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Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Ben 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... -
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre 9780007284870 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.99Ben 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.95The 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: $24.51Booksplease Price: $16.15Apologies 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 Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.60'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 Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478060Author Ben GoldacreFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint < -
Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?: and 130 other science questions answered New Scientist 9781473642713
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.95Ever 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35If 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95From 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.95From 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... -
Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre 9780007498086 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.52'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: $11.95A 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Richard 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.51In 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 by New Scientist 9781473651333 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.44Every 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... -
Does Anything Eat Wasps: And 101 Other Questions New Scientist 9781473651333
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Every 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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.72CELEBRATING 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... -
Doctor You: Revealing the science of self-healing Jeremy Howick 9781473654228
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.62'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... -
Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty and kindness by Simon Baron-Cohen
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.50In 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... -
This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72Over 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72In 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.75'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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.46'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... -
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A journey into the heartland of psychiatry by Nathan Filer
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26From 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55THE 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Martha 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... -
Letters To My Grandchildren by Tony Benn
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66As 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 Painful Truth: The new science of why we hurt and how we can heal by Monty Lyman
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.36'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... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Steven Pinker
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.94'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... -
Danube Claudio Magris 9781784871314
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'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... -
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Emotional 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62In 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... -
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Masson 9780099478911 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $2.54For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking book proves what animal-lovers have known to be true: wolves, tigers,... -
Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.36Welcome 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... -
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper: Making Sense of the Numbers in the Headlines by John Allen Paulos 9780140251814 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.41From 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62The 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... -
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Masson
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09For more than 100 years, scientists have denied that animals experience emotions, yet this remarkable and groundbreaking book proves what animal-lovers have known to be true: wolves, tigers,... -
Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91In Euclid's Window, Leonard Mlondinow takes us on a brilliantly entertaining journey through 3,000 years of genius and geometry, introducing the people who revolutionized the way we see the world... -
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made by Gaia Vince
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 **We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has...