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A Global History of the Developing World Christopher White (Marshall University, USA) 9780415692113
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29A Global History of the Developing World takes a sweeping look at the historical foundations of the problems of developing world society. Encompassing Asia, Latin America and Africa, the book... -
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is... -
Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Historians relying on written records can tell us nothing about the 99.9% of human evolution which preceded the invention of writing. It is the study of genetic variation, backed up by language and... -
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers... -
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg 9780141999043
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.67*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year*'Spectacular ... this work is planetary in scale' Independent'It offers real, rich hope' Observer, Books of the YearWe still have time... -
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus 9780140442175
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts... -
The Geek Manifesto: Why science matters by Mark Henderson 9780552165433
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, we need the experimental methods of science - the best tool humanity has yet developed for... -
Outcast: A History of Us Through Leprosy Oliver Basciano 9780571384303
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38A revelatory history of humanity - spanning thousands of years and ranging across the world - told through the lens of a misunderstood disease.'Remarkable . . . grippingly and humanely recounted.'... -
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The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer 9780141037202 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Chris Stringer's bestselling The Origin of our Species tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth. Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we... -
Cod by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? And yet this is precisely what Kurlansky has done' Express on SundayThe Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have... -
Blood of the Isles by Bryan Sykes
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today.In 54BC... -
Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre... -
Kolyma Tales by Varlan Shalanov
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these... -
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate... -
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But... -
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: How Interface proved that you can build a successful business without destroying the planet by Ray Anderson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46In 1994, Ray Anderson felt a 'spear in the chest': he realised that his company, billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer Interface, Inc, was plundering the environment with its unsustainable business... -
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true by Richard Dawkins 9780593066126
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.74What are things made of?What is the sun?Why is there night and day, winter and summer?Why do bad things happen?Are we alone?Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to... -
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Times A compelling history of catastrophes and their... -
The Marches by Rory Stewart
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Rory Stewart explores his love for the UK in this account of history, memory and landscape as he traverses the the borderlands between England and Scotland.'This beautifully written book is a... -
Almost Like A Whale: The Origin Of Species Updated by Steve Jones
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41In his new book, Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Before The Origin, biology was a set of unconnected facts... -
Accountable: How we Can Save Capitalism by Warren Valmanis
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38"Uses a combination of great stories and thoughtful analysis to suggest that we must find a way to change the purpose of our corporations if we are to build a society that works for all of us... -
A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than... -
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An intelligently provocative book about Darwin's 'other' theory discusses the curious ways in which sexual attraction has influenced the evolution of the human mind.Many aspects of the human mind... -
Plays by Anton Chekhov 9780140447330
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.11Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson, and an introduction by Richard Gilman in Penguin Classics... -
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The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true by Richard Dawkins 9780593066126 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £2.40What are things made of?What is the sun?Why is there night and day, winter and summer?Why do bad things happen?Are we alone?Throughout history people all over the world have invented stories to... -
Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction by Chris D. Thomas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE TIMES, ECONOMIST AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more hopeful... -
Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills by Neil Ansell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Deep Country is Neil Ansell's account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales.'I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is... -
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZEFrom the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is... -
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23James Lovelock's The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning is a prophetic message for mankind from one of the most influential scientists of our age. James Lovelock's Gaia theory, the idea that... -
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain by Chris Stringer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Chris Stringer's Homo Britannicus is the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps through to the present day. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like?... -
Diary Of An Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly... -
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 'Fascinating... -
Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy 9781804991893
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week'Superbly written..... -
Japanese No Dramas by Royall Tyler 9780140445398
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Japanese no theatre or the drama of 'perfected art' flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries largely through the genius of the dramatist Zeami. An intricate fusion of music, dance, mask,... -
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health by Daniel Lieberman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.88'Endlessly fascinating and full of surprises. Easily one of my books of the year' BILL BRYSONThe myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise: what our bodies really need, why it... -
The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays by J. M. Synge 9780140188783
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.45A murderer becomes the toast of the village as his charm negates his crime. A young countess saves her tenants from starvation, but only by selling her soul to the Devil. The sleepy parish of... -
Horizons: A Global History of Science by James Poskett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from history In... -
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Tough, resolute,... -
Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Sendhil Mullainathan, the 'most interesting young economist in the world', and Eldar Shafir, the 'most brilliant psychologist' of his generation, explain the hidden problem behind everything with... -
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey...