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The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century by Peniel E Joseph
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues,... -
Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways to the Future of Physics Vlatko Vedral 9781541604780
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541604780Author Vlatko VedralFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint -
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38The story of humanity is the story of textiles-as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered invention. They established trade routes and drew nations' borders. Since the first... -
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement by Ernest Freeberg
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs rooting through garbage in the streets, geese and chickens... -
The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time by Julian Barbour 9780465095469
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465095469Author Julian BarbourFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin Kruse 9781541604667
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our... -
The Web We Weave: Why We Must Reclaim the Internet from Moguls, Misanthropes, and Moral Panic Jeff Jarvis 9781541604124
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60A bold defense of the internet, arguing that attempts to fix and regulate it are often misguidedThe internet stands accused of dividing us, spying on us, making us stupid, and addicting our children... -
In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Nemeth 9780465096299
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465096299Author Charlan Jeanne NemethFormat HardbackPage Count 272I -
James Madison by Richard Brookhiser
Booksplease Price: £14.15James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story,although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries,is integral to that of... -
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano 9781541604520
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Newly revised and updated, this classic manifesto is "a foundational text for anyone hoping to understand transgender politics and culture in the U.S. today" (NPR)*Named as one of 100 Best... -
Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream by Jamie K. McCallum
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60Americans are overworked. After declining for a century through hard-fought labor movement victories, average annual work hours increased approximately 8 percent for all working adults from 1979 to... -
The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.60These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr... -
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.24For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate , Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right... -
Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders by Anna Salter 9780465071739
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.38What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions... -
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power Ijeoma Oluo 9781529353839
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity -- now with a new preface.'One... -
Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.48In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics , Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, examines the reasons for large differences in income and wealth between nations and among groups... -
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.19In The Grand Chessboard , renowned geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a brutally honest and provocative vision for American preeminence in the twenty-first century. The task facing the... -
The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play Frank Andre Guridy 9781541601451
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60The sweeping story of the American stadium-from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas-revealing how it has made, and remade, American lifeStadiums are monuments to... -
Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical by Jacqueline Jones
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.22From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she livedGoddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and... -
The Bible: A Global History Bruce Gordon 9781529383454
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.42'Wonderful' JOHN BARTON'A stupendous intellectual achievement' ANDREW PETTEGREE'A stunning love song to the Bible . . . this will be a classic' CHINE MCDONALDThe remarkable story of the most... -
Empire by Niall Ferguson 9780465023295
Booksplease Price: £14.65The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarter of the world's land surface was under some form of... -
It Could Be Otherwise: Science in the Age of Uncertainty by Stuart Firestein 9781541606739
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.38A profound argument for science that embraces uncertainty and promotes possibility, creativity, and the belief that we can shape, if not determine, our future The search for certainty is embedded... -
The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality by Paul Halpern
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In Fall 1939, Richard Feynman, a brash and brilliant recent graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. The prim and proper Wheeler... -
The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton 9780465012749
Booksplease Price: £15.99When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they... -
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters by Tricia Rose
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and 'hos. The controversy... -
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman F. Dixon 9780465097807
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.34The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century of military incompetence, of costly mishaps and tragic blunders. Are... -
This Is Supposed to Be Fun: How to Find Joy in Hooking Up, Settling Down, and Everything in Between by Myisha Battle
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71A?certified clinical sexologist's?radically inclusive?guide to sex and dating Swipe. Match. Get ghosted. Repeat. Modern dating can quickly start to feel like an overwhelming slog. It's easy to forget... -
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by George Hrabovsky
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.10A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2013If you ever regretted not taking physics in college,or simply want to know how to think like a physicist,this is the book for you. In this bestselling... -
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity.'One of the most admired... -
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.51Americans call the Second World War "the Good War." But before it even began, America's ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens-and kept killing them during and after the war. Before... -
Sexing the Body (Revised): Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.85Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of social convention? In this brilliant and provocative classic, the distinguished feminist scholar Anne Fausto-Sterling argues that even the... -
What We Owe the Future by William Macaskill 9781541604032
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541604032Author William MacAskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties by Lisa Levenstein
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60On January 21, 2017, massive demonstrations in Washington DC and sister marches held in over 600 American cities drew crowds of over four million people. Popularly called 'The Women's March,' it... -
A History of Iran by Michael Axworthy 9780465098767
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.18Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran's religious culture encompasses the most censorious and... -
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr Kit Heyam
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A History Today Book of the YearFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and moving examples with thoughtful analysis. Both... -
The Tyranny of Experts (Revised): Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly uncovers our failing efforts to fight global poverty. The expert approved, top-down approach to development has not only made little... -
Small Business Accounting: The jargon-free guide to accounts, budgets and forecasts Andy Lymer 9781473609174
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Is this the right book for me? A jargon-free guide for the small business owner or manager Small Business Accounting is a jargon-free joy for the small business owner or manager, providing practical... -
This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive by Nick Riggle
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60You didn't choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions-this delicate and difficult life. Yet when you consider that your existence is fleeting, an inspired sense of urgency can spring... -
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth 9781541646476
Booksplease Price: £15.34In Insane, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to reveal how America's tough-on-crime policies have transformed it into a warehouse for people with mental illness, one... -
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party by Heather Richardson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who...