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The Story of the Brain in 10½ Cells by Richard Wingate
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.92There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. Each cell possesses a mysterious beauty, with branching, intricate... -
The Flame of Reason: Clear Thinking for the Twenty-First Century Christer Sturmark 9781803280981
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.84A passionate, highly accessible clarion call to a world dangerously threatened by irrational superstitions of all kinds. 'Truly a book for our time' Steven Pinker 'In Sweden's public square,... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini 9781783788538
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the world? How to Think Like A Philosopher is a revelatory exploration of... -
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good... -
How Babies Think: The Science of Childhood by Alison Gopnik
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A cutting-edge exploration of what evolutionary psychology is teaching us of the development and learning of children, in the tradition of Matt Ridley's The Red Queen and Steven Pinker's The Language... -
Writing with Style: The Economist Guide by Lane Greene 9781800810068
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD Why are the best words short and old? Why are full stops a writer's best friend? How can we simplify, then exaggerate? And what exactly are dangling modifiers? ... -
Open: The Story Of Human Progress by Johan Norberg 9781786497185
Booksplease Price: £19.04AN 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... -
Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference Dr William MacAskill 9781783353293
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the Sunday Times bestselling author, the 10th anniversary edition of Doing Good Better: a radical, reassuring reassessment of how we can most effectively help others in an era of global... -
War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Insightful and immersive' Sunday Times'An intellectual non-fiction thriller' Financial TimesA riveting expose of the hidden philosophical movement that drives the populist right around the... -
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code by Michael McCullough
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.80Why do we give a damn about strangers? Altruism is unique to the human species. It is also one of the great evolutionary puzzles, and we may be on the brink of solving it. It turns out that,... -
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Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill 9781783350513 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.12A radical reassessment of how we can most effectively help others by a rising star of philosophy and leading social entrepreneur.'A surprising and often counterintuitive look at the best ways to make... -
The New Celebrity Scientists: Out of the Lab and into the Limelight by Declan Fahy 9781442233423
Booksplease Price: £47.05A new cultural icon strode the world stage at the turn of the twenty-first century: the celebrity scientist, as comfortable in Vanity Fair and Vogue as Smithsonian. Declan Fahy profiles eight of... -
Fair Shot by Chris Hughes 9781408899816
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes makes the case that one percenters like him should pay their fortune forward in a radically simple way: a guaranteed income for working people The first half of... -
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... -
Plain Words by Rebecca Gowers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Be short, be simple, be human.'When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its... -
The Brain: A simple guide to the world's most complex machine by Marco Magrini
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99"Congratulations on the purchase of this exclusive product, tailor-made just for you. It will provide you with years of continuous service."The brain is one of nature's most miraculous but... -
Scots: The Mither Tongue Billy Kay 9781845960520
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Scots: The Mither Tongue is a classic of contemporary Scottish culture and essential reading for those who care about their country's identity in the twenty-first century. It is a passionately... -
Lost Boys: Undercover Adventures in Toxic Masculinity by James Bloodworth 9781786499790
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Rarely has there been a more confusing time to be a man. This uncertainty has spawned an array of bizarre and harmful underground subcultures, collectively known as the manosphere, as men search for... -
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: £9.26'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... -
Books do Furnish a Life: An electrifying celebration of science writing by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A rich feast of his essays, reviews, forewords, squibs and conversations, in which talent and passion are married to deep knowledge.' Matt Ridley'Enjoy the unfailing clarity of his thought and... -
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.18TLS 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... -
The Animal and the Idea: The Battle for Meaning in Our Divided Selves by John Duncan 9780753560938
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.83Why are we so often in conflict-arguing with ourselves and with others, uncertain over who we are and what we need from our lives?In The Animal and The Thinker, the world-leading, pioneering... -
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 Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see... -
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... -
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... -
Books do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £29.12A SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF 2021'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins made simple. It... -
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23SHORTLISTED 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... -
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are by Robert Plomin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'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: £8.42'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... -
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... -
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova 9780857867278
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.59No 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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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... -
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... -
Open: The Story of Human Progress by Johan Norberg 9781786497161
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.37AN 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...