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Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body by Jo Marchant 9780857868855
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME PRIZEALL IN THE MIND? - Can meditation fend off dementia? - Can the smell of... -
Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.36**WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't... -
Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do by John Bargh
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64'John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant and convincing book.' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and David... -
Where Did You Get This Number?: A Pollster's Guide to Making Sense of the World by Anthony Salvanto 9781501174858
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.77CBS News' Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto takes you behind the scenes of polling to show you how to think about who we are and where we're headed as a nation.As Elections and Surveys... -
Practical Thinking: Four Ways to be Right, Five Ways to be Wrong by Edward De Bono 9781785041112
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.55In Practical Thinking de Bono's theme is everyday thinking, how the mind actually works - not how philosophers think it should. Based on the results of his famous Black Cylinder Experiment (a... -
Through The Children's Gate: A Home in New York Adam Gopnik 9781847243249
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.49On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to get their children literally to fly at the... -
The Stuff of History: A Curated Compendium of Curious Objects and Forgotten People Steven Moore 9781785126505
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.58'Moore is wickedly charming - the naughty uncle you want to be sat beside at the dinner table' - Daily TelegraphToo often history focuses on the tales of kings, or those (often men) who were given... -
Spark Dr John J. Ratey 9781849161572
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.49Exercise is not only good for the body: it can transform your mind too. This new scientific revolution will teach you how to boost brain cells, protect yourself against mental illness and dementia,... -
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-speaking Peoples Since 1500 by Peter H. Wilson 9780141988887
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.29*WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY**A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022*'No one interested in the history of Europe can afford not to read this stupendous book' Simon... -
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop Adam Kucharski 9781788160209
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.70An Observer Book of the Year A Times Science Book of the Year A New Statesman Book of the Year A Financial Times Science Book of the Year 'Astonishingly bold' Daily Mail 'It is hard to... -
The Unfair Advantage: BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD-WINNER: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed by Ash Ali
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.37WINNER OF BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 AND BEST START UP/SCALE UP BOOK AWARD 2021 'A powerful way to think about success as an entrepreneur.' Ali Abdaal, Productivity YouTuber, Podcaster... -
The World War II Air War by Adam Leach
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316296618Author Malcolm GladwellFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Little Brown and... -
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull 9780141996455
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.13CHOSEN 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... -
Inside the Nudge Unit: How small changes can make a big difference David Halpern 9780753556559
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.13With a foreword by Richard Thaler, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics!New Updated Edition, 2019.Dr David Halpern, behavioural scientist and head of the government's Behavioural Insights Team, or... -
The Ritual Effect: The Transformative Power of Our Everyday Actions by Michael Norton 9780241465448
Booksplease Price: £14.24Think of the quirky traditions that you keep up with your friends.Or the unusual ways that you and your family mark special occasions.Or the gifts that your partner gives - and what you'd think if... -
Winter: Five Windows on the Season Adam Gopnik 9781780874470
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.49Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how literature heralds the... -
Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side by Dr Julia Shaw
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.51Are you evil?In Making Evil, Julia Shaw uses a mix of science, popular culture and real-life examples to investigate the darker side of human nature. How similar is your brain to a psychopath's? How... -
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor by J. E. Gordon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter and sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid and is treacle one? All... -
The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth Godin 9780670922925
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.50In The Icarus Deception, Seth Godin's most inspiring book, he challenges readers to find the courage to treat their work as a form of artEveryone knows that Icarus's father made him wings and told... -
Start at the End: How Reverse-Engineering Can Lead to Success Dan Bigham 9781787396081
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.75An inspiring and thought-provoking new book that explains the power of applying reverse-engineering to all areas of your life, from a cycling champion who has proven its success. Dan Bigham is the... -
Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to get unstuck and unlock your potential by Adam Alter 9781785121593
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.81* As heard on The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett * 'A brilliant detective story about the sources of human creativity. I loved it' - Malcolm GladwellEveryone experiences challenges, setbacks and... -
Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas by Steven Poole 9781847947581
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.55'Clever and entertaining.' Sunday Times'Elegantly written and full of surprises.' Daily Telegraph'Always entertaining and often eye-opening.' Financial TimesOld ideas that were mocked or ignored for... -
The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time by Allen Gannett
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.55A great idea isn't a sudden light-bulb moment. It's taking something familiar and making it feel new. We've been told a lie about the nature of creativity.We're told stories about creative geniuses -... -
One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com Richard L. Brandt 9780670920679
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Buy now with one-click. Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. Yet Amazon's success is largely down to CEO and... -
Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity Edward de Bono 9780241257548
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64THE classic work about improving creativity from world-renowned writer and philosopher Edward de BonoIn schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'... -
Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World by Adam Grant
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99WINNER of the Chartered Management Institute's (CMI's) Mangement Book of the Year Awards 2017, JP Morgan's Best Summer Read 2018, and a #1 New York Times Bestseller!'Extraordinary' JJ... -
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.35Why 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... -
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64*The International Bestseller*'Superb, hugely enjoyable ... a spirited examination of the hubris and hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world' Aditya Chakrabortty,... -
The Unthinkable: Who survives when disaster strikes - and why by Amanda Ripley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64It was 8.46 a.m. on 9/11 when Elia Zedeno, who had worked in the World Trade Center for twenty-one years, heard a booming explosion and felt the building lurch violently to the south. She grabbed her... -
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy 9780141997179
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03CHOSEN 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... -
Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us by Jonathan Aldred
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64'It is going to change the way in which we understand many modern debates about economics, politics, and society' Ha Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About CapitalismOver the past... -
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.86From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the international bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing... -
How to Instantly Connect With Anyone: 96 All-new Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.44Some people, regardless of money, education, looks or personality, make an impression wherever they go - they are master communicators, and everyone enjoys talking to them. How to Instantly Connect... -
Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness: The International No. 1 Bestseller Owen Eastwood 9781529415063
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.80THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Gareth Southgate's secret weapon' - Guardian'A copy of Eastwood's new book, Belonging, was given to every England player when they reported for duty at the European... -
Mystery: A Seduction, a Strategy, a Solution by Jonah Lehrer
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.78New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer "unravels the mystery of mysteries" in this "absolute delight" (Malcolm Gladwell) of a book that blends psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology to... -
Alien Thinking: How to Bring Your Breakthrough Ideas to Life by Cyril Bouquet 9780241481981
Booksplease Price: £12.73How do you come up with ideas that change the world?________________ This bold and inspiring new book argues that everyone who made leaps of creative genius - whether to cure... -
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and... -
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel EverettWhat... -
Seven Myths About Education Daisy Christodoulou 9780415746823
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £22.89In this controversial new book, Daisy Christodoulou offers a thought-provoking critique of educational orthodoxy. Drawing on her recent experience of teaching in challenging schools, she shows... -
Are You Thinking Clearly?: Why you aren't and what you can do about it Matt Warren 9781529388718
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.23'An endlessly fascinating tour of the many different factors influencing our decision-making and reasoning' David Robson, author of The Expectation Effect'An eye-opening and engaging richness of...