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Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.94Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical... -
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Bad Science by Ben Goldacre 9780007284870 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €2.78Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical... -
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €10.19The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science,... -
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre 9780865479180
RRP: €22.80Booksplease Price: €15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780865479180Author Ben Goldacre -
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre
RRP: €21.60Booksplease Price: €17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478060Author Ben GoldacreFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint < -
Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.79'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry... -
Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?: and 130 other science questions answered New Scientist 9781473642713
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €11.11Ever wondered . . . - what is earwax for?- when is the moon blue?- why are there only two sexes?- do doctors live longer?Informative, hilarious, sometimes unsettling and always unexpected, the... -
Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It by James Le Fanu
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11The number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years with millions now committed to taking a cocktail of half a dozen (or more) different pills to lower the... -
A Statin Nation: Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-health World by Dr Malcolm Kendrick 9781786068255
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62If you have been told that you must take statins or risk a devastating heart attack or stroke, you need to read this book. Dr Kendrick, a well-known statin sceptic and author of the bestselling The... -
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions New Scientist 9781473651234
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11From the phenomenal New Scientist series, with over 2,500,000 copies soldDo Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New... -
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions New Scientist 9781473651302
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €11.11From the phenomenal New Scientist series, with over 2,500,000 copies soldThe second compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's... -
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Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre 9780007498086 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €2.34'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry... -
Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier by Ali Almossawi
Booksplease Price: €11.11A relatable, interactive, and funny exploration of algorithms, those essential building blocks of computer science - and of everyday life - from the author of the wildly popular Bad Arguments... -
Black Sheep: The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad Dr Richard Stephens 9781473610842
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11Richard Stephens became the focus of international media attention in 2009 for his research on the psychological benefits of swearing as a response to pain. Now, fresh from winning the 2014 Wellcome... -
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.84In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled,... -
Does Anything Eat Wasps: And 101 Other Questions New Scientist 9781473651333
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the 'Last Word' column - regularly... -
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Does Anything Eat Wasps: And 101 Other Questions by New Scientist 9781473651333 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €2.27Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the 'Last Word' column - regularly... -
What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe 9781399818964
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €22.07CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSIC WITH A SPECIAL EDITION. THIS IS WHAT IF? . . . x10.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Nerd royalty' BEN GOLDACRE 'Totally brilliant' TIM... -
Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty and kindness by Simon Baron-Cohen
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.77In Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness Simon Baron-Cohen takes fascinating and challenging new look at what exactly makes our behaviour uniquely human. How can we... -
Doctor You: Revealing the science of self-healing Jeremy Howick 9781473654228
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.74'Read this breakthrough book!' Deepak ChopraThrow away your statins, painkillers and antidepressants and pick up this book to find out how you can harness the body's natural powers to heal itself... -
This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.69Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, strategies and arguments that will help all of us understand our world, and its future, better. Includes... -
The Water Of Life: A Treatise on Urine Therapy by John W. Armstrong
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.69In this revolutionary treatise, J W Armstrong puts the compelling case that all diseases (except those caused by traumatism or structural disorders) can be cured by one simple means: urine therapy... -
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How To Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake Steven Novella 9781473696426
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.86'A fantastic compendium of skeptical thinking and the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction.' Richard Wiseman, author 59 Seconds'Thorough, informative, and enlightening..... -
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life Helen Czerski 9781784160753
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.73'A quite delightful book on the joys, and universality, of physics. Czerski's enthusiasm is infectious because she brings our humdrum everyday world to life, showing us that it is just as fascinating... -
The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts us all at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World by David Robert Grimes 9781471178283 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: €16.01THE IRISH TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER 'A beautifully reasoned book about our own unreasonableness' Robin Ince In 1983, the reasoning of one unsung Russian narrowly averted nuclear war, proving that... -
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A journey into the heartland of psychiatry by Nathan Filer
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54From the creator of the hit podcast WHY DO I FEEL?'I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Caitlin Moran'Brims with compassion and wit.' Cathy Rentzenbrink'Absolutely blew me away.' Jo Brand'Brilliant ... -
The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts us all at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World by David Robert Grimes
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88THE IRISH TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER 'A beautifully reasoned book about our own unreasonableness' Robin Ince In 1983, the reasoning of one unsung Russian narrowly averted nuclear war, proving that... -
Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House Martha Long 9781780575414
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of... -
The Painful Truth: The new science of why we hurt and how we can heal by Monty Lyman
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.57'An enthralling read' - Dr Rachel Clarke, bestselling author of Dear LifeA Royal Society Science Prize shortlisted author'A remarkable book' - Sunday Times__________What is phantom limb pain? Can... -
Letters To My Grandchildren by Tony Benn
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.99As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it.The past is the... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Steven Pinker
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.62'The most inspiring book I've ever read' Bill Gates, 2017'A brilliant, mind-altering book ... Everyone should read this astonishing book' Guardian'Will change the way you see the world' Daily... -
Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.57Welcome to the world of alternative medicine.Prince Charles is a staunch defender and millions of people swear by it; most UK doctors consider it to be little more than superstition and a waste of... -
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than 5 million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel... -
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74In Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen shares the events of her own life to illuminate our own. From childhood memories to manic... -
Danube Claudio Magris 9781784871314
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35'Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once' Independent on SundayWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN In this... -
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper: Making Sense of the Numbers in the Headlines by John Allen Paulos 9780140251814 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €2.24From crime figures to health scares, election polls to stock market forecasts, numbers make the news all the time. But are they accurate? John Allen Paulos, travels through the pages of an average... -
Tomorrow's People: How 21st-Century Technology is Changing the Way We Think and Feel by Susan Greenfield 9780141008882
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74The book is an exploration of how this century is going to change not just the way we think, but also what we actually think with - our own individual minds. How will new technologies transform the... -
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08THE PHENOMENAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Science writing at its best. If only chemistry had been like this at school' Matt Ridley ____________________ Everything in the universe is made of them,... -
The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table by Sam Kean
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.57Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te,... -
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very...