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New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything by New Scientist
Booksplease Price: £5.52Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking.When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away... -
Machines That Think by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted... -
Your Conscious Mind by New Scientist
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human? The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a... -
Why the Universe Exists by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as... -
This Book Will Blow Your Mind by New Scientist
Booksplease Price: £5.19What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time and does it even exist? These are the biggest imagination-stretching, brain-staggering questions in the universe - and here are... -
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know by New Scientist 9781529363319
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26CAN YOU BOOST YOUR IQ? WHAT IF YOU COULDN'T FORGET ANYTHING? WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU GET AN IDEA? COULD YOU BE A PSYCHOPATH? . . . NEW SCIENTIST HAS ALL THE ANSWERSFrom the strange... -
Headscratchers: The New Scientist Puzzle Book by Rob Eastaway 9781838958770
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A fantastic and varied collection of problems authored by some of the best puzzle setters around' - Alex Bellos'A book of delightful puzzles. It's just as good as you'd expect.' - Tim Harford'A... -
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting by New Scientist
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we... -
How Evolution Explains Everything about Life by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of... -
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know New Scientist 9781473629325
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of useful design features, but also many... -
Chance: The science and secrets of luck, randomness and probability New Scientist 9781473642645
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking... -
Eureka!: Mindblowing Science Every Day of the Year New Scientist 9781529394139
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.50Introduced by Jim Al-KhaliliCould you surf down an erupting volcano?Why do zebras have stripes?Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci?Are there any green mammals?Why do pineapples have... -
The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution by New Scientist
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of cryptocurrencies - digital... -
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting New Scientist 9781529382013
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.01Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we... -
Does Anything Eat Wasps: And 101 Other Questions New Scientist 9781473651333
RRP: £12.99Booksplease 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... -
This Book Could Fix Your Life: The Science of Self Help by New Scientist
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78We all want to be happier, more successful and less stressed, but what really works? From building confidence and boosting creativity to forming better relationships and getting smarter (and... -
How to Be Human: The Ultimate Guide to Your Amazing Existence New Scientist 9781529334029
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN.Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction?What about... -
How to Be Human: The Ultimate Guide to Your Amazing Existence by New Scientist 9781473699809
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN.Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction?What about... -
Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion by New Scientist 9781615192052
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615192052Author New ScientistFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ExperimentPublisher... -
How Numbers Work: Discover the Strange and Beautiful World of Mathematics by New Scientist
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.64Think of a number between one and ten.No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number... -
A Little Book for New Scientists: Why and How to Study Science by Josh A. Reeves 9780830851447
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830851447Author Josh A. ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Inter-Varsity... -
This Book Could Save Your Life: The Science of Living Longer Better by New Scientist
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.49We all want to be healthier, stronger and live longer, but what really works? From stress to saturated fats, HIIT to HRT, veganism to vitamins, This Book Could Save Your Life debunks the fads and... -
How Long is Now?: Fascinating Answers to 191 Mind-Boggling Questions by New Scientist
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.64A Sunday Times bestsellerHow long is 'now'? The short answer is 'somewhere between 2 and 3 seconds'. The long answer involves an incredible journey through neuroscience, our subconscious and the... -
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... -
This Book Could Fix Your Life: The Science of Self Help New Scientist 9781529311419
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26We all want to be happier, more successful and less stressed, but what really works? From building confidence and boosting creativity to forming better relationships and getting smarter (and... -
This Is Planet Earth: Your Ultimate Guide to the World We Call Home by New Scientist
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £3.66The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang... -
Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?: and 130 other science questions answered New Scientist 9781473642713
RRP: £12.99Booksplease 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... -
This Book Could Save Your Life: The Science of Living Longer Better New Scientist 9781529311303
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50AN FT SUMMER BOOK OF 2020We all want to be healthier, stronger and live longer, but what really works? From stress to saturated fats, HIIT to HRT, veganism to vitamins, This Book Could Save Your Life... -
Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Webs?: And 317 Other Everyday Mysteries of Science by Robert Matthews 9781851689002
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.88Why can't we tickle ourselves? Which properties give you the best chance of winning Monopoly? What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Is it possible to hurt your brain if you think too much?... -
Why the Universe Exists: How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything New Scientist 9781473629684
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as... -
This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home by New Scientist 9781473629776
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.63The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang... -
Department of Mind-Blowing Theories: Science Cartoons by Tom Gauld
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Tom Gauld is always funny, but he's funny in a way that makes you feel smarter. Which is especially useful when he's being funny about science' Neil GaimanA dog philosopher questions what it really... -
The Universe Next Door: A Journey Through 55 Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures New Scientist 9781473628618
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures.It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very... -
A Journey Through The Universe: A traveler's guide from the centre of the sun to the edge of the unknown New Scientist 9781529381979
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02There's a whole universe out there...Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where... -
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... -
What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics Adam Becker 9781473661363
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels... -
Youniverse: A Short Guide to Modern Science by Elsie Burch Donald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.43Your guide to science, from the Big Bang to AI Whether you wish to discover the basics of science or catch up on its latest developments, this short accessible guide is for you. YOUNIVERSE... -
How to Make a Tornado: The strange and wonderful things that happen when scientists break free New Scientist 9781846682872
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.77Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we... -
Cats vs Dogs: Misbehaving mammals, intellectual insects, flatulent fish and the great pet showdown by New Scientist
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Informative, surprising and hilarious, New Scientist tackles questions about the animal kingdom from readers in the magazine's popular 'Last Word' column. This book brings together the best of the... -
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar Matt Simon 9781472242013
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26For fans of WHAT IF? and NEW SCIENTIST comes this brilliantly funny and informative look at the stranger side of evolution.Featuring:The Zombie ants mind-controlled by a fungusBeautiful salamanders...