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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781107423985
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.44Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their... -
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self by Marilynne Robinson 9780300171471
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.86One of our best contemporary writers explores the tension between science and religion and reveals how our concept of mind determines how we understand and value human nature and human civilization ... -
Law in a Time of Crisis by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.70'Thoughtful, stimulating and even entertaining ... Lord Sumption's opinion is always worth listening to, even - or especially - if one disagrees with it.' Daily Telegraph 'Time spent on Law in a... -
The Dawkins Delusion? by Alister McGrath
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.10World-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins writes in The God Delusion: 'If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down'. The volume has received... -
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Anniversary Edition by Carlo Rovelli 9780241737675
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46The anniversary edition of the international phenomenon'One of the best books of the 21st century' (Guardian) These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the scientific... -
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we Made by Gaia Vince
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26** Winner of Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2015 **We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has... -
Humanity: the Recent Moral History Jonathan Glover 9780712665414
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €21.77This book is about history and morality in the twentieth century. It is about the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's... -
The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Harvard Law School, Massachusetts) 9781107074064
Booksplease Price: €52.53Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their... -
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.47THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you... -
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples by Neil MacGregor
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79Following the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, a panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany'Riveting,... -
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.65This is the extraordinary story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's preeminent international financial centre. In... -
Dylan's Visions of Sin Christopher Ricks 9780857862013
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.93'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second''It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words'There is no shortage of books about Bob Dylan. This one, however, is unique in its... -
Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It by James Le Fanu
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02The number of prescriptions issued by family doctors has soared threefold in just fifteen years with millions now committed to taking a cocktail of half a dozen (or more) different pills to lower the... -
Democracy by Alecos Papadatos
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.89An epic, moving graphic novel set in ancient Athens about the birth and the rise of democracy - from the illustrator behind the bestselling Logicomix 'Impressive ... Simultaneously a standout... -
Sentenced to Life by Clive James
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Collecting poetry written in the years 2011-2014, Sentenced to Life sees Clive James look back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty.After falling dangerously... -
Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music by Neil Powell
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.48Benjamin Britten was the greatest English composer of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding musicians of his age. Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Britten was the youngest child of a... -
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and the West. . The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas - and now by the coronavirus... -
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Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music by Neil Powell 9780099537366 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €3.08Benjamin Britten was the greatest English composer of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding musicians of his age. Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Britten was the youngest child of a... -
Science and Poetry by Mary Midgley 9780415378482
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.31Science, according to the received wisdom of the day, can answer any question we choose to put to it - even the most fundamental about ourselves, our behaviour and our cultures. But for Mary Midgley... -
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard 9781844080571
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In... -
Dawkins, Lewis and the Meaning of Life by Alister McGrath
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.39In this pithy, entertaining guide to what really matters, Alister McGrath brings together Richard Dawkins and C.S. Lewis, two intriguing and well-known writers, in 'conversation'. The two men... -
Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress by Daniel Ben-Ami 9781847423467
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €52.73The growth of the economy and the spread of prosperity are increasingly seen as problematic rather than positive - a trend Daniel Ben-Ami has termed 'growth scepticism'. Prosperity is accused of... -
Ferraris for All: In Defence of Economic Progress by Daniel Ben-Ami 9781847423450
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.90The growth of the economy and the spread of prosperity are increasingly seen as problematic rather than positive - a trend Daniel Ben-Ami has termed 'growth scepticism'. Prosperity is accused of... -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.06Mary Beard's new book Emperor of Rome is available now Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths... -
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics by Richard H. Thaler
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21RICHARD H. THALER: WINNER OF THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICSShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD books of... -
Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.74'I was gripped by it' IAN McEWANThree lives collide, not one of them will emerge unchanged - the exhilarating new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose series.When Olivia meets a new lover,... -
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 9781802061567
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the... -
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.51From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond... -
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.84A pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain's right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture-"one of the few contemporary works deserving classic... -
The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate The World by Evgeny Morozov
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy. We were promised that... -
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.70** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.The story begins in an... -
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008 by Clive James 9781509824571
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65Selecting the very best of his work from over fifty years, Opal Sunset demonstrates Clive James as one of the most versatile and accomplished poets of the past half-century.Whether dealing in the... -
The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day by Roy Hattersley
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed... -
The Book of My Enemy by Clive James 9781447248323
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.66Taking the very best, funniest and most heartfelt of his work from 1958-2003, The Book of My Enemy is the second volume of collected poems from much-loved poet, broadcaster and author of Unreliable... -
The Internet is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen 9781782393405
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives. By tracing the history of... -
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane 9780393088816
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €24.57The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life... -
The Sacred Neuron: Extraordinary New Discoveries Linking Science and Religion by John Bowker 9781845113995
Booksplease Price: €28.33Why do we think that things happen in the way that they do? Why do we think that some things are true, and other things false? Why do we maintain that some things are good, and other things evil?... -
Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography by Tom Jones
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Discover the remarkably honest and captivating story of one of the world's greatest ever singing talents, Sir Tom Jones 'Brilliantly told' SUNDAY TIMES 'A terrific, star-studded journey' DAILY... -
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good by James Davies
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed - 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year - and why, without solid scientific... -
What's Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.70A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'History that reads like biography that reads like a novel - a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays...