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Orbital Mechanics by John E. Prussing 9780195078343
Booksplease Price: £73.97In the planning of any space mission, whether manned or unmanned, one of the most important problems to solve is the orbital mechanics of the spaceflight-how to get the spacecraft from here to there... -
Epic Animal Journeys in the Sea: Animal Tracking Compass Book Steve Parker 9781836160472
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Follow incredible animals on some of the world's most epic journeys of migration in the ocean. Budding animal experts will be spell-bound with this interactive and informative book. Discover some of... -
Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics and turn ignorance into insight. However much we want certainty in... -
Higgs: The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle' by Jim Baggott 9780199679577
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £9.78The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? What does it tell us about the Universe? Did... -
A History of Antarctic Science by G. E. Fogg 9780521673372
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.13This book is the first to describe the development of scientific activity in the Antarctic (as distinct from exploration) in all its aspects. Coverage spans three centuries, starting with Halley who... -
Good Food for Everyone Forever: A People's Takeover of the World's Food Supply by Colin Tudge 9788895604138
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Everyone who is ever likely to be born on to this planet could be fed to the highest standards of nutrition and gastronomy-and this could be done without cruelty, or destroying our fellow creatures... -
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time by Huw Price 9780195117981
Booksplease Price: £26.61`splendidly provocative ... enjoy it as a feast for the imagination.' John Gribbin, Sunday Times Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the... -
The Pleasures of Counting by T. W. Korner
RRP: £56.99Booksplease Price: £49.90What is the connection between the outbreak of cholera in Victorian Soho, the Battle of the Atlantic, African Eve and the design of anchors? One answer is that they are all examples chosen by Dr Tom... -
The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future Hermann Scheer 9781844070756
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59The global economy and our way of life are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels, which not only threaten massive environmental and social disruption through global warming but, at present rates... -
History of Writing by Steven Roger Fischer
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £9.99From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the... -
Nature Spirits: Wyrd Lore and Wild Fey Magic by Danu Forest
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.23Shhhhhhh ...Can you hear the ancient dryad wisdom of trees? Do you know how to calm the spirits of storm and wave? Can you see theelusive and intelligent souls of trees, stones, rivers and clouds... -
Ancient English Cathedrals by Mark Mills 9781904263418
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.23Perhaps the most awe-inspiring structures ever built in these isles, ancient cathedrals continue to exude spiritual force and architectural magic many centuries after their incredible design and... -
The Diagram: Harmonic Geometry by Adam Tetlow 9781907155338
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94How do you divide a line into three? Or five? Or seven? Is there a simple way to marry harmony and geometry? What is the secret diagram alluded to by writers of antiquity? In this groundbreaking... -
The Research Universities and Their Patrons by Robert M. Rosenzweig 9780520046641
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82America's research universities--some fifty leading intellectual centers--have assumed a unique set of responsibilities. In addition to educating undergraduates, they house most of the nation's basic... -
The Little People: Fairies, Elves, Nixies, Pixies, Knockers, Dryads and Dwarves by Paul Johnson
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.23Have you ever seen a pixie? Really? How about a nixie? Where would you find a brownie? And who exactly is Puck? Hiding in the woods, meadows, lakes and caves of these green and pleasant lands... -
The Golem: What You Should Know About Science by Harry M. Collins
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.53Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment... -
Ruler and Compass: Practical Geometric Constructions by Andrew Sutton 9781904263661
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94How do you draw a heptagon? What about a heptakaidecagon? How do you fit circles perfectly into triangles? And around them? If the computer is down - could you do it with ruler and compass? In... -
Mind Maps: Biology: How to Navigate the Living World by Helen Pilcher 9780750993845
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.61Biology is the natural science that studies life on our planet: from fungi to fossils and ecosystems to extremophiles, there is a whole world waiting to be discovered.Mind Maps: Biology helps you to... -
A Little History of Dragons by Joyce Hargreaves 9781904263487
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.28Why are dragons recognised in almost all cultures on Earth? What is the mysterious geomantic gold they secretly guard? Could dragons be a folk memory of something which once hunted us? In this... -
In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years by Sir Karl Popper 9780415135481
