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The New World of Mr Tompkins: George Gamow's Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow 9780521630092
Booksplease Price: $119.38Mr Tompkins is back! The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed and informed young and old alike since the publication of the hugely... -
The New World of Mr Tompkins: George Gamow's Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $24.99Mr Tompkins is back! The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed and informed young and old alike since the publication of the hugely... -
Mapmatics: A Mathematician's Guide to Navigating the World by Paulina Rowińska 9780674294233
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $27.34"I love maps. I love math. And gosh, do I love this book, which so beautifully and clearly sounds the depths of both." -Ben Orlin, author of Math with Bad DrawingsExplore the surprising connections... -
Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement by Dr Jim Baggott 9780192846105
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.30The definitive account of the great Bohr-Einstein debate and its continuing legacy In 1927, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began a debate about the interpretation and meaning of the new quantum... -
On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence Adrian Woolfson 9780262054898
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $28.52A bold and visionary account of how genome writing can help preserve the planet but may also undermine human nature and disrupt ecosystems. From a scientist at the forefront of synthetic genomics. ... -
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy by Frank Close 9780465069989
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $27.80It was at the height of the Cold War, in the summer of 1950, when Bruno Pontecorvo mysteriously vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Who was he, and what caused him to disappear? Was he simply a... -
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close 9780141997582
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of itIn the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific... -
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime Sean Carroll 9781786078360
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revolutionary theory is truly illuminating. It stands as the best explanation of the... -
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies 9780226816296
Booksplease Price: $33.23Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of... -
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies 9780226823874
RRP: $16.77Booksplease Price: $16.50Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of... -
What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin by Donovan Moore
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $26.54A New Scientist Book of the YearA Physics Today Book of the YearA Science News Book of the YearThe history of science is replete with women getting little notice for their groundbreaking discoveries... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and... -
Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin by Lawrence Weinstein 9780691129495
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.04Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and... -
On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence Adrian Woolfson 9781526670977
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.19'Visionary and exhilarating ... A work of astonishing scope and imagination' TIM COULSON'The book we need right now ... Essential reading' TOM ELLIS'A brilliantly crafted, sweeping exposition with... -
On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence by Adrian Woolfson 9781526670960
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.32'Visionary and exhilarating ... A work of astonishing scope and imagination' TIM COULSON'The book we need right now ... Essential reading' TOM ELLIS'A brilliantly crafted, sweeping exposition with...