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The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould 9780393314250
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.65When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and... -
Wonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould 9780099273455
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago. Called the Burgess Shale, it holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived - a... -
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
Booksplease Price: £16.39High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived-a... -
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 9780099507444
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16No one illuminates the wonderful workings of the natural world as perceptively and enjoyably as Stephen Jay Gould. In this volume of reflections on biology, history and culture, Gould addresses the... -
The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould 9780099285830
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Ever since the late 1970s up until till his death in 2002, his monthly essay in Natural History and... -
Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould Dr. Bruce Lieberman 9780231224161
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries,... -
Charles Darwin John van Wyhe 9780233006185
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The Compact Guide: Charles Darwin reveals the famous scientist's life in compelling detail. From his expedition aboard the Beagle and his legendary research in the Galapagos Islands, to his... -
A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings Prof Richard Dawkins 9780753817506
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Richard Dawkins is one of the finest minds in science, and in this superb collection of essays and letters, he demonstrates the depth of his knowledge and the rich variety of his interests. Whether... -
Schrodinger's Kittens: And The Search For Reality John Gribbin 9781857994025
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Accessible exploration of one of the most exciting areas of scientific inquiry - the nature of light.Following on from his bestseller, SCHRODINGER'S CAT, John Gribbin presents the recent dramatic... -
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Schrodinger's Kittens: And The Search For Reality by John Gribbin 9781857994025 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Accessible exploration of one of the most exciting areas of scientific inquiry - the nature of light.Following on from his bestseller, SCHRODINGER'S CAT, John Gribbin presents the recent dramatic... -
The New Celebrity Scientists: Out of the Lab and into the Limelight by Declan Fahy 9781442233423
Booksplease Price: £46.59A new cultural icon strode the world stage at the turn of the twenty-first century: the celebrity scientist, as comfortable in Vanity Fair and Vogue as Smithsonian. Declan Fahy profiles eight of... -
The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought by Robert J. Richards 9780226712161
Booksplease Price: £28.85Prior to World War I, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), than from any other source,... -
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... -
The Trouble with Testosterone by Robert M. Sapolsky 9780684838915
Booksplease Price: £12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684838915Author Robert M. SapolskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprin -
The Seashell On The Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler 9780099421498
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Dubbed ' the founder of modern geology' by Stephen Jay Gould, the 17th century Danish scientist Nicolaus Steno was the first man to to suggest that the existence of fossils demanded a much longer... -
The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure by Neil Shubin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Universe Within is a thrilling journey from today all the way back to the Big Bang, which shows the deep connections between the human body and the universe, from Neil Shubin, author of Your... -
Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide by Eileen Magnello 9781848310568
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.53From the medicine we take, the treatments we receive, the aptitude and psychometric tests given by employers, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear to even the beer we drink, statistics have given... -
Introducing Statistics: A Graphic Guide by Eileen Magnello 9781848310568 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.71From the medicine we take, the treatments we receive, the aptitude and psychometric tests given by employers, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear to even the beer we drink, statistics have given... -
Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? by Paul Kurtz 9781591020646
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55In recent years a noticeable trend toward harmonizing the distinct worldviews of science and religion has become increasingly popular. Despite marked public interest, many leading scientists remain... -
Wave Forms: A Natural Syntax for Rhythmic Languages by James H. Bunn 9780804745079 [USED COPY]
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £3.10In this daring book, the author proposes that artistic and literary forms can be understood as modulations of wave forms in the physical world. By the phrase "natural syntax," he means that physical... -
Darwin's Ark by Philip Appleman 9780253220929
Booksplease Price: £16.92In celebration of Charles Darwin's bicentennial and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, Indiana University Press is publishing a new paperback edition of Darwin's Ark,... -
Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology by Hilary Rose 9780099283195
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.12Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural... -
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An intelligently provocative book about Darwin's 'other' theory discusses the curious ways in which sexual attraction has influenced the evolution of the human mind.Many aspects of the human mind... -
The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World by Brandon Keim 9781501707728
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In The Eye of the Sandpiper, Brandon Keim pairs cutting-edge science with a deep love of nature, conveying his insights in prose that is both accessible and beautiful. In an elegant, thoughtful tour... -
Growing Young, 2nd Edition by Ashley Montagu 9780897891660
Booksplease Price: £37.42In this new, revised edition of his landmark book, Montagu compels us to reevaluate the way we think about growth and development, in all its phases, throughout life. Humans are designed to grow and... -
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Peter L. Bernstein (Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.) 9780471295631
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.50A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release... -
Nonzero: History, Evolution & Human Cooperation by Robert Wright
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In a book sure to stir argument for years to come, Robert Wright challen+ges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing game theory - the... -
Dinosaurs to Dragons: The Lore and Science of Mythical Creatures Elizabeth Shreeve 9781665941006
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An imaginative nonfiction middle grade exploration of mythology, paleontology, and early civilizations that invites readers to delight in legendary creatures from across the globe and the fossils... -
Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud by Thomas Laqueur
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.82This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in... -
The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems by Martin Gardner
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.90Whether discussing hexaflexagons or number theory, Klein bottles or the essence of "nothing," Martin Gardner has single-handedly created the field of "recreational mathematics." The Colossal Book of... -
Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos Vol. 2 (LOA #286): The Invisible Pyramid, The Night Country, essays from The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley 9781598535075
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.91An eminent paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was among the twentieth century's greatest inheritors of the literary tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Charles... -
Planet of Viruses: Third Edition by Carl Zimmer 9780226782591
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.28In 2020, an invisible germ-a virus-wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one... -
On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The fascinating story of science unfolds in this account of the lives and extraordinary discoveries of twelve of its greatest figures - Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin,... -
It Came from the Far Side by Gary Larson 9780836220735
Booksplease Price: £13.65Copyright (c) 1986 FarWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.The Far Side (R), FarWorks, Inc. (R), and the Larson (R) signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc. in certain countries.About the... -
The Far Side Gallery. 3 by Gary Larson 9780836218312
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.33The third Far Side treasury.Copyright (c) 1988 FarWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.The Far Side (R), FarWorks, Inc. (R), and the Larson (R) signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc. in... -
Beyond the Far Side by Gary Larson 9780836211498
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The second The Far Side (R) collection.Copyright (c) 1983 FarWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.The Far Side (R), FarWorks, Inc. (R), and the Larson (R) signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks,... -
Far Side by Gary Larson 9780836212006
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.24Copyright (c) 1982 FarWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.The Far Side (R), FarWorks, Inc. (R), and the Larson (R) signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc. in certain countries.About the... -
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RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.50Copyright (c) 1990 FarWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.The Far Side (R), FarWorks, Inc. (R), and the Larson (R) signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc. in certain countries.About the... -
The Far Side Observer by Gary Larson 9780836220988
Booksplease Price: £10.50Copyright (c) 1987 FarWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.The Far Side (R), FarWorks, Inc. (R), and the Larson (R) signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc. in certain countries.About the... -
In Search of the Far Side by Gary Larson 9780836220605
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.38Copyright (c) 1984 FarWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.The Far Side (R), FarWorks, Inc. (R), and the Larson (R) signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc. in certain countries.About the...