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Seed Volume 5: Celebrating food, craft, travel, sustainable living by Seed Magazine 9781916329539
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916329539Author Seed MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Seed MagazinePublisher Seed... -
Seed Volume 4 by Seed Magazine 9781916329522
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916329522Author Seed MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Seed MagazinePublisher Seed... -
Seed Volume 2 by Seed Magazine 9781916329508
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916329508Author Seed MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Seed MagazinePublisher Seed... -
Seed Volume 3 by Seed Magazine
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916329515Author Seed MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Seed MagazinePublisher Seed... -
Seed Volume 1 by Seed Magazine
RRP: $16.80Booksplease Price: $12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527246171Author Seed MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Ruffbutterfly... -
Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas by Stefan Helmreich 9780520250628
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $53.30"Alien Ocean" immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries... -
I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, and Despair by Charlee Brodsky 9781934137093
Booksplease Price: $41.83"Evocative images, eloquent testimony-a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness."-Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to... -
A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe by Freeman J. Dyson 9780813929736
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48A Many-Colored Glass does not attempt to bring together all of the celebrated physicist's thoughts on science and technology into a unified theory. The emphasis is, instead, on the myriad ways in... -
Photography and Science by Kelley Wilder 9781861893994
Booksplease Price: $64.37How do we know what an amoeba looks like? How can doctors see the details of our skeletons and internal organs? What enables us to see an exploding star in another galaxy? All of these things are... -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9780330533447
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $9.72A heartbreaking account of a medical miracle: how one woman's cells - taken without her knowledge - have saved countless lives. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a true story of race, class,... -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9781035038619
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman's cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose... -
The Seas Samantha Hunt 9781472154231
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84"The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you're newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell..." Maggie Nelson"[It] blew me away because of the... -
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age by Joel N. Shurkin 9781403988157
RRP: $138.58Booksplease Price: $89.44This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th century. Drawing upon unique access to the private... -
Climate Change: Picturing the Science by Gavin Schmidt
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.46Going beyond the headlines, this work by leading NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and master photographer Joshua Wolfe illustrates as never before the ramifications of shifting climate... -
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age by Joel N. Shurkin 9780230551923
RRP: $92.38Booksplease Price: $66.19This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th century. Drawing upon unique access to the private... -
The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Vogue, The Huffington Post, The Chicago Review of Books, The National Post, Electric Literature, Kirkus'Wields such a subtle and alien power . . . Wonderfully spooky'... -
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today by Rob Dunn
Booksplease Price: $26.29"An extraordinary book...With clarity and charm [Dunn] takes the reader into the overlap of medicine, ecology, and evolutionary biology to reveal an important domain of the human condition."-Edward O... -
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom 9780393340006
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $35.47Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a... -
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan 9780061707810
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.87In this controversial, thought-provoking, and brilliant book, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha debunk almost everything we know about sex, weaving together convergent, frequently... -
Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority by Steven Shapin 9780801894206
Booksplease Price: $146.37Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure... -
Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority by Steven Shapin
Booksplease Price: $63.95Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure... -
Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture by Peter L. Galison 9780691177908
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $61.32More than fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's vital engagement with the world continues to inspire others, spurring conversations, projects, and research, in the sciences as well as the... -
Mr Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt 9781472151612
Booksplease Price: $20.33Nat and Ruth are young orphans, living in a crowded foster home run by an eccentric religious fanatic. When a traveling con-man comes knocking, they see their chance to escape and join him on the... -
How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells by Lewis Wolpert 9780393339383
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $35.20Everything about our existence- imagination and reproduction, birth and death-is governed by our cells. They are the basis of all life in the universe, from the tiniest of bacteria to the most... -
The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems by Mark Levi 9780691242057
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.31Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to back up their ideas. But how many people realize that physics... -
J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life by Abraham Pais 9780195327120
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $47.19The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, here offers an illuminating portrait of another of his eminent colleagues, J. Robert Oppenheimer,... -
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species Rob Dunn 9781399800136
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that... -
Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature by Brian Switek 9781934137291
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.64"Switek seamlessly intertwines two types of evolution: one of life on earth and the other of paleontology itself." Discover Magazine ""In delightful prose, [Switek] . . . superbly shows that '[i]f... -
Froth!: The Science of Beer by Mark Denny 9780801891328
Booksplease Price: $59.47Ever wonder where the bubbles in your beer came from, which way they are going, and why? Have you considered the physical differences among ales, lambics, and lagers? Do you contemplate your pint?... -
Proust Was a Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer 9780857862310
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Is science the only path to knowledge?In this sparkling and provocative book, Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated... -
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham 9780465020416
Booksplease Price: $40.07Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man , the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire , renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents... -
The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology by Anil Ananthaswamy
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35A scientific and globetrotting exploration of the physics experiments changing the ways we understand our universe. Why is the universe expanding? What is the nature of dark matter? Do other... -
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species Rob Dunn 9781399800129
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.96Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees to enormous one-crop fields, we continue to try to... -
The Origin Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species by David N. Reznick 9780691152578
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $50.04Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers alike because of Darwin's... -
How to Find a Habitable Planet by James F. Kasting
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $45.26Ever since Carl Sagan first predicted that extraterrestrial civilizations must number in the millions, the search for life on other planets has gripped our imagination. Is Earth so rare that advanced... -
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.75Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize A Slate Best Book of 2011 A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011 Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under... -
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit 9780231146364
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $45.26A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a... -
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit 9780231146371
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $31.21A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a... -
The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began by S. Clark
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.63In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph...