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The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics and Power by Dominic Frisby 9780241728345
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.67'Essential reading' Rory Sutherland, author of Alchemy'Possibly the best-timed book ever' Merryn Somerset Webb, Bloomberg Gold (noun): A precious, yellow metal, prized for its beauty. Inert, immune... -
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... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya 9781324003991
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one... -
The Dark Cloud: how the digital world is costing the earth by Guillaume Pitron 9781914484445
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment. If digital technology were... -
The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World by Sumit Paul-Choudhury 9781838859237
Booksplease Price: £14.10Optimism, 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... -
A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science by Alexander Boxer
Booksplease Price: £10.14Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today - but they were once a cutting-edge scientific tool. In this ingenious work of history, data... -
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos 9781324105091
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.42Copyright 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,... -
The Liquid Land by Raphaela Edelbauer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60When her parents die in a car accident, highly talented Austrian physicist Ruth Schwarz is confronted with a problem. Her parents' will calls for them to be buried in their childhood home - but for... -
How Migration Really Works: 22 things you need to know about the most divisive issue in politics Hein de Haas 9780241998779
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A VITALLY IMPORTANT BOOK CHALLENGING THE MANY MISCONCEPTIONS SURROUNDING THE TOPIC OF IMMIGRATION.'A book that will force Left and Right alike to reconsider old assumptions . . . an important book'... -
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency by Barnabas Calder
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energyThe story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest... -
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Goedel by Stephen Budiansky 9780198866435
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.31A remarkable account of Kurt Goedel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval. At age 24, a brilliant... -
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs David Bellos 9781914495885
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'Fascinating' Telegraph'Thorough and engaging' Washington Post'Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely' New Yorker'[A] robust and readable polemic history' Financial Times'A fascinating new look at the... -
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Goedel by Stephen Budiansky 9780198866336
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.25A remarkable account of Kurt Goedel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval. At age 24, a brilliant... -
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30The hidden costs of artificial intelligence-from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom "This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor... -
The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future by Dr. W. Patrick McCray 9780691176291
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his... -
Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar – SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Chantal Lyons 9781399423991
Booksplease Price: £9.78'One of the most notable works of recent nature writing.' HELEN MACDONALDAfter centuries of absence, wild boar are back in Britain. What does this mean for us - and them?Big, messy and mysterious -... -
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe JohnJoe McFadden 9781529364958
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of... -
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked The Universe by JohnJoe McFadden 9781529364934
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.44'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of... -
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs David Bellos 9781914495878
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Copyright 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,... -
The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future by Dr. W. Patrick McCray
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.55In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his... -
Our Moon: A Human History Rebecca Boyle 9781529342826
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.06Longlisted for the National Book Award 2024'Passionate and absorbing'SUNDAY TIMES'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An... -
Our Moon: A Human History by Rebecca Boyle 9781529342789
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80'Passionate and absorbing'SUNDAY TIMES'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth'Superb: as... -
You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future by Jonathon Keats 9780199338238
Booksplease Price: £20.70A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems. A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller... -
Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space by Kevin Hand
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.56Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar systemWhere is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site... -
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull 9780141996455
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPHSHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGHES PRIZE'A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the... -
Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space by Kevin Hand 9780691179513
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.70Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar systemWhere is the best place to find life beyond Earth? We often look to Mars as the most promising site... -
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers by Joanna Bourke 9780199689422
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.18Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other... -
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers by Joanna Bourke
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.12Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other... -
Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95*SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR*'A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure' Financial Times 'Brutally satirical and grimly hilarious' Daily Mail The venomous... -
The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26*** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ***'If we could issue a reading list to 10 Downing Street, I'd put this book near the top.'GUARDIAN'Explosive, timely and urgent'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Revealing, empathetic... -
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The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz 9781529329278 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.27*** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ***'If we could issue a reading list to 10 Downing Street, I'd put this book near the top.'GUARDIAN'Explosive, timely and urgent'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Revealing, empathetic... -
The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration by Donald Goldsmith
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £18.97A History Today Book of the YearA world-renowned astronomer and an esteemed science writer make the provocative argument for space exploration without astronauts.Human journeys into space fill us... -
Venomous Lumpsucker: WINNER of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023 by Ned Beauman 9781473613560
Booksplease Price: £13.36*SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR*'A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure' Financial Times 'Brutally satirical and grimly hilarious' Daily Mail The irresistible new... -
The Poison Line: The shocking true story of how a miracle cure became a deadly poison by Cara McGoogan 9780241627501
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24The shocking true story of the infected blood scandal, the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, which saw people infected with HIV by their own medical treatment, and a cover-up from governments... -
The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters by Sean B. Carroll
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.55How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and... -
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson by Patrick Weil
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.46"The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud's couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient collaborated on a psychobiography of... -
Apollo Remastered by Andy Saunders 9780241508695
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £53.35AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDiscover space as you've never seen it before, with these awe-inspiring, breathtakingly restored images of our first missions to the Moon'The next best thing to... -
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson Patrick Weil 9780674301597
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £17.32Shortlist, Cundill History Prize"The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud's couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and... -
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...