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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr Kit Heyam
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95A 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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.39In 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... -
The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton 9780465012749
Booksplease Price: $20.63When 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... -
Coming to Our Senses: A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World by Susan R Barry 9781541675155
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42Doctors have been able to cure some forms of congenital blindness and deafness for decades. But this has created another problem: most people end up hating their new senses. To ask someone to adapt... -
They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties by Lisa Levenstein
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70On 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... -
Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me about Our Home Planet--And Our Mission to Protect It by Nicole Stott
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a brilliant blue marble, with a razor thin atmosphere protecting billions of people,... -
Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo by Teasel Muir-Harmony
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $26.24On July 20th, 1969, over half of the world's population tuned in to witness the first lunar landing, waiting with bated breath as Neil Armstrong ventured outside the cabin door of Apollo 11 and... -
John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court by Richard Brookhiser
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.09In 1801, a 45-year-old Revolutionary War veteran and politician, slovenly, genial, brilliant, and persuasive, became the fourth chief justice of the United States, a post he would hold for a record... -
Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America by Darren Dochuk
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.86Anointed with Oil is a groundbreaking new history of the United States that places the relationship between religious faith and oil together at the center of America's rise to global power in the... -
Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $28.51John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vice-president under two very different... -
Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices about Your Health by Talya Miron-Shatz
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.29"With a fine combination of humor, compassion and vast knowledge, Talya Miron-Shatz offers clear and useful guidance for the hardest decisions of life."-Daniel Kahneman, Nobel award-winning author of... -
Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style by W. David Marx 9781541604339
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $23.68"A fascinating cultural history" (People) of how Japan adopted and ultimately revived traditional American fashion A strange thing has happened over the last two decades: the world has come to... -
Mad In America (Revised): Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the... -
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East by Eugene Rogan 9780465097425
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $19.26By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the... -
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn takes us to the edge of biology's latest frontier: our own homes. Every house is a wilderness -- from the Egyptian meal moths in our kitchen cupboards and the... -
Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan Matthew C. Halteman 9781541602052
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70Perhaps you've looked at factory farming or climate change and thought, I should become a vegan. And like most people who think that, very probably you haven't. Why? Well, in our world, roast turkey... -
The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform by George Weigel
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70In The Irony of Modern Catholic History, acclaimed Catholic scholar George Weigel offers a bold reinterpretation of the Church's history since the nineteenth century, completely overturning... -
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again by Eric Topol
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $27.54A visit to a physician these days is cold: physicians spend most of their time typing at computers, making minimal eye contact. Appointments generally last only a few minutes, with scarce time for... -
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell 9780465002054
Booksplease Price: $27.58In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the constrained" vision, which sees human... -
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions Kate Cooper 9781399807982
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'A brilliant new take' Janina Ramirez, author of Femina'A masterpiece of the historian's art' Peter Brown, author of Augustine of HippoThe powerful and surprising story of the four remarkable women... -
Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry by Adrian Goldsworthy 9781541619951
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541619951Author Goldsworthy aFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint -
Sperm Wars (Revised): Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles by Robin Baker
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.58Sperm Wars turns the conventional thinking about the biology of sex on its head. Evolutionary biologist Robin Baker argues that human sexuality follows certain laws, and all of those laws are... -
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Don Norman
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.18Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colourful iMac? New research on emotion and cognition has shown... -
Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $59.24Existential therapy has been practiced and continues to be practiced in many forms and situations throughout the world. But until now, it has lacked a coherent structure, and analysis of its tenets,... -
Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy by Micah Zenko
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.58Red teaming. It is a practice as old as the Devil's Advocate, the eleventh-century Vatican official charged with discrediting candidates for sainthood. Today, red teams,comprised primarily of... -
Curious by Ian Leslie 9780465097623
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.71"I have no special talents," said Albert Einstein. "I am only passionately curious." Everyone is born curious. But only some retain the habits of exploring, learning, and discovering as they grow... -
Conceptual Blockbusting (Fifth Edition): A Guide to Better Ideas by James L. Adams
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.36Some people are naturally creative and others aren't, right? Wrong. In this classic book on creativity, James Adams takes a unique approach to generating ideas and solving problems that has... -
The Creative Destruction of Medicine (Revised and Expanded Edition): How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20Now with a new postscript covering the unfolding health care revolutionMobile technology has transformed our lives, and personal genomics is revolutionizing biology. But despite the availability of... -
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by Ed Regis
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.43Bold and provocative, Regenesis tells of recent advances that may soon yield endless supplies of renewable energy, increased longevity and the return of long-extinct species.", New Scientist In ... -
The Virtue of Nationalism Yoram Hazony 9781541645370
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $25.93In the wake of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, countless words have been written and uttered about nationalism-many accusing nationalists of racism, hatred, and violence. But nationalism... -
Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War by Matthew Avery Sutton
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.09What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder "Wild" Bill Donovan when he recruited religious activists into the first ranks of... -
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the twentieth century's most contentious courtroom dramas, pitting William Jennings Bryan and the... -
The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need and What We Can Do About It by Tony Wagner
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.05In The Global Achievement Gap , education expert Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the larger context of the demands of the global knowledge economy. He illustrates that even in our best... -
Becoming Hitler by Thomas Weber 9780465032686
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $38.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465032686Author Thomas WeberFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint -
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy Popkin
Booksplease Price: $41.98The French Revolution was the "big bang" out of which all the elements of modern politics and social conflicts were formed. Democracy, populism, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, nationalism,... -
Starborn: How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them by Roberto Trotta 9781529346084
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.38A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'A STUNNING AND UNFORGETTABLE VOYAGE THROUGH THE STARS' STEPHEN FRYA sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped what it means to be human. One of our species'... -
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 9781541647435
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaProtests against racial injustice and white supremacy have galvanized millions around the world... -
Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean by Matt Strassler 9781541603295
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $25.49In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion. When we drive at... -
Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts by Susan Goldin-Meadow
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70We all know people who talk with their hands-but do they know what they're saying with them? Our gestures can reveal and contradict us, and express thoughts we may not even know we're thinking.In... -
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate by Paul Halpern
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.70In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The Quantum Labyrinth, and Synchronicity -- that reveal the...