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1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup by Mark Jones
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent' Richard Evans'A vivid, crisp, impressively sustained narrative' Financial Times'Riveting' Irish Independent'Refreshing and readable' Irish Times... -
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy N. Davidson
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.04Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors in an attempt to prepare young... -
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.12In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world's philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of... -
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £38.10The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning... -
The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux by Cathy N. Davidson 9781541601277
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75We're living in a period of great upheaval-yet there hasn't been a corresponding change in our system of higher education. In The New Education, Cathy N. Davidson argues we need a new theory and... -
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman,from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging... -
The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.86From a bestselling author, an "incendiary and uproarious" assault on the pretensions of scientific atheists (National Review)Militant atheism is on the rise. Prominent thinkers including Richard... -
U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Survival Manual by Captain (Retd.) Dick Couch
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Experts agree that the next terrorist attack on our soil will not come in the same form as September 11. The possibility of nuclear, chemical or biological attack is increasingly likely. The U.S... -
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Learn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) with these six classic and beloved lessonsIt was Richard... -
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £26.85In this fifth edition of Basic Economics , Thomas Sowell revises and updates his popular book on common sense economics, bringing the world into clearer focus through a basic understanding of the... -
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum by Art Friedman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.93First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has teamed up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and associated mathematics of the strange world of quantum... -
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.50"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century." --Boston GlobeIn this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the... -
The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why by Arthur Benjamin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A New York Times Bestseller Arthur Benjamin . . . joyfully shows you how to make nature's numbers dance." ,Bill Nye The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a... -
Life is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free And Unlocked the Universe JohnJoe McFadden 9781529364958
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of... -
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor D Hanson 9781541673526
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £19.80A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible... -
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Paabo
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93ONE OF AMAZON'S TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2014 Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer this question: what can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary... -
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Pierre Rigoulot
Booksplease Price: £15.03North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all... -
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III: The New Millennium Edition: Quantum Mechanics by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £33.23"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his lectures. The experiment turned out to be hugely successful, spawning... -
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma... -
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by Peter Gray
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning -- "unschooling" -- is the best way to get kids to learn.In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter... -
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.63The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal- and forgotten- massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War IIIn December 1937, one... -
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (Anniversary Edition) by Alice Miller 9780465012619
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.10Miller's wide and profound book about childhood trauma has provided thousands of readers with guidance and hope, and is essential reading for those interested in psychology, psychotherapy, and more... -
Uncommon Grounds (New edition): The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71First published in 1999, Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks and the coffee crisis of the 21st century. Mark... -
Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.63The phrase "music history" likely summons up images of long-dead composers, smug men in wigs and waistcoats, and people dancing without touching. In Music: A Subversive History, Gioia responds to the... -
The Vietnam War: A Military History Geoffrey Wawro 9781541606081
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.35The first comprehensive military history of the war in VietnamThe Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests,... -
Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire by Caroline Finkel 9780465023974
Booksplease Price: £16.39The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too... -
The Psychology Of The Child by Barbel Inhelder 9780465095001
Booksplease Price: £24.30Piaget's influence on psychology has been profound. His pathbreaking investigations and theories of cognitive development have set child psychology moving in entirely new directions. His bold... -
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna 9781399810654
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Mind expanding - this book will change your view of the world forever' Matthew SyedA blueprint for a better future. Playing on the phrase "a theory of everything" in physics, Michael... -
1812: The Navy's War by George Daughan 9780465085996
Booksplease Price: £23.33When war broke out between Britain and the United States in 1812, America's prospects looked dismal. British naval aggression made it clear that the ocean would be the war's primary battlefield,but... -
Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies by Michael Albertus 9781399814348
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A must-read' THOMAS PIKETTY'Captivating' DARON ACEMOGLU'Fascinating' FRANCIS FUKUYAMAAn award-winning political scientist shows that a society's path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality... -
Business on the Edge: How to Turn a Profit and Improve Lives in the World’s Toughest Places Emily S. Block 9781541604209
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60A road map for how businesses can grow and make money while reducing poverty and conflict in some of the world's most challenging environments Many companies worry that expanding into emerging... -
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson 9780465020379
Booksplease Price: £18.58In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites... -
The Republic of Plato by Adam Kirsch
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. In addition... -
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe by Steven Weinberg
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.96A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic.Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion... -
Cooking Basics For Dummies Marie Rama 9781119696773
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.25Get started cooking now with Cooking Basics For Dummies, 5th Edition! Are you looking to dig yourself out of microwave dinners and learn the ropes of home cooking? Cooking Basics For Dummies, 5th... -
The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History by Don Oberdorfer
Booksplease Price: £21.12Ever since Korea was first divided at the end of World War II, the tension between its northern and southern halves has riveted,and threatened to embroil,the rest of the world. In this landmark... -
The Seven Military Classics Of Ancient China by Ralph D. Sawyer
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.01The Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written. It presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emphasizes outwitting one's opponent... -
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in... -
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy by Karl Sigmund 9781541602694
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.34"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have... -
The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD George A Bonanno 9781541674387
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.38With "groundbreaking research on the psychology of resilience" (Adam Grant), a top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient...