218.jpg?c=1 "Life on Earth by David Attenborough 9780008294281 [USED COPY]")
Life on Earth by David Attenborough 9780008294281 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.40A new, beautifully illustrated edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth. David Attenborough's unforgettable meeting with gorillas became an iconic moment for millions... -
![Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku 9780141030906 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9808228/10824799/9780141030906__13704.1782470756.jpg?c=1 "Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku 9780141030906 [USED COPY]")
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku 9780141030906 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97From 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 Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat by Tim Spector 9781780229003 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9727711/10744361/9781780229003__83176.1781396282.jpg?c=1 "The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat by Tim Spector 9781780229003 [USED COPY]")
The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat by Tim Spector 9781780229003 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.62A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Fascinating' Nigella Lawson'Ground-breaking' Bee Wilson'I guarantee his book will change the way you think about food and healthy eating' Delicious Magazine'A... -
A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World by Fred Pearce
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37**A Book of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times ** Trees are essential, for nature and for us. Yet we are cutting and burning them at such a rate that we are fast approaching a tipping... -
Introduction to Laser-Plasma Interactions by Pierre Michel
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £70.88This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of laser-plasma interactions (LPI), based on a graduate course taught by the author. The emphasis is on high-energy-density physics... -
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: £9.79From 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... -
A Microscopic Submarine in My Blood: Science Based on Fantastic Voyage Sylvain Martel (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada) 9789814745789
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19This book describes at the introductory level how modern technology has made the scenario of the classic science-fiction movie Fantastic Voyage a reality. The movie is about a submarine and its crew... -
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... -
Historical Ontology by Ian Hacking
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work, Ian Hacking here offers his reflections on the... -
The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope by Catherine Wilson
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35In the seventeenth century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. The interior... -
Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions by Sabine Hossenfelder
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.97A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hossenfelder stands between us and incomprehension' Daily Mail'Informative and engaging' TLSDo we have free will? Is the universe compatible with God? Do we live in a... -
Football School Season 2: Where Football Explains the World by Spike Gerrell 9781406379211
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02The second book in the groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football. This book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and... -
Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution by Russell Bonduriansky 9780691157672
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60How genes are not the only basis of heredity-and what this means for evolution, human life, and diseaseFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of... -
The Pattern On The Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work by W.Daniel Hillis 9780465066933
Booksplease Price: £20.00Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize,and what Daniel Hillis's short book brilliantly demonstrates,is that... -
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh 9781803994598
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.44'Refreshingly clear-eyed ... Faking It is an insightful and intelligent book that's a must for those looking for facts about AI hype.' - Books+Publishing'AI will be as big a game-changer as the smart... -
You Should Come with Me Now: Stories of Ghosts by M. John Harrison 9781910974346
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.19M. John Harrison is a cartographer of the liminal. His work sits at the boundaries between genres - horror and science fiction, fantasy and travel writing - just as his characters occupy the no man's... -
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 -... -
![The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691175812](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2188838/2188190/9780691175812__10143.1709437822.jpg?c=1 "The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691175812")
The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece by Hanoch Gutfreund 9780691175812
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable... -
Shells... and what they hide inside: A Lift-the-Flap Adventure by Helen Scales 9781838667887
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £7.60A richly illustrated, informative, and interactive introduction to shells for children aged 2-4, with over 40 flaps to lift and discover In this board book companion to What a Shell Can Tell,... -
Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl by Markiyan Kamysh 9781782278559
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The 1,000-square-mile Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is, for many, a symbol of total disaster: a reminder of shattered ideals and lost lives, now a toxic, dangerous no-man's-land. For Markiyan Kamysh, it...