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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent 9780571354221
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARNEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYA revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make... -
The Unfolding Of Language by Guy Deutscher
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A persuasive and beautifully written take on how languages are constantly evolving... an enthralling read about human psychology and anthropology as well as linguistics.' ALEX... -
Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty Adam Kucharski 9781788169097
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Insightful, absorbing and entertaining' TLS 'Brilliant' ALEX BELLOS 'Illuminating' DAILY MAIL 'The case for better evidence in post-evidence times' FINANCIAL... -
Doctor Socrates: Footballer, Philosopher, Legend by Andrew Downie 9781471154089
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Compelling from start to finish...Downie does full justice to an extraordinary life' Pete Davies, author of All Played Out. A stunning new biography of Socrates, the iconic captain of the greatest... -
The Wonder Book of Geometry: A Mathematical Story by David Acheson
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.39How can we be sure that Pythagoras's theorem is really true? Why is the 'angle in a semicircle' always 90 degrees? And how can tangents help determine the speed of a bullet? David Acheson takes... -
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Professor Ian Stewart
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.48Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed GBP208 billion to the economy in a single year --... -
How to Bake Pi: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths by Eugenia Cheng 9781781252888
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Moebius bagels, Euclid's flourless chocolate cake and apple pi - this is maths, but not as you know it. In How to Bake Pi, mathematical crusader and star baker Eugenia Cheng has rustled up a batch... -
Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture by Simon Reynolds 9780415923736
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.73In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and... -
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Professor Ian Stewart 9781781259429
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Stewart is Britain's most brilliant and prolific populariser of maths' Alex Bellos 'The instructive equivalent of a Michelin-starred tasting menu' Tim Radford Many people think mathematics is... -
Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe by Ian Stewart
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the formation of the Earth and its Moon to the planets and asteroids of the solar system and from there out into the galaxy and the... -
Britannica's Encyclopedia Infographica: 1,000s of Facts & Figures-about Earth, space, animals, the body, technology & more-Revealed in Pictures by Valentina D'Efilippo 9781913750459
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.67This authoritative encyclopedia is perfect for visual learners: it reveals astonishing information about space, Earth, animals, humans and technology through 200 infographics, including maps, charts,... -
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe Gaston Dorren 9781781254172
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us on an intriguing... -
Parabolic Problems: 60 Years of Mathematical Puzzles in Parabola by David Angell 9781032483191
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £28.64Parabola is a mathematics magazine published by UNSW, Sydney. Among other things, each issue of Parabola has contained a collection of puzzles/problems, on various mathematical topics and at a... -
The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't by Eugenia Cheng
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. In The Art of Logic, Royal Society Science Book Prize nominee Eugenia Cheng shows how anyone... -
Parabolic Problems: 60 Years of Mathematical Puzzles in Parabola by David Angell 9781032499987
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.34Parabola is a mathematics magazine published by UNSW, Sydney. Among other things, each issue of Parabola has contained a collection of puzzles/problems, on various mathematical topics and at a... -
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths by Manil Suri 9781526622938
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.30'Who knew numbers could be so charming? ... Suri takes us on a light-hearted journey all the way from nothing (zero) to infinity' Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All... -
Math Without Numbers by Milo Beckman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The whizz-kid making maths supercool. . . A brilliant book that takes everything we know (and fear) about maths out of the equation - starting with numbers' The Times'A cheerful, chatty, and... -
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives by Mark A. Miodownik
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING, PRIZE-WINNING STUFF MATTERS Sometimes explosive, often delightful, occasionally poisonous, but always fascinating: the secret lives of liquids, from one of our... -
Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians by Professor Ian Stewart
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian... -
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop Adam Kucharski 9781788160209
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49An Observer Book of the Year A Times Science Book of the Year A New Statesman Book of the Year A Financial Times Science Book of the Year 'Astonishingly bold' Daily Mail 'It is hard to... -
Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers by Vicky Neale 9780198788287
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £25.29In 2013, a little known mathematician in his late 50s stunned the mathematical community with a breakthrough on an age-old problem about prime numbers. Since then, there has been further dramatic... -
The Maths of Life and Death Kit Yates 9781787475403
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"This is an exquisitely interesting book. It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - IAN MCEWAN"Kit Yates is a natural storyteller. ... -
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The Maths of Life and Death by Kit Yates 9781787475403 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.53"This is an exquisitely interesting book. It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - IAN MCEWAN"Kit Yates is a natural storyteller. ... -
That's Mathematics: A fun introduction to everyday maths for ages 5 to 8 by Tom Lehrer 9781739774851
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.27"In the footsteps of Tom Lehrer, Chris Smith shows that you are never too young to have fun with maths." - Johnny Ball, TV presenter and lifelong maths lover **Books for Topics Recommended Reads:... -
That's Mathematics by Tom Lehrer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62"In the footsteps of Tom Lehrer, Chris Smith shows that you are never too young to have fun with maths." - Johnny Ball, TV presenter and lifelong maths lover That's Mathematics is a maths book... -
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim Harford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The Sunday Times Bestseller'Tim Harford is one of my favourite writers in the world. His storytelling is gripping but never overdone, his intellectual honesty is rare and inspiring, and his ability... -
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes: Tactile Mathematics, Art and Craft for all to Explore, Second Edition Daina Taimina 9780367375072
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.02Winner, Euler Book Prize, awarded by the Mathematical Association of America. With over 200 full color photographs, this non-traditional, tactile introduction to non-Euclidean geometries also covers... -
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes: Tactile Mathematics, Art and Craft for all to Explore, Second Edition Daina Taimina 9781138301153
Booksplease Price: £54.45Winner, Euler Book Prize, awarded by the Mathematical Association of America. With over 200 full color photographs, this non-traditional, tactile introduction to non-Euclidean geometries also covers... -
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How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers by Tim Harford 9780349143866 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.69The Sunday Times Bestseller'Tim Harford is one of my favourite writers in the world. His storytelling is gripping but never overdone, his intellectual honesty is rare and inspiring, and his ability... -
Mathematical Puzzles: Revised Edition by Peter Winkler 9781032708485
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.99Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing... -
Mathematical Puzzles: Revised Edition by Peter Winkler 9781032709536
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £60.38Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A 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... -
How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng 9780465097678
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.81What is math? How exactly does it work? And what do three siblings trying to share a cake have to do with it? In How to Bake Pi, math professor Eugenia Cheng provides an accessible introduction to...