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On the Future: Prospects for Humanity by Lord Martin Rees 9780691231068
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.33A 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... -
Our amazing world Seen by a scientist, a thinker, an Astronomer Royal by Lord Martin Rees 9781911221579
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911221579Author Lord Martin ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Balestier PressPublisher... -
A.S. Eddington and the Unity of Knowledge: Scientist, Quaker and Philosopher: A Selection of the Eddington Memorial Lectures with a Preface by Lord Martin Rees by Volker Heine 9781107692121
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.65Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) was a key figure in the development of modern astrophysics, who also made important contributions to the philosophy of science and popular science writing... -
A.S. Eddington and the Unity of Knowledge: Scientist, Quaker and Philosopher: A Selection of the Eddington Memorial Lectures with a Preface by Lord Martin Rees by Volker Heine 9781107037373
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $47.15Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) was a key figure in the development of modern astrophysics, who also made important contributions to the philosophy of science and popular science writing... -
Gravity: From Falling Apples to Supermassive Black Holes by Nicholas Mee 9780192845283
RRP: $30.30Booksplease Price: $27.94'Includes exciting recent advances in studying gravity and its cosmic manifestations.' Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, former President of the Royal Society A fascinating historical account of... -
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World by Sarah Stewart Johnson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.18As a new wave of interplanetary exploration unfolds, a talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars.'Beautifully written, emotive - a love letter to a planet'... -
The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos by Lawrence M. Krauss 9781801100656
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Our understanding of ourselves and the cosmos has advanced immeasurably over the last five hundred years of modern science, yet many fundamental mysteries of existence persist. How did our Universe... -
After Shock: The Worldas Foremost Futurists Reflect on 50 Years of Future Shockaand Look Ahead to the Next 50 by John Schroeter
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $28.92After Shock marks the 50-year anniversary of Alvin Toffler's, Future Shock. The compendium of essays comprising this landmark volume offers insightful reflections on the classic text and presents... -
'Non-Lethal' Weapons by N. Davison 9780230221062
RRP: $154.79Booksplease Price: $144.63This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the development and deployment of 'non-lethal' weapons by police and military organizations. It reviews the key technologies, issues, and dangers, with... -
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity by Martin Rees
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.00A 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: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.13This 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... -
Life and Language Beyond Earth Raymond Hickey (University of Limerick) 9781009226417
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.44Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if life forms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might their languages have evolved? Could we ever understand them,... -
Should You Choose to Live Forever?: A Debate by Stephen Cave 9780367615406
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $36.95In this book, Stephen Cave and John Martin Fischer debate whether or not we should choose to live forever. This ancient question is as topical as ever: while billions of people believe they will live... -
The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom by David Helfand 9780231210980
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $28.79Atoms 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: $21.93Booksplease Price: $3.48Executive 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 Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom David Helfand 9780231219037
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.07Atoms 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... -
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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01A 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 Timothy Palmer 9780192843593
RRP: $35.46Booksplease Price: $26.30A 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 by Dani Robertson 9780008586720
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $12.84Best New Books on Space 2024 - Forbes 'Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging' - Forbes Why darkness is so important -... -
All Through the Night: Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies Dani Robertson 9780008586751
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Best 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55An 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... -
Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World Ian Goldin 9781529366877
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms... -
Architects of Structural Biology: Bragg, Perutz, Kendrew, Hodgkin by John Meurig Thomas
RRP: $63.84Booksplease Price: $60.17Architects of Structural Biology is an amalgam of memoirs, biography, and intellectual history of the personalities and single-minded devotion of four scientists who are among the greatest in modern... -
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk 9780393868401
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.56Soaring 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.07Our 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... -
Albemarle Street: Portraits, Personalities and Presentations at The Royal Institution by John Meurig Thomas 9780192898005
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $43.58The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over, first, because it is a premier arena for the advancement of new scientific and technological knowledge; and second because it... -
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery by Seb Falk
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Chosen 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: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.29'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: $10.31Booksplease Price: $6.44'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 ... -
The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions by Roger Wagner 9780198747956
Booksplease Price: $54.12When young children first begin to ask 'why?' they embark on a journey with no final destination. The need to make sense of the world as a whole is an ultimate curiosity that lies at the root of all... -
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Geoffrey 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... -
Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger 9780241680988
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $19.50'Lisa Kaltenegger offers first-hand access to her expertise on the search for planets in the universe, and the life they may contain. Along the way, Lisa's breezy narrative style invites you to... -
Human Flourishing: Scientific insight and spiritual wisdom in uncertain times by Andrew Briggs 9780198850267
RRP: $41.91Booksplease Price: $39.65'A careful and thoughtful provocation' (Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury) Ambitiously placed at the intersection of scientific insights and spiritual wisdom, Human Flourishing prompts us to...