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Woman with the Iceberg Eyes: Oriana F. Wilson by Katherine MacInnes 9780750991537
Booksplease Price: €30.50Captain Scott's expedition to the Antarctic, the most famous story of exploration in the world, played out on the great ice stage in the south. Oriana Wilson, wife of Scott's best friend and fellow... -
With Scott in the Antarctic by Isobel Williams 9780752452463
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14Edward Wilson (1872-1912) accompanied Robert Falcon Scott on both his celebrated Antarctic voyages: the Discovery Expedition of 1901-1904 and the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913. Wilson served as... -
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species Rob Dunn 9781399800129
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.94Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees to enormous one-crop fields, we continue to try to... -
All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformation through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Victoria to the World by Pete Minard 9781469651606
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €76.30Species acclimatization-the organized introduction of organisms to a new region-is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to... -
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species Rob Dunn 9781399800136
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that... -
All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformation through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World by Pete Minard 9781469651613
Booksplease Price: €41.79Species acclimatization-the organized introduction of organisms to a new region-is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to... -
An Honorable Man by Paul Vidich 9781843449577
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.86Washington D.C., 1953. The Cold War is heating up: McCarthyism, with all its fear and demagoguery, is raging in the nation's capital, and Joseph Stalin's death has left a dangerous power vacuum in... -
An Honorable Man by Paul Vidich 9781843449584
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Washington D.C., 1953. The Cold War is heating up: McCarthyism, with all its fear and demagoguery, is raging in the nation's capital, and Joseph Stalin's death has left a dangerous power vacuum in... -
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson 9780141986340
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98'An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey SachsThe legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most... -
Nimrod Illustrated: Pictures from Lieutenant Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition by M. David Wilson
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €52.74To celebrate the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration comes "Nimrod Illustrated". The book is a remarkable collage of expedition photographs,... -
A History of Cheltenham in 100 Objects by Steven Blake 9780752461199
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08Famous for its spa heritage, Regency architecture, schools and colleges and annual Festivals, Cheltenham was also once home to many notable inhabitants, including Gustav Holst, composer of 'The... -
Is a Coincidence of Coincidences just a Coincidence?: Following Edward A Wilson into the Unknown by John Flux 9781901037272
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €47.25Following Edward Wilson into the Unknown, Dr Edward Wilson English Polar Explorer, Ornithologist, Physician and artist died in Antarctica in 1912. The discovery of a bird painting by Edward... -
Antarctica, Art and Archive by Polly Gould
Booksplease Price: €92.43Antarctica, that icy wasteland and extreme environment at the ends of the earth, was - at the beginning of the 20th century - the last frontier of Victorian imperialism, a territory subjected to... -
Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects. (MPB-12), Volume 12 by George F. Oster 9780691023618
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €73.49In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of... -
The Resurgence of Evolutionary Biology: Ethical and Political Implications by Terry Hoy 9780739102633
Booksplease Price: €96.07In The Resurgence of Evolutionary Biology Terry Hoy charts the intersection between political theory and the intellectual debate over human evolution. The book deals with the contemporary... -
Parallel Lines: A Journey from Childhood to Belsen Peter Lantos 9781905147571
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing" OBSERVER"A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's If This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON"A child's clear-eyed journey to hell" ANNE... -
The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
Booksplease Price: €28.61Business is broken and can't be fixed because today's 'managerial' capitalism has grown hopelessly out of touch with the people it should be serving. This fascinating book explores this chasm between... -
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The Great Explorers: Forty of the Greatest Men and Women Who Changed Our Perception of the World by Robin Hanbury-Tenison 9780500293836 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €3.20What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How do they survive at the limits of human endurance? Who... -
Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business by John A. Quelch 9780190235123
Booksplease Price: €79.53The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of... -
Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet: Analysis, Aesthetics, and Experience of a 20th-Century Masterpiece by Ray Fields 9781538172278
Booksplease Price: €96.95Morton Feldman viewed Piano and String Quartet as his capstone work-the culminating example of the aesthetic that Feldman spent his life seeking. Written in 1985, the year before Feldman's death,... -
The Art of British Natural History: Images of Nature by Andrea Hart 9780565094232
