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The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science by Jonathan Haidt
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.18Every culture hands wisdom down through generations. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others. Happiness comes from within. Can these 'truths'... -
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00*The International Bestseller*'Superb, hugely enjoyable ... a spirited examination of the hubris and hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world' Aditya Chakrabortty,... -
Stephen Hawking: Friendship and Physics by Leonard Mlodinow
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND BBC SCIENCE FOCUS'An intimate, unique, and inspiring perspective on the life and work of one of the greatest minds of... -
Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.18Welcome to the world of alternative medicine.Prince Charles is a staunch defender and millions of people swear by it; most UK doctors consider it to be little more than superstition and a waste of... -
Solutions for Writers: Practical Lessons on Craft by the Legendary Editor of James Baldwin, W.H. Auden, and Many More by Sol Stein 9781800818118
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Whether you are a beginner or an accomplished professional, whether your field is fiction, nonfiction or journalism, Sol Stein's Solutions for Writers is an indispensable guide to enhancing your work... -
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age Steven Mithen 9781800811607
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45'A tour de force' Alice Roberts 'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin Dunbar The relationship between language,... -
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Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett 9780140128673 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $12.15In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the human brain. Daniel C. Dennett's now-classic book blends philosophy,... -
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50THE 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49'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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50How 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Selection 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: $74.00Booksplease Price: $47.09'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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45'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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66*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... -
The Awakened Brain: The Psychology of Spirituality and Our Search for Meaning by Lisa Miller
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00A 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: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74These 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.48The 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: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.75'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... -
Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... Endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker ... -
Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00Sendhil 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00From 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48'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: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.34This 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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24A 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45THE 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50THE 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... -
The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64International 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00'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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00'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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.09Is 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... -
Selected Works by Cicero
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Collecting 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.63"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... -
Happy Ever After: A Radical New Approach to Living Well by Paul Dolan
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.02'Smart, engaging and funny. It will make you question everything you think you know about what you want' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible WomenBe ambitious; find everlasting love; look... -
Heine: Selected Verse by Heinrich Heine
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07'One of the first men of this century' is how Heine described himself when he claimed to have been born in the early hours of 1800. It was typical of Heine to create this humorous doubt - he was in... -
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven 9781788402934
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.45RECOMMENDED AS ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2021'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its implications, and this... -
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China by John Man
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89'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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Why 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 Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash,...