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Physics and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know by Richard A. Muller 9780691135045
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $142.67Physics and Technology for Future Presidents contains the essential physics that students need in order to understand today's core science and technology issues, and to become the next generation of... -
Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World by J. Doyne Farmer 9780141981208
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'Doyne Farmer is the world's leading thinker on technological change. For decades he has focused on the question of how we can make sense of the data of today to see where the world is going tomorrow... -
Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey 9780198858546
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23We feel therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are essential to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who... -
Jet Stream: A Journey Through our Changing Climate by Tim Woollings
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $70.94A number of extreme weather events have struck the Northern Hemisphere in recent years, from scorching heatwaves to desperately cold winters, and from floods and storms to droughts and wildfires... -
Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey 9780198858539
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $33.58We feel therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are essential to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who... -
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World by Tim Marshall
Booksplease Price: $24.72THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF 2023 A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023 Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the... -
Bodyology: The Curious Science of Our Bodies by Various
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $24.74Ever wondered what it's like to be hit by lightning or to lose your sense of smell? Heard about the woman saved by bee stings - or the window cleaner who survived a 400ft fall? Originally written... -
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane 9781788160551
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'One of my favourite science writers' Bill Gates 'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili 'A profound meditation on metabolism, the Krebs cycle & the origin of life' Anil Seth For decades, biology... -
Quantum Reality: The Quest for the Real Meaning of Quantum Mechanics - a Game of Theories by Jim Baggott
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $42.65Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. It is also completely mad. Although the theory quite obviously works, it leaves us chasing ghosts and phantoms; particles that... -
Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us by Donald K. Yeomans 9780691173337
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $34.19Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potential to end civilization in a single blow. Yet these near-Earth objects also offer... -
Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us by Donald K. Yeomans 9780691149295
Booksplease Price: $42.08Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potential to end civilization in a single blow. Yet these near-Earth objects also offer... -
Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement by Dr Jim Baggott 9780192846105
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.93The 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... -
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor 9780197759066
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $38.98For many, technology offers hope for the future-that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this... -
Brainology: The Curious Science of Our Minds by Emma Young
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $24.7416 revealing stories about the human brain. Ever wondered how Scandinavians cope with 24-hour darkness, why we feel pain - or whether smartphones really make children stupid? Have you heard about the... -
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World – A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Tim Marshall 9781783967247
Booksplease Price: $17.47THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF 2023 A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023 Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the... -
How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind - Revised and Expanded Edition by Charles H. Langmuir 9780691140063
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $83.43Since its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the... -
Sandlands by Rosy Thornton 9781910985045
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24A collection of linked short stories, all set in and around the small village of Blaxhall in the sandlings of coastal Suffolk, which is the reason for the title, 'Sandlands'. The collection is... -
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close 9780141997582
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38The 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... -
Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals by Jonathan Balcombe 9780230107816
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $29.11Do baboons have a sense of right and wrong? Can cats and dogs have their feelings hurt? Animal behavior expert Jonathan Balcombe makes the case that animals, once viewed only as mindless automatons,... -
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Popular science at its most accessible: fun, fascinating and full of engaging pen portraits of the scientists and bee enthusiasts he meets in the course of his research'... -
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson 9780198754626
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.28Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same... -
Why? The Purpose of the Universe Philip Goff 9780198967279
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Western thought has been dominated by the dichotomy of traditional religion and secular atheism. But do we have to choose between these options? In this pioneering work, Philip Goff argues that it... -
Why? The Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff 9780198883760
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.26Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, Western thought has been dominated by the dichotomy of traditional religion and secular atheism. In this... -
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson 9780691165615
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $32.57Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of... -
The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is by Roberto Trotta
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries... -
Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation by Robyn Arianrhod 9780226821108
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $43.64A celebration of the seemingly simple idea that allowed us to imagine the world in new dimensions-sparking both controversy and discovery. The stars of this book, vectors and tensors, are...