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Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Fails Ben Chu 9781399817165
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38A provocative essay exploring how isolationism weakens the global economy.Nations are turning away from each other via sanctions, trade wars and real wars. With every shock, governments double down... -
Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman by Allison Gilbert
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60At thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she'd lost it all. Reeling from a scandalous divorce in 1917, she had no means to support herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer... -
Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works by Rucker C. Johnson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60The Supreme Court's decision in Broad v. Board of Education in 1954, which declared the racial segregation of American schools unconstitutional, is universally understood as a landmark moment in our... -
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect by Paul Halpern
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the father of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung. In... -
Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways to the Future of Physics Vlatko Vedral 9781541604780
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541604780Author Vlatko VedralFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint -
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 -
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... -
Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed by David Cole 9781541616578
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.93Donald Trump's policies, from his travel ban to his approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline, have prompted an immediate response from concerned liberals. Yet what effect can protest truly have in the... -
A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America by James Horn
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a common occurrence at the time. What was uncommon in this case was... -
Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World by Leslie G. Valiant
Booksplease Price: £18.06From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns.How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know that... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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: £14.02James 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... -
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... -
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... -
The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £18.89These 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 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... -
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73For 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 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... -
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... -
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 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... -
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... -
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... -
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence by Norman F. Dixon 9780465097807
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.37The 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... -
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by George Hrabovsky
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.12A 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... -
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... -
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... -
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto 9780465016150
Booksplease Price: £20.35"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist... -
The Cybernetic Society: How Humans and Machines Will Shape the Future Together by Amir Husain 9781541605718
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38Why the major risk and opportunity of AI is that humans and computers have fused, giving AI the ability to shape the future of human affairs Artificial intelligence is inescapable: at home, at work,... -
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 -
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... -
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781541600348
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600348Author Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 448I -
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...