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Survival of the Richest: the tech elite's ultimate exit strategy by Douglas Rushkoff 9781914484704 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$15.94The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive 'The Event': the societal catastrophe they... -
Angels by Cecil Collins 9780954440909
RRP: $10.48$9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954440909Author Cecil CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 51Imprint Fools' PressPublisher Fools' Press -
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson 9780143129202
RRP: $29.38$25.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129202Author Phoebe RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Raven Smith's Men by Raven Smith
RRP: $20.98$13.94'A brilliant writer.' Russell Tovey 'Thoroughly entertaining.' OTEGHA UWAGBA 'Funny and... -
Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society by Edward W. Said
RRP: $27.28$19.09______________ 'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian 'A marvellous eavesdrop on the discourse of exchange... -
Controversial Essays by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $39.80$37.02Thomas Sowell takes some of his most popular newspaper columns and examines the broader questions beyond the events which inspired them. One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education,... -
488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct by Kitty Flanagan
RRP: $20.98$13.94488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Providing you with the antidote to every annoying little thing, these rules are not made to be broken. 488 Rules for Life is not a self-help book,... -
Network Governance and the Differentiated Polity: Selected Essays, Volume I by R. A. W. Rhodes 9780198786108
$196.92Network Governance and the Differentiated Polity is the first of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R. A. W. Rhodes. Volume I collects in one place for the first time the main articles written by Rhodes on policy networks and governance... -
The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues by Christine
RRP: $27.28$20.35Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily... -
How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
RRP: $35.68$25.79A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it... -
Man's Search For Meaning: Classic Editions by Viktor E Frankl
RRP: $27.28$19.09Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and... -
The Future of Wales by Rhys Thomas 9781911545637
RRP: $18.88$13.02Wales is a nation of contradictions. It boasts incredible natural resources and crushing poverty; fierce patriotism and a stark north/south divide; an energy surplus, and some of the highest bills in the UK. It also has a famously rugby-mad culture - but... -
The Power of Bad: And How to Overcome It by John Tierney
RRP: $23.08$16.32Why does a bad impression last longer than a good one? Why does losing money affect us more than gaining it? What makes phobias so hard to shake?The answer is the negativity bias - or in other words, the power of bad. As John Tierney and Roy F... -
The The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
RRP: $25.18$20.37In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropological theories of his time, Engels argued that matriarchal... -
Making Kin not Population - Reconceiving Generations Adele Clarke 9780996635561
RRP: $21.00$18.90As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and kinship as matters of concern. From government programs... -
The World of Sex by Henry Miller
RRP: $12.58$9.37In The World of Sex, Henry Miller, one of the most scandalous writers of the 20th century explains his literary project Henry Miller's bold, explicit novels scandalized readers and remade the literature of his day. In this uncompromising literary... -
Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti by Rosi Braidotti
RRP: $58.80$45.78Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative... -
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593237083Author Ayana Elizabeth JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles
RRP: $18.88$13.31Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between Wellington, Kota Kinabalu and Shanghai, tracing the constants in her life: eating and cooking, and the dishes that have come to define her. Through... -
Selected Essays (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
RRP: $6.28$4.91HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words' Best known for his remarkable novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, George... -
Pleasure of Thinking by Wang Xiaobo 9780241633267
RRP: $27.28$19.09'A very captivating book. Wang Xiaobo's unique blend of rationality, serenity, candor, and sense of humour serves as an embodiment of the liberalism he ardently believes in' Ai WeiweiThe dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang... -
Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt 9780156588904
RRP: $41.98$28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156588904Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 273g -
She Found it at the Movies: Women writers on sex, desire and cinema by Christina Newland 9781912157181
RRP: $27.28$21.21Because Timothee Chalamet's eyes gleam with the light of a thousand suns. Because you'd let Zoe Kravitz get away with putting gum in your hair. And because there really should be a national monument dedicated to Gene Kelly's ass. From the... -
Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff 9780393541533
RRP: $29.38$25.73In one hundred lean and incisive statements, Douglas Rushkoff argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together-not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman... -
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie 9781529111996
RRP: $27.28$19.09From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture.'One of the greatest writers of... -
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt 9781529376715
RRP: $23.08$15.54'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' iFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound... -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $18.88$13.55'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate Mosse Virginia Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal literary ... -
What Are People For?: Essays by Wendell Berry
RRP: $33.58$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434872Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 205g -
How to Read and Write Critically by Alex Baratta
RRP: $37.78$31.23To succeed in any assessment, you need to demonstrate critical thinking - but what does it mean to be 'critical'? This book takes a hands-on approach to helping you think, read and write critically. Packed with examples from different disciplines and... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: $35.68$25.16With 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... -
Not With A Bang But A Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline Theodore Dalrymple 9781906308100
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906308100Author Theodore DalrympleFormat HardbackPage Count 291Imprint Monday BooksPublisher Monday BooksWeight(grams) 390g -
Females: A Concern by Andrea Long Chu
RRP: $16.78$13.94"Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."So begins Andrea Long Chu's genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the punishing force of desire. Drawing inspiration from a... -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $18.88$13.55'Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...' In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role... -
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 9780141393032
RRP: $16.78$12.16George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you... -
The John Michell Reader: Writings and Rants of a Radical Traditionalist by John Michell 9781620554159
RRP: $35.68$23.27A countercultural icon of the 1960s, John Michell (1933-2009) was perhaps best known for his books on sacred geometry, Earth mysteries, and unusual phenomena. He was also beloved and reviled for his radical, idealistic, yet classically traditional views... -
Unattached: Essays On Celebration Singlehood by Angelica Malin
RRP: $31.48$20.01Powerful. Self-assured. Independent. Unattached.Thirty women, from Megan Barton-Hanson and Shaparak Khorsandi to Shon Faye and Stephanie Yeboah write on what single womanhood in the modern age means to them.Have you ever worried about going on holiday... -
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns by Nora Bateson 9781909470965
RRP: $36.75$30.45This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI). Building on Gregory... -
The Unsettling Of America: Culture & Agriculture Wendell Berry 9781619025998
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025998Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration Charlotte Grant 9781350242012
RRP: $41.98$34.73From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the... -
The Plague by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: $27.28$17.98What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious mind? How do you live with death or rather how do you ‘live death’ when death comes too close, seeming to...