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To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower by Bret Baier 9780063360754
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.80"This captivating portrayal of Teddy is Bret Baier's gift to us. From Roosevelt's resilience over tragedy to his heroism in war, from his midnight rambles as police commissioner to his dramatic... -
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles... -
High Tension: FDR's Battle to Power America by John A. Riggs
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.01From the highest halls of power to the remote corners of rural America, featuring amazing technological innovation and an epic battle between the captains of a corrupted industry and America's most... -
Power on the Precipice: The Six Choices America Faces in a Turbulent World Andrew Imbrie 9780300243505
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £4.48How to renew American leadership in a turbulent, polarized, and postdominant world "A worthy contribution to the public debate on America's role in the world and a tonic for our times."-John Kerry,... -
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780393064445
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.98In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist and "the world's best science communicator" (Times Literary Supplement)... -
One Mission: How Leaders Build A Team Of Teams by Chris Fussell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In One Mission, former Navy SEAL Chris Fussell draws on his extensive experience of high-pressure team work to show how organizations can apply lessons from the field to successfully transform their... -
Taking Manhattan Russell Shorto 9781800754966
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their arch-rivals, the... -
Angels of a Lower Flight: One Woman's Mission to Save a Country . . . One Child at a Time by Susan Scott Krabacher 9781416535164
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.26"In this world, you were loved." The inspiring story of how one woman's message of hope and opportunity will change the lives of an entire generation. Three schools, two orphanages, a hospital,... -
Truman by David McCullough
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.18The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Evan Thomas 9781783967971
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.32‘Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant’ Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb… Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of... -
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume III): From the Collapse of Communism to the Rise of Radical Islam by William J. Bennett 9781595554284
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the third volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume III). This engaging narrative slices through the cobwebs of time,... -
The Powers to Lead by Joseph Nye
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.01With The Powers to Lead, Joseph S. Nye Jr. offers a sweeping look at the nature of leadership in today's world, in an illuminating blend of history, business case studies, psychological research, and... -
You Ought to Do a Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption by Ted Jackson 9780062935687
Booksplease Price: £12.07"This masterpiece of dogged and loving reporting will astonish you and touch your heart. The struggles and quest for redemption of football star Jackie Wallace make for a fall-from-grace tale that's... -
Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House by Donna Brazile
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88In the fallout of the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee--and as chaos threatened to consume the party's convention--Democrats turned to a familiar figure to right the ship: Donna... -
The Genius of Israel Dan Senor 9781408720233
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and economic divides, proven resistant to so many of the... -
Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth by John Doerr
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.88INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'For anyone interested in becoming a better manager' - Bill Gates--------Discover the revolutionary approach to goal-setting behind the explosive growth of Intel,... -
Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines by Walter Bernard
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.01For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of magazine journalism. In Mag Men, Bernard and Glaser recount their storied careers, offering insiders'... -
From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives by Jeffrey E. Garten
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55Globalisation often seems to be an impersonal and abstract phenomenon. Whether in everyday culture or matters of policy, its force has been experienced as something at once general and monolithic. By... -
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom by William J. Bennett 9781595550873
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II). This engaging narrative slices through the cobwebs of time,... -
The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson by Michael Cleverly 9780061159282
Booksplease Price: £11.78We've all seen the Johnny Depp and Bill Murray versions of Hunter S. Thompson - a larger-than-life madman, swilling booze with one hand and piloting classic cars with the other. But while Hunter's... -
Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution by Jill Abramson 9781847923783
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.03Merchants of Truth by Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times, is the gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade... -
Nuclear Iran by Jeremy Bernstein 9780674417083
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26Iran's nuclear program has generated intense controversy ever since the International Atomic Energy Agency reported in 2003 that Iran was secretly pursuing enrichment activities. Although Iranian... -
The New Urban Crisis: Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Florida
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of nations. But they are also destructive, plunging us into... -
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley A. McChrystal 9781591847489
Booksplease Price: £19.99As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal discarded a century of management wisdom and pivoted from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic... -
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War by William J. Bennett 9781595551115
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.78America, how well do you know your history? Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses? Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to death on the Senate floor? Which first lady... -
Anglo Nostalgia: The Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West by Edoardo Campanella
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.23Nostalgia has become a major force in global politics. While Donald Trump hopes to 'make America great again', Xi Jinping calls for a 'great rejuvenation of the Chinese people', and a majority of... -
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46**Winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award** 'Brad Stone's definitive book on Amazon and Bezos' The Guardian'A masterclass in deeply researched... -
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen 9781785038679
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own factsFantasy is the USA's primary product. From the Pilgrim Fathers onward America has been a place where renegades and freaks came in search of... -
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen 9781529114188
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023***Shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2023*From the author of Spillover, the book that... -
Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art by Arthur I. Miller 9780393083361
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.71In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their provocative creations-a live rabbit implanted with... -
Give People Money: The simple idea to solve inequality and revolutionise our lives Annie Lowrey 9780753545775
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award!Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it?Imagine if every month the government deposited... -
The Front Runner (All the Truth Is Out Movie Tie-in) by Matt Bai
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.27Now a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman. When politics went tabloid... In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart seemed like a no-brainer for the Democratic party's... -
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War Raj M. Shah 9781668031391
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year "An exceedingly important book!" -General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA "Essential reading for... -
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.34From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West's retreat from reason. 'The Death of Truth is destined to become the... -
The Algorithm: The Hypergrowth Formula that Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors and SpaceX by Jon McNeill 9781529147209
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.77From a former President of Tesla comes The Algorithm-the first book written by any of Elon Musk's direct reports-a transformative guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to emulate... -
Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs Joshua Wolf Shenk 9781848545922
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26All of us have experienced creative connection, and glimpsed its power. Yet, for centuries, the myth of the lone genius has obscured the critical story of the power of collaboration. In Powers of... -
Become America: Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy by Eric Liu
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.08A New York Times Book Review New and Noteworthy Book This collection of 19 essays on democracy, equal justice, and citizenship "exhorts Americans to love the nation they have by becoming the nation... -
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms by Kai Bird 9780684856445
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.19From the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of American Prometheus-this biography of the Bundy Brothers inspired the Academy Award-winning film Oppenheimer.In this definitive biography of McGeorge Bundy... -
Reagan: His Life and Legend Max Boot 9780871409447
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.26From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of Ronald Reagan, the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative... -
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises by Timothy Geithner
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great...