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The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is by Roberto Trotta
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries... -
The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals by Thomas Suddendorf
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the Earth, whereas even our... -
What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric Johnson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $24.62The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler's party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was... -
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541617070Author Serhii PlokhyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police by John O. Koehler
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.92In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or Stasi." The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life,... -
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $19.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672611Author Erika LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint -
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity Jack Repcheck 9780465013371
Booksplease Price: $24.20There are three men whose life's work helped free science from the strait-jacket of religion. Two of the three,Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin,are widely heralded for their breakthroughs. The... -
Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $22.19The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many different reasons. But those who use the same words do not always present the same... -
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs by Marc David Baer
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $30.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541673809Author Marc David BaerFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint -
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy 9781541646698
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $35.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541646698Author Adrian GoldsworthyFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint -
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad 9781541674097
Booksplease Price: $30.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674097Author Odd Arne WestadFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint -
What the F: What Swearing Reveals about Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves by Benjamin K Bergen 9781541617209
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541617209Author Benjamin K BergenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey 9781541699212
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541699212Author George ChaunceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint -
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer
Booksplease Price: $20.25Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using... -
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think by Bryan Caplan 9780465028610
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.52In Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , contrarian economist Bryan Caplan argues that we've needlessly turned parenting into an unpleasant chore, and don't know the real plusses and minuses of having... -
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen 9781541647152
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541647152Author Simon Baron-CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
From Black Land To Fifth Sun: The Science Of Sacred Sites by Brian Fagan 9780738201412
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.73Until recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this ground-breaking book, master storyteller and respected archaeologist Brian Fagan... -
The Sword and the Shield by Christopher Andrew 9780465003129
Booksplease Price: $28.90The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has... -
Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It by Christof Koch 9781541602809
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $21.57In Then I Am Myself the World, Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-information theory, the idea that the essence of... -
As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning by Richard John Neuhaus 9780465049318
Booksplease Price: $24.11"A profoundly serious rumination on the meaning of life and especially on the meaning of death. Father Neuhaus's book prompts us to think seriously about our own inevitable death, as well as the way... -
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop by Jeff Chang 9780465009091
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $30.86It's not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theatre, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography, painting, and film, to become one of the most far-reaching and... -
The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms by Connie Barlow 9780465005529
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.76A new vision is sweeping through ecological science: The dense web of dependencies that makes up an ecosystem has gained an added dimension-the dimension of time. Every field, forest, and park is... -
Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself by Jason Wilkes 9780465053735
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.10Forget everything you've been taught about math. In Burn Math Class , Jason Wilkes takes the traditional approach to how we learn math,with its unwelcoming textbooks, unexplained rules, and... -
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland 9781541606371
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541606371Author Tom HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint -
Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.45Combined into one volume for the first time, the updated and clarified Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics provides comprehensive, hands-on practice in all the most important areas of... -
How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But what about relativity? Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this... -
Cannae: Hannibal's Greatest Victory by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $15.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541699250Author Adrian GoldsworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprin -
Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity by Roger Wiens
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05In its eerie likeness to Earth, Mars has long captured our imaginations,both as a destination for humankind and as a possible home to extraterrestrial life. It is our twenty-first century New World... -
Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty by John B. Boles
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.17Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs... -
Late-Talking Children by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.35The painful and baffling mystery as to why some obviously bright children do not begin talking until long after the "normal" time is explored in this book through personal experiences and the... -
The Fractured Republic (Revised Edition): Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism by Yuval Levin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.99Americans today are frustrated and anxious. Our economy is sluggish, political polarization is at an all-time high, our government seems paralyzed and our politics has failed to rise to these... -
Letters to a Young Lawyer by Alan Dershowitz
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.24As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most... -
Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir by Irvin D Yalom
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541698994Author Irvin D YalomFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Brookhiser
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.45Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the... -
To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service by Hayim H Donin 9781541674035
Booksplease Price: $30.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674035Author Hayim H DoninFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint -
Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke 9781541674912
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674912Author Lucy CookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him-how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious,... -
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady 9781541644502
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $30.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541644502Author Martyn RadyFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Death On A Friday Afternoon: Meditations On The Last Words Of Jesus From The Cross by Richard John Neuhaus 9780465049332
Booksplease Price: $18.85Numerous writers and composers have been captivated by the suggestiveness of Jesus'seven Last Words. But Richard John Neuhaus's sustained exploration of these utterances is something altogether... -
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s by Stephanie Coontz 9780465028429
Booksplease Price: $24.20In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique . Women wrote to her by the hundreds to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their...