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Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship by Robert Baden-Powell 9780192802460
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never arrive at.' A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and imperial and urban myth, of borrowed... -
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing by John Boughton
RRP: £10.99£7.25Traversing the nation, Municipal Dreams offers an architectural tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates, and in doing so offers an engrossing social history of housing in Britain. John Broughton asks us to understand better... -
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris 9780743268097
RRP: £9.99£6.41This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Sam Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favour of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs... -
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: £14.99£10.95A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren. To maintain... -
Being the Best Man For Dummies - UK by Dominic Bliss
RRP: £9.99£6.80If you're looking for practical, straight-talking advice on getting things right, look no further. Being the Best Man For Dummies is a perfect one-stop guide to being the ideal best man. This newly updated edition includes: Advice on organising the stag... -
All the President's Men by Bob Woodward 9781416527572
RRP: £9.99£6.41It began with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC, on 17 June 1972. Bob Woodward, a journalist for the Washington Post, was called into the office on a Saturday morning to cover the story. Carl Bernstein, a... -
Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border by Colm Toibin
RRP: £9.99£7.06In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm Toibin walked along the border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on... -
The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes by Judith Flanders
RRP: £12.99£8.56The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, 'home' is a relatively new... -
Natural Born Learners: Our Incredible Capacity to Learn and How We Can Harness It by Alex Beard
RRP: £9.99£6.80Learning is the soul of our species. From our first steps to our last words, we are what we learn. But for all its obvious importance, learning has lost touch with human progress. We live in an information age, work in a knowledge economy, yet our... -
Rat Trap: The capture of medicine by animal research – and how to break free by Dr Pandora Pound 9781805140528
RRP: £9.99£7.11With devastating logic and clarity, Dr Pandora Pound, Research Director at Safer Medicines Trust, comprehensively dismantles the case for animal research, bringing to an end the 150-year-old debate about its value once and for all. Focusing on the... -
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London by Judith Flanders
RRP: £14.99£9.80The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5... -
Know Justice, Know Peace: A Transformative Journey of Social Justice, Anti-Racism and Healing through the Power of the Enneagram by Deborah Threadgill Egerton, PhD
£17.13A first-of-its-kind guide to social justice through the lens of the Enneagram--a popular personality typing system--that shows how people can use their particular type to work on issues such as antiracism and homophobia.Know Justice Know Peace is a... -
Popular Cinema and Politics in South India: The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth by S. Rajanayagam
RRP: £47.99£43.75This work breaks new ground in the understanding of South Indian cinema and politics. Through incisive analysis and original concepts it illustrates the private, public and cinematic personas of MGR and Rajinikanth. It challenges the popular and... -
Drawing by Dr Curie Scott 9781838673284
RRP: £15.99£11.89Drawings are everywhere. Daubed on ancient cave walls and projected on screens. Drawings helps us describe science, depict emotions and discover. Yet many of us laid aside drawing - or more simply, mark-making - in childhood, thereby losing a rich and... -
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity by Dr Sander Van der Linden
RRP: £22.00£14.98Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 ... -
(M)otherhood: On the choices of being a woman by Pragya Agarwal 9781838853211
RRP: £9.99£6.70Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood probes themes of infertility, childbirth and reproductive justice, and makes a powerful and urgent argument for the need to tackle society's obsession with women's bodies and... -
Gangbuster by Peter Bleksley 9781786062482
RRP: £9.99£6.65'Four million quid. There it was, inches away from me on a hotel table. Not in conventional currency, but in the world's deadliest commodity. Heroin.' As part of Scotland Yard's undercover team, it was Peter Bleksley's job to infiltrate some of the... -
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez
RRP: £10.99£7.25The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to Anabel Hernandez, The Lords of el... -
Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House by Matthew Collin
RRP: £12.99£9.20From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture. This new edition sees Matthew Collin cast a fresh eye on the heady events of the acid house 'Summer of Love' and the rave scene's... -
Seven Days In The Art World by Sarah Thornton
RRP: £10.99£7.32Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. Sarah Thornton's shrewd and entertaining fly-on-the-wall narrative takes us behind the scenes of the art world, from art... -
On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation by Kim Samuel
RRP: £18.99£13.38In an age of social isolation, what does it mean to belong? Humanity is at an inflection point. Stress, disconnection, and increasing environmental degradation have people yearning for more than just material progress, personal freedom, or political... -
