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Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good by James Davies
Booksplease Price: $13.07Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed - 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year - and why, without solid scientific... -
What's Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $17.53A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'History that reads like biography that reads like a novel - a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays... -
Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013.At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained... -
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT AND FLASH BOYS'A gripping account of how two psychologists reshaped the way we think ... What a story it is' Sunday Times 'You'll... -
The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko 9780300269871
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $28.33Mark Rothko's classic book on artistic practice, ideals, and philosophy, now with an expanded introduction and an afterword by Makoto Fujimura Stored in a New York City warehouse for many years... -
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton 9780691175904
Booksplease Price: $29.19The risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our... -
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.09'The physicist transforming how we see the universe' (Financial Times)'An utter joy' (Adam Rutherford)'A hugely engaging book... Rovelli is a charming, thought-provoking tour guide' (Manjit Kumar... -
A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year by Allie Esiri
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $23.48Allie Esiri's beautiful gift anthology, A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year, is a definitive collection of nursery rhymes, with enchanting illustrations by Emily Faccini. The book includes... -
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06'Forget geek stereotypes. Parsons' life seems straight out of a Hollywood thriller ... Pendle's book leaves us with a taste of genius's energy and fragility' Los Angeles Magazine'You couldn't make it... -
The River in the Sky by Clive James
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64A single book-length poem, The River in the Sky sees Clive James face up to his final moments of life with all the wisdom, lightly-worn erudition and good humour that defined his extraordinary career... -
Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity by Nick Spencer 9780281090037
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.37Could science one day 'defeat death'? What would alien contact mean for humanity? Has medicine finally found a cure for sadness? Will AI replace us? For too long, the 'science and religion'... -
Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World by Tim Gregory 9781847928085
Booksplease Price: $27.30What if climate change isn't an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?'Fascinating' JAMES O'BRIEN'So interesting ... it'll answer all our questions' JEREMY VINE 'Thrilling...vividly... -
Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car by Nancy A. Nichols 9781639365593
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $38.81From the adolescent thrill of getting a driver's license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson 9780141988511
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The #1 Sunday Times bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times) - now in paperback.How should we live properly in a world of chaos and... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James 9781529028850
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the... -
The Dark Net Jamie Bartlett 9780099592020
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89From the creator of hit podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen______________________________Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder.The Dark Net is just a click away.Beyond the familiar online world that most of us... -
The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is? by Nick Lane
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth-and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.53Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the... -
A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer Doudna
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89'The most important advance of our era. One of the pioneers of the field describes the exciting hunt for the key breakthrough and what it portends for our future' Walter IsaacsonWorld-famous... -
Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World by Tim Gregory 9781847928078
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.82What if climate change isn't an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?Sunday Times Book of the Year'Fascinating' JAMES O'BRIEN'Thrilling...vividly written, filled with fascinating facts,... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.10The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should... -
Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity Nick Spencer 9780281090044
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.35Could science one day 'defeat death'? What would alien contact mean for humanity? Has medicine finally found a cure for sadness? Will AI replace us? For too long, the 'science and religion'... -
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli 9780141984964
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROne of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade'Captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful. . . Rovelli is a wonderfully humane, gentle and witty guide for he... -
Injury Time by Clive James
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.18The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work:... -
How To Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates 9780241579602
Booksplease Price: $32.70The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from... -
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World by Tim Marshall
Booksplease Price: $22.95THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF 2023 A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023 Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the... -
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.93In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate... -
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates 9781802060522
Booksplease Price: $17.96The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from... -
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are by Robert Plomin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'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... -
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Sunday Times*'This is empirical... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech by Jamie Susskind
RRP: $24.36Booksplease Price: $18.31Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? ... -
If Science is to Save Us by Rees 9781509554201
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.29There has never been a time when 'following the science' has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor... -
On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition by Harry G. Frankfurt 9780691276786
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.11Over one million copies sold worldwideThe international and #1 New York Times bestsellerThe anniversary edition of the acclaimed book that reveals why bullshit is more dangerous than lyingOne of the... -
If Science is to Save Us Martin Rees 9781509572298
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.29There has never been a time when 'following the science' has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor... -
Terrors and Experts by Adam Phillips 9780674874800
Booksplease Price: $53.16Iris Murdoch once suggested that to understand any philosopher's work we must ask what he or she is frightened of. To understand any psychoanalyst's work--both as a clinician and as a writer--we... -
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World – A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Tim Marshall 9781783967247
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.86THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF 2023 A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023 Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the... -
In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World by Tom Holland
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'A stunning blockbuster' Robert Fisk'A brilliant tour de force of revisionist scholarship and thrilling storytelling' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A compelling detective... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech Jamie Susskind (Barrister, Barrister, Littleton Chambers) 9780198825616
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $36.50Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how... -
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF HELGOLAND AND THE ORDER OF TIME'The perfect antidote to the fluff and nonsense around right now. Learn how the world is and how you might just fit in'... -
Double Blind Edward St Aubyn 9781787300255
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $34.73From the author of the internationally acclaimed Patrick Melrose books: a major new novel exploring some of the biggest ideas and most pressing questions of our times.'Both moving and so funny I had...