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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €9.54Why do human beings behave as they do? 'Awe-inspiring... You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of And Finally.We are capable of... -
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €9.29SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for... -
How to Sleep Like a Caveman: Ancient Wisdom for a Better Night’s Rest Merijn van de Laar 9780008717612
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €16.81Sleep has hardly changed since Paleolithic humans snoozed soundly in their caves. While sabre-toothed tigers were their biggest night-time worry, today it's stress and social media that... -
The Compassionate Mind by Paul Gilbert
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60Throughout history people have sought to cope with a life that is often stressful and hard. We have actually known for some time that developing compassion for oneself and others can help us face up... -
Heal Your Nervous System: The 5–Stage Plan to Reverse Nervous System Dysregulation by Dr. Linnea Passaler 9780760385654
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €17.33Relieve anxiety, burnout, feelings of overwhelm, and chronic physical symptoms by healing your dysregulated nervous system with this 5-stage roadmap based on the latest science. Dr. Linnea Passaler... -
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright 9781982111601
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62From one of America's most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and... -
How to Be Human: The Manual by Ruby Wax 9780241294758 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €2.35'With this marvellous book, Ruby Wax has confirmed her position as one of the most readable, inspirational and engaging writers in the field of human mental health, happiness and fulfilment.' Stephen... -
How to Be Human: The Manual by Ruby Wax
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.31'With this marvellous book, Ruby Wax has confirmed her position as one of the most readable, inspirational and engaging writers in the field of human mental health, happiness and fulfilment.' Stephen... -
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.50"Engrossing ... [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain." --Wall Street Journal "Fascinating--and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share."... -
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna 9781399810654
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11'Mind expanding - this book will change your view of the world forever' Matthew SyedA blueprint for a better future. Playing on the phrase "a theory of everything" in physics, Michael... -
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland 9780316453356
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.36While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want... -
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures Robin Dunbar 9780241431795
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologistWhen did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And... -
The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.93The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS and BBC 5 Live host NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE'This book is the one. Think Sapiens and triple it.' - Julia Hobsbawm, author of... -
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08An 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... -
Bad Men: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment and Assault by David Buss
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Sexual conflict permeates ancient religions, from injunctions about thy neighbor's wife to the sexual obligations of marriage. It is etched in written laws that dictate who can and cannot have sex... -
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry by Randolph M. Nesse
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54'A new approach to mental disorder. Randolph Nesse's insightful book suggests that conditions such as anxiety and depression have a clear evolutionary purpose ... This intriguing book turns some... -
Mindful Compassion Prof Paul Gilbert 9781472119902
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60Based on the latest work from Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, bestselling author of The Compassionate Mind, and Buddhist expert Choden. Professor Gilbert has spent the past twenty years developing a new... -
The Sweet Spot: Suffering, Pleasure and the Key to a Good Life Paul Bloom 9781529111064
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.59What if experiencing a good life involves more than just pleasure?Revealing the surprising roots of lasting happiness, pre-eminent psychologist Paul Bloom explains why suffering is an essential... -
The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating by David Buss
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.07If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss... -
The Anatomy of Grief: How the Brain, Heart, and Body Can Heal after Loss by Dorothy P. Holinger
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €14.76An original, authoritative guide to the impact of grief on the brain, the heart, and the body of the bereaved "Dorothy Holinger's exploration of the contours of grief is wise, moving,... -
Making Sense of Race by Edward Dutton 9781593680718
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €19.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593680718Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint -
Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom Fred Provenza 9781603588027
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €17.40"Nourishment will change the way you eat and the way you think."-Mark Schatzker, author of The Dorito Effect "[Provenza is] a wise observer of the land and the animals [and] becomes transformed to... -
The Hero by Lee Child
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €5.38WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin Slaughter ... -
The Believing Brain: From Spiritual Faiths to Political Convictions - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian, Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come... -
Spiteful Mutants by Edward Dutton 9781593680831
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €19.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593680831Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint -
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €21.48While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want... -
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson 9780141986340
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08'An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey SachsThe legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most... -
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World by Nichola Raihani
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.99'A phenomenally important book' Lewis Dartnell, author of OriginsWhy do we live in families?Why do we help complete strangers?Why do we compare ourselves to others?Why do we cooperate?The science of... -
Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose by Deirdre Barrett 9780393068481
RRP: €40.80Booksplease Price: €36.17Have you ever wondered why some men choose pornography over actual women? Why so many people watch Friends instead of going out with their own buddies? Why a person would "feed" a plastic Pocket Pet... -
Sperm Wars (Revised): Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles by Robin Baker
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.36Sperm Wars turns the conventional thinking about the biology of sex on its head. Evolutionary biologist Robin Baker argues that human sexuality follows certain laws, and all of those laws are... -
The Revival: Path to a New Earth/New Human by Penny Kelly 9781636251523
Booksplease Price: €25.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636251523Author Penny KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint -
The Hero by Lee Child 9780008361877
RRP: €7.19Booksplease Price: €6.06THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... ... -
Thought Economics: Conversations with the Remarkable People Shaping Our Century (fully updated edition) by Vikas Shah 9781789292459
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €13.55'Stimulating, intelligent and enjoyable discussions of the most important issues of our day.' STEVEN PINKER 'From entrepreneurs to athletes, and world leaders to entertainers, this is a fascinating... -
Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart 9781541798038
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.86An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow... -
The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down by Jonathan Gottschall
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €21.48Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there... -
The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill by David Buss
RRP: €19.20Booksplease Price: €13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037057Author David M. BussFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Mismatch: How Our Stone Age Brain Deceives Us Every Day (And What We Can Do About It) Ronald Giphart 9781472139726
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28Our brains evolved to solve the survival problems of our Stone Age ancestors, so when faced with modern day situations that are less extreme, they often encounter a mismatch. Our primitive brains put... -
The Sentient Cell: The Cellular Foundations of Consciousness by Arthur S. Reber 9780198873211
Booksplease Price: €56.29All species, extant and extinct, from the simplest unicellular prokaryotes to humans, have an existential consciousness. Without sentience, the first cells that emerged some 4 billion years ago would... -
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Heather Heying 9780593086889
RRP: €28.79Booksplease Price: €21.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593086889Author Heather HeyingFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €16.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062842589Author Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400