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Modern Chess Formula - The Powerful Impact of Engines by Vladimir Tukmakov
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.55One, and sometimes more engines, toil without rationing electricity, sometimes checking on their master's ideas or more oft en showing their own evaluations and recommendations on screen with each... -
Genna Remembers by Genna Sosonko
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.90Half a century ago I left a country, the red color of which dominated a large portion of the world map. One way or another, the fate of almost every single person described in this book is forever... -
The Modernized Italian Game for White by Alexander Kalinin 9789464201079
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.55The Italian Game is the front-line of modern chess. After a hundred years of oblivion, in the 21st century, it edged out many other renowned openings, and is employed today by all the world's top... -
Thinkers' Chess Academy with Grandmaster Thomas Luther - Volume 6: 365 Steps to Advanced Tactical Mastery Heinz Brunthaler 9789083429069
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £20.25365 Steps to Advanced Tactical Mastery has a practical approach with a focus on advanced tactics. This book helps to eliminate hours of game study and provides bite-sized lessons and tasks that you... -
Sharpen Up Your Chess: A Practical Guide to Success by Armin Juhasz 9789464787504
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £25.47In this long-awaited second Thinkers-book of International Master, Armin Juhasz, the reader is invited to take a seat in his classroom and follow his useful guidelines how to improve your... -
My Life in Chess - Mastering the Sunshine State: My Chess Legacy in Florida Larry Storch 9789493435094
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £25.47In this book I would like to tell the story of my chess journey where I rose to become the Orlando Chess Champion and later its president. I will detail the creation of the Central Florida Chess Club... -
Sharpen Up Your Chess: A Practical Guide To Success by Armin Juhasz 9789464201604
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £23.38In this long-awaited second Thinkers-book of International Master, Armin Juhasz, the reader is invited to take a seat in his classroom and follow his useful guidelines how to improve your... -
1.d4! The Chess Bible: Mastering Queen's Pawn Structures by Armin Juhasz
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.60In his first book (we anticipate many more), the young Hungarian author makes a worthy attempt to walk his readers through a complete 1.d4 opening repertoire. Yet while he is taking you thru the... -
Someday I'll Be a Queen: Help! My preschooler wants to learn chess...and I have no idea where to start by Christel Minne 9789464201888
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18How is this book different from other chess books for young children?It starts as a fairy tale about a king, a dragon, and a young girl with a dream. A young girl is the main character to encourage... -
The Essence of Chess Strategy Volume 1: Strategic Elements by 9789464201482
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £22.36How to learn strategy? Can it be learned? It can be, of course. And these volumes are the perfect guide to learn (or, more precisely, to learn to understand) strategy. Our idea is to throw... -
She Plays to Win - Be Inspired by Our Chess Queens by 9789464201529
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.56This book contains games from every single female World Champion, as well as young up and comers, top seasoned professionals, streamers, and even a section at Beth Harmon from the recent famed ... -
Free to Believe (or Not) by Joy Hakim 9780996272292
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996272292Author Joy HakimFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Stories for ThinkersPublisher... -
Like a Child's New Toy by Jermain L Reeves 9780578164076
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578164076Author Jermain L ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Magical ThinkerPublisher... -
Like a Child's New Toy by Jermain L Reeves 9780578135502
RRP: £63.95Booksplease Price: £57.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578135502Author Jermain L ReevesFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Magical ThinkerPublisher... -
Ivan Illich in Conversation David Cayley 9780887845246
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.14For more than fifteen years, iconoclastic thinker Ivan Illich refused to be interviewed. Finally, in 1988, CBC's David Cayley persuaded Illich to record a conversation. This first interview led to... -
The Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer by David Duncan 9781108066815
Booksplease Price: £52.50One of the most famous intellectuals of the second half of the nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) wrote across an impressive range of scientific and philosophical subjects. Although at... -
Political Economy and Industrialism: Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought by Gilles Jacoud 9780415749992
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51The French philosopher and economist Saint-Simon (1760-1825) propounded a new political, economic and social order in which the quest for economic efficiency and social justice led to putting the... -
Two Concepts of Allegory: A Study of Shakespeare's the Tempest and the Logic of Allegorical Expression by A. D. Nuttall 9780300118742
Booksplease Price: £24.15The fundamental subject of A. D. Nuttall's bold and daring first book, Two Concepts of Allegory, is a particular habit of thought-the practice of thinking about universals as though they were... -
