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Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore Bettany Hughes 9781845952143
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.70As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to... -
A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI by Max Bennett 9780008560096
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $17.36Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be. 'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow The... -
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Luke Edward Hall 9780241575734
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.72Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enoughFor centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a... -
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.31_______________ 'A brutal, moving memoir ... Anyone who emerges from America's black working-class youth with words as fine as Ward's deserves a hearing' - Guardian 'Raw, beautiful and dangerous' - New York Times Book Review 'Lavishly endowed... -
Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey by Eray Cayli 9780815637516
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $25.95Commemoration is considered essential to any project of confronting a nation's violent past. Opinions on commemoration tend to focus on representation and reception: how the commemoration narrates the violence and how the public responds to it. However,... -
The Silk Roads of Dunhuang: The Book of the British Library Exhibition by Mélodie Doumy 9780712355261
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95The oasis of Dunhuang, at the edge of the Gobi Desert, was once a bustling town on the famous Silk Road connecting China and the Mediterranean. But there was more to this verdant oasis than trade. For more than 1,000 years, Dunhuang was also an important... -
What is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity by Jean Clottes
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.36Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was it... -
Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer by The Secret Barrister
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The Sunday Times bestsellerFull of hilarious and shocking stories, the Secret Barrister's memoir Nothing But The Truth tracks their transformation from hang 'em and flog 'em austerity-supporter to celebrated, campaigning, bestselling author.'Masterful,... -
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Reni Eddo-Lodge
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995716223Author Reni Eddo-LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Silver PressPublisher Silver Press -
Direct Work with Family Groups: Simple, Fun Ideas to Aid Engagement and Assessment and Enable Positive Change by Audrey Tait
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $24.50Direct Work with Family Groups is full of great ideas to aid engagement, assessment and enable positive change through direct work with family groups. Working with families can be a challenging experience. This book looks at the personal skills needed to... -
Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds: The original, classic book on TCKs David C. Pollock 9781473657663
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.38'This book is the 'bible' for anyone who wants to understand the blessings and the curses of growing up multiculturally' -Wm. Paul Young, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The ShackIn this third edition of the ground-breaking, global classic,... -
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring, ageing and everyday acts of love by Kate Mosse
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81'Inspiring' GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' INDEPENDENT 'I loved it' ADAM KAY 'Beautiful' MATT HAIG 'Luminous' NICCI GERRARD 'Essential reading' MADELEINE BUNTING 'A celebration' CHRISTIE WATSON ----- A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.26With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the... -
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.57'A modern classic.' Guardian'A near-perfect work of art.' Joyce Carol OatesSylvia Plath is a major cultural icon who continues to inspire new generations of female readers. The Bell Jar is one of the defining novels of the 20th century.I was supposed to... -
The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool by Wendy Northcutt
Booksplease Price: $24.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452295636Author Wendy NorthcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 237gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 132mm *... -
The Little Book of Criminology: A Pocket Guide to the Study of Crime and Criminal Minds by Rasha Barrage 9781837993024
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95Have you always wanted to know what makes an ordinary person commit a crime? Explore the dark side of human nature with this illuminating beginner's guide to criminology.There are few subjects more compelling or divisive than criminology. Whether crime... -
Childhood And Society by Erik H. Erikson
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72With this deeply influential book, which is now internationally recognised as a classic study of childhood and its social significance, Professor Erikson has made an outstanding contribution to the study of human behaviour. Drawing on psychoanalytical... -
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation J. Campbell 9781577314714
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781577314714Author J. CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51The international bestseller'A manual for thinking clearly in an uncertain world. Read it.' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow_________________________What if we could improve our ability to predict the future?Everything we do involves... -
The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings - Second Edition by Brad Steiger 9781578593675
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $37.24Covering 140,000 years of legend, mythology, and fact, The Werewolf Book provides hair-raising evidence of strange and obsessional behavior through the centuries. Learn the basics of becoming a werewolf and the intricacies of slaying the beast. An... -
The Kurds in a Changing Middle East: History, Politics and Representation by Faleh A. Jabar 9780755651054
