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Genes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Slack
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.35Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In this exploration of the concept of the gene, Jonathan Slack looks at the discovery, nature, and role of genes in both evolution and... -
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Kathryn Harkup
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.09A thrilling and gruesome look at the science that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time... -
Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians by Richard Kerridge
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16As a boy, Richard Kerridge loved to encounter wild creatures and catch them for his back-garden zoo. In a country without many large animals, newts caught his attention first of all, as the nearest... -
The Emergence of the Digital Humanities Steven E. Jones 9780415635523
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid... -
Theorizing Digital Divides by Massimo Ragnedda 9780367890254
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Although discussion of the digital divide is a relatively new phenomenon, social inequality is a deeply entrenched part of our current social world and is now reproduced in the digital sphere. Such... -
Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox by Patrick Burkart 9780742536692
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £38.10With the rising popularity of online music, the nature of the music industry and the role of the Internet are rapidly changing. Rather than buying records, tapes, or CDs-in other words, full-length... -
Crowdfunding the Future: Media Industries, Ethics, and Digital Society by Bertha Chin 9781433126819
RRP: £34.85Booksplease Price: £32.02The concept of crowdfunding, where grassroots creative projects are funded by the masses through websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, has been steadily gaining attention over the last few... -
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us Alice Roberts 9781848664791
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself' Richard Dawkins'A masterful account of why our bodies are the way they are . . ... -
Revolution: How the Bicycle Reinvented Modern Britain by William Manners
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31It is easy to see bicycles as commonplace machines, but at the end of the nineteenth-century there was no other piece of technology which attracted the same level of excitement, discussion or... -
Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox by Patrick Burkart 9780742536685
Booksplease Price: £91.39With the rising popularity of online music, the nature of the music industry and the role of the Internet are rapidly changing. Rather than buying records, tapes, or CDs_in other words, full-length... -
Cyber Selves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women by Radhika Gajjala 9780759106918
Booksplease Price: £113.11In her new book Gajjala examines online community formations and subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of technologies and globalization. She describes the process of designing and... -
The Clubcultures Reader: Readings in Popular Cultural Studies by Professor Steve Redhead 9780631212164
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.12This reader in popular cultural studies meets the need for an up-to-date collection of readings on contemporary youth cultures and youth music.About the AuthorEditors: Steve Redhead is co-director of... -
Cyber Selves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women by Radhika Gajjala 9780759106925
Booksplease Price: £40.79In her new book Gajjala examines online community formations and subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of technologies and globalization. She describes the process of designing and... -
Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity by Annette N. Markham 9781433174506
RRP: £35.20Booksplease Price: £32.32What happens when the internet is absorbed into everyday life? How do we make sense of something that is invisible but still so central? A group of digital culture experts address these questions in... -
Running Hard: The Story of a Rivalry Steve Chilton 9781910985946
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64For one brilliant season in 1983 the sport of fell running was dominated by the two huge talents of John Wild and Kenny Stuart. Wild was an incomer to the sport from road running and track. Stuart... -
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Winner of the 2010 Royal Society Prize for science books Powerful new research methods are providing fresh and vivid insights into the makeup of life. Comparing gene sequences, examining the... -
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23* A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR *From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on... -
Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott 9781408831014
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it... -
Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures by Pauline Hope Cheong 9781433114748
RRP: £30.50Booksplease Price: £28.27This anthology - the first of its kind in eight years - collects some of the best and most current research and reflection on the complex interactions between religion and computer-mediated... -
The Expedition: Two Parents Risk Life and Family in an Extraordinary Quest to the South Pole by Chris Fagan
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.64Meet Chris and Marty-a married couple working on their careers, raising their only child, and chasing big adventures. At midlife, they suddenly find themselves weighing the responsibility of... -
Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol by Andrew McStay 9781433118999
RRP: £123.45Booksplease Price: £110.17What can philosophy tell us about privacy? Quite a lot as it turns out. With Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol Andrew McStay draws on an array of philosophers to offer a... -
Borrowed Time by Sue Armstrong
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.25As featured on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week 'A rich, timely study for the era of "global ageing"'- Nature The ageing of the world population is one of the most important issues facing humanity... -
The Long History of New Media: Technology, Historiography, and Contextualizing Newness by Nicholas W. Jankowski 9781433114403
RRP: £31.65Booksplease Price: £29.49This volume examines the role of history in the study of new media and of newness itself, discussing how the 'new' in new media must be understood to be historically constructed. Furthermore, the new... -
Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe by John Hands
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.83A Daily Telegraph and TLS Book of the Year 'An audacious tour of all that science can teach us' Edward O. Wilson Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what... -
Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life by Enrico Coen
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.38Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself--from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving... -
Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life by Enrico Coen 9780691149677
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.55Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself--from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving... -
The Origin Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species by David N. Reznick 9780691152578
Booksplease Price: £31.34Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers alike because of Darwin's... -
The Compatibility Gene by Daniel M. Davis
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Short-listed for the Society of Biology Book Award 2014 Long-listed for the Royal Society Winton prize for science books 2014In The Compatibility Gene, leading scientist Daniel M Davis tells the... -
The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is? by Nick Lane
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If... -
porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography by Feona Attwood 9781433102073
RRP: £29.20Booksplease Price: £27.15Pornography has always been central to debates about sex and emerging new media technologies. Today, debate is increasingly focused on online pornographies. This collection examines pornography's... -
The Diversity of Life: With a New Preface by Edward O. Wilson
Booksplease Price: £26.94"In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon. There in the perfect bowl of the night sky, untouched by light from any human source, a... -
I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll Alan Edwards 9781398525283
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62'Alan is such a wonderful storyteller' Debbie Harry 'If you love music, you should definitely read this book' Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio 5 Live 'Alan Edwards is a class act: observant, attentive,... -
No Better Boy: Listening to Paddy Canny by Helen O'Shea 9781843518655
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.25No Better Boy tells the story of a master of traditional Irish music: the legendary East Clare fiddler Paddy Canny, whose haunting music was remarkable for its virtuosity and sophistication. In the... -
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent by Richard Wrangham
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical forebears, and contemporary neighbors' Steven Pinker 'A brilliant...