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Future Value: The Battle for Baseball's Soul and How Teams Will Find the Next Superstar by Eric Longenhagen
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $27.20An unprecedented look inside the world of baseball scouting and evaluation from two of the industry's top prospect analysts For the modern Major League team, player evaluation is a complex,... -
As French as Everyone Else?: A Survey of French Citizens of Maghrebin, African, and Turkish Origin by Sylvain Brouard
Booksplease Price: $46.54Shedding new light on integration and citizenship in France to reveal the ways in which immigrants do --and do not--share the attitudes of the majority population.Shedding new light on integration... -
The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street by Jonathan A. Knee 9780470517345
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $20.56"Entertainingly indiscreet . . . Knee's talent for wicked pen portraits is put to good use."--Financial Times Investment bankers used to be known as respectful of their clients, loyal to their... -
Built To Win: Inside Stories and Leadership Strategies by John Schuerholz 9780446696531
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.40In 2004, the Atlanta Braves won their 13th straight National League East division title, an unprecedented level of consistency in the current days of free agency. Behind this success has been the... -
King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry by Gale R. Owen-Crocker 9781843831242
Booksplease Price: $201.83Harold II is chiefly remembered today, perhaps unfairly, for the brevity of his reign and his death at the Battle of Hastings. The papers collected here seek to shed new light on the man and his... -
Write Up the Corporate Ladder: Successful Writers Reveal the Techniques That Help You Write with Ease and Get Ahead by Kevin Ryan 9780814474631
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.79"Anyone who wants to succeed in the workplace needs to present ideas clearly, persuasively . . . and in writing. But until now, business-writing books have emphasized rules and mechanics, which often... -
Introduction to Infant Development by Alan Slater 9780199283057
Booksplease Price: $154.33Infants may seem to do little more than eat, sleep, and play. Yet behind this misleadingly simplistic facade occurs an awe-inspiring process of development through which infants make sense of, and... -
Anglo-Norman Studies XXIX - Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2006 by C. P. Lewis
Booksplease Price: $202.46A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY A particular area of interest in this volume is the landscape and economy of late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, with papers on... -
The Politics Of Combined And Uneven Development: Theory of Permanent Revolution, The by Michael Lowy 9781608460687
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.40Drawing on the prescient insights of Leon Trotsky, Michael Lewy shows how modern economic development across continents can only be understood as a process of ferocious change, in which social... -
The Describer's Dictionary: A Treasury of Terms & Literary Quotations by David Grambs 9780393346169
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $34.63A singular and indispensable reference tool, The Describer's Dictionary-now expanded and updated-has served for over twenty years as the go-to resource for writers who are determined to capture the... -
First Modern: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by George E. Thomas 9780943836430
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $63.42From the Crystal Palace to the skyscraper and on to the functional aesthetic of the German Bauhaus, the development of modern architecture required less than seven decades. Philadelphia's... -
City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning by Michael J. Lewis 9780691171814
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $104.77The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to... -
Philosophical Archaeology: With and Beyond Agamben on Philosophy, History, and Art by Ido Govrin 9781438491578
RRP: $152.25Booksplease Price: $146.18Explores the potential for a novel philosophy of history to be uncovered by tracing the connections between Giorgio Agamben's work (theoretical practice) and contemporary art (artistic practice)... -
Golf's Holy War: The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science by Brett Cyrgalis 9781476707600
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $27.26As Michael Lewis's bestseller Moneyball captured baseball at a technological turning point, this "highly entertaining, very smart book" (James Patterson) takes us inside golf's clash... -
F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood in the Water on Wall Street by Frank Partnoy 9780393336818
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $33.33F.I.A.S.C.O. is the best-selling account of Frank Partnoy's education in the jungle of high finance from 1993 to 1995. It follows the young Morgan Stanley salesman as he learns to navigate a... -
Democratic Spaces: Land Preservation in New England, 1850–2010 by Richard W. Judd 9781625347572
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03A contemporary map of New England, scaled to the township level, brings to light a dense pattern of protected areas ringing almost every town and city in the region. Big and small, rural and urban,... -
Democratic Spaces: Land Preservation in New England, 1850–2010 by Richard W. Judd 9781625347589
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $134.65A contemporary map of New England, scaled to the township level, brings to light a dense pattern of protected areas ringing almost every town and city in the region. Big and small, rural and urban,... -
Philosophical Archaeology: With and Beyond Agamben on Philosophy, History, and Art by Ido Govrin 9781438491585
Booksplease Price: $54.75Explores the potential for a novel philosophy of history to be uncovered by tracing the connections between Giorgio Agamben's work (theoretical practice) and contemporary art (artistic practice)... -
China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle Dinny McMahon 9781408710340
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'One of the clearest and most thorough statements of an argument often made about the country: that its government has relied on constant stimulus to keep growth strong, an addiction that is bound to... -
The System: What We Can Learn When Science and Reason Collide with Scottish Football by Graeme McDowall
