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The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96'The Web of Meaning is both a profound personal meditation on human existence and a tour-de-force weaving together of historic and contemporary world-wide secular and spiritual thought on the deepest... -
Thinking in Systems: a Primer by Donella H. Meadows
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $17.85The classic book on systems thinking, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! This is a fabulous book. This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing. Forbes ... -
This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto by Suketu Mehta
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City.Drawing on his family's own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting... -
Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Prof. Dacher Keltner 9781802061161
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a ground-breaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of aweSocial psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to... -
Why We’re Getting Poorer: Economics for an Unfair World Cahal Moran 9780008637996
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us. 'A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are... -
History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity by Roman Krznaric 9780753559642
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of... -
Give People Money: The simple idea to solve inequality and revolutionise our lives Annie Lowrey 9780753545775
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award!Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it?Imagine if every month the government deposited... -
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns 9781662601842
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $35.95"A powerful case for limitarianism-the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-read!" -Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the... -
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy 9780141997179
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and... -
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability Yanis Varoufakis 9781784704117
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.45**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** ... -
The Globotics Upheaval: Globalisation, Robotics and the Future of Work Richard Baldwin 9781474609036
Booksplease Price: $25.77'A manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity' THE SUNDAY TIMESWe stand on the edge of a new era that will bring change to our world on a par with the Industrial Revolution. Automation,... -
Peak Human: What We Can Learn From History’s Greatest Civilizations Johan Norberg 9781838957292
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.98All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and... -
Peak Human: What We Can Learn From History’s Greatest Civilizations by Johan Norberg 9781805463870
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $28.52All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and... -
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Punchy, funny and invigorating ... Pinker is the high priest of rationalism' Sunday Times 'If you've ever considered taking drugs to make yourself smarter, read... -
Impact: Reshaping capitalism to drive real change by Ronald Cohen
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $28.83Changing the world and making a profit can go hand in hand.The Bestselling Business Book The Financial Times Best Economics Books of 2020"A Must Read Book From The Godfather Of Impact Investing" -... -
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Manifesto by Dale Vince 9781529107098 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $10.21"Revealing, inspiring and funny. This book is a joy to romp through, which is good, because its final chapter is the important truth we all need to hear and understand if we are to survive this mess... -
Nature's Echo: Harnessing ancient feedback loops to heal a changing planet by Thomas Crowther 9781911709718
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $31.52Nature wants to heal, and we can help.When Earth's ecosystems fall out of harmony, the damage can spiral out of control. But what if we could help nature to regain its balance?As a leading ecologist,... -
Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore 9780141192970
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism,... -
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto by KOHEI SAITO 9781662602368
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $39.52"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal." -Publishers Weekly, (starred review)"Saito's clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and... -
The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $20.98Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains why we are experiencing such destructively high levels of inequality - and why this is not inevitable The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best... -
Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World by William Davies
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64A dazzlingly original analysis of how emotions shape the times we are living in by one of Britain's most exciting thinkers'A masterpiece' New York Times'Insightful and well-written' Yuval Noah... -
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya 9781529156164
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12A NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022"Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but,... -
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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto by Suketu Mehta 9781787331426 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $8.90An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City.Drawing on his family's own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting... -
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No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics by Naomi Klein 9780241320884 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $8.72**The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller**'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy'As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones'An absolute must-read. This book is... -
The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World by Roman Krznaric
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.37'This is the book our children's children will thank us for reading' - The Edge, U2How can we be good ancestors?From the first seeds sown thousands of years ago, to the construction of the cities we... -
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this... -
Everyday Utopia: In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home by Kristen Ghodsee 9781847927170
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.00A practical and uplifting vision of better ways to live together, own property, have families and raise children, from the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism.'Kristen Ghodsee is back... -
Are You Thinking Clearly?: Why you aren't and what you can do about it Matt Warren 9781529388718
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'An endlessly fascinating tour of the many different factors influencing our decision-making and reasoning' David Robson, author of The Expectation Effect'An eye-opening and engaging richness of... -
Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics by Matthew Goodwin
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.25*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A Financial Times 2023 book to watch*'Forceful ... The fundamental thrust of Goodwin's argument is right ... a new centre ground of British politics is being formed -... -
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.70The 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... -
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.07'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary... -
Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change by Sir Ronald Cohen 9781529981759
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Changing the world and making a profit can go hand in hand.The Bestselling Business Book The Financial Times Best Economics Books of 2020Updated with a new chapter"A Must Read Book From The Godfather... -
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Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson 9781784742454 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $5.19A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.'One of the most important books of the year' Guardian'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing... -
The Anthropocene Reviewed: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by John Green
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological... -
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38*The International Bestseller*'Superb, hugely enjoyable ... a spirited examination of the hubris and hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world' Aditya Chakrabortty,... -
The Compassion Project: A case for hope and humankindness from the town that beat loneliness Julian Abel 9781783253364
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38'A wonderful book' - Dr. Rangan Chatterjee'Highly convincing' - Daily Express'Pioneering' - The Telegraph'The strength of the book lies in its description of how community life can have a... -
The New Breed: How to Think About Robots by Kate Darling
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'A must read for anyone interested in the emerging ethics of robotics' Irene M. PepperbergA bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship between robots and humans based on our history with... -
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond 9780141998794
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EvictedThe United States is the richest... -
Friday is the New Saturday: How a Four-Day Week Can Save Capitalism by Dr Pedro Gomes 9781803996615
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55THE FIVE-DAY WORKING WEEK MUST CHANGE: HERE'S HOW.'Fingers crossed that this book will shake up the five-day working week.' - Sir Christopher Pissarides, 2010 Nobel Laureate in EconomicsFriday is the... -
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns by Kerry Hudson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.30A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.'Totally engrossing and deliciously feisty' Bernardine Evaristo'Staggering... An absolute inspiration' Douglas Stewart,...