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The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times by Lionel Barber
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29'Extraordinary' TONY BLAIR'Riveting' - PHILIPPE SANDS'Brutal, brilliant and scurrilously funny' - MISHA GLENNYThe real scoop isn't on the front page'As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to... -
A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria by Christa Salamandra
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98"[F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is... -
Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles by Otto Weininger
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $64.13Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its time: antisemitism, scientific racism and... -
Achilleid by Publius Papinius Statius 9781624664069
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.99"One of the most entertaining short narratives of all time, the Achilleid is a stand-alone work of compelling contemporary interest that moves with great rapidity and clarity. Its compact narrative,... -
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It by Nancy Fraser 9781804292587
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.56Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for... -
Excess Returns: A comparative study of the methods of the world's greatest investors by Frederik Vanhaverbeke
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.29An analysis of the investment approach of the world's top investors, showing how to achieve market-beating returns. It is possible to beat the market. Taking this as a starting point, Excess Returns... -
Latino Migrants in the Jewish State: Undocumented Lives in Israel by Barak Kalir
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35In the 1990s, thousands of non-Jewish Latinos arrived in Israel as undocumented immigrants. Based on his fieldwork in South America and Israel, Barak Kalir follows these workers from their decision... -
Billion Dollar Whale: the bestselling investigation into the financial fraud of the century by Tom Wright 9781912854547
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.99A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND FORTUNE MAGAZINE. The epic story of how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history. In 2015,... -
The Surprising Design of Market Economies by Alex Marshall 9780292756755
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86The "free market" has been a hot topic of debate for decades. Proponents tout it as a cure-all for just about everything that ails modern society, while opponents blame it for the very same ills. But... -
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.24This epic work-named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times-tells the story of the... -
The 160-Character Solution: How Text Messaging and Other Behavioral Strategies Can Improve Education by Benjamin L. Castleman 9781421418742
RRP: $23.45Booksplease Price: $18.87For decades schools have invested substantial resources in boosting educational outcomes for disadvantaged students, but those investments have not always generated positive outcomes. Although many... -
Servants of the Damned: giant law firms and the corruption of justice by David Enrich
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $14.73A long-overdue expose of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms. Though not a household name, Jones Day is well known in the halls of power, and serves as a... -
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation Paris Marx 9781839765896
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.40Elon Musk and the masters of Silicon Valley want us to believe technology can revolutionize our cities and means of transport. Road to Nowhere exposes the paucity of their vision, a distracting... -
Hack Wars by Andy Greenberg 9781800963139
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41*This book is published in the US as Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. The text is unchanged for this edition, except for the addition of a new... -
Feminism for the 99% by Nancy Fraser
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.86Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, healthcare, climate change, border policing; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But don't these issues impact the vast majority of women... -
Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes by Harold Schechter 9781542041829
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.65Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films. ... -
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation by 9781839765889
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96Silicon Valley wants us to believe that technology will revolutionize our cities and the ways we move around. Autonomous vehicles will make us safer, greener, and more efficient. On-demand ... -
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power: 'The Explosive New Book' by Bradley Hope
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.94'If you've ever wondered what would happen if limitless money met limitless power, wonder no longer, it's all here ... Terrifying, disturbing and ghastly' Oliver Bullough, author of... -
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 by Gregory Zuckerman 9780241309735
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019'Reads more like a delicious page-turning novel...Put it on your holiday... -
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime by Bradley Hope
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.36'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all... -
The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters by Maria Tatar
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $20.05"With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting."-Gregory Maguire,... -
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime Bradley Hope 9781399806190
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.89'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all... -
How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World by Dambisa Moyo 9780349128399
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Highly instructive . . . provides thoughtful analysis' Financial Times'Exactly what any prospective-or sitting-board member needs' Arianna Huffington'A must read . . . highly engaging . . . an... -
Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to... -
The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History by William C. Rempel
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.95NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Offers an entertaining look at Kerkorian's outsize life... an interesting portrait of a billionaire." - Wall Street Journal The rags-to-riches story of one of America's... -
Justice at Trial: Courtroom Battles and Groundbreaking Cases James J. Brosnahan 9798216368762
Booksplease Price: $25.42Follow a trial lawyer's career through the demanding, often controversial, and suspenseful world of jury trials, tension-filled appeals and the different worlds of courtrooms, jail cells, corporate... -
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by David Enrich
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.20Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year!'Will snare you in its web of deceit ... A brilliant investigative expose' - Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author 'Reads like a... -
Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru by Kimberly Susan Theidon
Booksplease Price: $42.95In the aftermath of a civil war, former enemies are left living side by side-and often the enemy is a son-in-law, a godfather, an old schoolmate, or the community that lies just across the valley... -
1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History by Andrew Ross Sorkin 9780141994970
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.47A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York... -
Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth by Dan McCrum 9780552178464
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financial crime books' Bradley Hope, author of The Billion Dollar Whale'A rip-roaring ride into the... -
Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism by Jeff Gramm 9780062369833
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77A sharp and illuminating history of one of capitalism's longest running tensions-the conflicts of interest among public company directors, managers, and shareholders-told through entertaining case... -
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade by Walter Kirn 9781631490224
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.79In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn-then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage-set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled... -
A Legacy of Discrimination: The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action by Lee C. Bollinger
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $27.34A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and... -
Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin 9780241744048
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.51'Rare and riveting' LYSE DOUCET'A must-read . . . compulsively readable . . . unputdownable' JON LEE ANDERSON'Rarely has a book been so timely . . . Essential reading' LINDSEY HILSUM'Extraordinarily... -
Spawn Origins Volume 32 9781534331082
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07THE ENDGAME CONTINUES! Jim Downing battles the dark, addictive force of the HELLSPAWN entity while struggling to recall his past.After waking from a memory-less coma, Jim grapples with a violent... -
Through A Vet's Eyes: How to care for animals and treat them better Dr Sean Wensley, FRCVS 9781856754750
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92One of the Financial Times' Best Summer Books of 2022'A compelling account of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of life as a vet - and a lesson to us all on how we should treat the animals with... -
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
Booksplease Price: $17.38#1 New York Times bestselling author and Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer has written a brilliantly entertaining and eye-opening exploration of curiosity and the life-changing effects it can have... -
The Character of American Democracy: Preserving Our Past, Protecting Our Future by Jill Long Thompson 9780253050434
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17"We live in an age that demonstrates the powerful need for ethics in government. Democracy is a privilege that carries with it important responsibilities for the people and their representatives. As... -
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall Zeke Faux 9781399611367
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR WIRED | LA TIMES | FINANCIAL TIMES | WASHINGTON POST | GLOBE AND MAILUSED IN EVIDENCE IN THE TRIAL OF SAM BANKMAN-FRIEDIn 2021, cryptocurrency goes mainstream. Giant investment... -
The Mirrored Door: Break Through the Hidden Barrier That Locks Successful Women in Place Ellen Connelly Taaffe 9781774583296
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.41At some point in their careers, many women encounter the mirrored door-the place where, when presented with opportunities, we reflect inward and hesitate, deem we're not ready or worthy enough to...