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Starry Night: Astronomers and Poets Read the Sky by David H. Levy 9781573928878
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.37Over the centuries the starry night sky has inspired poets and scientists alike, and though the fruits of these inspirations take very different forms, they often enrich each other. Acclaimed science... -
The Wisdom of Harry Potter: What Our Favorite Hero Teaches Us About Moral Choices by Edmund M. Kern 9781591021339
Booksplease Price: £15.50In this original interpretation of the Harry Potter sensation, Edmund M. Kern argues that the attraction of these stories to children comes not only from the fantastical elements embedded in the... -
Talking Your Way to the Top: Business English That Works by Gretchen S. Hirsch 9781591024613
Booksplease Price: £15.29What's the difference between ambiguous and ambivalent? When is it right to say he and I, and when is him and me correct? What's the most important part of a voice mail message? What's the one... -
Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed by Guy P. Harrison 9781633883512
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.64At a time when the news cycle turns on a tweet, journalism gets confused with opinion, and facts are treated as negotiable information, applying critical thinking skills to your social media... -
Someone Else's Twin: The True Story of Babies Switched at Birth by Nancy L. Segal 9781616144371
Booksplease Price: £19.94The combination of a riveting true story and cutting-edge twin research makes this book an irresistible page-turner. Identical twins Begoña and Delia were born thirty-eight years ago in Spain's... -
Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers: Up Close and Personal by Jack Levin 9781591025764
Booksplease Price: £20.28After twenty-five years of investigating, analyzing, and interviewing serial killers, their family members, neighbors, and even surviving victims, Jack Levin has become one of the world's most... -
Beyond the War on Drugs by Steven Wisotsky 9780879755874
Booksplease Price: £20.86This provocative and controversial book rejects the popular pabulum of more laws, more money, more enforcement personnel, and more jails as the road to victory in the 'war on drugs'. Steven Wisotsky... -
Reason, Tolerance and Christianity by Robert G. Ingersoll 9780879758516
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.21This important book contains three spirited debates - "Rome of Reason", "Controversy on Christianity", and "The Limits of Toleration" - between the great American freethinker Robert G. Ingersoll... -
House Calls by Marvin Brown 9780879754488
Booksplease Price: £25.27For over forty years, Dr Marvin Brown served the medical needs of the inhabitants in and around a small town in central New York State - a rural area encompassing some 400 square miles - armed only... -
The German-American Experience by Don Heinrich Tolzmann 9781573927314
Booksplease Price: £40.10Representing one-fourth of the population, German-Americans constitute the largest ethnic element, according to the U.S. Census, with well over 60 million people claiming German heritage. In... -
A Woman's Quest for Science by H. Peter Hare 9780879752743
Booksplease Price: £30.26Before Margaret Mead, even before Ruth Benedict, it was Elsie Clews Parsons who paved the way as the first woman president of the American Anthropological Association. Born into a prominent New York... -
The Corruption of Reality: A Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis, and Psychopathology by John F. Schumaker 9780879759353
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £28.21This groundbreaking volume examines our sometimes strained grasp of reality and sheds new light on three subject areas that continue to fascinate researchers: religion, hypnosis and psychopathology... -
The World for Ransom: Piracy Is Terrorism, Terrorism Is Piracy by D. R. Burgess 9781616141738
Booksplease Price: £20.38Pirates today are gangs of seaborne brigands with rocket launchers, who bear a striking resemblance in appearance and actions to terrorists. This compelling study shows that the case for linking... -
The Unhappy Child: What Every Parent Needs to Know by Kenneth N. Condrell 9781591024194
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.62There are millions of children in this country who spend most of their days feeling more unhappy than happy, and their parents haven't a clue as to why. These chronically unhappy children may be on... -
Resentment Against Achievement by Robert Sheaffer 9780879754471
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.56This work: looks at class structure; argues that Christianity fosters the resentment of success; and discusses the impact of this feeling in science, technology, medicine, the arts, and politics.Book... -
Jesus After 2000 Years: What He Really Said and Did by Gerd Ludemann 9781573928908
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.04It is widely recognized by New Testament scholars that many of the sayings and actions attributed to Jesus in the gospels cannot be factually traced to him. The gospels, written many decades after... -
The Transits of Venus by William Sheehan 9781591021759
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.31In this unique and fascinating history of science, acclaimed popular science writer William Sheehan - who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Science Writing - and award-winning geographer John... -
Drugs: Should We Legalize, Decriminalize or Deregulate? by Jeffrey A. Schaler 9781573921961
Booksplease Price: £18.27Does drug addiction exist? Do we have a right to use drugs? Is personal responsibility achieved at the cost of individual liberty? Can drugs ever be controlled? Would a free market in drugs reduce... -
Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World by Birute Regine 9781616141691
Booksplease Price: £15.13This inspiring and compelling narrative weaves together stories of sixty successful women from all walks of life and throughout the world. The author spent several years in eight countries... -
Alien Abductions: Creating a Modern Phenomenon by Terry Matheson 9781573922449
