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How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $18.06Until the catastrophic economic crisis of the late 1990s, East Asia was perceived as a monolithic success story. But heady economic growth rates masked the most divided continent in the world - one... -
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe Gaston Dorren 9781781254172
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.85Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us on an intriguing... -
In Search Of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies by Tom Peters
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $18.06In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school and bedside table, and continues to influence the thinking of leaders and managers across the globe today. ... -
Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.85This 'engaging history of punctuation' (Wall Street Journal) is not only the first history of its kind, but a complete guide on how to use English punctuation. Behind every punctuation mark lies a... -
On The Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught... -
Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders by Peter Fuda
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Ask around in business circles, and you'll get a thousand different answers. But now, internationally-renowned leadership expert Dr Peter Fuda has created a single, coherent roadmap for greatness:... -
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael... -
Destiny in the Desert: The road to El Alamein - the Battle that Turned the Tide Jonathan Dimbleby 9781846684456
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Winston Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end,... -
Engel's England: Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man Matthew Engel 9781846685729
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06England, says Matthew Engel, is the most complicated place in the world. And, as he travels through each of the historic English counties, he discovers that's just the start of it. Every county is... -
Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV by Joe Moran
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It's a good question: since its beginnings during WW2, television has... -
An Optimist's Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to... -
Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, outlaws, slaves, gladiators, ordinary men and women ... the Romans that history forgot by Robert Knapp
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. They are the housewives, prostitutes, freedmen,... -
Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling by David Crystal
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.64Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the... -
The Galapagos Henry Nicholls 9781781250549
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $13.63Formed of dramatic volcanic scenery and home to marvellous beasts, it is little wonder that the first name for the Galapagos archipelago was Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands. In this captivating... -
What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?: How Money Really Does Grow On Trees by Tony Juniper
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests;... -
Gilbert White: A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne by Richard Mabey
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote The Natural History of Selborne (1789), he created one of the greatest and most influential natural history works of all time, his... -
Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case by James Ward
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.85We are surrounded by stationery: half-chewed Cristal Bics and bent paper clips, rubber bands to fiddle with or ping, blunt pencils, rubbers and Tipp-ex are integral parts of our everyday environment... -
Da Vinci Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.32A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering across time as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and... -
Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD: Ideas in Profile by Mr Martin Kemp
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at a painting by Raphael, Rembrandt or Rubens it... -
Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. This new edition includes a previously unpublished epigraph in the form of a walk. ... -
Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and South East Asia by Joe Studwell
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.0640 or 50 families control the economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Their interests range from banking to property, from shipping to sugar, from vice to gambling... -
In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared by Christopher Robbins
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.85The only thing most people know about Kazakhstan is that it is homeland to Borat - and he isn't even real. Actually this vast place - the last unknown inhabited country in the world - is far more... -
Cardinal's College: Christ Church, Chapter and Verse by Judith Curthoys
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $54.80Christ Church, founded by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525, and arguably the grandest college in the University of Oxford, has been the subject of only one previous history. Now Judith Curthoys, the college... -
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett 9781861971227
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.59Alan Bennett is the author of Writing Home, The Madness of George III, Talking Heads, The Clothes They Stood Up In and much else besides. Miss Shepherd lived in a Robin Reliant opposite Bennett's... -
Cowboy Kandace Siobhan Walker 9781800818149
RRP: $21.45Booksplease Price: $15.64Shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2023 The poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet-sick, funny, with deep undercurrents: of embodied and disembodied spiritualities;... -
Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't by Junaid Mubeen 9781788166843
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to our robot overlords. But Junaid Mubeen isn't ready to throw in the towel... -
Billions to Bust - and Beyond (New and Updated Edition): How I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way Thor Bjorgolfsson 9781805220237
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $18.45Thor Bjorgolfsson is a self-styled adventure capitalist who became Iceland's first billionaire: by his 40th birthday he had assets of around $4 billion. Among them was investment in Iceland's oldest... -
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs David Runciman 9781788163682
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened... -
Wait: The useful art of procrastination by Frank Partnoy 9781846685958
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Warren Buffett compares stock trading to great athletes: they excel not because of fast neurological responses, but because of their ability to delay as long as possible before reacting. Successful... -
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades of Meaning Eli Burnstein 9781805227229
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06'Delightful' Steven Pinker | 'A joy to read' David Crystal | 'Gulp it down' Lucy Mangan | 'A gem' Simon Garfield Swamp or bog? Guilt or shame? Clementine or tangerine? We like to think... -
The World at My Feet: A Journey to the Heart of Football through Nine World Cups Simon Kuper 9781805224105
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.37'A brilliant evocation of the joy of the football carnival and the absurdities of the global spectacle... an essential companion' David Goldblatt It's the biggest sporting competition on Earth. A... -
The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth Adrian Duncan 9781806490271
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 'An original voice' Colm Toibin 'Duncan brings a new way of seeing' Irish Times One winter, in a secluded Alpine city, Irish sculptor John Molloy meets... -
Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara Judith Scheele 9781788166461
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06'A fascinating travelogue and history of the world's largest hot desert ... fresh, original and energising' THE TIMES In this sweeping account, Judith Scheele reveals the rich history and complex... -
Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–1945 Michael Haag 9781788169806
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48'Highly readable and elegant' Spectator 'Wonderfully done' Guardian Lawrence Durrell was unquestionably one of the most distinctive, original and compelling literary figures of his age. From his... -
![At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks 9781781251287 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9689652/10706368/9781781251287__30381.1781310697.jpg?c=1 "At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks 9781781251287 [USED COPY]")
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks 9781781251287 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.27The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael... -
![Psy-Q: A Mind-Bending Miscellany Of Everyday Psychology by Ben Ambridge 9781781252116 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9689654/10706370/9781781252116__71322.1781310698.jpg?c=1 "Psy-Q: A Mind-Bending Miscellany Of Everyday Psychology by Ben Ambridge 9781781252116 [USED COPY]")
Psy-Q: A Mind-Bending Miscellany Of Everyday Psychology by Ben Ambridge 9781781252116 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.84Psychology is everywhere. Our emotions and desires, the decisions we make on a daily basis - absolutely every aspect of the way we think and feel has been studied by psychologists. Through dozens of... -
![A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin by Chris Mullin 9781846682308 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9693829/10710545/9781846682308__06276.1781314858.jpg?c=1 "A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin by Chris Mullin 9781846682308 [USED COPY]")
A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin by Chris Mullin 9781846682308 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $4.50'It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris Mullin Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe... -
![Japan Through the Looking Glass by Alan MacFarlane 9781861979674 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9694752/10711468/9781861979674__71699.1781315590.jpg?c=1 "Japan Through the Looking Glass by Alan MacFarlane 9781861979674 [USED COPY]")
Japan Through the Looking Glass by Alan MacFarlane 9781861979674 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $3.86A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY THROUGH JAPAN'S MULTI-FACETED CUSTOMS AND CULTURE 'An excellent book for anyone with an interest in Japanese culture' Sunday Telegraph 'Takes in everything from the... -
![Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal 9781781253502 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9728195/10744845/9781781253502__80207.1781396892.jpg?c=1 "Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal 9781781253502 [USED COPY]")
Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal 9781781253502 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $5.01Behind every punctuation mark lie a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few... -
![How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments for the Armchair Scientist by New Scientist 9781846680441 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9734092/10750725/9781846680441__87425.1781405857.jpg?c=1 "How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments for the Armchair Scientist by New Scientist 9781846680441 [USED COPY]")
How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments for the Armchair Scientist by New Scientist 9781846680441 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $4.82How can you measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave? Why do yo-yos yo-yo? Why does urine smell so peculiar after eating asparagus (includes helpful recipe)? How long does it take to...