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $32.24The Kurds are one of the largest stateless nations in the world, numbering more than 20 million people. Their homeland lies mostly within the present-day borders of Turkey, Iraq and Iran as well as parts of Syria, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Yet until... -
Trapped: The Terrifying True Story of a Secret World of Abuse by Rosie Lewis 9780007541782
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Trapped was a Sunday Times bestseller and the first memoir from foster carer Rosie Lewis. Phoebe, an autistic nine-year-old girl, is taken into police protection after a chance comment to one of her teachers alerts the authorities that all... -
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie 9781474623346
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH'Illuminating in every sense of the word' - John HiggsIn an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists... -
The Parthenon by Mary Beard
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? In a revised and updated edition, Mary Beard, award winning... -
A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti 9780198811350
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $14.64'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published... -
Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands 9781399607896
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.68'THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE SUMMER' HERALD 'Tom Newlands may make several prize lists for his stunning debut'OBSERVER'This isn't just a great first novel; it's a great novel. And Cora, the mad, chaotic, wise, funny narrator, is one of the great... -
Existential Counselling & Psychotherapy in Practice by Emmy Van Deurzen
RRP: $55.46Booksplease Price: $46.87Offering a concrete framework and practical methods for working from an existential perspective, the bestselling Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy is now in its third edition. Central to the book is the belief that many of our problems arise... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305817
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.351974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene, either through resignation or electoral defeat... -
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince 9780141997681
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Highly Commended for the Wainwright Prize 2023, and shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights Writing 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet'... -
A Treasure Box for Creating Trauma-Informed Organizations: A Ready-to-Use Resource for Trauma, Adversity, and Culturally Informed, Infused and Responsive Systems by Dr Karen Treisman
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $108.55This Treasure Box book is packed full of valuable resources from bestselling and award-winning author, trainer, organizational consultant, and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Karen Treisman, and will show you how to weave a deep understanding of trauma and... -
Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church by Kenda Creasy Dean 9780195314847
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $31.59Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American... -
The Ferris Conspiracy by Paul Ferris
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51On Glasgow's meanest streets life started well for the young Paul Ferris. How did he become Glasgow's most feared gangster, deemed a risk to national security?Arthur Thompson, Godfather of the crime world and senior partner of the Krays, recruited young... -
Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Sendhil Mullainathan, the 'most interesting young economist in the world', and Eldar Shafir, the 'most brilliant psychologist' of his generation, explain the hidden problem behind everything with ScarcityWhy can we never seem to keep on top of our... -
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.86'Everyone should read Down Girl. It should be distributed in schools and every board room, athletic department and legislative space' - Soraya ChemalyA transformative book on how misogyny works from a hugely influential thinkerMisogyny is a hot topic,... -
Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson 9781398508507
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $17.75'These stories of witchcraft, true and vividly told, demonstrate the potent reality of belief in evil and how in any era or place fear can be weaponised and marginal people, mostly women, labelled as wicked and dangerous. Together they comprise not just... -
Doing a Systematic Review: A Student′s Guide by M. Gemma Cherry 9781529740974
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $34.82Completing a systematic review and unsure where to start or what path to take? Set out on your journey confidently with this practical guide written by a team of experienced academics. With a friendly, accessible style, the book covers every step of... -
Tales of the Irish Hedgerows by Tony Locke
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01Traditional hedgerows are rapidly vanishing from our countryside. With their disappearance, we lose not only their flora and fauna but also the tales and folklore that have always surrounded them. This book records these stories before they disappear... -
Abby's Story by Louise Allen
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.57She doesn't want this baby.She can't look after this baby.She will never be able to love this baby.Little Abby's life begins badly, then just gets worse.Now foster mum Louise and her family must help her deal with the truth of her past to give her the... -
Both Not Half: 'Few people write about identity with such fluency and sincerity' SATHNAM SANGHERA by Jassa Ahluwalia 9781788708319
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.70'Full of warmth, humour, optimism and sometimes painful honesty' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'Anyone who's ever struggled to make sense of who they are and where they belong should read this book' NADIA WHITTOME MP'An important voice of our generation' PARMINDER... -
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack by Paul Gilroy 9780415289818
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.43This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book...