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Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It by David Graeber
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Explosive' John McDonnell, New Statesman, Books of the Year'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesFT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018, THE TIMES BOOK OF... -
Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making psychologist and behavioural expert Gerd Gigerenzer reveals the secrets of fast and effective decision-making. A sportsman can catch a ball... -
The New Nomads by Felix Marquardt
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming... -
AIQ: How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world by Nick Polson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41____________________What is AIQ? How does it work? Most importantly, how can it help us? Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and user-friendly look at artificial intelligence and how to... -
The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place by Felix Marquardt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming... -
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.00The international bestseller'A manual for thinking clearly in an uncertain world. Read it.' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow_________________________What if we could improve our... -
Why Wall Street Matters by William D. Cohan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23If you like your smartphone or your widescreen TV, your car or your pension, then, whether you know it or not, you are a fan of Wall Street.William D. Cohan, bestselling author of House of Cards, has... -
Risk: A User's Guide by General Stanley McChrystal 9780241481936
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Brilliant and highly entertaining, this book is essential reading for every leader, regardless of age or experience.' - Admiral William McRaven, author of Make Your Bed--------What if you could... -
Risk: A User's Guide by General Stanley McChrystal
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.03'Brilliant and highly entertaining, this book is essential reading for every leader, regardless of age or experience.' - Admiral William McRaven, author of Make Your Bed -------- What if you could... -
China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business by Edward Tse
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In China's Disruptors, Edward Tse takes an unprecedented inside look at rapidly emerging Chinese entrepreneurs and their game-changing impact on both China and the world.In September 2014, Chinese... -
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A prophetic warning against the foolishness of crusades, John Gray's Black Mass challenges our belief in human progress. Our conventional view of history is wrong. It is founded on a pernicious myth... -
Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51IAN BREMMER WAS NAMED LINKEDIN'S #1 TOP INFLUENCER in 2017--------------'Required reading to help repair a world in pieces and build a world at peace' - Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary... -
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street: The New York Times bestseller Bill Gates calls 'the best business book I've ever read' by John Brooks
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.38'The best business book I've ever read.' Bill Gates, Wall Street Journal'The Michael Lewis of his day.' New York TimesWhat do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast... -
A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking: From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics James M. Russell 9781472143686
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a... -
Anthro-Vision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life by Gillian Tett
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81The Times and Financial Times Book of the YearA revelatory model that explains how we buy, sell, work and live.'Absolutely brilliant.' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow___Meet the... -
What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night by John Brockman 9780062296238
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried... -
This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future by John Brockman
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68"This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world."-Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel... -
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them) Tom Chivers 9781474619974
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious... -
What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything by John Brockman 9780061686542
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and... -
Black Swan: Economic Crises, Volume I by Bernur Açikgöz 9789811952548
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book presents to the reader the economic, fiscal and financial crises in world history that have had a great impact on the entire world and the fiscal measures taken by governments to combat... -
Black Swan: Economic Crises, Volume 1 by Bernur Acikgoez 9789811952517
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book presents to the reader the economic, fiscal and financial crises in world history that have had a great impact on the entire world and the fiscal measures taken by governments to combat... -
The Little Book of Bullshit: A Load of Lies too Good to be True by Orange Hippo! 9781800695450
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54The Golden Age of Bullshit.Welcome to the golden age of bullshit, a wiki-wild world knee deep in half-truths and alternative facts, spin and bias, influence and insincerity, little white lies and... -
Winning in the Digital Age: Seven Building Blocks of a Successful Digital Transformation by Nitin Seth 9780670095421
Booksplease Price: £23.67The practical handbook for understanding and winning in the post-COVID digital age and becoming a 21st century leader.For every enterprise and its leaders, the digital age is a roller-coaster ride... -
False Dawn: The Delusions Of Global Capitalism by John Gray 9781847081322
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In the midst of the current financial crisis, John Gray revisits his brilliant polemic against the forces of global capitalism and deregulation. Written over ten years ago, False Dawn is a remarkably... -
The Deals that Made the World by Jacques Peretti 9781473646421 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.70'The book to read' GQ'A revelatory book' John Lewis-StempelWhile the laws that guide our lives are written by the politicians we elect, much of the world around us - from the food we eat to the... -
The Deals that Made the World Jacques Peretti 9781473646421
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.88'The book to read' GQ'A revelatory book' John Lewis-StempelWhile the laws that guide our lives are written by the politicians we elect, much of the world around us - from the food we eat to the... -
Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction John Brockman 9780062258540
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.88Unlock your mind From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries of rational thought,... -
Dark Pools: The rise of A.I. trading machines and the looming threat to Wall Street by Scott Patterson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots - many so self-directed that humans can't predict what they'll do next.It's... -
It's On You: How the Rich and Powerful Have Convinced Us that We're to Blame for Society's Deepest Problems by Nick Chater 9780753562154
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37'A stirring call to action' - TIM HARFORD'A masterclass' - DARON ACEMOGLU'An excellent book' - NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEBTwo decades ago, behavioral economics burst from academia to the halls of power, on... -
Reputation: What It Is and Why It Matters by Gloria Origgi
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05A compelling exploration of how reputation affects every aspect of contemporary lifeReputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded... -
Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In this myth-busting book Nouriel Roubini shows that everything we think about economics is wrong. Financial crises are not unpredictable 'black swans', but an inherent part of capitalism. Only by... -
The Time Paradox: Using the New Psychology of Time to Your Advantage by Philip G. Zimbardo
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Every significant choice, every important decision we make, is determined by our perception of time. This is the most influential force in our lives, yet we are virtually unaware of it. In this... -
Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life by Paul Dolan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERHow can we make it easier to be happy? Using the latest cutting-edge research, Professor Paul Dolan reveals that wellbeing isn't about how we think - it's about what we do... -
Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them by Nouriel Roubini 9781529373806
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A Financial Times Economics Book of the YearA Times Business Book of the YearA Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year'People who like horror films will love this book' Financial... -
Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life by Paul Dolan 9780141977539 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.14THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERHow can we make it easier to be happy? Using the latest cutting-edge research, Professor Paul Dolan reveals that wellbeing isn't about how we think - it's about what we do... -
X-Events: Complexity Overload and the Collapse of Everything by John L. Casti 9780062088291
Booksplease Price: £10.42The modern industrialized world is a complex system on a scale never before witnessed in the history of humankind. Technologically dependent, globally interconnected, it offers seemingly limitless... -
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58Fascinating and provocative, Ariely's The Truth About Dishonesty is an insightful and brilliantly researched take on cheating, deception and willpower. Internationally bestselling author Ariely pulls... -
Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance by Paul Wilmott 9780470748756
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.49Getting agreement between finance theory and finance practice is important like never before. In the last decade the derivatives business has grown to a staggering size, such that the outstanding... -
Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Blake Masters
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING?The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes Anthony Gottlieb 9780300180473
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century According to the philosopher...