Essential SQA Exam Practice: National 5 Modern Studies Questions and Papers by Frank Cooney
RRP: £9.99£9.19Exam board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: Modern StudiesFirst teaching: September 2017First exam: Summer 2018Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA National 5 Modern Studies exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice... -
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood by Tommy J. Curry 9781439914861
RRP: £29.99£25.99The Before Columbus Foundation 2018 Winner of the AMERICAN BOOK AWARD Tommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. The... -
The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - And Why They Should Give It Back by David Willetts
RRP: £10.99£7.32In this fascinating and provocative book, David Willetts shows how the baby boomer generation has amassed unprecedented wealth and power at the expense of its children. Today's young people will pay heavier taxes, work longer hours for less money and... -
Why Him? Why Her?: How to Find and Keep Lasting Love by Helen Fisher 9781851687923
RRP: £10.99£7.77Are you looking for The One? Well, according to Dr Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist and relationship expert, you don't have to look any further for the way to find that special someone than your very own brain chemistry. Based on Dr Fisher's... -
The West: A New History in 14 Lives by Naoise Mac Sweeney
RRP: £22.00£16.02*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent'... -
Keeping the Faith: A History of Northern Soul by Keith Gildart 9781526160416
RRP: £25.00£17.92In the 1970s, Northern Soul held a pivotal position in British youth culture. Originating in the English North and Midlands in the late-1960s, by the mid-1970s it was attracting thousands of enthusiasts across the country. This book is a social history... -
Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data Instead of Instinct to Make Better Choices by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EVERYBODY LIES 'Don't Trust Your Gut is a tour de force - an intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity' DANIEL H. PINK 'Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is an expert on data-driven thinking, and this... -
Rude Puzzle Book: Naughty Brain-Teasers for Grown-Ups by Richard Cox
RRP: £7.99£5.32Strictly for grown-ups! This saucy selection of puzzles puts the tease in brain-teasers, and makes a racy replacement for life's idle moments Put down your phone, tablet or smutty magazine and pick up this crude collection of conundrums and... -
Who Paid The Piper?: The CIA And The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders 9781862073272
RRP: £12.99£8.56During the Cold War, writers and artists were faced with a huge challenge. In the Soviet world, they were expected to turn out works that glorified militancy, struggle and relentless optimism. In the West, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal... -
The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau 9780520271456
RRP: £25.00£19.18In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the... -
Civilization or Barbarism by Diop
RRP: £17.95£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520488Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Lawrence Hill & Co.Publisher Lawrence Hill & Co.Weight(grams) 607g -
The Blackpool Rock: Gangsters, Guns and Door Wars in Britain's Wildest Town by Steve Sinclair 9781903854877
RRP: £6.99£5.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903854877Author Steve SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 151g -
Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries by Hadia Mubarak 9780197553305
RRP: £22.99£19.96Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands brings into conversation the distinct fields of tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) studies and women's studies by exploring significant shifts in modern Qur'anic commentaries on the subject of women. Hadia Mubarak places... -
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume Two: Actions and Strategies for Change by Aric McBay
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809287Author Aric McBayFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Consuming Life by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745640020
RRP: £15.99£14.41With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and... -
Watch My Back by Geoff Thompson 9781840247169
RRP: £8.99£8.29Watch My Back is the story of one man's search for courage. Depressed, bullied, intimidated by life and indoctrinated to believe that this was his lot, Geoff Thompson, on the verge of a breakdown, decided to fight back. In a bid to confront his fears, he... -
Where to Begin: A Small Book about Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World by Cleo Wade 9781982138790
RRP: £23.99£14.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982138790Author Cleo WadeFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 180mm * 127mm * 20mm -
Understand The Weather: Teach Yourself by Peter Inness
RRP: £14.99£9.80Understand the Weather is a comprehensive and practical guide to the workings of the atmosphere. It will ensure that you not only understand what causes changes in the weather on a local, national and global scale but that you can also fully interpret... -
Cambridge Complete Global Perspectives for IGCSE & O Level: Student Book by Karem Roitman
RRP: £31.99£30.33The Cambridge IGCSE & O Level Complete Global Perspectives Student Book provides complete support and is fully matched to the latest Cambridge IGCSE & O Level Global Perspectives syllabus (first teaching 2023, first examinations 2025). Written by subject...