Buckminster Fuller: Anthropology for the Millennium by Thomas T. K. Zung
Booksplease Price: £31.42Praise for the previous edition:"In order to acquaint a new generation with Fuller, his former architectural partner, Zung, gathers selections [from Fuller's writings] on topics ranging from... -
Early Greek Lawgivers by John Lewis 9781853996979
Booksplease Price: £22.93Designed for students and teachers of Ancient History or Classical Civilisation at school and in early university years, this series provides a valuable collection of guides to the history, art,... -
Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology by Brian Davies 9780198751946
Booksplease Price: £47.08Philosophy of Religion: A Guide and Anthology provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible overview of the philosophy of religion. Under the careful editorship of Brian Davies, the book... -
Helene Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing by Mireille Calle-Gruber
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to... -
Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary by Nader Kadhem 9780228018728
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £48.80Anti-blackness has until recently been a taboo topic within Arab society. This began to change when Nader Kadhem, a prominent Arab and Muslim thinker, published the first in-depth investigation of... -
Attempt to Uproot Sunni-Arab Influence: A Geo-Strategic Analysis of the Western, Israeli & Iranian Quest for Domination by Joseph A. Kechichian 9781845198534
Booksplease Price: £109.14In the aftermath of popular uprisings that unleashed the quest for freedom, Arab governments scrambled to limit sectarian divisions, though much of these efforts came to naught. Regrettably, weak... -
Attempt to Uproot Sunni-Arab Influence: A Geo-Strategic Analysis of the Western, Israeli & Iranian Quest for Domination by Joseph A. Kechichian
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.93In the aftermath of popular uprisings that unleashed the quest for freedom, Arab governments scrambled to limit sectarian divisions, though much of these efforts came to naught. Regrettably, weak... -
Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought Juhani Pallasmaa (Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa KY, Helsinki) 9781119622185
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £35.71A collection of the writing of the highly influential architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, presented in short, easily accessible, and condensed ideas ideal for students Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland's... -
Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind Frank Tallis 9780349144559
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.13Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity... -
Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017 Simon Reid-Henry 9781473670570
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £6.40'A dense narrative and a wealth of examples' Literary Review'Reid-Henry narrates this story with elegance and gusto' Washington Post'[Reid-Henry] conveys an important message: Individual political... -
Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Marcus 9780691254333
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in... -
American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life Richard K Rein 9781642832884
Booksplease Price: £24.18"A marvelous new biography." -The New York Times On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed an alarming sight: a man in a suit and tie... -
Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism by Glory M. Liu
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.19The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a... -
The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling by Natalie Robins
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.03Throughout her life, Diana Trilling (1905-1996) wrote about profound social changes with candor and wisdom, first for The Nation and later for Partisan Review, Harpers, and such popular magazines as... -
How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life by Donald Robertson 9781035054794
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64'Donald J. Robertson is one of my favourite writers' - Ryan Holiday, bestselling author and founder of The Daily Stoic'One of the best books ever written on the power and practicality of philosophy... -
Benchwarmer by Josh Wilker 9781610394017
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.26A moving, funny, inventive parenting memoir, written in a surprising form: an encyclopedia of failure in sports What can a new father learn about parenthood from reading sports almanacs? For most... -
Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden 9780300105964
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £19.10Winner of the Bancroft Prize * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography * Finalist for the American Society of Church History's Philip Schaff Prize "The finest biography of... -
Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism by Glory M. Liu 9780691240862
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.19The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a... -
Opening Minds: A Parents' Guide to Teaching for Thinking at Home by Selma Wassermann 9781538191170
Booksplease Price: £17.42When schools, libraries, daycares, and playgrounds closed during the pandemic, children were forced to spend a lot of time at home. These closures left parents responsible for providing educational... -
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould 9780674006133
RRP: £73.95Booksplease Price: £62.15The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and... -
Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike. Bi takes a long overdue,...