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T.J. and the Cup Run by Theo Walcott 9780552562478 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.87TJ and his friends get a terrible shock when their old teacher, Mr Potter, returns from illness to take over from Mr Wood as PE teacher at Parkview School. Worse still, they are about to play in the... -
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford 9781780229072
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £5.87'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian CoxThis is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be... -
Lewis Carroll's Cats And Rats... And Other Puzzles With Interesting Tails Yossi Elran (Weizmann Inst Of Sci, Israel) 9789811235641
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23British-Israeli recreational mathematician, communicator and educator, Yossi Elran explores in-depth six of the most ingenious math puzzles, exposing their long 'tails': the stories, trivia, quirks... -
Archimedes' Stomach...and Other Puzzles You'll Love To Digest by Yossi Elran 9789811268595
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76Embark on a delightful sequel to Lewis Carroll's Cats and Rats ... and Other Puzzles with Interesting Tails with this new treasure trove of mathematical curiosities! Like its predecessor, this book... -
Get That Ball! by Judy Corbalis 9781783447565
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.26Tom and his gran are playing penalty shoot-out when things go wrong and the football escapes... Now, wherever it leads them, from the park to the highstreet and beyond to the depths of the ocean and... -
Lewis Carroll's Cats And Rats... And Other Puzzles With Interesting Tails Yossi Elran (Weizmann Inst Of Sci, Israel) 9789811233968
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.39British-Israeli recreational mathematician, communicator and educator, Yossi Elran explores in-depth six of the most ingenious math puzzles, exposing their long 'tails': the stories, trivia, quirks... -
The Funniest Football Joke Book Ever! Joe King 9781849391115
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92What will Fabio Capello do if the pitch is flooded during the World Cup? Bring on his subs What did the ref say to the chicken who tripped a defender? Fowl Why was the footballer upset on his... -
Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask by Paul Anthony Jones 9781783967025
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.32'As entertaining as it is engrossing' John Banville 'Enlightening, delightful' Arthur der Weduwen, author of The Library Why don't eleven and twelve end in -teen? The rest of our counting... -
Headscratchers: The New Scientist Puzzle Book by Rob Eastaway 9781838958770
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A fantastic and varied collection of problems authored by some of the best puzzle setters around' - Alex Bellos'A book of delightful puzzles. It's just as good as you'd expect.' - Tim Harford'A... -
Today Programme Puzzle Book: The puzzle book of 2018 by BBC
Booksplease Price: £15.84***The best intelligent puzzle book on the market*** Fiendish fun! - The Times Can YOU solve the Puzzle for Today?Tackle the conundrums that have been frustrating and confounding the nation, with... -
Today Programme Puzzle Book: The puzzle book of 2018 by BBC 9781788400589 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.97***The best intelligent puzzle book on the market*** Fiendish fun! - The Times Can YOU solve the Puzzle for Today?Tackle the conundrums that have been frustrating and confounding the nation, with... -
Handbook of Quantile Regression Roger Koenker 9780367657574
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Quantile regression constitutes an ensemble of statistical techniques intended to estimate and draw inferences about conditional quantile functions. Median regression, as introduced in the 18th... -
Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency by John Ferris
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32You know about MI5. You know about MI6. Now discover the untold stories behind Britain's most secretive intelligence agency, in the first ever authorised history of GCHQ. For a hundred years,... -
The Unbelievable Football Trivia Book: Facts, Stats, Jokes, Quizzes and More Matt Oldfield 9781526364296
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.35The perfect fact-filled book for football lovers - full of unbelievable facts, superstar stats, laugh-out-loud jokes and quick-fire quizzes.Have you heard of:- The highest-scoring professional... -
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan Lents
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02We like to think of ourselves as highly evolved. But if we are evolution's greatest creation, why are we so badly designed? We have retinas that face backward, we must find vitamins and nutrients in... -
Number Magic and More by Grandpa Mike KH 9781291870695
Booksplease Price: £6.02Are you involved in entertaining, stimulating and educating bright, lively 8-12 year old children? We produced two, and one of them has now presented us with two equally bright and exhausting... -
Football School Season 2: Where Football Explains the World by Spike Gerrell 9781406379211
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £4.98The 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... -
Mind Over Money: The Psychology of Money and How To Use It Better by Claudia Hammond 9781782112068
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Why is it good to be grumpy if you want to avoid getting ripped off? Why do we think coins are bigger than they really are?Why is it a mistake to choose the same lottery numbers every week? Join... -
Football School Season 2: Where Football Explains the World by Spike Gerrell 9781406367256 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97The 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... -
