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On the Future: Prospects for Humanity by Lord Martin Rees 9780691231068
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.56A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin ReesHumanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled... -
Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation by Emile P. Torres 9781032159089
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.88This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existential risks."Many leading intellectuals agree that the... -
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity by Martin Rees
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.06A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin ReesHumanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled... -
Comets, Cosmology and the Big Bang: A history of astronomy from Edmond Halley to Edwin Hubble by Allan Chapman
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.18This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the developments and discoveries of the last three centuries. He... -
The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom David Helfand 9780231219037
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46Atoms are unfathomably tiny. It takes fifteen million trillion of them to make up a single poppy seed-give or take a few billion. And there's hardly anything to them: atoms are more than 99... -
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Thinking the Unthinkable: A new imperitive for leadership in the digital age by Nik Gowing 9781911382744 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £2.70Executive leadership faces new vulnerabilities. Many leaders privately concede them, but few are willing to talk publicly about them. "Unthinkable" events since 2014 have revealed a new leadership... -
The Primacy of Doubt: From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world by Timothy Palmer 9780192843593
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £21.19A bold, visionary, and mind-bending exploration of how the geometry of chaos can explain our uncertain world - from weather and pandemics to quantum physics and free will Covering a breathtaking... -
The Primacy of Doubt: From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world by Tim Palmer 9780192843609
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.95A bold, visionary, and mind-bending exploration of how the geometry of chaos can explain our uncertain world-from weather and pandemics to quantum physics and free will Covering a breathtaking... -
All Through the Night: Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies Dani Robertson 9780008586751
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96Best New Books on Space 2024 - Forbes 'Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging' - Forbes Why darkness is so important -... -
Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World Ian Goldin 9781529366907
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.Covid-19 left us at a crossroads: should we go back to 'normal', or use the... -
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk 9780393868401
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.84Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses,... -
Our Cosmic Habitat: New Edition by Martin Rees 9780691178097
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Our universe seems strangely "biophilic," or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another... -
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery by Seb Falk
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet'Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-written, it's a charismatic evocation of another... -
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance () by Ian Goldin
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.30'A landmark new book.' - The Guardian Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the... -
World-whizzing Facts: Awesome Earth Questions Answered by Dr Emily Grossman
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £4.99'Never mind the kids, I've had an education from reading this book! ... Recommended for any budding scientists, eco-warriors or fans of weird facts' Rachel Riley, TV presenter and mathematician ... -
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.54Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.Why do organisms and...