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Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils by Dale Greenwalt
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct lifeWe used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having... -
Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley 9781781088821
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.83ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD FINALIST 2022Drink down the brew and dream of a better Earth.Skyward Inn, within the high walls of the Western Protectorate, is a place of safety, where people come together to... -
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils Dale E. Greenwalt 9780691221168
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.80The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct lifeWe used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having... -
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... -
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.45How would Saturn's rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what's the last thing you'd see before your spaghettification? What would it be like to... -
Allergic: How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World by Theresa MacPhail 9781802062830
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent decadesHay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide... -
Secret Worlds: The extraordinary senses of animals by Martin Stevens 9780198813682
RRP: £10.49Booksplease Price: £9.61Martin Stevens explores the extraordinary variety of senses in the animal kingdom, and discusses the cutting-edge science that is shedding light on these secret worlds. Our senses of vision,... -
Stalin's Meteorologist: One Man's Untold Story of Love, Life and Death by Olivier Rolin 9781784701758
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.One fateful day in... -
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' ObserverAnimals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is... -
Secret Worlds: The extraordinary senses of animals by Martin Stevens
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.98Martin Stevens explores the extraordinary variety of senses in the animal kingdom, and discusses the cutting-edge science that is shedding light on these secret worlds. Our senses of vision,... -
Koala: The Extraordinary Life of an Enigmatic Animal by Danielle Clode 9781324074496
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.54Koalas regularly appeared in Australian biologist Danielle Clode's backyard but it was only when a bushfire threatened that she truly paid them attention. She soon realised how much she had to learn... -
Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future by Danielle Clode
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.69Koalas regularly appeared in Australian biologist Danielle Clode's backyard, but it was only when a bushfire threatened that she truly paid them attention. She soon realized how much she had to learn... -
Sentient: A Journey Through the Sensory Worlds of Humans and Other Animals by Jackie Higgins
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'Jackie Higgins's lyrical, literate style will charm you while her book stuns your imagination with strange, other-worldly truths' Richard DawkinsSentient assembles a menagerie of zoological... -
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human by Rob Dunn
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.60A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolutionNature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some... -
Gathering Evidence by Martin MacInnes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81With extinction imminent, researchers visit an exclusive national park to observe one of the last troops of bonobo chimpanzees. Amid unusual behaviour and unexplained deaths, Shel Murray suspects her... -
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World by Jevin D. West
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A necessary book for our times. But also just great fun' Saul Perlmutter, Nobel LaureateThe world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is... -
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything by Jordan Ellenberg 9780141991511
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of How Not to Be WrongHow should a democracy choose its... -
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human by Rob Dunn 9780691242088
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.32A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolutionNature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some... -
The Joy of Science by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.84Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the heart of science can help you get the most out of lifeToday's world is unpredictable... -
Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen by Gregory J. Gbur
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.35A lively exploration of how invisibility has gone from science fiction to fact "The science of invisibility remains largely theoretical and abstract. It is in the literature that the field comes... -
Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum by Prof Owen Davies 9780198873006
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.05The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the... -
On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject by Anthony Zee 9780691174389
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.56A brief introduction to gravity through Einstein's general theory of relativityOf the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least understood and yet the one with which we are most... -
Stars and Spies by Chris Andrew
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.77A vastly entertaining and unique history of spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.'Perfect...read as you settle into James Bond on Christmas afternoon' Daily... -
Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence Sara Imari Walker 9780349128238
Booksplease Price: £13.27What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help... -
Art on Fire Yun Ko-eun 9781915590909
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A darkly comic and compelling satire of the art world from the author of The Disaster Tourist. An Yiji's career had been stalling for some time when a representative of the illustrious Robert... -
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt 9781802063271
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42THE NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES, FT, ECONOMIST AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR'Boundlessly wise . . . important and engrossing' The New York Times'One of the most important books I've... -
The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time Helen Gordon 9781800815353
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'The Meteorites conjures a small epiphany about our own place in the universe' The Sunday Times 'Dazzling' Financial Times From your window you can see the stars and distant planets: light... -
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Required reading for everyone' Adam RutherfordShortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 Medicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science... -
Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens Chris Lintott 9781804995914
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroids, radio waves, new stars and alien life.'A... -
How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity Douglas J. Futuyma 9780691264639
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.08A marvelous journey into the world of bird evolutionHow Birds Evolve explores how evolution has shaped the distinctive characteristics and behaviors we observe in birds today. Douglas Futuyma... -
How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. Futuyma
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.20A marvelous journey into the world of bird evolutionHow Birds Evolve explores how evolution has shaped the distinctive characteristics and behaviors we observe in birds today. Douglas Futuyma... -
Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow by Nicole Yunger Halpern
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £17.86The Industrial Revolution meets the quantum-technology revolution! A steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is transforming our understanding of information and energy.Winner... -
Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence Sara Imari Walker 9780349128245
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.81What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help... -
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy 9780141997179
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and... -
Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens by Chris Lintott 9781911709183
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.54An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroids, radio waves, new stars and alien life.'A... -
Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Interplanetary, quite extraordinary . . . awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty' Financial Times'One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century' New... -
Bitch: What does it mean to be female? by Lucy Cooke
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting... -
Allergic: How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World by Theresa MacPhail 9780241638163
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent decadesHay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide... -
Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels by Stephen B. Heard
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.58An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance, "More fun than you've ever had with taxonomy in your... -
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary by Hana Videen 9780691264165
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.10An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the...