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Bradt Travel Guide: Slovenia Rudolf Abraham 9781784777050
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54This new, thoroughly updated and significantly expanded third edition of Bradt's Slovenia offers expert travel advice about this engaging European country. Slovenia has emerged as a serious... -
The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption's Wake Glenn Hubbard 9780300271164
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55An informed argument for an economic policy based on bridges of preparation and adaptation rather than walls of protection and exclusion "When technological change and globalization in recent... -
Morality and Mathematics by Justin Clarke-Doane 9780198823667
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £69.54To what extent are the subjects of our thoughts and talk real? This is the question of realism. In this book, Justin Clarke-Doane explores arguments for and against moral realism and mathematical... -
The Range of Reasons: in Ethics and Epistemology by Daniel Whiting 9780192893956
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.35The Range of Reasons contributes to two debates and it does so by bringing them together. The first is a debate in metaethics concerning normative reasons, the considerations that serve to justify a... -
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream David Leonhardt 9781529435467
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer... -
The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology: Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious Turn by Anna Jani 9781793649003
Booksplease Price: £86.43In The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology: Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious Turn, Anna Jani examines the common methodological background of phenomenology. Through attention... -
Machiavelli's Effectual Truth: Creating the Modern World by Harvey C. Mansfield 9781009320153
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.75Machiavelli is said to be a Renaissance thinker, yet in a notable phrase he invented, 'the effectual truth,' he attacked the high-sounding humanism typical of the Renaissance, while mounting a... -
Girl On Fire: (DC Max Wolfe) by Tony Parsons
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42ALMOST HOME. BUT NOWHERE TO HIDE. From the number one bestselling crime-writer comes a brilliant, page-turning new DC Max Wolfe thriller.'Remarkably moving' The TimesWhen terrorists use a drone to... -
Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects by Michela Massimi
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in philosophy of science. The book brings together an array of essays that reflect on the methodological... -
Hearts Ablaze: Parables for the Queer Soul by Dr. Rolf Nolasco, Jr.
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.47Meditations addressing the spiritual needs of queer Christians. A new look at ten selected parables of Jesus, that expands the scope of interpretation of each story to highlight God's extravagant... -
Rights Angles by Loren E. Lomasky 9780190263959
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £74.27Loren Lomasky is a leading advocate of a rights-based libertarian approach to political and social issues. This volume collects fifteen of his articles that have appeared since his influential volume... -
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently Richard E. Nisbett 9781529309416
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.'-Malcolm Gladwell"One of the world's leading thinkers" Daily... -
Bob Dylan and the British Sixties: A Cultural History Tudor Jones (Coventry University, UK) 9781138341296
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.29Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s. He visited Britain on several occasions and performed across the country both as an acoustic folk singer and as an electric-rock musician... -
Principal Tate Is Running Late! by Henry Cole 9780063025745
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.03When their principal is running late, all members of Hardy School must work together to keep things running smoothly! This jaunty and upbeat picture book from celebrated author-illustrator Henry Cole... -
Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Mark Coeckelbergh 9780231206556
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.20We are obsessed with self-improvement; it's a billion-dollar industry. But apps, workshops, speakers, retreats, and life hacks have not made us happier. Obsessed with the endless task of perfecting... -
Machiavelli's Effectual Truth: Creating the Modern World by Harvey C. Mansfield 9781009320122
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.86Machiavelli is said to be a Renaissance thinker, yet in a notable phrase he invented, 'the effectual truth,' he attacked the high-sounding humanism typical of the Renaissance, while mounting a... -
Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market by Thomas Szasz 9780275942168
Booksplease Price: £61.63.In Our Right to Drugs, Thomas Szasz shows that our present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the American government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent... -
Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren Alan Coren 9781847673213
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Edited by his children, Giles and Victoria, Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks is an anthology of humorous writing from the former editor of Punch and Radio 4 national treasure Alan Coren, who died in... -
Categoriality in Language Change: The Case of the English Gerund by Lauren Fonteyn
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £91.68This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes noun/nominal and verb/clause. In English,... -
