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Interstellar Tours: A Guide to the Universe from Your Starship Window by Brian Clegg 9781837730759
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.30'Strap in and enjoy the ride!' JOHN GRIBBIN'A window seat on a flight to our galaxy's sites of outstanding beauty' MARCUS CHOWN, AUTHOR OF THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW'His best yet!' HENRY GEE,... -
Quantum Physics in Minutes Gemma Lavender 9781786481214
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02The fastest way to understanding quantum physics - learn about how our universe works, in minutes. Quantum physics is the most fundamental, but also the most bewildering, of sciences... -
Interstellar Tours: A Guide to the Universe from Your Starship Window Brian Clegg 9781837730766
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'Strap in and enjoy the ride!' JOHN GRIBBIN'A window seat on a flight to our galaxy's sites of outstanding beauty' MARCUS CHOWN, AUTHOR OF THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW'His best yet!' HENRY GEE,... -
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent 9780571354221
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98THE 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... -
How To Understand E =mc(2) Christophe Galfard 9781786484956
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Do something amazing and learn a new skill thanks to the Little Ways to Live a Big Life books! The beginning of the 20th century heralded a scientific revolution: what a few brilliant minds uncovered... -
Is God an Illusion?: The Great Debate Between Science and Spirituality by Deepak Chopra 9781846043055
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Hawking have had a major impact on the loud and popular debate between 'aggressive atheists' and religion. The huge sales of their bestselling books... -
The Science of Spin: The Force Behind Everything – From Falling Cats to Jet Engines by Roland Ennos 9780861546718
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.37Why exactly is the Earth round? How is it that boomerangs can turn in mid-air? And why do cats always land on their feet? It's time to stop thinking in straight lines... 'A wonderfully... -
Take A Stand: An inspirational fill-in book about your heroes and you Caroline Rowlands 9781783124657
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07This gloriously illustrated keepsake book will help young modern rebels find their inner hero. With quotes and stories from everyone from Abraham Lincoln to JK Rowling, Take A Stand is a fantastic... -
50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know Joanne Baker 9781529429305
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81In a series of 50 accessible essays, Joanne Baker introduces and explains the fundamental physical concepts and laws that govern the inner workings of our universe.From Schrodinger's cat to... -
Quantum Computing from Colossus to Qubits: The History, Theory, and Application of a Revolutionary Science by John Gribbin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26The revolution is here. In breakthrough after breakthrough, pioneering physicists are unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences... -
Professor Wooford McPaw's History of Astronomy Elliot Kruszynski 9781800660236
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.85Take your youngsters on a voyage across the universe and ignite their passion for exploring the night sky in this fascinating and imaginative guide to astronomy for kids ages 6 to 10. This second... -
Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure by Cedric Villani
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.26"This man could plainly do for mathematics what Brian Cox has done for physics" - Sunday TimesHow does a genius see the world? Where and how does inspiration strike?Cedric Villani takes us on a... -
The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements by Dr. Paul Parsons
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.70The Periodic Table is one of the most recognizable images in science - and in our culture. Its 118 elements make up everything on our planet and in the entire universe. But how many of us actually... -
Hawking by Jim Ottaviani
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.47From his early days at Oxford, Stephen Hawking's brilliance and good humor were obvious to everyone he met. At twenty-one he was diagnosed with ALS, a disease that limited his ability to move and... -
The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics by Heinrich Päs
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.12In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Pas presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.This idea, called monism, has a rich 3,000-year history:... -
Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe by George Musser 9780861547197
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.04Distant galaxies, dark matter, black holes - elusive, incomprehensible and inhospitable - these are the building blocks of modern physics. But where do we fit in this picture? 'A delightful... -
The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics by Heinrich Päs 9781837730308
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.22In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Pas presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.This idea, called monism, has a rich 3,000-year history:... -
Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era by Rory Cellan-Jones
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.12'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable [...] There is an energy and drama to Rory's writing which nonetheless leaves space for us, the reader, to make up our minds' - Stephen Fry The... -
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime Sean Carroll 9781786078360
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.52Quantum physics is not mystifying. The implications are mind-bending, and not yet fully understood, but this revolutionary theory is truly illuminating. It stands as the best explanation of the... -
