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The Parrot in the Mirror: How evolving to be like birds made us human by 9780198846109
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £18.08How similar are your choices, behaviours, and lifestyle to those of a parrot? We humans are not like other mammals. We look like them, but we don't act like them. In fact, many of our defining... -
The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death by Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston 9781802063790
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Just as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients, some argue today that death brings meaning to life. But given humans rarely live beyond a century - even while certain whales can... -
The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace by Michael J. Boyle
RRP: £28.49Booksplease Price: £22.98Over the last decade, the rapid pace of innovation with drone technology has led to dozens of new and innovative commercial and scientific applications, from Amazon drone deliveries to the patrolling... -
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya 9780691173931
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.08Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with... -
The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game by C. Thi Nguyen 9780241653975
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61'Lucid, entertaining and precise... a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life' Tim Clare, GuardianIs this the game you want to be playing?Scoring systems are everywhere... -
Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People by Daniel Kalder
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times 'The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the... -
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity by Theodore M. Porter 9780691164540
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.38The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane... -
Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot by Vera Tobin
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.87Why do some surprises delight-the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip's benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the... -
The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words by Virginia Trimble 9780691253916
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.73An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who... -
The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words by Virginia Trimble
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.55An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globeThe Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who... -
The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent by Danielle J. Whittaker 9781421443478
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £16.84The untold story of a stunning discovery: not only can birds smell, but their scents may be the secret to understanding their world.Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Popular Science and... -
The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World Bryan Appleyard 9781780220154
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A brand-new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard.Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives and simple solutions. And now our technology wants... -
No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity by Daniel Kennefick
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.55On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa... -
The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49*** WINNER OF THE 2021 CWA CRIME IN TRANSLATION DAGGER *** **LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2022** *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE* Yona has been stuck behind a... -
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours,... -
What Is Regeneration? by Kate MacCord
Booksplease Price: £16.75Two historians and philosophers of science offer an essential primer on the meaning and limits of regeneration. In punishment for his stealing fire, the Greek gods chained Prometheus to a rock,... -
How Does Germline Regenerate? by Kate MacCord 9780226830513
Booksplease Price: £21.99A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology-the divide between germ and somatic cells-with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications. Scientists have long held that... -
Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society by Daniel S. Milo 9780674504622
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.56In this spirited and irreverent critique of Darwin's long hold over our imagination, a distinguished philosopher of science makes the case that, in culture as well as nature, not only the fittest... -
Skyward Inn by Aliya Whiteley
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87ARTHUR 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... -
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.07THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious,... -
The Globe: How the Earth Became Round James Hannam 9781836391128
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Now in paperback, The Globe traces humanity's quest to understand the true shape of the Earth. Ancient Greek philosophers identified it as spherical in the fourth century BCE, with this knowledge... -
A Blue New Deal: Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean by Chris Armstrong
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.91An urgent account of the state of our oceans today-and what we must do to protect them "Provides a persuasive guide to recovery, and is an inspiring and invigorating read."-Phoebe Weston, The... -
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World by Matthew Stanley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winning... -
Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry by Matt Parker 9780241505700
Booksplease Price: £13.94Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble PiWhy can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when... -
Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the elements were named by Peter Wothers
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.88The iconic Periodic Table of the Elements is now in its most satisfyingly elegant form. This is because all the 'gaps' corresponding to missing elements in the seventh row, or period, have recently... -
The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time by Joseph Mazur
Booksplease Price: £23.54Named one of Book Riot's Six Great Nonfiction Books about Time: a tour of clocks throughout the centuries-from the sandglass to the telomere-that reveals the physical, biological, and social nature... -
My Brother the Messiah Martin Vopenka 9781909954472
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.87It's 2103 and Earth is baking. Scientists attempt to cool down the planet. With the coming of rain, a messiah is born.Eli is a technophobe haunted by premonitions of what will come. His strange... -
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day "Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how... -
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that... -
The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: a Russian adventure by Pieter Waterdrinker
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Daily Express Book of the Year 'Engrossing ... grips you and doesn't let go.' The Spectator 'Waterdrinker's gift for savage comedy and his war correspondent's eye have few contemporary... -
Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry Matt Parker 9780141996189
Booksplease Price: £9.24Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble PiWhy can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when... -
Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies by Gaia Bernstein
Booksplease Price: £21.69Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their... -
Sheepdogs by Elliot Ackerman 9780241772539
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.59TWO MISFITS.ONE MISSION.ZERO BACK-UP.WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?'You know Slow Horses - now meet the Sheepdogs . . . glorious . . . hilarious' SUNDAY TIMES'A rollicking military-adjacent adventure ... -
The Ideological Brain: How Rigid Beliefs Harm Our Minds & Bodies – And Why It Matters by Leor Zmigrod 9781405975148
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Fascinating, insightful, lucidly and entertainingly written' A. C. GRAYLING, author of The History of Philosophy'Extraordinary, eye-opening, startlingly original' CASS R. SUNSTEIN, co-author of... -
F: A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work... -
Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science by Philip Ball 9780226825823
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.17A New Scientist Best Book of 2023 Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares. This illustrated... -
The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World Sumit Paul-Choudhury 9781838859220
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Optimism, irrational though it might be, is central to the human psyche: it seems to give us an advantage both in everyday life and in the evolutionary race.What does Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic... -
Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty Adam Kucharski 9781788169097
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10A 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... -
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos 9781324073710
Booksplease Price: £22.80Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment,... -
Gravity's Century: From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes by Ron Cowen
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.00A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development...