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The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.12TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a... -
Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behaviour Moshe Hoffman 9781529376821
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60'Packed with fresh and clear insights that will change the way you think about the world' Uri Gneezy'One of those books that you pick up and then can't put down' Steve Stewart-Williams'This is a book... -
Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behaviour by Moshe Hoffman 9781529376845
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.04'Packed with fresh and clear insights that will change the way you think about the world' Uri Gneezy'One of those books that you pick up and then can't put down' Steve Stewart-Williams'This is a book... -
The Mind is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and The Improvised Mind by Nick Chater
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A radical reinterpretation of how your mind works - and why it could change your life 'An astonishing achievement. Nick Chater has blown my mind' Tim Harford'A total assault on all lingering... -
The Frighteners: Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death & Gore Peter Laws 9781837733446
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the mind behind YouTube sensation Into the Fog with Peter Laws.The Frighteners follows the quest of Peter Laws, a Baptist minister with a penchant for the macabre, to understand why so many... -
The Number Bias: How numbers dominate our world and why that's a problem we need to fix Sanne Blauw 9781529342772
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40NOW WITH NEW PROLOGUE ABOUT DEMYSTIFYING CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS, DONALD TRUMP AND WHY STATISTICS MATTER MORE THAN EVER'The Number Bias combines vivid storytelling with authoritative analysis to deliver... -
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for... -
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better by Will Storr
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.94SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book' Sunday Times 'The best book on the craft... -
Make, Think, Imagine by John Browne
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 __________________ 'A much-needed antidote to pervasive pessimism' Financial Times 'An ode to the ways in... -
Books do Furnish a Life: An electrifying celebration of science writing by Richard Dawkins 9781787633698
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.51At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to the future of our planet, than ever before. It really matters that its discoveries and truths should... -
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer 'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times 'The Dutch... -
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are by Robert Plomin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Mind-blowing ... It is a hugely important book ... His story is crucial' Matt Ridley, The TimesOne of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what makes... -
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'A statistical national treasure' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2'Required reading for all politicians, journalists, medics and anyone who tries to influence people (or is influenced) by statistics. A tour... -
The Penguin Guide to Punctuation by R. L. Trask
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Penguin Guide to Punctuation is indispensable for anyone who needs to get to grips with using punctuation in their written work. Whether you are puzzled by colons and semicolons, unsure of where... -
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence Jonathan Sacks 9781473616530
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Despite predictions of continuing secularisation, the twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism and violence in the name of God.In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan... -
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial... -
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova 9780857867278
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95No fictional character is more renowned for his extraordinary powers of mind than Sherlock Holmes. But what exactly is it that sets him apart as a detective of the highest order, and can we harness... -
The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church's Apologetic Witness by Joshua D. Chatraw 9781540969521
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.11Christianity Today 2024 Book Award Finalist (Apologetics/Evangelism) Outreach 2024 Resource of the Year (Apologetics) What can we learn from Augustine about apologetics? This book shows how... -
How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion by David DeSteno
Booksplease Price: £12.49Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, pioneering research psychologist David DeSteno shows why religious practices and rituals are so beneficial to those who follow them-and to anyone, regardless of... -
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Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Jonathan Sacks 9781473616530 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.05Despite predictions of continuing secularisation, the twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism and violence in the name of God.In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan... -
Open: The Story of Human Progress by Johan Norberg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.05AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARHumanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas or people - has led to stunning achievements in... -
Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Prof. Dacher Keltner 9781802061161
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From 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... -
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us? What does it tell us about how our species lives, dies, works or has sex?The... -
Open: The Story of Human Progress by Johan Norberg 9781786497161
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.16AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARHumanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas or people - has led to stunning achievements in... -
Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Oliver Kamm 9781780227955
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Are standards of English alright - or should that be all right?To knowingly split an infinitive or not to?And what about ending a sentence with preposition, or for that matter beginning one with... -
Animal as Machine: The Quest to Understand How Animals Work and Adapt by Michel Anctil 9780228010531
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.60Through the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts... -
Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us by Avi Tuschman 9781616148232
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.48The first book to tell the natural history of political orientations. Our Political Natureis the first book to reveal the hidden roots of our most deeply held moral values. It shows how political... -
Attention Seeking by Adam Phillips
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from Britain's leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness.What we find of interest may tell us more than we think..... -
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'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... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has declined by Joulia Smortchkova
Booksplease Price: £6.68Reasoning is the critical thinking skill concerned with the production of arguments: making them coherent, consistent, and well-supported; and responding to opposing positions where necessary. The... -
Peak Human: What We Can Learn From History’s Greatest Civilizations by Johan Norberg 9781805463870
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.50All 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... -
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The Penguin Guide to Punctuation by R. L. Trask 9780140513660 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.00The Penguin Guide to Punctuation is indispensable for anyone who needs to get to grips with using punctuation in their written work. Whether you are puzzled by colons and semicolons, unsure of where... -
Peak Human: What We Can Learn From History’s Greatest Civilizations Johan Norberg 9781838957292
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.25All 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... -
Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English by Oliver Kamm 9781780227955 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Are standards of English alright - or should that be all right?To knowingly split an infinitive or not to?And what about ending a sentence with preposition, or for that matter beginning one with... -
Letters To My Grandchildren by Tony Benn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it.The past is the... -
On Wanting to Change by Adam Phillips
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through... -
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel EverettWhat... -
The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding by Dan Sperber
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23If reason is what makes us human, then why do we humans often behave so irrationally? Taking us from desert ants to Aristotle, cognitive psychologists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber explore how our... -
The Future of War: A History by Sir Lawrence Freedman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23For as long as there have been wars there have been fears about the next war. Where are the new dangers? What is the best defence? How might peace come about? This is the history of how over the... -
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 9781802061567
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'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...