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt 9781529435429
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer... -
Never Together: The Economic History of a Segregated America by Peter Temin
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.09In November 2020, The New York Times asked fifteen of its columnists to 'explain what the past four years have cost America.' Not one of the columnists focused on President Trump's racism. This book... -
The Good in the Right: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value by Robert Audi
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73This book represents the most comprehensive account to date of an important but widely contested approach to ethics--intuitionism, the view that there is a plurality of moral principles, each of... -
Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy by Robert Frodeman 9781783483105
Booksplease Price: £40.79Professional philosophy has strayed so far from its roots that Socrates wouldn't stand a chance of landing tenure in most departments today. After all, he spent his time talking with people from all... -
Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City by Edward O. Wilson 9780871404701
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.85Entranced by Edward O. Wilson's mesmerizing evocation of his Southern childhood in The Naturalist and Anthill, Alex Harris approached the scientist about collaborating on a book about Wilson's native... -
The Innocent Eye: Why Vision Is Not a Cognitive Process by Nico Orlandi 9780199375035
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £54.58Why does the world look to us as it does? Generally speaking, this question has received two types of answers in the cognitive sciences in the past fifty or so years. According to the first, the... -
Playing with Reality: How Games Shape Our World Kelly Clancy 9780141998930
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorKelly Clancy, PhD, is a neuroscientist and physicist who has held research positions at MIT, Berkeley,... -
Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia by Samuel Charap
Booksplease Price: £21.32Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent insurrection, supported by Moscow, in the east of... -
A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlan to Amherst by Thomas Hallock 9780817320836
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlan to Amherst explores a two-part question: what does travel teach us about literature, and how can reading guide us to a... -
John Dewey and the Artful Life: Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality by Scott R. Stroud 9780271050089
Booksplease Price: £37.39Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human's interaction with nature or art frequently has been... -
Shitty Breaks by Ben Aitken 9781837730469
Booksplease Price: £20.84*AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH*Adios Paris. Hello Wolverhampton.Not everything that glitters is gold - which is why Ben Aitken gave London the cold shoulder and went to Preston instead.Hailing... -
How Capitalism Failed the Arab World: The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Middle East Uprisings by Richard Javad Heydarian 9781780329574
Booksplease Price: £19.96Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty,... -
Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750 by Dr David Hitchcock 9781350058125
Booksplease Price: £37.81CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England and the Atlantic world to describe the... -
Business Bullshit Andre Spicer 9781138911673
Booksplease Price: £38.49Our organizations are flooded with empty talk. We are constantly "going forward" to lands of "deliverables", stopping off on the "journey" to "drill down" into "best practice". Being an expert at... -
The Fog of Reform: Getting Back to a Place Called School by George A. Goens 9781475826975
Booksplease Price: £33.84American public education has been on a merry-go-round of change for the past 40 years. We made something that is complex by its very nature into a strangled enterprise that is becoming even more... -
Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future by Charlie Hertzog Young
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'Utterly brilliant - engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive' GEORGE MONBIOT'This extraordinary book, written with startling honesty and vulnerability, traces Charlie's remarkable... -
Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds by Bonnie Gordon
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £38.35An exploration of the castrato as a critical provocation to explore the relationships between sound, music, voice instrument, and machine. Italian courts and churches began employing castrato singers... -
Dictators: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikoetter
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN ... -
Religion and Power by Jione Havea 9781978703568
Booksplease Price: £39.80Religion has power structures that require and justify its existence, spread its influence, and mask its collaboration with other power structures. Power, like religion, is in collaboration. Along... -
Blaming Europe?: Responsibility Without Accountability in the European Union by Sara Binzer Hobolt 9780199665686
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £106.40A key component of democratic accountability is that citizens understand 'who is to blame'. Nonetheless, little is known about how citizens attribute responsibility in the European Union or how those... -
Religion and Power by Jione Havea 9781978703544
Booksplease Price: £91.39Religion has power structures that require and justify its existence, spread its influence, and mask its collaboration with other power structures. Power, like religion, is in collaboration. Along...