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Nuclear Fusion: The Race to Build a Mini-Sun on Earth by Sharon Ann Holgate
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Holgate guides us expertly and with a deft touch along the journey towards the holy grail of unlimited energy for all.' - JIM AL-KHALILI'What is nuclear fusion? In clear and accessible language,... -
A Practical Guide to Chronic Pain Management: Understand pain. Take back control by David Walton
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Chronic pain affects huge numbers of people - the WHO estimates that 37-41% of people across developed and developing countries suffer, and the figure rises in countries like the UK where the... -
The Solar Revolution: One World. One Solution. Providing the Energy and Food for 10 Billion People. by Steve McKevitt
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67It's an astonishing fact that capturing all the energy in just one hour's worth of sunlight would enable us to meet the planet's food and energy needs for an entire year.The Solar Revolution tells... -
Introducing Game Theory: A Graphic Guide by Ivan Pastine
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67When should you adopt an aggressive business strategy? How do we make decisions when we don't have all the information? What makes international environmental cooperation possible?Game theory is the... -
101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your Day by Ailbhe Malone
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.03This book believes that you're worth looking after - even when you don't. 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your Day is a friendly book of tips on how to look after yourself and your mental health, in an... -
Notes From a Sceptical Gardener: More expert advice from the Telegraph columnist Ken Thompson 9781785786372
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23What is the best way to kill weeds in paving? How scared should we really be of Japanese knotweed? And what is a weed anyway?Biologist Ken Thompson set out to write a different kind of gardening... -
Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxford and Cambridge Questions by John Farndon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31What happens if I drop an ant?What books are bad for you?What percentage of the world's water is contained in a cow?The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are infamous for their unique ways of... -
Drums In The Distance: Journeys Into the Global Far Right by Joe Mulhall
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Mulhall watches the extreme right revival from the inside - as an anti-fascist infiltrator criss-crossing the global networks of modern fascism - but he brings a deep analytical focus. By the end of... -
Weather Science: How Meteorology Has Gone from Folklore to High-Tech Brian Clegg 9781837731534
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Everyone has an interest in the weather, whether it's to check the prospects for a day out or to know when best to harvest a crop. The Earth's weather systems also provide some of the most dramatic... -
The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception by Taylor Downing 9781837731572
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.96The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception tells the remarkable story of the deceptions, hoaxes and misdirections carried out by the Allies ahead of the most pivotal moment of the Second... -
The Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin Lucy Ash 9781837731831
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills - from the Mongol yoke, to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, Soviet atheism, the chaotic 1990s and... -
White Supremacy: From Eugenics to Great Replacement Gavin Evans 9781915563040
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Buffalo, New York, 2022. Ten black people murdered. The killer, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, says he was driven by 'Great Replacement' - the conspiracy theory that a Jewish-led elite is replacing... -
Introducing Mind and Brain: A Graphic Guide by Angus Gellatly 9781785783135
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.07How do emotions affect your basic decision making? Why do certain smells prompt long-forgotten memories, and what makes us suddenly self-conscious?How does the biological organ, the brain, give rise... -
Remembering Women: Memories from the First Millennium BCE Christine Lehnen 9781837732173
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Women do have a history of their own.All we need to do is remember it.In this illuminating new history, Christine Lehnen looks back at our collective memory to explore the myriad ways that women in... -
Fucking Apostrophes by Simon Griffin 9781785781414
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02'At last, a book that tells you exactly where to stick your apostrophe ... funny and useful, the perfect stocking filler.' David Marsh, GuardianApostrophes are a pain. The rules about how to use them... -
Conundrum: Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge Brian Clegg 9781837733729
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The ultimate trial of knowledge and cunning, Conundrum features 200 cryptic puzzles and ciphers. The solutions link throughout the book so you need to solve them all to get to the final round.With a... -
The Years of Travelling Anxiously: A Travel Writer’s Search for Peace of Mind Tom Sykes 9781837732555
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of the anxious traveller, where panic strikes in the most serene situations, where each time you're convinced that the symptoms are in fact physical and your lungs or... -
Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's Charles Piller 9781837732616
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59For readers of Empire of Pain and Dopesick, an arresting deep dive into how Alzheimer's disease treatment has been set back by corrupt researchers, negligent regulators, and the profit motives of Big... -
Where We Live: The Fractured Art of British Housebuilding and How to Build the Homes we Need Jonathan Glancey 9781837732487
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis.It has, in fact, been in the grip of a housing crisis since the Industrial Revolution, when the population soared and people crammed into towns and cities... -
A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit: CIA–MI6 Covert Action in Communist Albania at the Birth of the Cold War by Stephen Long 9781837732241