Booksplease Price: $22.11The System is the story of Scotland's mission to re-establish itself as a footballing nation that can produce world-class players again. Such was the quality of the footballer once produced in... -
Hegel, Husserl and the Phenomenology of Historical Worlds by Tanja Staehler 9781786602879
Booksplease Price: $88.37GWF Hegel famously described philosophy as 'its own time apprehended in thoughts', reflecting a desire that we increasingly experience, namely, the desire to understand our complex and fast-changing... -
Beyond Reasoning: The Life, Times and Work of Peter Wason, Pioneering Psychologist by Ken Manktelow
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.69This book tells the story of Peter Cathcart Wason, offering unique insights into the life of the pioneering research psychologist credited for establishing a whole new field of science: the... -
The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s John Brooks 9780471357544
RRP: $60.90Booksplease Price: $47.36The Go-Go Years "The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner ofWall Street classics. You do not read this book to see our presentsituation reenacted in the past, with only the names... -
Smart Money: How High-Stakes Financial Innovation is Reshaping Our World For the Better by Andrew Palmer
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.63Seven years after the financial crisis of 2008, financiers remain villains in the public mind. Most Americans believe that their irresponsible actions and complex financial products wrecked the... -
The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s John Brooks 9780471357551
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $59.30The Go-Go Years "The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner ofWall Street classics. You do not read this book to see our presentsituation reenacted in the past, with only the names... -
Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700 Katherine A. Wilson 9781835538425
Booksplease Price: $80.14During the period 1000-1700 major transformations took place in material culture. Quite simply, more objects were manufactured and used than ever before and many objects travelled across geographic,... -
The Eye Test: A Case for Human Creativity in the Age of Analytics by Chris Jones
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.96THE EYE TEST is a necessary course correction, a call for a more balanced, personal approach to problem-solving. Award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes the case for the human element-for what... -
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence by Dacher Keltner
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38A revolutionary rethinking of everything we know about powerIt shapes every interaction we have, whether we're trying to get a two-year-old to eat green vegetables or ask for a promotion at work... -
Modern Moonshine: The Revival of White Whiskey in the Twenty-First Century by Cameron D. Lippard
Booksplease Price: $57.67The craft of making moonshine-an unaged white whiskey, often made and consumed outside legal parameters-nearly went extinct in the late twentieth century as law enforcement cracked down on illicit... -
How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say-And What It Really Means by John Lanchester 9780393351705
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.18To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable. Fortunately, John Lanchester-the best-selling novelist and reporter hailed by The Economist for "explain[ing] complex stuff... -
Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida by Angelos Evangelou 9783319570921
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $190.18Drawing connections between madness, philosophy and autobiography, this book addresses the question of how Nietzsche's madness might have affected his later works. It also explores why continental... -
A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan by Soeda Azembo 9780415592161
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan's first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary... -
A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan by Soeda Azembo
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $191.06A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan's first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding of how ordinary... -
Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It by Etienne Deffarges 9780815363347
Booksplease Price: $95.49Tom Brady and the "tuck rule"; "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated"; "The financial world has become way too complicated and very secretive." What could Tom... -
Operations Management: A Research Overview by Michael A. Lewis 9781032176277
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $51.20Operations Management (OM) is a multi-faceted blend of myriad academic andpractical disciplines - from engineering and economics via mathematics and marketing, to systems and psychology. To capture... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Environment in Human Development by Linda Mayes 9781107531680
RRP: $113.40Booksplease Price: $111.91Families, communities and societies influence children's learning and development in many ways. This is the first handbook devoted to the understanding of the nature of environments in child... -
Where Are the Customers' Yachts? or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street Fred Schwed 9780471119791
RRP: $275.10Booksplease Price: $242.63"Once I picked it up I did not put it down until I finished . . .What Schwed has done is capture fully-in deceptively cleanlanguage-the lunacy at the heart of the investment business."-Fromthe... -
Textiles, Text, Intertext - Essays in Honour of Gale R. Owen-Crocker by Maren Clegg Hyer
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $191.90Essays centred round the representation of weaving, both real and imagined, in the early middle ages. The triple themes of textile, text, and intertext, three powerful and evocative subjects... -
Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons: A House by Diller Scofidio + Renfro by Paul Goldberger 9781636811123
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $103.28The story of the creation of an astonishing house that renews and reinvigorates the spirit of the avant-garde in the Hamptons Architecture critic Paul Goldberger tells the story of an... -
Kant and Technics: From the Critique of Pure Reason to the Opus Postumum Franziska Aigner 9781350299078
Booksplease Price: $64.13Martin Heidegger, Gilbert Simondon, and Bernard Stiegler each argued in their own way that, ever since its inception in ancient Greece, western philosophy is incapable of thinking technics, which...