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Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics by Robert Gilmore
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.11In this cleverly conceived book, physicist Robert Gilmore makes accessible some complex concepts in quantum mechanics by sending Alice to Quantumland-a whole new Wonderland, smaller than an atom,... -
Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists by Dennis Shasha 9780387982694
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £22.03Imagine living during the Renaissance and being able to interview that era's greatest scientists about their inspirations, discoveries, and personal interests. The latter half of our century has seen... -
Space Tethers and Space Elevators by Michel van Pelt 9781493901982
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.80Michel van Pelt explains for the first time the principle of space tethers: what they are and how they can be used in space. He introduces non-technical space enthusiasts to the various possibilities... -
Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place by A. K. Dewdney 9781461274629
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Starting with an elegant description of a small piece of land called Hungry Hollow, A.K. Dewdney introduces us to its denizens. The reader goes on a guided tour through the many dimensions of our... -
Secrets of the Old One: Einstein, 1905 by J. Bernstein 9781461498186
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.46Makes these ideas accessible to a general reader complex concepts of relativity and the stimulated emission of light through the use of mathematics no more difficult than one learns in high school... -
Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy by Nicoli Nattrass 9781489996473
Booksplease Price: £15.23Paralleling the discovery of HIV and the rise of the AIDS pandemic, a flock of naysayers has dedicated itself to replacing genuine knowledge with destructive misinformation-and spreading from the... -
A Theory for Everything by J. Bernstein
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.78"...heartily recommended as being as fine an example as one can hope to find of expository writing on science. The profiles of the giants of modern science, not to mention the wonderful accounts of... -
Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation by Nicholas Humphrey 9780387987200
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.70Leaps of Faith is a compelling and highly praised critique of beliefs in paranormal phenomena, miracles, and the like, written by the noted British psychologist Nicholas Humphrey. The author argues... -
A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey 9780387987194
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £25.37This book is a tour-de-force on how human consciousness may have evolved. From the "phantom pain" experienced by people who have lost their limbs to the uncanny faculty of "blindsight," Humphrey... -
Something New Under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age by Helen Gavaghan 9781461272182
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £18.61In this, the first history of artificial satellites and their uses, Helen Gavaghan shows how the idea of putting an object in orbit around the earth changed from science fiction to indispensable... -
Secrets of the Mind: A Tale of Discovery and Mistaken Identity by A.G. Cairns-Smith 9781461271734
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Written in a provocative, witty, and highly accessible style, this is not only a splendid general introduction to the central questions of consciousness and brain science, but also an answer to some... -
The Little Book of the Big Bang: A Cosmic Primer by M. Rees 9781461272342
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.95"Hogan compresses the fifteen-billion-year history of the Universe into a pleasurable evening. In a very direct way, he answers the questions everyone asks." -MARGARET GELLER,... -
Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression by Jon E. Kalb 9781475788211
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £19.49As co-founder of the expedition that discovered Lucy, and leader of most of the first site-surveys in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, Jon Kalb has years of experience with the region, its politics,... -
Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold by James T. Bennett 9781493900886
RRP: £24.50Booksplease Price: £16.34Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of... -
What Is Random?: Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life by Edward J. Beltrami 9781461271567
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44In this fascinating book, mathematician Ed Beltrami takes a close enough look at randomness to make it mysteriously disappear. The results of coin tosses, it turns out, are determined from the start,... -
Fragile Objects: Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the Thrill of Discovery by Pierre Gilles de Gennes 9781461275282
RRP: £84.99Booksplease Price: £49.64Written by 1991 Nobel laureate Pierre Gilles de Gennes, this fascinating book addresses topics ranging from soft-matter physics to the activities of science: the role of individual or team work, the... -
The Little Book of Stars by James B. Kaler 9781475767599
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.95The Little Book of Stars answers, in the clearest language, the questions anyone might have about our heavenly canopy. How are stars born? How do they die? Why do they shine? How long do they shine?... -
Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art by Arthur I. Miller 9781461275237
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £35.12Here, distinguished science historian Arthur I. Miller delves into the connections between modern art and modern physics. He takes us on a wide-ranging study to demonstrate that scientists and... -
Food Bites: The Science of the Foods We Eat by Richard W. Hartel 9781461475637
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.80Food Bites is an easy-to-read, often humorous book on the scientific basis of the foods we eat, and answers those pesky, niggling questions such as: Is the quality of beer really affected by the type... -
Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time by Peter D. Ward 9781461272397
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £24.39What is the past? It is a time as well as a place. Acclaimed author Peter D. Ward describes the tools that contemporary scientists use to uncover facts about the past - terrain, climate, and the life... -
