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![The Human Mind by Robert Winston 9780553816198 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9709120/10725808/9780553816198__71172.1781367866.jpg?c=1 "The Human Mind by Robert Winston 9780553816198 [USED COPY]")
The Human Mind by Robert Winston 9780553816198 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €2.89It is the most complex and mysterious object in the universe. Covered by a dull grey membrane, it resembles a gigantic, convoluted fungus. Its inscrutability has captivated scientists, philosophers... -
![Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer 9780099537939 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9750515/10767120/9780099537939__86379.1781684812.jpg?c=1 "Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer 9780099537939 [USED COPY]")
Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer 9780099537939 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €2.89"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... -
Language Myths by Laurie Bauer
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.38A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children... -
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse by Edward Lear
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61'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... -
The Human Mind by Robert Winston
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.45It is the most complex and mysterious object in the universe. Covered by a dull grey membrane, it resembles a gigantic, convoluted fungus. Its inscrutability has captivated scientists, philosophers... -
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61The 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,... -
![Language Myths by Laurie Bauer 9780140260236 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5010849/5010066/9780140260236__51342.1722782483.jpg?c=1 "Language Myths by Laurie Bauer 9780140260236 [USED COPY]")
Language Myths by Laurie Bauer 9780140260236 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €2.57A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children... -
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD 'A remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain' Oliver Sacks'Utterly wonderful . . . without question one of the most important books... -
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08David Christian, creator of Big History ('My favourite course of all time' Bill Gates), brings us the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote... -
Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.69"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: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.50'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... -
Dispatches From the Sofa: The Collected Wisdom of Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner 9780099564928
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.79A collection of Frank Skinner's most brilliant, biting, gut-bustingly funny columns for The Times.For several years, legendary comedian Frank Skinner wrote a weekly column for The Times. Without... -
Don't Believe A Word: From Myths to Misunderstandings - How Language Really Works David Shariatmadari 9781474608459
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88'Wonderful. You finish the book more alive than ever to the enduring mystery and miracle of that thing that makes us most human' STEPHEN FRY'Most popular books on language dumb down; Shariatmadari's... -
A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking: From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics James M. Russell 9781472143686
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60Each 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... -
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.54A reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was given three... -
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (The Sunday Times Bestseller) by Professor Anil Seth
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08A BOOK OF THE YEARGUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERGAnil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for... -
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times Jonathan Sacks 9781473617315
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.46We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state on the other. The markets have brought wealth to many, and the... -
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Jonathan Sacks
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state on the other. The markets have brought wealth to many, and the... -
Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century by Kathryn Sikkink 9780691170626
RRP: €36.00Booksplease Price: €30.61A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work Evidence for Hope makes the case that, yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is... -
Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology by Hilary Rose 9780099283195
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €12.14Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural... -
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.78THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry 'You should read Humankind. You'll... -
Newer, More English Version, The Tom Carver 9781846947117
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88In the beginning was the word, and...you know the rest. Not like this you don't. In a new twist on a classic tale, Tom Carver re-imagines the Old Testament without the leading character. The Newer,... -
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades of Meaning Eli Burnstein 9781805227229
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11'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... -
Introducing Evolution: A Graphic Guide by Dylan Evans
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €4.52In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory still challenges some of our most precious beliefs... -
Giving Back: How to Do Good, Better by Derek A. Bardowell 9780349701981
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed? This inspiring and uplifting book... -
Giving (Back): How to Do Good, Better by Derek A. Bardowell
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €10.13Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed? This inspiring and uplifting book... -
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David J. Chalmers
RRP: €26.99Booksplease Price: €21.94What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? David... -
The Psychology of Stupidity by Jean-Francois Marmion
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.99The Number One International bestseller'We need books like this one' - psychologist Steven PinkerAt last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world's smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman,... -
Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others by Robert L. Trivers
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08In Deceit and Self Deception Robert Trivers, whose work has been acclaimed by figures such as Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, looks at how and why we so often deceive ourselves. We lie to... -
Can We Survive Our Origins?: Readings in Rene Girard's Theory of Violence and the Sacred by Pierpaolo Antonello
Booksplease Price: €46.86Are religions intrinsically violent (as is strenuously argued by the 'new atheists')? Or, as Girard argues, have they been functionally rational instruments developed to manage and cope with the... -
How Confidence Works: The new science of self-belief, why some people learn it and others don't by Ian Robertson 9781787633728
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.69* Confidence makes your brain work better and boosts your performance* Confidence acts like a mini-antidepressant, lifting your mood* Confidence is contagious* Confidence is anxiety's greatest... -
What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty by John Brockman 9781416522614
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.92""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... -
Richard Dawkins: How a scientist changed the way we think by Alan Grafen 9780199214662
RRP: €20.99Booksplease Price: €17.69This sparkling collection explores the impact of Richard Dawkins as scientist, rationalist, and one of the most important thinkers alive today. Specially commissioned pieces by leading figures in... -
Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer 9780099282761
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.79Why are there religious beliefs in all cultures? Do they have features in common and why does religion persist in the face of science? Pascal Boyer shows how experimental findings in cognitive... -
Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08When he was twenty-seven, Henry Molaison underwent surgery for his epilepsy. He awoke with part of his brain destroyed, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment, unable to remember... -
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins 9780393351491
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.54The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled... -
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body Prof Steven Mithen 9780753820513
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60A fascinating and incisive examination of our language instinct from award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language... -
Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History by Matthew White 9780393345230
RRP: €47.99Booksplease Price: €46.79Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to... -
The Little Book of Humanist Funerals: Remembering and celebrating a life by Andrew Copson
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11From the Sunday Times bestselling authors of THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANISMA humanist funeral allows us the freedom to remember and celebrate the life of someone in exactly the way we want to and - as... -
How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World by James Bernard Murphy
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' - Steven Pinker What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities...