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The Awakened Brain: The Psychology of Spirituality and Our Search for Meaning by Lisa Miller
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience'Lisa Miller is the leading psychologist of her generation' Martin... -
Writings from the Zen Masters by Various
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64These are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea, flowers and dogs, the writings of the Masters challenge... -
The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.75The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS and BBC 5 Live host NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE'This book is the one. Think Sapiens and triple it.' - Julia Hobsbawm, author of... -
Is It Ever Just Sex? Darian Leader 9780241998168
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.04'Insanely readable! I loved it' Slavoj ZizekA delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader'It was just sex...'It's a familiar claim. But... -
The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity that "is not only eminently... -
The Brain's Way of Healing: Stories of Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries by Norman Doidge
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'This is a book of miracles. Fascinating... An absorbing compendium of unlikely recoveries from physical and mental ailments offers evidence that the brain can heal... brings Oliver Sacks to mind'... -
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World by Jevin D. West
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'A necessary book for our times. But also just great fun' Saul Perlmutter, Nobel LaureateThe world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is... -
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.25Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very... -
Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Gerd Gigerenzer's Reckoning with Risk: Learning to Live with Uncertainty illustrates how we can learn to make sense of statistics and turn ignorance into insight. However much we want certainty in... -
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38An extraordinary and challenging synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory, and the theories of Computation, Knowledge and Evolution, Deutsch's extraordinary book explores the deep connections... -
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are... -
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings by John Gray
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10'The most prescient of British public intellectuals' Pankaj Mishra, Financial TimesUpdated with a new foreword and two new chapters of John Gray's writing.Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why do... -
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming... -
To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010 by T. M. Devine
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Part of his trilogy on Scottish history, T. M. Devine's To the Ends of the Earth is a compelling account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forgotten role in the building of the modern... -
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling 9780140447408
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.07The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle... -
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $13.86THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life -... -
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07'Really made me think about how I think' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestTough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events... -
Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Subtle and self-reflexive. . . an excellent overview of the debates and issues that have shaped this hugely influential social science' - GuardianHow does anthropology help us understand who we... -
How Democracies Die: The International Bestseller: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'The most important book of the Trump era' The EconomistHow does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like... -
Hands: What We Do with Them - and Why by Darian Leader
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70How much do you really know about your own hands?Throughout history , civilisations have been defined by the work of human hands: inventing tools, writing records, operating machinery, typing,... -
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'... -
Happy Ever After: Escaping The Myth of The Perfect Life by Paul Dolan 9780241284445
RRP: $79.70Booksplease Price: $51.79'Smart, engaging and funny. It will make you question everything you think you know about what you want' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible WomenPaul Dolan, the bestselling author of... -
Upstream: How to solve problems before they happen Dan Heath 9780552176798
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'Informs, engages and, above all, entertains' Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of HabitNew York Times bestselling author Dan Heath asks what happens when we take our thinking upstream... -
The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future by Charles Handy 9780099301257
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64*Can you find the way to Davy's bar? *Do you know the Doughnut principal? *How do you make a Chinese contract? The changes which Charles Handy foresaw in THE AGE OF UNREASON are happening. Endless... -
Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Sendhil Mullainathan, the 'most interesting young economist in the world', and Eldar Shafir, the 'most brilliant psychologist' of his generation, explain the hidden problem behind everything with... -
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibilityWhy should we... -
Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times by Nancy Koehn
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05'A close analysis of five gritty leaders whose extraordinary passion and perseverance changed history . . . a gripping read on a timeless and timely topic!'Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of... -
Understanding Moral Sentiments: Darwinian Perspectives? Hilary Putnam 9781138517622
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.06This volume brings together leading scholars to examine Darwinian perspectives on morality from widely ranging disciplines: evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and theology... -
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman 9780141993515
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10A timely history of the interplay between politics and military operations, 'Command is the history of our time' (Guardian)Military command has been reconstructed and revolutionized since the Second... -
The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Study on Happiness Robert Waldinger 9781846046780
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'This captivating, powerful book shows us scientifically and practically how to define, create and most importantly live the good life' Jay ShettyWhat is the key to a... -
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All Steven Levitsky 9780241996584
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE - essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election'Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides... -
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China by John Man
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live.' - GuardianThe people of the first nomadic empire... -
The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive... -
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse by Edward Lear
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. He created an... -
Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer.""We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it."Simon Heffer's... -
Yes To Life In Spite of Everything by Viktor E Frankl 9781846046360
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'Offers a path to finding hope even in these dark times' The New York... -
Tripping the World Fantastic: A Journey Through the Music of Our Planet by Glenn Dixon 9781459706545
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $39.88A fascinating journey through the world's musical cultures. Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that's ever existed has had it, but we don't exactly know why. Music is not like food,... -
Why We Read by 9781802060959
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give... -
Selected Works by Cicero
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics.Lawyer,... -
Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.68"Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics... he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does indeed affect how we think and, just...