The Sky Atlas: The Greatest Maps, Myths and Discoveries of the Universe by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781471178931
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.63'Beautiful ... endless, brilliant unforgettable stories' Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6'Combining myth and science, this breathtaking book [is] packed with stunning images' Daily MailAfter the enormous... -
Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the Next Scientific Revolution Adam Forrest Kay 9781399609609
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events. This idea led to the outlandish belief that quantum objects - indeed,... -
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything by Jordan Ellenberg 9780141991511
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51The 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... -
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser
Booksplease Price: €28.41The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states,... -
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong by Dr Becky Smethurst 9781529086744
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.'A jaunt... -
Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics by Fulvio Melia 9780226519517
Booksplease Price: €32.61Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory... -
Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World by David Kaiser 9780226819990
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €18.97A series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists' ongoing quest to understand the quantum world. The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain... -
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong by Dr Rebecca Smethurst
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.55In A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.'A jaunt... -
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, From Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks by Chad Orzel
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.53'Entertaining and engrossing' Sean Carroll Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping. That need to tell the time connects you to... -
Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the Next Scientific Revolution by Adam Forrest Kay 9781399609586
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.55'A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS' - Jean BricmontThe received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events... -
A Perfect Harmony: Music, Mathematics and Science by David Darling 9780861549856
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.07A melodic odyssey through the interwoven worlds of music, physics and mathematics From the earliest of civilisations, humans have found ways to make music, whether through makeshift drums or... -
On Form: The Times Book of the Year Mike Brearley 9781472121806
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.94THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARDAILY TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017What is being on form? How does it relate to feeling 'in the zone'? Are... -
The Burning Answer: A User's Guide to the Solar Revolution Professor Keith Barnham 9781780225333
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.61Our civilisation stands on the brink of catastrophe. Our thirst for energy has led to threats from global warming, nuclear disaster and conflict in oil-rich countries. We are running out of options... -
Lucky Ed Jackson 9780008423407
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.62'What a story and what an inspirational human. Ed is a total legend.' Joe Wicks 'A life-affirming story ... inspirational' Tim Peake ... -
The Planets by Professor Brian Cox 9780007488841
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €24.10'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion... -
Rebel Star: Our Quest to Solve the Great Mysteries of the Sun Colin Stuart 9781789290431
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.89A fascinating and comprehensive guide to the sun - our home star - which remains the greatest mystery in the solar system, and why understanding it is pivotal to our future existence here on Earth.In... -
A Theory of Everything (That Matters): A Short Guide to Einstein, Relativity and the Future of Faith by Dr Alister E McGrath
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02On 29th May 1919, British astronomers tested Einstein's theory of relativity by measuring the path of the stars travelling near the sun during an eclipse. On 7th November 1919, the results of that... -
Columbus in Space: A Voyage of Discovery on the International Space Station by The European Space Agency
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.13In 2008, Europe's first space laboratory was launched to the International Space Station. Ten years later, the Columbus laboratory is still circling 400 km above our heads at 28,800 km/h, providing... -
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The Sky at Night: Answers to Questions from Across the Universe by CBE, DSc, FRAS, Sir Patrick Moore 9781849903462 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €2.99Celebrating the 55th anniversary of The Sky at Night, this book collects and answers questions sent in by viewers. With sections on the solar system, the bizarre and unexplained, space missions, and... -
Statistical: Ten Easy Ways to Avoid Being Misled By Numbers by Anthony Reuben
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.00'Fascinating . . . timely' Daily Mail'Refreshingly clear and engaging' Tim Harford'Delightful . . . full of unique insights' Prof Sir David SpiegelhalterThere's no getting away from statistics. We... -
Science: The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €31.63Explore the science innovations as you have never seen them with this visual guide. From the humble beginnings of science, right through to today's information age - go on a journey through the...