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Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom 9780465097432
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.08In this stunning collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients' struggles--as well as his own--to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to... -
Letters to a Young Gymnast by Nadia Comaneci
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.75In Letters to a Young Gymnast , Nadia Comaneci tells how she found the inner strength to become a world-class athlete at such a young age. Now a woman of tremendous poise and self-assurance, she... -
The Pattern On The Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work by W.Daniel Hillis 9780465066933
Booksplease Price: $27.22Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize,and what Daniel Hillis's short book brilliantly demonstrates,is that... -
The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning by Marcelo Gleiser 9780465049646
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $27.90Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion... -
The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch 9780465022007
Booksplease Price: $26.49Irving Kirsch has the world doubting the efficacy of antidepressants. Based on fifteen years of research, The Emperor's New Drugs makes an overwhelming case that what the medical community... -
String Basics Book 1 Cello by 9780849734854
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780849734854Author Terry ShadePage Count 50Imprint -
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $15.88Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes... -
Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames by Gregory Feifer 9780465009695
Booksplease Price: $27.90In his four decades as a KGB officer, Victor Cherkashin was a central player in the shadowy world of Cold War espionage. From his rigorous training in Soviet intelligence in the early 1950s to his... -
The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages by Nancy Marie Brown 9780465031443
Booksplease Price: $27.90The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages,in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading... -
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X by Johnny Smith
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.99In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight champion of the world. But Malcolm X, the most famous... -
Handwriting Analysis: The Complete Basic Book by Karen Amend 9780878770502
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878770502Author Karen AmendFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint -
Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.17The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humour at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his... -
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection by Deborah Blum
Booksplease Price: $22.71In the early twentieth century, affection between parents and their children was discouraged,psychologists thought it would create needy kids, and doctors thought it would spread infectious disease... -
Diary Of A Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, And Experiences by Daniel Stern
Booksplease Price: $17.41Every new parent desperately wants to know what goes on in the mind of a baby. Now a noted authority on infant development and psychiatry brings us closer than ever before to penetrating a your... -
A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes by Zeeya Merali
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58An award-winning science writer takes us into the lab to answer some of life's biggest questions: How was the universe created? And could we create our own?What if you could become God, with the... -
The Culture of Fear (Revised): Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07In the age of Trump, our society is defined by fear. Indeed, three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today than they did only a couple decades ago. But are we living in exceptionally... -
Homeward Bound (Revised Edition): American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine May
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.91When Homeward Bound first appeared in 1988, it forever changed the way we understand Cold War America. Previously, scholars understood the post-World War II era as a time when Americans turned away... -
Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought: The Basic Book of the Theory & Practice of Scientology for Beginners by L. Ron Hubbard
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $11.85Imagine an age where the predictability of science and the wisdom of religion combine. Scientology is called a spiritual technology for a reason. Scientology provides tools to assist you to find your... -
The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the "citizen" is historically rare-and was among America's most valued ideals for over two centuries. But... -
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Third Edition) by Sherry Turkle
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.79Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts... -
Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions by Richard Harris
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.59"A rewarding read for anyone who wants to know the unvarnished truth about how science really gets done." - Financial TimesAmerican taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research,... -
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age by David N. Schwartz
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $28.61In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical... -
Back to Basics Handbook by Abigail R. Gehring
Booksplease Price: $22.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616082611Author Abigail R. GehringFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprin -
Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought: The Basic Book of the Theory & Practice of Scientology for Beginners by L. Ron Hubbard 9788779897533
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.84Imagine an age where the predictability of science and the wisdom of religion combine. Scientology is called a spiritual technology for a reason. Scientology provides tools to assist you to find your... -
Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It by Mark Seidenberg
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83According to a leading cognitive scientist, we've been teaching reading wrong. The latest science reveals how we can do it right.In 2011, when an international survey reported that students in... -
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (Revised) by Irvin Yalom
RRP: $87.10Booksplease Price: $80.86Hailed by Jerome Frank as "the best book that exists on the subject," Irvin D. Yalom and Molyn Leszcz's The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has been the standard text in the field for... -
War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century by David Patrikarakos
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.29A leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how wars are foughtModern warfare is a war of narratives, where bullets are fired both physically... -
African Europeans by Olivette Otele
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the... -
The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall by Eliot Cohen 9781541644861
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost. In The Hollow Crown, Eliot A. Cohen reveals how the battling princes of Henry IV and scheming... -
Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58As public schools in low income areas fell into disrepair and failed to meet the needs of disadvantaged and minority students, charter schools offered an alternative. These schools were born out of... -
The Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East by Nicholas Morton
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58In 1119, the people of the Near East came together in an epic clash of horses, swords, sand, and blood that would decide the fate of the city of the Aleppo-and the eastern Crusader states. Fought... -
Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism by Steven Gillon
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $26.93The definitive history of the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped American debates about race and inequalityIn Separate and Unequal, historian Steven M. Gillon offers a... -
The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future Julia Hobsbawm 9781529396560
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future... -
What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05Revered as much for her independent spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a brazen symbol of female agency and daring creativity. She was a woman ahead of her time, who even... -
Meditations: The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius 9781541673854
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $22.19Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and... -
Meditations: The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome-and the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the... -
What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time by Dar Williams
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $19.10A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishesDubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters," Dar... -
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason L Riley
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58Thomas Sowell has an almost godlike status amongst conservative intellectuals. "It's a scandal that economist Sowell has not been awarded the Nobel Prize," wrote a reviewer in Forbes. A profile in... -
1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy by James Horn
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.581619 offers a new interpretation of the significance of Jamestown in the long trajectory of American history. Jamestown, the cradle of American democracy, also saw the birth of our nation's greatest... -
The Nazi Doctors (Revised Edition): Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.17In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in the Nazi genocide. Now updated with a...