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Ethics in a Capitalist Economy: Why the Market Needs Virtues Robert CB Miller 9781350515383
Booksplease Price: £85.95In a novel application of the work of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics to the philosophy of business, Robert CB Miller argues that free-market capitalism requires virtues to mitigate its flaws and to... -
The Problem of War: Darwinism, Christianity, and their Battle to Understand Human Conflict by Michael Ruse 9780190867577
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £24.63Darwinian evolutionary theory is one of the brightest jewels in the crown of science, yet it has been highly controversial since its first appearance in the On the Origin of Species in 1859. Well... -
Neuroculture: On the implications of brain science by Edmund T. Rolls 9780199695478
Booksplease Price: £75.40Why do we have emotions? What are the bases of social behaviour? What is the relationship between the mind and the brain? How, and why, do we appreciate art? How do we make decisions? Are there... -
Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments by John Brockman 9780062562067
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand. Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world... -
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is the problem. We think of empathy - the ability to feel the suffering of others for ourselves - as the ultimate source of all good behaviour. But... -
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to... -
Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare: How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears Gordon H. Orians 9780226003238
Booksplease Price: £26.68Our breath catches and we jump in fear at the sight of a snake. We pause and marvel at the sublime beauty of a sunrise. These reactions are no accident; in fact, many of our human responses to nature... -
This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know by John Brockman
Booksplease Price: £13.05From the bestselling editor of This Explains Everything, 206 of the world's most brilliant minds tackle Edge.org's 2017 question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? ... -
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins 9781838937850
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.11Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. 'A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and animal... A beautifully... -
Darwin by Charles Darwin 9780393958492
Booksplease Price: £21.47The impact of Charles Darwin's work on Western civilization has been broad and deep. As much as anyone in the modern era, he changed human thought, and his influence is still felt in virtually all... -
Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins by Nancy L. Segal 9780674025707
Booksplease Price: £27.94A leading expert on twins delves into the stories behind her research to reveal the profound joys and real-life traumas of twelve remarkable sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets.Indivisible by... -
How Pleasure Works: Why we like what we like by Paul Bloom
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Pleasure is one of the most fascinating aspects of being human. But what is it?Exploring child development, philosophy, neuroscience and behavioural economics, Paul Bloom uncovers how universal... -
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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat [Second Edition]: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58"A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience."- Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works A maverick scientist reveals the inconsistent... -
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.22Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. 'A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and animal... A beautifully... -
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca by John McWhorter 9781942658580
Booksplease Price: £13.56"Superb." -Steven Pinker"An explanation, a defense, and, most heartening, a celebration. . . . McWhorter demonstrates the 'legitimacy' of Black English by uncovering its complexity and... -
The Marshmallow Test: Understanding Self-control and How To Master It by Walter Mischel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behaviour later in life?Walter... -
The Perils of Perception: Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything by Bobby Duffy 9781786494580
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Do you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the rich pay? Are we more ignorant than we used to be?Take a minute to... -
Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design by Barbara Forrest 9780195319736
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £21.00This carefully documented expose of the Intelligent Design (ID) movement contributed to the stunning victory in Federal court of eleven Dover, PA, parents who recognized ID's threat to public... -
Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing by David D. Weinzweig 9781639056880
Booksplease Price: £63.61Why is legal prose so hard to read? One reason is obvious: Legal writers rarely think about their audience. When legal writers account for the preferences and expectations of their readers, legal... -
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The Perils of Perception: Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything by Bobby Duffy 9781786494580 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Do you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the rich pay? Are we more ignorant than we used to be?Take a minute to... -
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles... -
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The New York Times bestsellerFinancial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial... -
Six in a Bed: The Future of Love - from Sex Dolls and Avatars to Polyamory by Roanne van Voorst 9781509558421
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.63Love is the most important and intense experience of our life. It pushes us to elation, to heartbreak, to sing for joy and sob in disappointment. Connecting in this way to others is an essential... -
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared... -
SuperCooperators Martin Nowak 9781847673381
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to LifeIf life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a... -
Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader by Brian Boyd 9780231150194
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.60Featuring thirty-nine essential essays by pioneering scholars, scientists, and critics, Evolution, Literature, and Film opens with an introduction to the principles of evolution, with essays from... -
Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security by John E. Mueller 9780199795765
Booksplease Price: £35.32In the years following 9/11, the United States spent billions and billons on powerful surveillance and security systems and created a massive new government agency, the Department of Homeland... -
Adventures of a Psychologist: Reflections on What Made Up the Mind by Michael Corballis
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37In this enlightening biography, award- winning academic psychologist Michael Corballis tells the story of how the field of cognitive psychology evolved and the controversies and anecdotes that... -
Psy-Q: A Mind-Bending Miscellany Of Everyday Psychology Ben Ambridge 9781781252116
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Psychology is everywhere. Our emotions and desires, the decisions we make on a daily basis - absolutely every aspect of the way we think and feel has been studied by psychologists. Through dozens of... -
English at Work: Find and Fix your Mistakes in Business English as a Foreign Language Ellen Jovin 9781529392852
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.27This Grammar Guru will solve the world's problems. Or, at least, help you figure out when to use an Oxford comma. The New York TimesPut your English skills to work for you! This book is ideal for... -
How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness.This is a book that... -
What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night by John Brockman 9780062296238
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried... -
Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age by Bear F. Braumoeller 9780197624272
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.24A unique assessment that challenges humanity's quest to abolish warfare. The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead,... -
Don't Look, Don't Touch: The science behind revulsion by Valerie Curtis 9780199579488
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.17There is a powerful subconscious reaction that influences a disturbingly wide range of our daily behaviour - our eating habits, our relationships, our values. The very same reaction that makes us... -
Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe by Lisa Randall
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2011.We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest), and when... -
Francis Bacon's Contribution to Shakespeare: A New Attribution Method by Barry R. Clarke
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Francis Bacon's Contribution to Shakespeare advocates a paradigm shift away from a single-author theory of the Shakespeare work towards a many-hands theory. Here, the middle ground is adopted between... -
Global Manifestos for the Twenty-First Century: Rethinking Culture, Common Struggles, and Future Change by Nicol A Barria-Asenjo 9781032584195
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54Bringing together over forty original short essays, some academic, others more creative in nature, this collection responds to the political, historical, social, and economic situation in which we... -
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Psy-Q: A Mind-Bending Miscellany Of Everyday Psychology by Ben Ambridge 9781781252116 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Psychology is everywhere. Our emotions and desires, the decisions we make on a daily basis - absolutely every aspect of the way we think and feel has been studied by psychologists. Through dozens of... -
The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace: But Will War Rebound? Azar Gat (Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security, Tel Aviv University) 9780198795025
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.34Azar Gat sets out to resolve one of the age-old questions of human existence: why people fight and can they stop. Spanning warfare from prehistory to the 21st century, the book shows that, neither an... -
The Language Instinct Debate by Geoffrey Sampson 9780826473851
Booksplease Price: £61.62When it was first published in 1997, Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve was described as the definitive response to Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and Noam Chomsky's nativism. In this revised...