Booksplease Price: £25.75Extraterrestrials regularly abduct humans from Earth, often performing bizarre surgeries and experiments on their subjects, according to the popular and profitable "nonfiction" offered by major... -
The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal by Gordon Stein 9781573920216
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £107.77The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal contains over 90 articles by more than 50 experts on topics including the strictly paranormal (psychokinesis, channeling, levitation, astrology, phrenology,... -
Eldercare by James A. Kenny 9780879755171
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.58Written by a psychologist and a physician who have extensive experience in treating the elderly and first-hand knowledge of what it is like to care for an elderly parent, Eldercare offers practical,... -
Snow: A History of the World's Most Fascinating Flake by Anthony R. Wood
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64From "Winter Wonderland" to "Snowmageddon," we've had a long, love-hate relationship with snow. This entertaining look at snow in all its delightful and fearsome manifestations... -
Exploitation by Kai Nielsen
Booksplease Price: £31.86This title examines the nature, extent, intensity, and import of exploitation and its relation to the issue of social justice. Noted scholars explore racial and gender exploitation and the way in... -
The Stardust Revolution: The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars by Jacob Berkowitz
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.04Three great scientific revolutions have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and our relationship to it. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed the Copernican Revolution, which... -
Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr by Michael Deakin
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.60In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she... -
In the Mind's Eye: Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics, and the Rise of Visual Technologies by Thomas G. West
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.74Now in its fifteenth printing, In the Mind's Eye has been recognized as a classic in its field. The book still stands alone as a uniquely compelling argument for the great importance of visual... -
On Solid Ground: Why the Earth Isn’t as Controversial as You May Think by David Goldsmith
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.44On Solid Ground is intended to inform a general audience about what geologists know about the earth. It will do so by telling the stories of the people who made the discoveries. It will also... -
Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe by Leon M. Lederman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyze the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics... -
Science in a Democratic Society by Philip Kitcher
Booksplease Price: £21.16In this successor to his pioneering Science, Truth, and Democracy, the author revisits the topic explored in his previous work-namely, the challenges of integrating science, the most successful... -
Paintracking: Your Personal Guide to Living Well With Chronic Pain by Deborah Barrett
Booksplease Price: £15.93Millions of people suffer from debilitating chronic pain from arthritis, fibromyalgia, low back pain, chronic headache syndromes, neuropathies, or other painful conditions. People contending with... -
Erewhon by Samuel Butler 9781573922043
Booksplease Price: £12.22Written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", English novelist, essayist, and iconoclast Samuel Butler (1835-1902) describes an imaginary visit to a topsy-turvy country called... -
Navigating Grief and Loss: 25 Buddhist Practices to Keep Your Heart Open to Yourself and Others by Kimberly Brown 9781633888197
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44NAVIGATING GRIEF AND LOSS is designed to support all of us through difficult and upsetting times. It's a relatable and useful guide with practical applications to help navigate the profound... -
The Ethics of Organ Transplants: The Current Debate by Arthur L. Caplan 9781573922241
Booksplease Price: £18.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573922241Author Arthur L. CaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher... -
Executive Jungle: A Novel by David Levy 9781573922456
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.11Veteran Hollywood entertainment mogul David Levy, creator and/or originator of such shows as "The Addams Family", "Name That Tune", "Bonanza", and "The Bob Newhart Show", knows the world of big... -
Catholic Power Vs. American Freedom by George La Piana 9781573928489
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.00Catholicism has been a part of the United States since colonial days and has become increasingly more influential over the last two and a quarter centuries. "Catholic Power vs American Freedom"... -
My Parents Never Had Sex by Doris B. Hammond 9780879754099
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.66This book presents the myths and facts of sexual ageing in a thoughtful and straightforward manner that celebrates the sexuality of our elders. Dr Hammond rejects not only the misconception that... -
Forbidden Fruit by Paul Kurtz 9780879754549
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Fundamentalists from all religious persuasions deny the possibility of morality without belief in God. Yet belief in God is no guarantee of moral virtue - as the recent televangelist scandals have... -
Humanhood by Joseph Fletcher 9780879751128
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.84Taking a critical look at some of the recent controls over human life, health, and death, Fletcher draws a vivid picture of contemporary biological needs and ethical responsibility. Genetic... -
Defending Science-Within Reason: Between Scientism And Cynicism by Susan Haack 9781591024583
Booksplease Price: £15.63Sweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and original approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence and...