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Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions by Peter Roger Breggin
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.75With the first unified theory of guilt, shame, and anxiety, this pioneering psychiatrist and critic of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs examines the causes and effects of psychological and emotional... -
Where Have All the Nurses Gone: The Impact of the Nursing Shortage on American Healthcare by Faye Satterly 9781591021407 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $2.28At 6:30 A.M. a head nurse reviews room assignments and the day's challenges ahead: twenty-nine patients, most of them seriously ill, and four nurses to care for them. That means a barely manageable... -
Aging in Good Health by Sue E. Levkoff 9781591020264 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $2.41With advances in medicine and preventive healthcare measures, more and more Americans are living to advanced old age while remaining productive and experiencing relatively good health and vitality... -
Al Capone's Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago during Prohibition by John J. Binder 9781633882850
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $36.35Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been--until now--a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire... -
The Millenniad: Humanity's Road to Maturity by George Vid Tomashevich 9781591024958 [USED COPY]
RRP: $49.58Booksplease Price: $4.92Universal in scope, and unusually diversified in content, this work encompasses human efforts, struggles, and concerns from cosmology to sociology. Suffused with benevolent irony and, at times,... -
African-American Humanism by Norm R. Allen, Jr. 9780879756581 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.35This collection demonstrates the strong influence that humanism and freethought had in developing the history and ideals of black intellectualism. Most people are quick to note the profound... -
Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide for Young Skeptics by Dan Barker
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.87In today's media-flooded world, there is no way to control all of the information, claims, and enticements that reach young people. The best thing to do is arm them with the sword of critical... -
Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight-Based Discrimination by Sondra Solovay 9781573927642 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $2.41What rights, if any, do fat people have? If a child is obese, are the parents legally responsible? Can employers treat overweight employees as different, or disabled? Should fat people be protected... -
Life and Death on Your Own Terms by Lofty L. Basta 9781573929189 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.35This insightful, compassionate, and lucidly written handbook by a world-renowned cardiologist is also a personal testimonial by a surviving cancer patient and an informative guide to end-of-life... -
The Anatomy of Evil by Michael H. Stone, MD 9781633883352
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.41FROM NARCISSISM TO AGGRESSION, AN ORIGINAL LOOK AT THE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS THAT CONSTITUTE EVIL In this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the... -
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Minnesota Book Award (Fiction) 2015 and Thriller Awards (First Novel) 2015. Short-listed for Anthony... -
The Specter of Capitalism and the Promise of a Classless Society by Donald Weiss 9781573924672 [USED COPY]
RRP: $61.64Booksplease Price: $1.68Heterodox and idiosyncratic from all political perspectives, "The Specter of Capitalism" offers a unique viewpoint that coincides neither with mainstream conservatism nor with the standard... -
Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement) by Tanya Bub 9780691176956
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.98An eccentric comic about the central mystery of quantum mechanicsTotally Random is a comic for the serious reader who wants to really understand the central mystery of quantum... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9781912464067
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.17Committed to the deadly pursuit of the monster he created, Victor Frankenstein tells his chilling story. It all began with a desire to help mankind, but where will it end? Frankenstein leads us... -
Myths Of Reason by Murray Code 9781573922791 [USED COPY]
RRP: $93.80Booksplease Price: $1.68Murray Code here addresses a question of fundamental and perennial concern to philosophy - the meaning of rationality. He argues that common conceptions of this notion are founded upon dubious myths... -
Terra Formars, Vol. 20 by Yu Sasuga 9781421597591
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Humanity's attempt to terraform and colonize Mars goes horribly wrong. In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The... -
A.I.D.S. Today And Tomorrow by Robert S. Walker 9781573924887 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $1.68Since its publication in 1991, Robert Walker's book has become the standard student text on AIDS - for courses dealing with both social issues and natural disasters or epidemics. This completely... -
Conversations with Manuel Castells Manuel Castells (University of California, Berkeley) 9780745628493
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56In a series of conversations Manuel Castells, one of the world's best known social scientists, explains and expands his work. He builds on his earlier thinking, opening it to new audiences and taking... -
Is AI Good for the Planet? Benedetta Brevini (University of Sydney) 9781509547951
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $13.29Artificial intelligence (AI) is presented as a solution to the greatest challenges of our time, from global pandemics and chronic diseases to cybersecurity threats and the climate crisis. But AI also... -
Secret Milan Guide: A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar 9782361956783
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.63Let Secret Milan guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Milan travel guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of... -
Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI by Markus Dubber 9780197601440
Booksplease Price: $49.66This volume tackles a quickly-evolving field of inquiry, mapping the existing discourse as part of placing current developments in historical context; at the same time, breaking new ground in taking... -
How Green is Your Smartphone? Richard Maxwell 9781509534722
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89Every day we are inundated by propaganda that claims life will be better once we are connected to digital technology. Poverty, famine, and injustice will end, and the economy will be "green." All... -
The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design by Michael Kearns
RRP: $32.82Booksplease Price: $23.93Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. In evolving from static computer programs hand-coded by engineers to the... -
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy 9780141997179
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and... -
Every Picture Hides a Story: The Secret Ways Artists Make Their Work More Seductive by William Cane
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.49Each year 11 million people trek to the Louvre to gawk at the Mona Lisa. Many visitors clutch guide books in hand describing the painting. For some, it's the experience of a lifetime, one they'll... -
Iran'S Revolutionary Guard: The Threat That Grows While America Sleeps by Steven O'Hern 9781597977012
RRP: $48.24Booksplease Price: $40.25Since the Iranian Revolution more than thirty years ago, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Revolutionary Guard, has conducted covert and overt military operations, built...