Talking Back to the Machine: Computers and Human Aspiration by Peter J. Denning 9781461274339
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £17.59From one of the editors of the renowned book Beyond Calculation, acclaimed by The New York Times for its "astonishing intellectual reach", comes a new collection of equal brilliance... -
Scrooge's Cryptic Carol: Visions of Energy, Time, and Quantum Nature by Robert Gilmore 9780387948003
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £25.77When the destination sign on Scrooges train reads "HEAT DEATH" instead of "HEATHROW," when his dead partner Marleys face appears as a talking head in a department store TV, and when the street lights... -
Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar by A. Shimony 9780387949352
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £25.13Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar is the story of how an eleven-year old boy growing up in 16th century Italy loses his birthday when the Gregorian calendar replaces the Julian calendar in 1582,... -
The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe by Jamie James
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.53For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, both mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in the sky mirrored (and... -
The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases by Philip Yam 9780387955087
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £29.71Prions are an entirely new class of pathogens, and scientists are just beginning to understand them. Although they have plagued humans and animals for 3 centuries, only in the last 2 decades have... -
The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases by Philip Yam 9781475788198
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £21.85Prions are an entirely new class of pathogens, and scientists are just beginning to understand them. Although they have plagued humans and animals for 3 centuries, only in the last 2 decades have... -
The Square Root of 2: A Dialogue Concerning a Number and a Sequence by David Flannery 9780387202204
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £25.42An elegantly dramatized and illustrated dialog on the square root of two and the whole concept of irrational numbers.ReviewsFrom the reviews: "Written by an expert teacher as a conversation... -
Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game by Jim Albert 9780387988160
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £35.35In its formative years, from the 1970s through the 1990s, sabermetrics was p- marily an amateur undertaking. Publications were aimed at a relatively small audience of baseball fans. To be sure, this... -
Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game by Jim Albert 9780387001937
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £35.01A look at baseball data from a statistical modeling perspective! There is a fascination among baseball fans and the media to collect data on every imaginable event during a baseball game and this... -
Glyph-Breaker by Steven R. Fischer 9781461274902
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £33.44After successfully deciphering the Rongorongo script of Easter Island, Steven Roger Fischer gained a unique place in the pantheon of glyphbreakers: he is the only person to have deciphered not one... -
Flight 427: Anatomy of an Air Disaster by Gerry Byrne 9780387952567
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.62Boeing's 737 is indisputably the most popular and arguably the safest commercial airliner in the world. But the plane had a lethal flaw, and only after several disastrous crashes and years of... -
Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression by Jon E. Kalb 9780387987422
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.66Over the past 25 years, a stream of fossil and artifact discoveries in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia has produced the longest single record of human ancestors in the world. Many of the fossils... -
Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World by Bruce Schneier 9781475781199
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £32.14Many of us, especially since 9/11, have become personally concerned about issues of security, and this is no surprise. Security is near the top of government and corporate agendas around the globe... -
The Biosphere by Vladimir I. Vernadsky 9780387982687
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £26.02Long unknown in the West, The Biosphere established the field of biogeochemistry and is one of the classic founding documents of what later became known as Gaia theory. It is the first sustained... -
The Hundred Greatest Stars by James B. Kaler 9780387954363
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £30.71I have always loved the stars. I watch them, photograph one. And you can hardly talk about Zubenelgenubi them, research them, write about them. Their wonder without bringing in Zubeneschamali, so... -
Secrets of the Mind: A Tale of Discovery and Mistaken Identity by A.G. Cairns-Smith 9780387986920
Booksplease Price: £17.42How can we reconcile Shakespeare's account of human behavior and that of modern brain science? That's the central question addressed by the noted Glasgow chemist A.G. Cairns-Smith in this... -
Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials by Michael Michaud 9780387285986
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £27.24This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those... -
The Biosphere by Vladimir I. Vernadsky 9781461272649
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £24.29Long unknown in the West, The Biosphere established the field of biogeochemistry and is one of the classic founding documents of what later became known as Gaia theory. It is the first sustained... -
The Little Book of Earthquakes and Volcanoes by Rolf Schick 9781475788150
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.27In this lay reader's introduction to the most spectacular and devastating of all geological events, Rolf Schick describes how earthquakes and volcanoes are related, and how they are an integral part... -
Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World by Bruce Schneier 9780387026206
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £32.44Many of us, especially since 9/11, have become personally concerned about issues of security, and this is no surprise. Security is near the top of government and corporate agendas around the globe...