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Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human by Madelaine Böhme
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.24"Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Boehme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the... -
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... -
Undreamed Shores: Five Women Who Sought Out the World by Dr Frances Larson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46The inspiring story of five women who set out to explore the furthest reaches of the globe and redefine scholarship At the dawn of the twentieth century, Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka,... -
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The Cat And The Tao by Kwong Kuen Shan 9780434009992 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €2.19_______________________________________In ancient China, the cat was often a subject of art and poetry.This book contains dozens of exquisite original cat paintings, in colour, by Chinese artist... -
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari 9781787330672 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €3.68**THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war,... -
The Infinite Desire for Growth by Daniel Cohen
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.29Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come-is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak,... -
The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations by Ian Morris 9780691160863
Booksplease Price: €29.65In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating... -
The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations by Ian Morris 9780691155685
Booksplease Price: €69.00In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating... -
The Infinite Desire for Growth by Daniel Cohen 9780691210063
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.37Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth-and the hope of better things to come-is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with... -
New Guinea: Nature and Culture of Earth's Grandest Island by Bruce M. Beehler 9780691180304
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.32An enthralling exploration of the biologically richest island on Earth, featuring more than 200 spectacular color images by award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim LamanIn this beautiful... -
The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization by Michael C. Corballis 9780691145471
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €37.60The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal... -
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped World History by Patrick Roberts
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.30'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical... -
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World - and Us by Patrick Roberts
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.75'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical... -
Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon by Nancy C. Lutkehaus
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.81"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."--Margaret Mead This quotation--found on posters and bumper stickers, and adopted as the motto for hundreds of... -
Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin by Tim Birkhead 9780691151977
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €45.49Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial... -
This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future by John Brockman
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.52"This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world."-Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel... -
The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life by John Brockman 9780062897947
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.90Discover the universe's last unknowns-here are the unanswered questions that obsess "the world's finest minds" (The Guardian)Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of... -
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.61In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences... -
Atmosphere of Hope: Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery 9780141981048
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A timely intervention on climate change from the author of the hugely influential The Weather Makers.The tools required to avoid a climate disaster already exist. Between emissions cuts and emerging... -
Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology by John Brockman 9780062023131
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.17"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." -Chicago Sun-Times, on This... -
Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People by Shalom Salomon Wald 9781618112767
RRP: €114.84Booksplease Price: €82.43Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People is a thought experiment in which the author examines the work of 23 historians of the last 2,400 years, from Thucydides to Jared... -
Eight Eurocentric Historians by J.M. Blaut
Booksplease Price: €44.65This volume examines and critiques the work of a diverse group of Eurocentric historians who have strongly shaped our understanding of world history. Building upon the foundations laid in his... -
Sunbirds of the World: Sunbirds, Flowerpeckers, Spiderhunters & Sugarbirds Clive F. Mann 9781472937438
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €71.07'This is a gorgeous book about some of the world's most gorgeous birds.' JARED DIAMONDSunbirds are some of the most striking of all bird families; their dazzling iridescent plumage and long curved... -
Mine!: From Personal Space to Big Data, How Ownership Shapes Our Lives by Michael Heller
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.47'A delicious book.' Jared DiamondWho controls the space around an aeroplane seat: you or the person behind you trying to work on their laptop? Who owns your favourite football player? And why do... -
The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Dispersal, and Biogeography by Ernst Mayr 9780195141702
Booksplease Price: €122.26Ernst Mayr is one of the principal architects of the 'neo-Darwinian synthesis', which has been the dominant perspective in 20th century evolutionary biology. Jared Diamond is one of the most... -
The Wager and the Bear John Ironmonger 9781915789341
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.59When young idealist Tom publicly humiliates politician Monty in a Cornish pub, it sparks a simmering feud that cascades through their intertwined lives. The consequences of their argument, and the... -
Yali's Question: Sugar, Culture and History by F. Errington
Booksplease Price: €46.80Yali's Question is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation-Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported... -
Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles Jay Owens 9781529362664
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'Superb' Telegraph'Marvellous' New York Review of Books 'Brilliant' Sunday Times'Eye-opening . . . impressive' Guardian'Powerful' Nature __________Dust may seem inconsequential, so tiny and mundane... -
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable by John Brockman 9780061214950
Booksplease Price: €14.95The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives-for better ...or for worse ...From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers,... -
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction by Henry Gee 9781035032259
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54‘Brilliant’ – The Times‘Hugely informative and entertaining’ – New Scientist‘Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately’ – Eric IdleFrom the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book... -
The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild by John Ironmonger 9781780227993
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54REMEMBER ME WHEN THE COMET COMES...On the day the comet came, a girl named Heloise was born. She would live a fine life, and inherit a fortune, but would meet a cruel, untimely death. Years later,... -
Ecological Assembly Rules: Perspectives, Advances, Retreats by Evan Weiher 9780521655330
Booksplease Price: €67.15It is over twenty years since Jared Diamond focused attention on the possible existence of assembly rules for communities. Since then there has been a proliferation of studies trying to promote,... -
What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty by John Brockman 9781416522614
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.83""What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"" This was the question posed by John Brockman to a group of leading scientists and thinkers via his Edge.org website. The subsequent... -
Surveying the Anthropocene:: Environment and photography now by Patricia Macdonald 9781838382230
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €47.48A thought-provoking combination of visually powerful imagery and comment *Includes 260 stunning photographs by more than 50 international contributors *Keynote essay by Patricia Macdonald ... -
What is Life? The Next Fifty Years: Speculations on the Future of Biology by Michael P. Murphy 9780521599399
Booksplease Price: €52.74Erwin Schroedinger's book What is Life? had a tremendous influence on the development of molecular biology, stimulating scientists such as Watson and Crick to explore the physical basis of life. Much... -
What is Life? The Next Fifty Years: Speculations on the Future of Biology by Michael P. Murphy 9780521455091
Booksplease Price: €90.21Erwin Schroedinger's book What is Life? had a tremendous influence on the development of molecular biology, stimulating scientists such as Watson and Crick to explore the physical basis of life. Much... -
100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why it Matters Today by Stephen Le 9781250117885
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.78There are few areas of modern life that offer as much information and advice, often contradictory, as diet and health: eat a lot of meat, don't eat meat; whole-grains are healthy, whole-grains are a... -
Wildlife Issues in a Changing World by James Sanderson
RRP: €94.00Booksplease Price: €87.04Students of conservation encounter some of the most complex issues on our planet. The resolution of existing problems become more complex when humans create further stresses on the natural balance... -
100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why it Matters Today by Stephen Le 9781250050410
Booksplease Price: €29.32There are few areas of modern life that offer as much information and advice, often contradictory, as diet and health: eat a lot of meat, don't eat meat; whole-grains are healthy, whole-grains are a... -
Techno-Cultural Evolution: Cycles of Creation and Conflict by William McDonald Wallace 9781597971072
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14Evolution has long shaped human behavior. Yet just recently have we learned that evolution based on natural selection is not the continuous process Darwin assumed. It is instead a two-part process of...