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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 9781541647435
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In 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: £28.00Booksplease Price: £19.76In 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... -
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Examine the inner workings of the mind and learn what consciousness and a sense of self really means - and if it even exists. We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something... -
Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo by Teasel Muir-Harmony
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.34On 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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90In 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... -
Mad In America (Revised): Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Schizophrenics 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... -
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.50The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World... -
The Case for Trump by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90In The Case for Trump, acclaimed historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen... -
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn 9781541618305
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In 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... -
Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions by Susan R. Barry
Booksplease Price: £15.07When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. As she emerged from the dim light of the subway into the sunshine, she saw a view of the city that... -
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn 9781541645769
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90It's the dream scenario for many of us after a long week: having the house completely to ourselves. No partners, no parents, no kids, no pets. But as we settle into the couch, something stirs: maybe... -
Treekeepers: The Race for a Forested Future by Lauren E Oakes 9781541603349
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60How the path from climate change to a habitable future winds through the world's forests In recent years, planting a tree has become a catchall to represent "doing something good for the planet."... -
Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices about Your Health by Talya Miron-Shatz
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.28"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... -
A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History Jay Sexton 9781541617230
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71Americans have long understood their history as a story of inevitable progress, of a steadily rising standard of living and of the gradual extension of rights and freedoms to previously... -
Acrylic Landscapes for Beginners: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Painting Scenic Drives, Misty Forests, Snowy Mountains and More by Sarah Johnston 9781645678533
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.88In this all-in-one guide to painting the most gorgeous acrylic landscapes, viral artist Sarah Johnston gives you all the tools to create your own nature-inspired masterpieces. There's no such thing... -
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by James Horn 9780465024902
Booksplease Price: £15.32In 1587, John White led 117 English men, women, and children to Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. They hoped to establish a British foothold in North America, but soon found themselves... -
It's Even Worse Than It Looks (Revised and Expanded Edition): How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism by Thomas E. Mann
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government. Congress's approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats and Republicans are disgusted by the government's inability to get... -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364286
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.44'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of... -
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands 9781541672543
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.63In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition in the early 19th century to the closing of the... -
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In 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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60Perhaps 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... -
Starborn: How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them by Roberto Trotta 9781529346084
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80A 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'... -
Mastery: The Transformation of Learning for the Twenty-First Century by Tony Wagner 9781541601925
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60A radical new approach to education for learners of any ageHow much information is forgotten almost immediately after it is taught? How many students graduate from high school unprepared for careers... -
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.70A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But... -
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal by Alexandra Natapoff
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Punishment Without Crime provides a sweeping and revelatory new account of America's broken criminal justice system from the perspective of the paradigmatic American crime-the lowly misdemeanor... -
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self,... -
Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine Eugene Finkel 9781399809719
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.02A history of Russian violence waged against Ukraine across the centuries. Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet this attack was in fact the latest episode... -
The Virtue of Nationalism Yoram Hazony 9781541645370
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.10In 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... -
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford 9781541608863
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541608863Author Martin FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War by Lyndal Roper 9781541647053
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541647053Author Roper LFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint -
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence Jeff Hawkins 9781541675797
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.38For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses... -
War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War by Johnny Smith
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60n War Fever, celebrated sports historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith explore the monumental changes taking place in Boston during the Great War through the stories of three men: Karl Muck, the... -
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times by Robin Reames 9781541603974
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60How rhetoric-the art of persuasion-can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimonyThe discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over... -
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems by Professor Joseph L Graves
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90Evolution has, ever since its inception, been one of the most ideologically fraught fields in all of science. It has given birth to the myth about biological racial "types," with distinct rankings of... -
July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin 9780465060740
Booksplease Price: £16.44When an assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, no one could have imagined the shocking bloodshed that would soon follow. Indeed, as award-winning historian Sean McMeekin... -
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler by Peter Fritzsche
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children made up the vast majority of those killed by the war, and the conflict... -
Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media Jacob Mchangama 9781529382198
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.44A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times... -
Economic Facts and Fallacies: Second Edition by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Thomas Sowell "both surprises and overturns received wisdom" in this indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies (The Economist)Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most... -
The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need (Fifth Edition) by Ellen Karsh
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71Written by two expert authors who have won millions of dollars in government and foundation grants, this is the essential book on securing grants. It provides comprehensive, step-by-step guide for... -
Enchanting Embroidery Designs: Whimsical Animal and Plant Motifs to Stitch MiW Morita 9784805316184
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Enchanting Embroidery Designs invites you to create your own world using bright thread colors and imaginative stitches.Full of motifs that are both simple and playful, from zany crocodiles, and...