Mathematics & Science Bargain Book Box

Mathematics & Science Bargain Book Box

Your body runs on electricity. Not metaphorically — there is a measurable electrical field governing how your cells divide, heal, and communicate, and we are only now learning to read it.

That’s one book in here. There are sixteen more. Eugenia Cheng making infinity comprehensible and then showing you there’s more than one kind. Kit Yates on why humans are so reliably terrible at predicting anything. Adam Forrest Kay arguing that quantum physics took a wrong turn a century ago. A neuroscientist on the strange maps your brain draws of your own body. Leonard Mlodinow on the kind of thinking that handles genuine novelty.

Plus Neil deGrasse Tyson’s pocket tour of the universe, Alex Bellos on the mathematics hiding in plain sight, Jon Gertner on what the Greenland ice is telling us, the science of human touch, and Craig Foster — of My Octopus Teacher — on what we lose by staying indoors.

Written for the curious, not the credentialled.

1. We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome — Sally Adee | ISBN: 9781838853341 | RRP: $36.99
   A groundbreaking exploration of bioelectricity — the electrical signals that govern everything from how our cells develop to how we heal and think. Sally Adee writes with clarity and excitement about a field quietly revolutionising medicine.
2. Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World — Maxim Samson | ISBN: 9781800814998 | RRP: $49.99
   A fascinating examination of the invisible structures shaping our planet — time zones, tectonic boundaries, ecological belts, and the dividing lines we’ve drawn across land and sea. Reveals the hidden geometry of the world we think we know.
3. The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity — Robin Ince | ISBN: 9781786492623 | RRP: $42.99
   Broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince makes a passionate, entertaining case for scientific curiosity as one of the most joyful things a person can cultivate. Part memoir, part manifesto, and very good company throughout.
4. Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall: The Laws That Make the World Work — Jeff Stewart | ISBN: 9781782437574 | RRP: $18.99
   A clear and engagingly written introduction to the fundamental laws of physics — gravity, thermodynamics, electromagnetism — explained through the everyday phenomena we encounter but rarely stop to think about.
5. How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Smart Predictions — Kit Yates | ISBN: 9781529408690 | RRP: $24.99
   A mathematician on why human forecasting is so unreliable — the biases, the bad maths, and the structural reasons we keep getting the future wrong. Practical, funny, and genuinely corrective.
6. Weather: A Force of Nature — The Royal Meteorological Society | ISBN: 9781486315727 | RRP: $49.99
   A beautifully produced survey of weather systems and the forces driving them, from the Royal Meteorological Society. Authoritative, richly illustrated, and genuinely explanatory rather than merely spectacular.
7. Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life — Alex Bellos | ISBN: 9781408817773 | RRP: $39.99
   The bestselling mathematics communicator takes readers on a tour of the extraordinary ways numbers and mathematical patterns are woven into the world around us. Surprising, witty, and entirely accessible.
8. Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the Next Scientific Revolution — Adam Forrest Kay | ISBN: 9781399609586 | RRP: $39.99
   A bold challenge to the dominant interpretations of quantum mechanics, arguing that physics took a wrong turn — and proposing a clearer path forward. Ambitious, provocative, and written for readers who want more than comfortable consensus.
9. When We Touch: Handshakes, Hugs, High Fives and the New Science Behind Why Touch Matters — Professor Michael Banissy | ISBN: 9781398708723 | RRP: $45.00
   A revelatory exploration of the science of human touch — how it shapes our emotional lives, our health, our social bonds, and our sense of self. Draws on cutting-edge research to show how fundamental physical contact really is.
10. Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain — Rebecca Schwarzlose | ISBN: 9781328949967 | RRP: $39.99
    A neuroscientist reveals the extraordinary maps the brain builds of the body and the world — stranger, more flexible, and more revealing of human nature than most of us imagine. A brilliant window into what’s happening inside our heads.
11. Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change — Leonard Mlodinow | ISBN: 9781101870921 | RRP: $39.99
    The physicist and bestselling author on the cognitive mode that handles genuine novelty — how it works neurologically, and how to get more of it. Rigorous and immediately applicable.
12. The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future — Jon Gertner | ISBN: 9780812996623 | RRP: $39.99
    An urgent and beautifully written account of what scientists are finding in Greenland’s ancient ice, and what it means for every coastline on earth. Adventure writing, history of science, and climate journalism at the highest level.
13. Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life — Timothy J Jorgensen | ISBN: 9780691232973 | RRP: $34.99
    A sweeping account of electricity, from the first experiments with static charge to the signals firing in our brains right now. Reveals the deep connection between the physics of the power grid and the biology of living things.
14. A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pocket-Sized Tour — Neil deGrasse Tyson | ISBN: 9780691219943 | RRP: $24.99
    The astrophysicist distils the cosmos into a compact and gloriously readable tour — from the Big Bang to black holes, from star formation to the possibility of life elsewhere. Makes the infinite feel entirely approachable.
15. Beyond Infinity — Eugenia Cheng | ISBN: 9780465094813 | RRP: $39.99
    Mathematician Eugenia Cheng takes one of the most mind-bending concepts in mathematics and makes it not just comprehensible but genuinely exciting. A book that permanently changes how you think about numbers and size.
16. The Doomsday Calculation — William Poundstone | ISBN: 9780316440707 | RRP: $39.99
    A fascinating and unsettling exploration of what probability theory might actually tell us about humanity’s future. William Poundstone makes a deeply counterintuitive argument with rigour, clarity, and just enough existential dread.
17. Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World — Craig Foster | ISBN: 9780008613082 | RRP: $36.99
    From the filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning My Octopus Teacher comes a profound meditation on wildness, connection, and what we lose when we lose contact with the natural world. Written about the ocean with a sense of wonder that’s impossible not to share.