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X + Y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng 9781541646506
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $27.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541646506Author Eugenia ChengFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Recession: The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do About It by Tyler Goodspeed 9781399832250
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42What causes a recession? Do recessions end on their own, or do they require external intervention? Does a recession in one country mean the rest of the world will follow? Are we in a recession... -
Thinking About Crime by James Wilson 9780465048830
Booksplease Price: $26.86As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by... -
Huge Numbers: A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to Fish 7 by Richard Elwes 9781541605923
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $25.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541605923Author Richard ElwesFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II by Paul Thomas Chamberlin 9781529333862
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerful, absorbing and endlessly thought-provoking' SINCLAIR MCKAYA radical new history of history's most brutal struggle for survival between imperial powers.In... -
How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor 9780465049899
Booksplease Price: $26.51In 1973, a young filmmaker named George Lucas scribbled some notes for a far-fetched space-fantasy epic. Some forty years and 37 billion later, Star Wars -related products outnumber human beings, a... -
The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science by Carly Anne York 9781399817011
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95'York is a witty, whip-smart, lithely engaging science storyteller, truly one of our best' Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Fuzz A playful examination of how science's silliest research leads to... -
Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World by Dambisa Moyo 9780465029099
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20Hardly a day passes when newspaper headlines or media commentators don't scream warnings of impending doom,shortages of arable land, clashes over water, and political Armageddon as global demand for... -
Boys Adrift: The Six Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax 9781541606852
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541606852Author Leonard SaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy 9781541619982
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $31.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541619982Author Adrian GoldsworthyFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint -
Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.18Andrea Dworkin, once called Feminism's Malcolm X," has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed-but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of... -
Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence by Joseph Mazur
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.27What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or the fact that... -
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672789Author Sean McMeekinFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint -
The Art of Biblical Poetry by Robert Alter
Booksplease Price: $25.50Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art... -
Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally L. Satel
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $19.17What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI,functional magnetic resonance imaging,was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and... -
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Cowan
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.70In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to... -
Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty by John B. Boles
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $31.93Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs... -
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality by Martha Nussbaum
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.39The respect for religious difference has formed the bedrock of our nation and made equality possible. Yet today we are told that moral values",code for a government shaped by religious concerns,must... -
King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon by David Montgomery
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.23The salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest's natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the... -
Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church by George Weigel
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06The Catholic Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its history. As the curtain comes down on the Church of the 16th-century Counter-Reformation, it rises on the Evangelical Catholicism of... -
Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they... -
Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare by Dorothy Roberts
Booksplease Price: $25.79Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis- the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.S. foster care system and its effects on black communities... -
Letters to a Young Lawyer by Alan Dershowitz
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most... -
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy 9781541602625
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $19.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602625Author Adrian GoldsworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprin -
Not Out Of Africa: How "Afrocentrism" Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History by Mary Lefkowitz
Booksplease Price: $19.53Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle steal his ideas from the library in Alexandria? Do... -
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady 9781541644502
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541644502Author Martyn RadyFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint -
Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm by F. David Peat 9780201328202
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06Infinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm,brilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein, and enemy of the House Committee on Un-American... -
Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant by Andrea Dworkin 9780465017546
Booksplease Price: $19.26Always innovative, often provocative, and frequently polarizing, Andrea Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movement's most influential figures, from the early days of... -
The Last Intellectuals: American Culture In The Age Of Academe by Russell Jacoby 9780465036257
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel... -
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species by Rob Dunn 9781541603127
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603127Author Rob DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Jane Addams And The Dream Of American Democracy by Jean Bethke Elshtain 9780465019137
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06In this eagerly anticipated interpretation of the life and work of quintessential "public intellectual" Jane Addams (1860-1935), Jean Bethke Elshtain explores Addams's legacy thematically and... -
The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul by Yoram Hazony 9780465029020
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.96In what may be the most controversial book on Zionism and Israel published in the last twenty years, Yoram Hazony graphically portrays the cultural and political revolt against Israel's status as the... -
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson 9781541699533
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541699533Author Thor HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution by John F. Haught 9780813365909 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $4.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813365909Author John F. HaughtFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint -
The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis by Steven Harper 9780465065592
Booksplease Price: $26.86A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the... -
The Human Spark: The Science of Human Development by Jerome Kagan 9780465029822
Booksplease Price: $40.09As infants we are rife with potential. For a short time, we have before us a seemingly infinite number of developmental paths. Soon, however, we become limited to certain paths as we grow into unique... -
A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism by Carol Berkin 9780465060887
Booksplease Price: $40.09Today the United States is the dominant power in world affairs, and that status seems assured. Yet in the decade following the ratification of the Constitution, the republic's existence was... -
Blood Dawn: World War II and the Making of Modern Asia by Hans van de Ven 9781529346909
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.54'Essential reading for understanding Asia's present' Richard OveryA momentous new history of World War II in Asia. In the early twentieth century, from India to China, Western imperial powers... -
Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Encompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, or genetics on the social and economic fates of... -
Letters to a Young Chef, 2nd Edition by Daniel Boulud
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Daniel Boulud has been witness to, and creator of, our contemporary food culture-from the reinvention of French food through the fine dining revolution in America. A modern man with a classical...