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his... -
Iron Age Communities in Britain: An account of England, Scotland and Wales from the Seventh Century BC until the Roman Conquest by Barry Cunliffe 9780415562928
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £57.49Since its first publication in 1971, Barry Cunliffe's monumental survey has established itself as a classic of British archaeology. This fully revised fourth edition maintains the qualities of the... -
Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism by Geoffrey W. Conrad 9780521318969
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £41.86Religion and Empire is an innovative and provocative study of the two largest states of the Precolumbian Americas, the Aztec and Inca Empires. By examining the causes of the formation and expansion... -
From Physics to Metaphysics by Michael Redhead 9780521589666
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.14The book is drawn from the Tarner lectures, delivered in Cambridge in 1993. It is concerned with the ultimate nature of reality, and how this is revealed by modern physical theories such as... -
Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 1, Two-Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields by Roger Penrose
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £51.02This volume introduces and systematically develops the calculus of 2-spinors. This is the first detailed exposition of this technique which leads not only to a deeper understanding of the structure... -
Sacred Number by Miranda Lundy 9781904263449
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.69Why is five associated with life? How come come circles are so sixy? What has eleven got to do with the mile? This little book delves into the secret qualities of quantities and is essential reading... -
Sun, Moon and Earth by Robin Heath 9781904263463
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94How many days are there between full moons - think you know? Is there an ancient key to the calendar hidden in stone circles? What is the magical secret of the Sun-Moon-Earth system? If you have... -
Numbers: To Infinity and Beyond by Oliver Linton 9781907155314
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.94What are numbers? Where do they come from? Are there different kings of number? Why was Pythagoras fascinated by triangular and square numbers? Is there a link between perfect numbers and primes? In... -
Black Holes and the Universe by Igor D. Novikov 9780521558709
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.09Igor Novikov has been hailed as 'Russia's answer to Stephen Hawking'. In this popular account of the cosmic importance of black holes, he explores the properties and significance of these mysterious... -
Dictionary of the Physical Sciences: Terms, Formulas, Data by Cesare Emiliani 9780195036510
Booksplease Price: £57.98This dictionary consists of text and tables, covering all of the areas that are fundamental to understanding our physical world, and life within it. Included are physics - classical, relativistic,... -
Orkney: Megalithic Marvel of the Northern Isles by Hector McDonnell 9781904263289
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.23Were the Stones of Stenness the world's first henge and stone circle? Why has Orkney preserved so many Neolithic farmhouses and villages? What was the purpose of the huge buildings on the Ness of... -
A Brief History of Secret Societies by David V. Barrett 9781845296155
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A Brief History of Secret Societies examines the significant hidden power wielded by clandestine organisations from ancient times right up to the present day. Throughout history, humankind's search... -
How to See the World by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video... -
Insect Hormones by H. Frederik Nijhout
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07Although insect endocrinology is one of the oldest and most active branches of insect physiology, its classic general texts are long out of date, while its abundant primary literature provides little... -
The Best Technology Writing 2009 by Steven Johnson
Booksplease Price: £27.47"The ubiquity of the digital lifestyle has forced us to write and think about technology in a different way."-Steven Johnson In his Introduction to this beautifully curated collection of essays,... -
Life on Earth by David Attenborough 9780008294304
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth. David Attenborough's unforgettable meeting with gorillas became an iconic moment for millions of... -
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A passionate defence of the enduring power of human nature ... both life-affirming and deeply satisfying' Daily TelegraphRecently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by our ... -
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy,... -
Antarctica by Gabrielle Walker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or... -
The Lost Girls of Autism: The Untold Story of Women on the Spectrum by Gina Rippon 9781035011643
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A truly fascinating must-read' - Elinor Cleghorn, bestselling author of Unwell WomenWinner of the Popular Science Award from the British Psychological SocietyA Book of the Year in the Daily... -
The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy by Jo Marchant 9780306821332
Booksplease Price: £18.42More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun's desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into the future as an immortal god. After resting undisturbed for more than three millennia, King Tut's...