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Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains Helen Thomson 9781473611771
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'Wonderfully clear, fluent and eye-opening' THE TIMES'A stirring scientific journey, a celebration of human diversity and a call to rethink the "unthinkable"' NATURE'An utterly fascinating romp... -
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.03De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Toibin.At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was... -
Selected Journalism 1850-1870 by Charles Dickens
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A testament to the energy and creativity of a writer and journalist without equal, Charles Dickens's Selected Journalism 1850-1870 is edited with an introduction and notes by David Pascoe in Penguin... -
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do people believe in ghosts? How the Mind Works explores every aspect of mental life, showing that our minds are not a mystery, but a system of organs... -
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine by Roy Porter
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about... -
Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Welcome to the world of alternative medicine.Prince Charles is a staunch defender and millions of people swear by it; most UK doctors consider it to be little more than superstition and a waste of... -
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World by Mark A. Miodownik
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.07* * * Winner of the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books * * *Stuff Matters by Mark Miodnownik is a unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity.'Enthralling. A mission to... -
The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.45The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS and BBC 5 Live host NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE'This book is the one. Think Sapiens and triple it.' - Julia Hobsbawm, author of... -
The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion (The Sunday Times Bestseller) by Gwen Adshead
Booksplease Price: £14.08THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN & IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONA perspective-shattering work into the... -
Is It Ever Just Sex? Darian Leader 9780241998168
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'Insanely readable! I loved it' Slavoj ZizekA delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader'It was just sex...'It's a familiar claim. But... -
The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table by Sam Kean
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te,... -
Beginners by Raymond Carver
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remians one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited... -
Hands: What We Do with Them - and Why by Darian Leader
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95How much do you really know about your own hands?Throughout history , civilisations have been defined by the work of human hands: inventing tools, writing records, operating machinery, typing,... -
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations by Charles Nicholl
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In Traces Remain, Charles Nicholl, the acclaimed author of The... -
Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and... -
Mephisto by Klaus Mann
Booksplease Price: £10.17A searing indictment of evil in Hitler's Germany. Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he willingly renounces his Communist past and... -
Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When he was twenty-seven, Henry Molaison underwent surgery for his epilepsy. He awoke with part of his brain destroyed, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment, unable to remember... -
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about... -
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent by Jason Wilson 9780140445534
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won... -
How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery by Kevin Ashton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15WINNER OF THE 800-CEO-READ BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015In the vein of Susan Cain's QUIET and Malcolm Gladwell's DAVID AND GOLIATH, HOW TO FLY A HORSE is a smart, empowering book that dispels the... -
Primate'S Memoir, A by SAPOLSKY 9780743202411
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743202411Author SAPOLSKYPage Count 304Imprint -
Slipknot: Inside the Sickness, Behind the Masks With an Intro by Ozzy Osbourne and Afterword by Gene Simmons by Jason Arnopp
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47"The only plan right now is to kill everybody" Joey Jordison, drummerIgnoring every rule in the book and more besides, Slipknot are a notoriously controversial band who combine a talent for outrage... -
An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?' by Immanuel Kant
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he... -
The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain by Simon Baron-Cohen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Simon Baron-Cohen's The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain is an unflinching look at the scientific evidence behind the innate sex differences of the mind. Men and women... -
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The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux 9780140071818 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about... -
The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion by Gwen Adshead
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN & IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONA perspective-shattering work into the... -
The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
Booksplease Price: £13.32International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity that "is not only eminently... -
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery by Dr Barbara K.Lipska
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Completely compelling and powerful, and hard to put down.' Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, prize-winning author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain- Who are we if our brain fails?-... -
Moving Mountains by Claire Bertschinger
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47One of the most enduring images of the Ethiopian famine that shocked the world in 1984 was that of the young International Red Cross nurse who, surrounded by thousands of starving people and with... -
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well by Daniel Levitin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ORGANIZED MIND 'Everyone we know needs this remarkable book ... Essential for the rest of your life' Daniel H. Pink, author of... -
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable... -
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. When she loses her job and home, he offers her... -
Piano Notes: The Hidden World of the Pianist by Charles Rosen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this eloquent, intimate exploration of the delights and demands of the piano, world-renowned concert pianist and music writer Charles Rosen draws on a lifetime's wisdom to consider every aspect of... -
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration... -
The Drugs Don't Work: A Global Threat by Professor Dame Sally Davies 9780241969199
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Drugs Don't Work - A Penguin Special by Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for EnglandIf we fail to act, we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no... -
The Trouble with Testosterone by Robert M. Sapolsky 9780684838915
Booksplease Price: £12.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684838915Author Robert M. SapolskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprin -
The Circadian Code: Lose weight, supercharge your energy and sleep well every night by Dr. Satchin Panda
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Change your daily routine, transform your health.Circadian rhythms are biological processes or clocks that exist in each one of our cells. Programmed to turn genes on or off at different times of... -
White Mischief by James Fox
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road... -
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel Levitin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In The Organized Mind, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin offers practical solutions to the problems of information overload...