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Jane Eyre by Nick Lane
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067833Author Nick LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint -
Oxygen: The molecule that made the world by Nick Lane
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £7.79Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans of nearly a metre. Researchers claim... -
The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is? by Nick Lane
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If... -
Sherlock Holmes - The Valley of Fear by Nick Lane 9781804240991
Booksplease Price: £11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804240991Author Nick LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint -
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Winner of the 2010 Royal Society Prize for science books Powerful new research methods are providing fresh and vivid insights into the makeup of life. Comparing gene sequences, examining the... -
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life by Nick Lane
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.64Mitochondria are tiny structures located inside our cells that carry out the essential task of producing energy for the cell. They are found in all complex living things, and in that sense, they are... -
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane 9780393088816
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.11The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life... -
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane 9780393352979
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.47The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life... -
The Equations of Life: The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution by Charles Cockell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is.The puzzles of life astound and confuse us like no other mystery. But in this revolutionary... -
The Equations of Life: The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution by Charles Cockell 9781786493026
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.31One of Britain's foremost astrobiologists offers an accessible and game-changing account of life on Earth.__________________Why is all life based on carbon rather than silicon? And beyond Earth,... -
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The Making Of Memory: From Molecules to Mind by Steven Rose 9780099449980 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.39Steven Rose's The Making of Memory is about just that, in both its senses: the biological processes by which we humans - and other animals - learn and remember, and how researchers can explore these... -
The Dance of Life: Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'Quite simply the best book about science and life that I have ever read' - Alice Roberts How does life begin? What drives a newly fertilized egg to keep dividing and growing until it becomes 40... -
Bodytalk: A World Guide to Gestures by Desmond Morris
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The first book to bring together the many different everyday gestures that are used all over the world. Desmond Morris has travelled to over 60 countries while making field studies of human body... -
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The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true by Richard Dawkins 9780593066126 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £2.40What are things made of?What is the sun?Why is there night and day, winter and summer?Why do bad things happen?Are we alone?Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to... -
Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish is the unexpected story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body what it is today - and one man's voyage of discovery in search of our origins... -
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins 9780141026176
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23***20th Anniversary Edition - With a New Introduction***Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of Climbing Mount Improbable features a unique shell. No two covers are exactly alike.How... -
Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by... -
DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution James Watson 9781784758042
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Along with Francis Crick, James Watson was the discoverer of the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, realising both how it was able to reproduce itself and how, through its immense variety,... -
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Not In Your Genes: The real reasons children are like their parents by Oliver James 9780091947682 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Professor Robert Plomin, the world's leading geneticist, said in 2014 of his search for genes that explain differences in our psychology: 'I have been looking for these genes for fifteen years. I... -
The Chemistry of Life by Steven Rose
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23First published in 1966, THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE has held its own as a clear and authoritative introduction to the world of biochemistry. This fourth edition has been fully updated and revised to... -
Not In Your Genes: The real reasons children are like their parents by Oliver James
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Professor Robert Plomin, the world's leading geneticist, said in 2014 of his search for genes that explain differences in our psychology: 'I have been looking for these genes for fifteen years. I... -
What are Universities For? by Stefan Collini
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are... -
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Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life by Adam Rutherford 9780241954690 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Creation by Adam Rutherford tells the entire spellbinding story of life in two gripping narratives.'Prepare to be astounded. There are moments when this book is so gripping it reads like a thriller' ... -
Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life by Adam Rutherford
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Creation by Adam Rutherford tells the entire spellbinding story of life in two gripping narratives.'Prepare to be astounded. There are moments when this book is so gripping it reads like a thriller' ... -
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (The Sunday Times Bestseller) by Professor Anil Seth
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A BOOK OF THE YEARGUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERGAnil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for... -
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness by Mark Solms 9780393542011
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.59For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness comes about has been a lifetime's quest. Scientists consider it the "hard problem" because it... -
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness by Mark Solms 9781324021919
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.31For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness comes about has been a lifetime's quest. Scientists consider it the "hard problem" because it... -
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness Mark Solms 9781788162845
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A remarkable book. It changes everything' - Brian Eno How does the... -
The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle by Max Telford 9781324065425
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £20.59Are humans really fish? Why are we the only animals with chins? How much of our DNA do we share with the trillions of bacteria in our bodies? For centuries, scientists have chased the secrets of how... -
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome Venki Ramakrishnan 9781786076717
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99From Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan 'Beyond superb' Bill Bryson 'A wonderful book' Ian McEwan Everyone knows about DNA, the essence of our being, the molecule where our genes reside... -
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins by Ian Tattersall 9781137278302
Booksplease Price: £16.11Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for...