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Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Encompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, or genetics on the social and economic fates of... -
Power Trip: The Story of Energy by Michael E. Webber
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58For centuries, human activity has been dominated by the need to fuel human civilization. Energy is unique: no other physical resource in society has had such a wide-ranging impact on our ecosystems,... -
What Doesn't Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth by Professor Stephen Joseph
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $18.40For the past twenty years, pioneering psychologist Stephen Joseph has worked with survivors of trauma. His studies have yielded a startling discovery: that a wide range of traumatic events--from... -
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672499Author Eugenia ChengFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.79This revised edition of Applied Economics is about fifty percent larger than the first edition. It now includes a chapter on the economics of immigration and new sections of other chapters on such... -
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change by Thor Hanson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672390Author Thor HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig by Mark Essig
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing,... -
Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist by Chad Orzel
Booksplease Price: $16.36Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea... -
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker 9781541698970
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541698970Author Adam BeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin 9781541672796
Booksplease Price: $55.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672796Author Sean McMeekinFormat HardbackPage Count 864Imprint -
Symbiotic Planet: A New Look At Evolution by Lynn Margulis 9780465072729
Booksplease Price: $18.97Although Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things,... -
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam Becker 9781541619593
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $27.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541619593Author Adam BeckerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint -
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Sex Sells!: The Media's Journey From Repression To Obsession by Rodger Streitmatter 9780813342481 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $4.69In 1953 when Lucille Ball became pregnant, the censors required the characters on "I Love Lucy" to say only that the wacky redhead was "in the family way"-they feared the word "pregnant" might... -
The Art of Biblical Poetry by Robert Alter
Booksplease Price: $24.20Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only a human creation but a work of literary art... -
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.59On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The... -
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83In the age of globalization, some claim that where you live doesn't matter: Alaska, Idaho, and Alabama are interchangeable. The world is, after all, flat. Not so fast. Place, argues the great... -
Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir by Peter Balakian
Booksplease Price: $19.47In this tenth anniversary edition of his award-winning memoir, New York Times bestselling author Peter Balakian has expanded his compelling story about growing up in the baby-boom suburbs of the... -
Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare by Dorothy Roberts
Booksplease Price: $29.68Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis- the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.S. foster care system and its effects on black communities... -
The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning by Daniel Bor
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.45Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is... -
Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $25.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674899Author Lucy CookeFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint -
For Profit: A History of Corporations by William Magnuson 9781541601574
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541601574Author William MagnusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint
The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton 9781541603646
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $20.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603646Author Roderick BeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint
Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye by Michael Dyson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.76The best-selling Motown artist of all time, Marvin Gaye defined the hopes and shattered dreams of an entire generation. Twenty years after his tragic death-he was shot by his father-his relevance...
Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant by Andrea Dworkin 9780465017546
Booksplease Price: $19.67Always innovative, often provocative, and frequently polarizing, Andrea Dworkin has carved out a unique position as one of the women's movement's most influential figures, from the early days of...
Reflections Of A Radical Moderate by Elliot Richardson 9780813397849
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.55Written by one of America's most distinguished public servants, Reflections of a Radical Moderate offers a clear-eyed and steady analysis of the state of our democracy and the growth of cynicism...
The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World by Edward Shawcross 9781541674202
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $17.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674202Author Edward ShawcrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint
Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games by Marcus Du Sautoy 9781541606333
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541606333Author Marcus Du SautoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint![Al-jazeera: The Story Of The Network That Is Rattling Governments And Redefining Modern Journalism Updated With A New Prologue And Epilogue by Mohammed El-Nawawy 9780813341491 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9715043/10731712/9780813341491__63517.1781377050.jpg?c=1 "Al-jazeera: The Story Of The Network That Is Rattling Governments And Redefining Modern Journalism Updated With A New Prologue And Epilogue by Mohammed El-Nawawy 9780813341491 [USED COPY]")
Al-jazeera: The Story Of The Network That Is Rattling Governments And Redefining Modern Journalism Updated With A New Prologue And Epilogue by Mohammed El-Nawawy 9780813341491 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $2.67Al-Jazeera, the independent, all-Arab television news network based in Qatar, emerged as ambassador to the Arab world in the events following September 11, 2001. Arabic for "the island," Al-Jazeera...
EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma by Francine Shapiro
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05When EMDR was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades. In the twenty years since, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing...
Conquests and Cultures: An International History by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around...
Children of Ash and ELM: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541601116Author Neil PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint
Basic Freud by Michael Kahn
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.08In Basic Freud, noted psychologist Michael Kahn shows that, even in the age of psychopharmaceuticals and cognitive therapy, Freud's insights into the unconscious remain unsurpassed tools for...
Too Scared To Cry: Psychic Trauma In Childhood by Lenore Terr
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.66In 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of...
Justice, Gender, and the Family by Susan Okin
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.26In the first feminist critique of modern political theory, Okin shows how the failure to apply theories of justice to the family not only undermines our most cherished democratic values but has led...
Letters to a Young Journalist by Samuel G. Freedman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.99It is no secret that journalism's mission is seriously imperiled these days, but in Letters to a Young Journalist , Samuel G. Freedman shows that the craft is not only worth pursuing but more...
Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government--and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency by William G. Howell
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from the tax code to climate change, our political institutions cannot deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why the...
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy 9781541675643
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541675643Author Serhii PlokhyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World by Jack Kelly 9780465037223
Booksplease Price: $17.61When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather...
Mad Men And Medusas by Juliet Mitchell 9780465046140
Booksplease Price: $25.53This worthy successor to Juliet Mitchell's pathbreaking Psychoanalysis and Feminism is both a defense of the long-dismissed diagnosis of hysteria as a centerpiece of the human condition and a plea...
The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe by Shing-Tung Yau 9781541604292
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.29One of the preeminent mathematicians of the past half century shows how physics and math were combined to give us the theory of gravity and the dizzying array of ideas and insights that has come from...