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Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Ben 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: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre 9780865479180
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £12.45Apologies 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... -
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15The 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 Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478060Author Ben GoldacreFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95'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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Ever 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89If 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... -
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Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre 9780007498086 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.95'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... -
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions New Scientist 9781473651302
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73From 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... -
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions New Scientist 9781473651234
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From 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... -
Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier by Ali Almossawi
Booksplease Price: £9.26A 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... -
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37In 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,... -
Black Sheep: The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad Dr Richard Stephens 9781473610842
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Richard 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... -
Does Anything Eat Wasps: And 101 Other Questions New Scientist 9781473651333
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Every 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... -
ADHD Nation: The disorder. The drugs. The inside story. by Alan Schwarz 9781408706572
Booksplease Price: £18.99Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) will soon be the most frequently diagnosed chronic condition among children, surpassing asthma. Yet research shows that ADHD can't be that prevalent... -
What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe 9781399818964
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.54CELEBRATING 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... -
This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Over 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... -
Doctor You: Revealing the science of self-healing Jeremy Howick 9781473654228
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In 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... -
The Water Of Life: A Treatise on Urine Therapy by John W. Armstrong
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41In 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 Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating Anthony Warner 9781786073426
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.63Never before have we had so much information available to us about food and health. There's GAPS, paleo, detox, gluten-free, alkaline, the sugar conspiracy, clean eating... Unfortunately, a lot of it... -
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How To Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake Steven Novella 9781473696426
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'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..... -
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A journey into the heartland of psychiatry by Nathan Filer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From 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 ... -
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life Helen Czerski 9781784160753
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.37'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... -
Teacher Proof: Why research in education doesn't always mean what it claims, and what you can do about it Tom Bennett 9780415631266
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.09'Tom Bennett is the voice of the modern teacher.' - Stephen Drew, Senior Vice-Principal, Passmores Academy, UK, featured on Channel 4's Educating EssexDo the findings from educational science ever... -
The Painful Truth: The new science of why we hurt and how we can heal by Monty Lyman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'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... -
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Emotional 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... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Steven Pinker
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.44'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... -
Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 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... -
Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House Martha Long 9781780575414
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Martha 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... -
Bad Psychology: How Forensic Psychology Left Science Behind by Robert A. Forde
Booksplease Price: £18.62For decades the psychological assessment and treatment of offenders has run on invalid and untested programmes. Robert A. Forde exposes the current ineffectiveness of forensic psychology that has for... -
Letters To My Grandchildren by Tony Benn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49As 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 Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts us all at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World by David Robert Grimes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01THE 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... -
Eat to Beat Disease: The Body's Five Defence Systems and the Foods that Could Save Your Life by William Li
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.03Is your diet feeding or defeating disease?We are at a turning point in our understanding of how to prevent and fight disease. Rates of cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, obesity and other... -
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Why 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,... -
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper: Making Sense of the Numbers in the Headlines by John Allen Paulos
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73From 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... -
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true by Richard Dawkins 9780593066126
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.74What are things made of?What is the sun?Why is there night and day, winter and summer?Why do bad things happen?Are we alone?Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to... -
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Masson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47For 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,...