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Hollywood Economics: How Extreme Uncertainty Shapes the Film Industry by Arthur De Vany
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €64.02Just how risky is the movie industry? Is screenwriter William Goldman's claim that "nobody knows anything" really true? Can a star and a big opening change a movie's risks and return? Do studio... -
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely 9780007506729
Booksplease Price: €7.38Fascinating and provocative, Ariely's The Truth About Dishonesty is an insightful and brilliantly researched take on cheating, deception and willpower. Internationally bestselling author Ariely pulls... -
The Volatility Surface: A Practitioner's Guide Jim Gatheral 9780471792512
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €43.26Praise for The Volatility Surface "I'm thrilled by the appearance of Jim Gatheral's new book The Volatility Surface. The literature on stochastic volatility is vast, but difficult to penetrate and... -
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb 9781631492969
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €23.91Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the... -
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity: The International Bestseller by Carlo M. Cipolla
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times'Brilliant' - James O'Brien, author of How to be RightThe five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world.Since time... -
The Formula: The Five Laws Behind Why People Succeed by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi 9781509843565
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.03A smart, readable account of the unexpected scientific principles that drive success' - Financial TimesThe Formula is the groundbreaking book that reveals the indisputable scientific laws that turn... -
Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World by Dan Davies
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.48Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what's theirs. In fact, there are four. A veteran regulatory economist and market analyst, Dan... -
The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal by Felix Salmon
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €24.47An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis-drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture-of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for... -
Bedford Park by Bryan Appleyard
RRP: €3.56Booksplease Price: €3.30An evocative historical thriller based in one of London's original suburbs.Set in 1912, Bedford Park is not just a London suburb: it is a crucible for enlightenment and modernity inhabited by people... -
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'A fun, fascinating, and original book that will challenge you to become a better version of yourself'Daniel H. Pink, author of DriveWhat does it take to be truly happy? Should we pursue fame and... -
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 9781802061567
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'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... -
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.71Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians.This is the captivating story of... -
Future Crimes: Inside The Digital Underground and the Battle For Our Connected World by Marc Goodman
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** Future-proof yourself and your business by reading this book * Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous... -
Paper Promises: Debt, Money, and the New World Order by Philip Coggan 9781610392297
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.47Longlisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year AwardFor the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt. Now, the reality dawns that many debts... -
Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order by Philip Coggan
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Winner of the Spears Business Book of the Year AwardLonglisted for the Financial Times Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year AwardIn today's financial climate, we are all, naturally, obsessed by... -
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration by Bent Flyvbjerg 9781035018956
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.67Best Books of 2023 - The Financial Times and The EconomistShortlisted for Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023'Important, timely, instructive and entertaining' - Daniel... -
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.46THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times ... -
The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World Bryan Appleyard 9781780220154
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54A brand-new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard.Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives and simple solutions. And now our technology wants... -
Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions by Phil Rosenzweig 9781610393072
Booksplease Price: €32.78Left Brain, Right Stuff takes up where other books about decision making leave off. For many routine choices, from shopping to investing, we can make good decisions simply by avoiding common errors,... -
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov 9781610393706
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €18.49In the very near future, smart" technologies and big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to... -
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul 9780231164689
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.49Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all-his fortune, his reputation, and his job-in one fatal... -
The Little Book of Sideways Markets: How to Make Money in Markets that Go Nowhere by Vitaliy N. Katsenelson
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €12.08"It's hard to talk clearly about investing and make sense to ordinary readers at the same time. Katsenelson gives a lucid explanation of today's markets with sound advice about how to make money... -
The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management: Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice by Francis X. Diebold 9780691128832
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €86.63A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today--Value at Risk, or... -
XXL: Obesity and the Limits of Shame by Neil Seeman 9780772786272
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people. More than eighty-five per cent of type 2 diabetes sufferers are overweight. And in the United States, obese and... -
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.85'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book... -
The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russell Roberts
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.09Stanford University student and Cuban American tennis prodigy Ramon Fernandez is outraged when a nearby mega-store hikes its prices the night of an earthquake. He crosses paths with provost and... -
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan 9780691174655
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.64Why we need to stop wasting public funds on educationDespite being immensely popular--and immensely lucrative-education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the... -
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations by Eric H. Cline 9780691192130
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €25.83In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed-why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why... -
Sudden Influence: How Spontaneous Events Shape Our Lives by Michael A. Rousell 9780275993214
Booksplease Price: €55.63All of us, writes psychologist Michael Rousell, are subject to Spontaneous Influence Events, (SIEs), when seemingly minor moments have truly life-changing effects. Rousell, who has studied such... -
Chaos Kings: how Wall Street traders make billions in the new age of crisis Scott Patterson 9781915590916
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.53A veteran Wall Street Journal reporter dives into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls. There's no doubt... -
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 9780141033570
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.25One of the most influential books of the 21st century: the ground-breaking psychology classic - over 10 million copies sold - that changed the way we think about thinking'There have been many good... -
The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century by Robert J. Shiller
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €37.12In his best-selling Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the financial... -
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel 9780465064953
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.73A New York Times Science BestsellerWhat if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso,... -
The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It by Robert J. Shiller
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.59The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and economies around the world. In this trenchant book,...