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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 Playdead PressPublisher Playdead... -
Oxygen: The molecule that made the world by Nick Lane
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £8.99Oxygen 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: £9.46Why 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 MX PublishingPublisher MX... -
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Winner 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... -
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Nick Lane
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910067970Author Nick LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Playdead PressPublisher Playdead... -
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane 9781788160551
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'One of my favourite science writers' Bill Gates 'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili 'A profound meditation on metabolism, the Krebs cycle & the origin of life' Anil Seth For decades, biology... -
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life by Nick Lane
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.42Mitochondria 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: £21.09The 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: £13.17The 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,... -
An American Prophecy: The Beginning of the End by Dominick Laneve 9781633387805
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £9.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633387805Author Dominick LaneveFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Fulton BooksPublisher Fulton... -
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA Neil Shubin 9781786079428
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.37'Intimate and thoughtful... Exciting... [A] sweeping evolutionary history.' Science The author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish gives us a brilliant, up-to-date account of the great... -
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined - and redefined - nature Beth Shapiro 9780861544370
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62A Times Best Book of 2021 From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs - the human history of remaking nature. Virus-free mosquitoes, resurrected dinosaurs, designer humans - such... -
Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity by Andreas Wagner 9781786076151
Booksplease Price: £3.74How can new insights into evolution help us solve problems in life, art, business and science? 'A wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be surprised, enlightened and awed.' Alice Roberts,... -
Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity by Andreas Wagner 9781786077738
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74How can new insights into evolution help us solve problems in life, art, business and science? 'A wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be surprised, enlightened and awed.' Alice Roberts,... -
The Dance of Life: Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'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... -
DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution James Watson 9781784758042
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Along 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,... -
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true by Richard Dawkins 9780593066126
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48What 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... -
Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Historians relying on written records can tell us nothing about the 99.9% of human evolution which preceded the invention of writing. It is the study of genetic variation, backed up by language and... -
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins 9780141026176
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78***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: £11.97One 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... -
Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.75Neil 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... -
What are Universities For? by Stefan Collini
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.61Across 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... -
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' ... -
The Chemistry of Life by Steven Rose
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78First 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... -
Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How it Shapes Us Dr Charan Ranganath 9780571374175
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95THE UNFORGETTABLE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Popular science at its best: entertaining and thought-provoking.' FINANCIAL TIMES'You don't have to be a victim to your past and the way you used to think ... -
Not In Your Genes: The real reasons children are like their parents by Oliver James
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Professor 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... -
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... -
Life in the Frozen State by Barry J. Fuller 9780367394332
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £58.94While it is barely 50 years since the first reliable reports of the recovery of living cells frozen to cryogenic temperatures, there has been tremendous growth in the use of cryobiology in medicine,... -
In Search of Cell History: The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks by Franklin M. Harold 9780226174280
Booksplease Price: £35.12The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With In Search of Cell History,... -
In Search of Cell History: The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks Franklin M. Harold 9780226174143
RRP: £102.00Booksplease Price: £98.23The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental problems in biology, one that over the past two decades has spawned a large body of research and debate. With In Search of Cell History,... -
Born of Ice and Fire: How Glaciers and Volcanoes (with a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution by Graham Shields 9780300242591
Booksplease Price: £21.05An exploration of how the Cryogenian Period, when our planet was covered in ice for millions of years, created today's remarkable biodiversity More than half a billion years ago, our world was... -
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness by Mark Solms 9780393542011
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.53For 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... -
On Life: Cells, Genes, and the Evolution of Complexity by Franklin M. Harold
RRP: £25.49Booksplease Price: £23.33Franklin M. Harold's On Life reveals what science can tell us about the living world. All creatures, from bacteria and redwoods to garden snails and humans, belong to a single biochemical family... -
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness Mark Solms 9781788162845
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'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: £20.12Are 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...