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Dark Islands by Tom Chivers 9780992685850
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992685850Author Tom ChiversFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint -
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City by Tom Chivers
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.48'A lyrical meditation on landscapes and cities, vivid reportage and a memoir. And also a beautifully realised and moving read.' Financial Times'A beguiling mix of history, geology, folklore and... -
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World Tom Chivers 9781399604055
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics,... -
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World by Tom Chivers 9781668052631
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668052631Author Tom ChiversFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) Tom Chivers 9781474619974
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious... -
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill 9781398509207
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024**LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023* 'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES, Best Books of... -
Bryant & May’s Peculiar London by Christopher Fowler
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.48As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its streets and impulsively arresting its citizens for decades. Who better to... -
The Missing Lynx by Ross Barnett
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.03Britain's lynx are missing, and they have been for more than a thousand years. Why have they gone? And might they come back? Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago - home to lions,... -
The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI by Michael Wooldridge
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98'A terrific book - essential reading for everyone seeking to make sense of Artificial Intelligence' Professor Sir Adrian Smith, Director and Chief Executive of the Alan Turing InstituteIn this... -
Adventures in Form: A Compendium of Poetic Forms, Rules & Constraints by Paul Muldoon
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Tom Chivers was born in South London in 1983. His publications include How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009; shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award for... -
Numbercrunch: 12 Ways Numbers Make Sense of the World by Professor Oliver Johnson 9781788708371
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.52'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all' - Tom Whipple, The Times'The perfect... -
Numbercrunch: A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World by Professor Oliver Johnson
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.45'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all' - Tom Whipple, The Times'The perfect... -
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan 9780008487539
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.08Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will... -
Brainjacking: The Science of Influence and Manipulation Brian Clegg 9781837731503
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.11Brainjacking explores the psychology of storytelling - the ability that makes us human. To discover how science intersects with our desires and decisions, the book pulls together three ways that we... -
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLLER In this groundbreaking and entertaining book, primatologist Frans de Waal draws on his renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos... -
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt 9781399602747
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political life? And... -
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.32"Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.32Subtotal: -
The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth 9780691196947
Booksplease Price: €30.14"Fascinating, gorgeously illustrated and thought-provoking. . . . [A] masterful book."-Elizabeth Hand, Washington PostA lavishly illustrated look at the locales familiar to J. R. R. Tolkien, the... -
Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder: adventures in science round the kitchen table by Alom Shaha 9781911344551
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94Why does the ...? What is ...? How does ...? Don't worry if you don't know the answers, you soon will! Every child can be a scientist with the help of Mr Shaha and his recipes for wonder! ... -
Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It Gemma Milne 9781472143662
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping...