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The Science of Rick and Morty: What Earth's Stupidest Show Can Teach Us About Quantum Physics, Biological Hacking and Everything Else In Our Universe (An Unofficial Guide) by Matt Brady
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Learn about quantum physics, cloning, exoplanets, the number 137 and all of modern science's biggest questions through the crazy adventures of Rick and Morty, the international Netflix success, now... -
The Politics of Sport in South Asia by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. These issues range from the social, with divisions created along gender and class lines, to the use of... -
The Politics of Sport in South Asia Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty 9780415850056
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with political issues at every level. These issues range from the social, with divisions created along gender and class lines, to the use of... -
Walking Cities: London by Jaspar Joseph-Lester
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.66Walking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers to consider how a city walk... -
In Light-Years There's No Hurry: Cosmic Perspectives on Everyday Life by Marjolijn van Heemstra 9781324035695
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.18One restless summer, anxious and dismayed by mounting crisis and conflict on Earth, poet and journalist Marjolijn van Heemstra learns of a phenomenon known as the overview effect. Experienced by many... -
In the Blink of an Eye: A Cultural History of Spectacles by Stefana Sabin 9781789144635
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.51This book examines those who wore glasses through history, art and literature, from the green emerald through which Emperor Nero watched gladiator fights to Benjamin Franklin's homemade bifocals, and... -
Deterrence under Uncertainty:: Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Warfare by Dr Edward Geist 9780192886323
Booksplease Price: £91.33For decades, films such as WarGames and The Terminator have warned that the combination of artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons might be a recipe for an apocalypse. Might these prophecies of... -
Gangster's Paradise by Jared Savage 9781775542094
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The much anticipated follow-up to the bestseller that exposed the escalation of organised crime in New Zealand. Gangster's Paradise is about drugs, guns, gangs and money. Lots of money.A gang which... -
Unsolved!: The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies by Craig P. Bauer 9780691167671
Booksplease Price: £26.16A mathematical tour of some of the greatest unsolved ciphers of all time In 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia airport with a picture of a Nazi aircraft in his... -
Unsolved!: The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies by Craig P. Bauer
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.64A mathematical tour of some of the greatest unsolved ciphers of all timeIn 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia airport with a picture of a Nazi aircraft in his... -
Gangland: New Zealand's Underworld of Organised Crime by Jared Savage 9781775541622
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.90New Zealand's underworld of organised crime and deadly gangs 'The best true-crime book of the year by a long stretch.'- Steve Braunias, Newsroom 'A series of rip-snorting yarns about gangs, drugs,... -
Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting by Thomas D. Seeley 9780691191409
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.56A how-to book on an exhilarating outdoor activity and a unique meditation on the pleasures of the natural worldFollowing the Wild Bees is a delightful foray into the pastime of bee hunting, an... -
Neurobehavioural Disability and Social Handicap Following Traumatic Brain Injury Tom McMillan (University of Glasgow, UK) 9781138923935
Booksplease Price: £58.84Neurobehavioural disability (NBD) follows many forms of serious brain injury and is a major constraint on social independence. This book brings together a group of leading academics and practising... -
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History by Eli Maor 9780691148236
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.80By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this ubiquitous geometric theorem. Maor shows that the... -
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History by Eli Maor 9780691196886
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02An exploration of one of the most celebrated and well-known theorems in mathematicsBy any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor... -
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe by Hugh Aldersey-Williams 9781509893355
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' - Simon Ings, Spectator'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.' -... -
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS, THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY AND HUDSON FYSH by Grantlee Kieza 9780733341564
Booksplease Price: £20.08The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map, now with a foreword from Flinders' great-great-great-grand-daughters on the 250th anniversary of his birth In 1810,... -
Learning Analytics in the Classroom: Translating Learning Analytics Research for Teachers Jason Lodge (Science of Learning Research Center, University of Melbourne, Australia) 9780815362128
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.96Learning Analytics in the Classroom presents a coherent framework for the effective translation of learning analytics research for educational practice to its practical application in different... -
She's Gone: Five Mysterious Twentieth-Century Cold Cases by Kathleen Brunelle 9781633889583
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.44She's Gone collects the true stories of five different women living in different decades who all have one thing in common: one moment they were busy living their lives and the next moment ... they... -
Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Human Senses by Jackie Higgins
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures - from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe - to understand what it means to be human.'Spellbinding . . . More... -
Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Development Andrew McGregor 9780367581015
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.67Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse regions in the world - hosting a wide range of languages, ethnicities, religions, economies, ecosystems and political systems. Amidst this diversity,... -
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning musician and composer... -
Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds by Helen Gordon
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'Astounding ... To call this a "history" does not do justice to Helen Gordon's ambition' Simon Ings, Daily Telegraph 'Awe-inspiring ... She has imbued geological tales with a beauty and... -
Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found by Warren Ellis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes... -
Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.97A Guardian Science Fiction Book of the Year. Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. She's a 'waste girl', a scavenger picking through towering heaps of hazardous electronic detritus. Along with... -
Ghost Species by James Bradley
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In an intimate portrayal of high-concept big ideas, can we engineer ourselves out of a problem of our own making?Set against the backdrop of rapidly escalating climate catastrophe, scientists Kate... -
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick 9781915590626
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61'A compelling real-life thriller, full of passion, free of writerly fuss, woven from the most intractable archival cat's cradle imaginable.' Simon Ings, The Telegraph The true story of a decade-long... -
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms by Gerd Gigerenzer 9780141995045
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'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 Method by Juli Zeh
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit medical data and sleep records to the authorities on a monthly basis, and... -
Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality by James Davison Hunter
Booksplease Price: £17.67Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the... -
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.16In this "masterpiece... the preeminent historian of neuroscience" (Science) explores psychiatry's frustrated efforts to understand mental disorders as medical disorders. Anne Harrington reveals how... -
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness by David M. Pena-Guzman
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreamingAre humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream... -
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness by David M. Peña-Guzmán 9780691227061
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.25A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreamingAre humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream... -
The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it... -
Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution by Russell Bonduriansky 9780691157672
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.20How 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... -
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9780241992142
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill GatesThe New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.Explaining the key... -
Biohacked & Begging: And Other Stories by Stephen Oram 9781781328576
Booksplease Price: £11.29This collection of `ten-minute' stories are the perfect length for your commute or a thoughtful cup of coffee: The future is ours and it's up for grabs... Immerse yourself in the future of... -
Deterrence under Uncertainty: Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Warfare by Dr Edward Geist 9780198976127
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.10For decades, films such as WarGames and The Terminator have warned that the combination of artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons might be a recipe for an apocalypse. Might these prophecies of... -
Quantum Supremacy: How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science – and Address Humanity’s Biggest Challenges by Michio Kaku 9780141999456
Booksplease Price: £9.24An exhilarating guide to the astonishing future of quantum computing, from the international bestselling physicistThe runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound... -
Governing Behavior: How Nerve Cell Dictatorships and Democracies Control Everything We Do by Ari Berkowitz
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.86From simple reflexes to complex choreographies of movement, all animal behavior is governed by a nervous system. But what kind of government is it-a dictatorship or a democracy?Nervous systems...