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61In June 1949, the US and British governments secretly agreed to mount a joint covert action operation to overthrow the communist government in Albania. The top-secret plan would use exiled dissidents... -
The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change by Henrik Svensmark 9781840468151 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.55Scientists agree that over the last century the earth has become warmer. But do we really know why this has happened? A deftly written and enjoyable read, "The Chilling Stars" outlines a brilliant,... -
365: Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year (Compact Edition) by W. B. Marsh 9781840466751 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.43Whether it is major political events like the USA's annexation of Texas (1 March) or incredible discoveries like that of Tutankhamun's tomb (26 November), every event in history happened - of course... -
The Cryotron Files: The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist by Douglas Buck 9781785784347 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.40Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might... -
Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos by Clancy Sigal 9781785784392 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.26For me it begins in such an ordinary way ... with a gorilla, a blonde,and a gun ...Mid- 20th century Hollywood; 'RaymondChandler's LA before Pilates and cell phones'. Clancy Sigal (who would later... -
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar 9781848310353 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'This is about gob-smacking science at the far end of reason ... Take it nice and easy and savour the experience of your mind being blown without recourse to hallucinogens' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian ... -
Introducing Chomsky by John Maher 9781840465891 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.58Linguist Noam Chomsky's controversial theories maintain that the human brain has an innate language faculty, and that part of this biological endowment is a universal grammar, a theory of principles... -
Moving Heaven and Earth (Icon Science): Copernicus and the Solar System by John Henry
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.55When Nicolaus Copernicus claimed that the Earth was not stationary at the centre of the universe but circled the Sun, he brought about a total revolution in the sciences and consternation in the... -
Breathless: Why Air Pollution Matters - and How it Affects You by Chris Woodford
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74An accessible and hard-hitting look at the facts behind air pollution in everyday life.Take a deep breath. You'll do it 20,000 times a day. You assume all this air is clean; it's the very breath of... -
Love Voltaire Us Apart: A Philosopher's Guide to Relationships by Julia Edelman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31What would Kant's sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder?Love Voltaire Us Apart is a hilarious spoof relationship guide with... -
Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science): The Making of the Modern Computer by Jon Agar
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.66The history of the computer is entwinedwith that of the modern world and with the life of one man, the brilliant buttroubled Alan Turing.How did the computer come to structureand dominate our lives... -
The 50 Greatest Churches and Cathedrals by Sue Dobson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Cathedrals and great churches are among the most iconic sights of the world's towns and cities.Visible from miles around, the cathedrals of Canterbury, St Paul's, Chartres and St Stephen's in Vienna... -
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future by Iwan Rhys Morus
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61'[An] insightful analysis of 19th-century futurism ... Morus's account is as much a cautionary tale as a flag-waving celebration.' - DUNCAN BELL, NEW STATESMAN'[How the Victorians Took Us to the... -
A Practical Guide to Confident Speaking: Let Your Voice be Heard Alan Woodhouse 9781785783807
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Express yourself clearly, persuasively and confidently. Learn how to plan what you want to say, manage your anxieties and project your best self, whatever the situation.Whether you want to ask your... -
Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society by Alberto Alemanno
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'We need effective citizen-lobbyists - not just likers, followers or even marchers - more than ever. I have no hesitation in lobbying you to read this book.'Bill Emmott, former editor in chief, the... -
Tony Carr: A Lifetime in Football at West Ham United by Tony Carr
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A man who had such a huge impact on my career and so many other young players at West Ham United. I highly recommend this fantastic read.' FRANK LAMPARD JR'This man passed on the West Ham DNA to the... -
Avon United Jon Sutherland 9781840466225
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.16In Football Fantasy, YOU decide the outcome of the match. YOU see what a footballer would see and make the decisions he would make. Play the game solo or with a friend. Learn the tricks and tactics... -
Nervous System: The Story of a Novelist Who Lost His Mind by Jan Lars Jensen 9781840467932
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This is a memoir in the vein of Plath's "Bell Jar". A few months after selling his first book to a major publisher, Jan Lars Jensen woke in a psychiatric ward, only to find that the ideas that had... -
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific by Brandon Presser 9781785788949
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785788949Author Brandon PresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina's Wars with Britain and Itself by Julian Manyon 9781785789809
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Fascinating ... if this gripping account teaches anything, it is the folly of tyrannical regimes believing they can act with the same violence and impunity abroad as they do at home' THE... -
The Beacon Bike: Around England and Wales in 327 Lighthouses by Edward Peppitt 9781837731688
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38The incredible story of a 3,500-mile cycle ride to explore the onshore and offshore lighthouses around the coastline of England and Wales, proving that a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis doesn't mean...