Filter By
Books (318)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Animal and the Thinker: Instinct, Reason and the Dance of Our Divided Selves by John Duncan 9780753560945
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.47Why are we so often in conflict - arguing with ourselves and with others, uncertain over who we are and what we want?For thousands of years, writers, thinkers and philosophers have seen life as a... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947186
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04After darkness, there is always lightIn a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a... -
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.89Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women... -
Think Again: How to Reason and Argue by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A masterclass in persuasion from the inspiring philosopher who has taught a million people to argue through his popular open online courseOur personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and... -
![Schadenfreude: Why we feel better when bad things happen to other people by Tiffany Watt Smith 9781781259085 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10137535/11153850/9781781259085__21487.1789712402.jpg?c=1 "Schadenfreude: Why we feel better when bad things happen to other people by Tiffany Watt Smith 9781781259085 [USED COPY]")
Schadenfreude: Why we feel better when bad things happen to other people by Tiffany Watt Smith 9781781259085 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.41'A delightful book, full of jokes and confessions' Guardian Schadenfreude - enjoying the pain and failures of others - is an all-too-familiar feeling. It has perplexed philosophers and... -
Reason to Be Happy: Why logical thinking is the key to a better life by Kaushik Basu 9781911709251
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.60'Reason to Be Happy is a wise and witty book that shows how thinking clearly can help us find happiness in our daily lives, get more of what we want, and even make the world a better place' Hannah... -
Super Genes: The hidden key to total well-being Dr Deepak Chopra 9781846045035
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.33'You are not simply the sum output of your genome. You are the user and inventor of your genome.'For years it was accepted knowledge that genes were fixed components of our bodies, and that we as... -
Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society by Peter Trudgill
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65This is a classic book on a fascinating subject. Peter Trudgill examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. These range from gender,... -
Thank You for Arguing: What Cicero, Shakespeare and the Simpsons Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYour ultimate guide to the art of winning argumentsEveryone is always trying to persuade us of something: politicians, advertising, the media, and most definitely our... -
Schadenfreude: Why we feel better when bad things happen to other people by Tiffany Watt Smith
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25'A delightful book, full of jokes and confessions' Guardian A hilarious quest to understand life's ultimate guilty pleasure In Schadenfreude, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers... -
Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... Endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker ... -
The Universal Translator: Everything you need to know about 139 languages that don't really exist by Yens Wahlgren
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.92If you think about it, all languages are made up - some are just more open about it than others.In The Universal Translator, Yens Wahlgren heads up an expedition through time, space and multiple... -
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.62* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that... -
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this... -
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull 9780141996455
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPHSHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGHES PRIZE'A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the... -
Wonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould 9780099273455
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago. Called the Burgess Shale, it holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived - a... -
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings by John Gray
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66'The most prescient of British public intellectuals' Pankaj Mishra, Financial TimesUpdated with a new foreword and two new chapters of John Gray's writing.Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why do... -
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs by Jonathan Law
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.37Entertaining and informative, this rich and diverse collection of over 6000 proverbs (and their origins) is a delight to browse and the perfect addition to any home reference shelf.About the... -
The Unfolding Of Language by Guy Deutscher
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81'A persuasive and beautifully written take on how languages are constantly evolving... an enthralling read about human psychology and anthropology as well as linguistics.' ALEX... -
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'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... -
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism by Hassan Damluji
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42'Thought provoking and well-written... a good read for people who care about solving global problems. Damluji puts forth ideas that can help make global systems more successful' - Bill Gates An... -
Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength by Roy F. Baumeister
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Immensely rewarding...filled with ingenious research, wise advice and insightful reflections on the human condition' New York Times Book ReviewCan you resist everything except temptation? In a... -
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion by Nicholas Spencer 9780861547302
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.22Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. 'A deeply researched history of the... -
Rethinking Consumer Data and Behavior by Nicole J. Olynk Widmar 9781626713178
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Today's food and agricultural consumers are driven by more than just price-they are influenced by trust, values, and perceptions that are often difficult to measure. Rethinking Consumer Data and... -
Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics and turn ignorance into insight. However much we want certainty in... -
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are... -
It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68It's Not About the Bike was first published in 2000. Detailing Lance Armstrong's battle with life-threatening testicular cancer and his return to professional cycling, it became a huge bestseller,... -
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the human brain. Daniel C. Dennett's now-classic book blends philosophy,... -
Work Hard & Be Nice to People by Anthony Burrill
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Ask More Questions, Get More AnswersDon't Be Normal, Don't Be OrdinarySay Yes More Than No!Work Hard & Be Nice to PeopleIt's usually the simple truths that provide the most profound answers. Discover... -
The Responsible Globalist: What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism by Hassan Damluji 9780141988856
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.54'Thought provoking and well-written... a good read for people who care about solving global problems. Damluji puts forth ideas that can help make global systems more successful' - Bill Gates An... -
Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'Subtle and self-reflexive. . . an excellent overview of the debates and issues that have shaped this hugely influential social science' - GuardianHow does anthropology help us understand who we... -
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World by Jevin D. West
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'A necessary book for our times. But also just great fun' Saul Perlmutter, Nobel LaureateThe world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is... -
How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'The most important book of the Trump era' The EconomistHow does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like... -
How to Fight Anti-Semitism by Bari Weiss
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'This acutely argued book will engender a thousand conversations' Cynthia OzickThe prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of anti-semitism -- and... -
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news... -
![Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer 9781847946300 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10120757/11137087/9781847946300__53516.1788941616.jpg?c=1 "Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer 9781847946300 [USED COPY]")
Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer 9781847946300 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.60"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer.""We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it."Simon Heffer's... -
Why Can't We Sleep? by Darian Leader
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more'Persuasive,... -
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shifts of the modern era' John Gray, New Statesman'The... -
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling 9780140447408
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle...