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Salt by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64Homer 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... -
AIQ: How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world by Nick Polson
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58____________________What is AIQ? How does it work? Most importantly, how can it help us? Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and user-friendly look at artificial intelligence and how to... -
Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One by Devi Sridhar
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**The definitive story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health - from a world-leading expert and the pandemic's go-to science... -
A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics: A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World by Daniel Levitin
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely... -
Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98'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... -
The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future by Charles Handy 9780099301257
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66*Can you find the way to Davy's bar? *Do you know the Doughnut principal? *How do you make a Chinese contract? The changes which Charles Handy foresaw in THE AGE OF UNREASON are happening. Endless... -
Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery Roger Kneebone 9780241392058
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Roger Kneebone is a legend' Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters'Fascinating and inspiring' Financial Times'The pandemic has made the necessity of relying on experts evident to all . . . this is... -
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies... -
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Inconceivable by Ben Elton 9780552146982 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €2.62Sam and Lucy seem like the perfect couple. Successful, happy and in love. But life isn't that simple. Lucy thinks thinks Sam is a sad, cold sensitivity-exclusion zone who would rather read a... -
The Affluent Society: Updated with a New Introduction by the Author by John Kenneth Galbraith
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98John Kenneth Galbraith's international bestseller The Affluent Society is a witty, graceful and devastating attack on some of our most cherished economic myths. As relevant today as when it was... -
The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest by Fareed Zakaria
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98The growth of countries such as India, China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya is generating a new landscape. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, highest-grossing movies and most advanced... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and... -
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €8.77The book that redefines economics for a world in crisis.Relentless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Remorseless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system... -
The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An entertaining tour that will change how you see the world' Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply HiddenIs there a secret formula for improving your life? For making... -
Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want by Nicholas Epley
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46From leading psychologist Nicholas Epley, Mindwise reveals our real sixth sense - our ability to understand our own minds and the minds of othersArguably our brain's greatest sense is the ability to... -
Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together - and Why It Could Drive Us Apart Rachel Botsman 9780241296189
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.22TRUST IS FUNDAMENTAL TO EVERY ACTION, EVERY RELATIONSHIP, EVERY TRANSACTIONAND IT MATTERS NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE...In this ground-breaking book world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals... -
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World Tom Chivers 9781399604055
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics,... -
Michael O'Leary: Turbulent Times for the Man Who Made Ryanair by Matt Cooper 9780241315637
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84'In a world of colourless corporate leaders, Ryanair's aggressive, mouthy chief executive provides catnip for journalists. Cooper, an award-winning Irish writer and reporter, makes the most of the... -
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash,... -
Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51IAN BREMMER WAS NAMED LINKEDIN'S #1 TOP INFLUENCER in 2017--------------'Required reading to help repair a world in pieces and build a world at peace' - Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary... -
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency by Michael Klare 9780141020037
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Since September 11th 2001 and the commencement of the 'war on terror', the world's attention has been focused on the relationship between US foreign policy in the Middle East and the oceans of crude... -
Fat Kid Rules The World by K L Going 9780552568807
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02When Troy (a hugely overweight social leper) befriends Curt (a skinny homeless punk guitar genius), they both get much more than they bargained for. Troy's macho brother and ex-Marine father think... -
Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You've Heard About China is Wrong Ben Chu 9781780224749
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' [NEW STATESMEN] about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions.THE CHINESE ARE THE MOST HARDWORKING PEOPLE ON... -
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... -
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close 9780141997582
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of itIn the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific... -
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future Ed Conway 9780753559178
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.47THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award**Picked as a Book of the Year by FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST and NEW STATESMANA BBC RADIO 4 Book... -
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir by Mark Doty 9780099731610
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84HEAVEN'S COAST is an anatomy of loss: tender, heartbreaking, consoling and, ultimately, incredibly moving. Beginning with the first onset of AIDS and its lengthening shadow over a blissful... -
Trade World: A Transporting Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway 9780753562284
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.46From the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Material World, a story that will take you from ancient civilizations, empire and globalisation through to the most influential... -
Numbercrunch: 12 Ways Numbers Make Sense of the World by Professor Oliver Johnson 9781788708371
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.52'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all' - Tom Whipple, The Times'The perfect... -
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Ctrl-Z by Andrew Norriss 9780141324296 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €3.06Alex is used to getting unusual birthday presents from his Godfather John - a pair of ferrets, or a Make Your Own Explosions Kit. But this year's present is something really different - a computer... -
Magic Kitten: A Christmas Surprise by Sue Bentley
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.71Magic Kitten: A Christmas Surprise is a gorgeous seasonal treat in the bestselling Magic Kitten series by Sue Bentley. When fluffy white kitten Flame appears underneath the Christmas tree, Molly... -
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car, to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €23.24'Speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun - and utterly timely' Sunday Times 'Standage writes with a masterly clarity' New York Times 'The product of deep research,... -
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel to the Car to What Comes Next by Tom Standage
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20'Speckled with anecdotes, insights and surprises. It is great fun - and utterly timely' Sunday Times 'Standage writes with a masterly clarity' New York Times 'The product of deep research,... -
A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking: From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics James M. Russell 9781472143686
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a... -
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford 9781780229072
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €5.51'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian CoxThis is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be... -
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well by Amy C Edmondson
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €22.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982195069Author Amy C EdmondsonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Numbercrunch: A Mathematician's Toolkit for Making Sense of Your World by Professor Oliver Johnson
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.45'Lucid and entertaining. With barely an equation in sight, Numbercrunch makes a passionate case for how just a little bit more numeracy could help us all' - Tom Whipple, The Times'The perfect... -
Think Like a Freak: Secrets of the Rogue Economist by Steven D. Levitt
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46In this Freak 'how-to' guide, the mavericks behind the Freakonomics phenomenon teach you their secrets: how to challenge conventional wisdom, unravel life's secret codes and think differently -... -
Headscratchers: The New Scientist Puzzle Book by Rob Eastaway 9781838958770
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51'A fantastic and varied collection of problems authored by some of the best puzzle setters around' - Alex Bellos'A book of delightful puzzles. It's just as good as you'd expect.' - Tim Harford'A... -
Pivot: Eight Principles for Transforming your Business in a Time of Disruption by Will Page
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.03A stunning new insight into how the most crucial lesson you can learn in today's challenging business environment is how to change the fundamentals of what you do, rather than carry on fighting a...