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart 9780008601119
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read... -
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) Tom Chivers 9781474619974
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious... -
The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures by Malba Tahan 9780393351477
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.48Malba Tahan is the creation of a celebrated Brazilian mathematician looking for a way to bring some of the mysteries and pleasures of mathematics to a wider public. The adventures of Beremiz Samir,... -
The Official Agatha Christie Puzzle Book: Put your detective skills to the ultimate test Agatha Christie Ltd 9781399627931
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Do you have the flair, order and method of Hercule Poirot, or the unassuming, shrewd intelligence of Miss Marple? You're going to need it...Brush off your moustache, collect your knitting needles and... -
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski 9781788164726
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64'It is hard to imagine a more timely book ... much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' The Times 'Brilliant and authoritative' - Alex Bellos, author of Alex's Adventures in... -
Numbermania: How Figures Are Taking Over Our Lives and How To Set Ourselves Free by Micael Dahlen 9781800961050
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An entertaining and thought-provoking antidote to the tyranny of numbers in the modern world.' -Alex Bellos, author of Can You Solve My Problems?'A smart and insightful read that will totally change... -
An Answer for Everything: 200 Infographics to Explain the World Delayed Gratification 9781526633644
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.96What's the best book ever written? What would happen if we all stopped eating meat? What's the secret to living past 110? And what actually is the best thing since sliced bread? In An Answer... -
Say What Ewe Sea: A Very Silly Visual Puzzle Book by Louis Catlett 9781837995745
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16As featured in The Guardian"It would make a perfect stocking filler for a wordplay lover." - The GuardianJust say what you see - exactly what you see - to solve the puzzle. Simple, right? Dive into... -
Problems For Metagrobologists: A Collection Of Puzzles With Real Mathematical, Logical Or Scientific Content by David Singmaster 9789814663632
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.34'The collection contains many delightful and enjoyable problems that are either original or taken from old books, which are no longer easily accessible. I especially like the detailed solutions,... -
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try againIn this groundbreaking... -
Problems For Metagrobologists: A Collection Of Puzzles With Real Mathematical, Logical Or Scientific Content by David Singmaster 9789814663649
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.82'The collection contains many delightful and enjoyable problems that are either original or taken from old books, which are no longer easily accessible. I especially like the detailed solutions,... -
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford 9780349121512 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.19Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try againIn this groundbreaking... -
Reaching for the Extreme: How the Quest for the Biggest, Fewest and Weirdest Makes Maths Professor Ian Stewart 9781805221593
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PROFESSOR STEWART'S CABINET OF MATHEMATICAL CURIOSITIES 'Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' ALEX BELLOS What is the maximum land you can... -
Archimedes' Stomach...and Other Puzzles You'll Love To Digest by Yossi Elran 9789811269479
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23This is a classic, recreational math book, along the lines of works of Martin Gardner, Ian Stewart, Raymond Smullyan and more recently, Jason Rosenhouse, Alex Bellos, Matt Parker, Cliff Pickover and... -
Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers Professor Ian Stewart 9781781254516
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.00Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would span the universe. He looks at every kind of number... -
The Great Mathematical Problems Professor Ian Stewart 9781846683374
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46There 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... -
Mathematics Of Life: Unlocking the Secrets of Existence Professor Ian Stewart 9781846682056
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behaviour of entire organisms, how they interact and how... -
Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries Professor Ian Stewart 9781846683480
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Like its wildly popular predecessors Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities and Hoard of Mathematical Treasures, Professor Stewart's brand-new book is a miscellany of over 150 mathematical curios and... -
The Great Mathematical Problems by Ian Stewart 9781846683374 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.52There 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... -
Beyond Infinity: An expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical universe by Eugenia Cheng
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Even small children know there are infinitely many whole numbers - start counting and you'll never reach the end. But there are also infinitely many decimal numbers between zero and one. Are these... -
The Twelve Quizzes of Christmas Frank Paul 9780861543960
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.67What do these people share in common, Anne Boleyn, Harry Bailey, Ira Gershwin and Peppa Pig? Legendary quizmaster Frank Paul invites us into our favourite Christmas stories - with a twist. Try...