Booksplease Price: €17.03For centuries the natural life of the British Isles has captured the imagination of both artists and scientists. The Art of British Natural History explores the many different ways in which Britain's... -
Jihadi:A Love Story by Yusuf Toropov 9781910633311
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07A former intelligence agent is accused of terrorism, and his memoir assessed by an eccentric, erratic psychologist to establish the reality of an event that changed everything ... A beautifully... -
The Last Great Quest: Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice by Max Jones
RRP: €16.05Booksplease Price: €14.13Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. On 1 November 1911, a British team set out on the gruelling 800-mile journey across the coldest and... -
Poetry, Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory by Chris Fitter 9780521673495
Booksplease Price: €57.43Why was the art of landscape painting invented in the fifth century BC, abandoned with the collapse of Rome, and revived again in the High Middle Ages? Did the Greeks, or the ancient Christians... -
Choice Matters: How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care) by Gordon Moore 9780190886134
Booksplease Price: €81.43The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out goods and services from music to mortgages. So what happens now that the revolution has come for healthcare? While... -
Science in Culture by Stephen R. Graubard 9781138532298
RRP: €115.42Booksplease Price: €107.91Twenty-five years ago, Gerald Holton's Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought introduced a wide audience to his ideas. Holton argued that from ancient times to the modern period, an astonishing... -
Science in Culture by Peter Galison 9780765806734
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €39.14Twenty-five years ago, Gerald Holton's Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought introduced a wide audience to his ideas. Holton argued that from ancient times to the modern period, an astonishing... -
Hernando Colon's New World of Books: Toward a Cartography of Knowledge by Jose Maria Perez Fernandez
Booksplease Price: €36.57The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colon,... -
Brand Meaning: Meaning, Myth and Mystique in Today's Brands Mark Batey (Independent Brand Consultant, USA) 9781138839427
Booksplease Price: €72.92This second edition of Brand Meaning lays out new territory for the understanding of how brands both acquire and provide meaning. The author draws on his experience with leading international... -
Remarkable Journeys of World War Two: A Collection of Untold Stories by Victoria Panton Bacon
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.91Those who lived through the Second World War have many stories of bravery, sadness, horror, doubt and longing. Inspired by conversations with veterans following the publication of her grandfather's... -
Abrupt Physics of Dying: One Man. An Oil Company. A Decision That Could by Paul E. Hardisty 9781910633052
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07When he is hijacked by Islamic terrorists, an oil company engineer is forced to investigate a mysterious illness afflicting a small Yemen village ... with shocking results. A stunning debut thriller... -
The Prime Minister's Affair: The gripping historical thriller based on real events Andrew Williams 9781529368260
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €16.96A compelling story of power, passion and intrigue based on real events, The Prime Minister's Affair is a terrific read - Nick Robinson, Presenter, BBC Today programme Andrew Williams has fashioned a... -
The Prime Minister's Affair by Andrew Williams 9781529368307
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.33The gripping and immersive historical thriller from the author of Witchfinder, based on the true events of a scandalous blackmail plot hidden in the shadows...'A compelling story of power, passion... -
The Great Swindle: Prize-winning historical fiction by a master of suspense by Pierre Lemaitre
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54Now a major French film Au revoir la-haut - Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irene and Camille."One of the most pleasurable reading experiences of recent years" -... -
Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006 by Edward O. Wilson 9780801883293
Booksplease Price: €56.74Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson is one of the leading biologists and philosophical thinkers of our time. In this compelling collection, Wilson's observations range from the tiny... -
The Licensed City: Regulating drink in Liverpool, 1830-1920 by David Beckingham
Booksplease Price: €42.58In nineteenth-century Britain few cities could rival Liverpool for recorded drunkenness. Civic pride at Liverpool's imperial influence was undercut by anxieties about social problems that could all... -
What the New Breed of CMOs Know That You Don't by MaryLee Sachs
Booksplease Price: €71.50This book should be viewed as a primer for any new or aspiring CMO, C-suite peer to marketing, or marketer looking to 'up their game', and as such it provides a range of ideas, concepts, approaches... -
Evolution of Fear by Paul E. Hardisty 9781910633243
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07Vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker is on the run, with a price on his head. When his lover, Rania, goes missing, he begins a terrifying search with unimaginable consequences... 'Hardisty... -
Midnight in Berlin by James MacManus
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.51Berlin, 1938. Newly-appointed military attache Noel Macrae and his extrovert wife Primrose arrive at the British Embassy. Prime Minister Chamberlain is intent on placating Nazi Germany, but Macrae is... -
Our Friends in Berlin by Anthony Quinn
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.51'A gripping espionage thriller' Observer London, 1941. The city is in blackout and an enemy is hiding in plain sight. Jack Hoste has become entangled in a national treachery. His mission: to locate...