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The Nazi Doctors (Revised Edition): Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.17In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in the Nazi genocide. Now updated with a... -
The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents by Mark Perry
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadershipThe Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of the deep and divisive debates between America's civilian leaders... -
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.08A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi,... -
The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776 by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal 9781541606630
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.29For America's 250th birthday, a provocative argument that a "Long Revolution" formed the violently beating heart of American politics for decades after 1776In the century after Independence, many... -
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade by Robert W. Harms
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.78The Diligent began her journey in Brittany in 1731, and Harms follows her along the African coast where her goods were traded for slaves, to Martinique where her captives were sold to work on sugar... -
Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat by Marion Nestle
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.69Whenever we turn on the TV, flip a page in a magazine, or glance at a flyer in the grocery store, we are constantly bombarded with nutritional advice. Almond products can boost your memory! Milk... -
The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840 by Akhil Amar
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.84When the US Constitution won widespread popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of decades of passionate argument about legal and political first principles-a furious debate over the nature... -
The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science by Carly Anne York 9781399817004
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'York is a witty, whip-smart, lithely engaging science storyteller, truly one of our best' Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Fuzz A playful examination of how science's silliest research leads to... -
Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity by Matthew A Sutton 9781541646339
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.47A sweeping history of Christianity in America, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the political triumphs of evangelicalism, showing the powerful, singular role the faith has always played in... -
The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science by Carly Anne York 9781399817011
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'York is a witty, whip-smart, lithely engaging science storyteller, truly one of our best' Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Fuzz A playful examination of how science's silliest research leads to... -
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl 9781541604483
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.03A physician's "provocative" (Boston Globe) and "timely" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies have deadly consequences - even for the white voters... -
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation Edward Glaeser 9781529364323
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $11.31From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical proximity which is central to the creative energy of the city into a potentially deadly... -
Girls on the Edge: Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed--And What Parents Can Do by Leonard Sax
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Girls today are motivated and hardworking. In school, they regularly outperform boys. But beneath the confident and strong exteriors of many girls lies a brittle sense of self. Girls are much more... -
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $18.38Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious,even... -
Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison by Daniel S Medwed
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. In Barred, legal scholar Daniel S. Medwed argues that... -
The Sh!t No One Tells You (Revised): A Guide to Surviving Your Baby's First Year by Dawn Dais
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07There comes a time in every new mother's life when she finds herself staring at her screaming, smelly "bundle of joy" and wishing someone had told her that her house would reek of vomit, or that she... -
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $38.44A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse... -
For Profit: A History of Corporations by William Magnuson 9781399805216
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEARA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Brilliantly conceived and enlightening at every turn' Lawrence WrightWe have long been suspicious of corporations... -
Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos by Peter M. Hoffmann 9780465022533
Booksplease Price: $42.73Life is an enduring mystery. Yet, science tells us that living beings are merely sophisticated structures of lifeless molecules. If this view is correct, where do the seemingly purposeful motions of... -
Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny by Edward J. Watts
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.99In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome... -
For Profit: A History of Corporations William Magnuson 9781399805209
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEARA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Brilliantly conceived and enlightening at every turn' Lawrence WrightWe have long been suspicious of corporations... -
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moises Naim
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century -- in government, business, and beyond.br> Power is shifting -- from large, stable armies to loose bands of... -
The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight by Thomas Suddendorf
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58Our ability to think about the future is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal. In The Invention of Tomorrow, cognitive scientists Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley argue... -
Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman by Allison Gilbert
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58At thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she'd lost it all. Reeling from a scandalous divorce in 1917, she had no means to support herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer... -
Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls by Gina Rippon 9781541605022
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $25.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541605022Author Gina RipponFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint -
How to Listen to Jazz by Ted Gioia
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.85In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz. Covering everything from the music's structure and history... -
How We Talk by N. J. Enfield
Booksplease Price: $42.73We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to language. Whether we... -
Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works by Rucker C. Johnson
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58The Supreme Court's decision in Broad v. Board of Education in 1954, which declared the racial segregation of American schools unconstitutional, is universally understood as a landmark moment in our... -
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect by Paul Halpern
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the father of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung. In... -
A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America by James Horn
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a common occurrence at the time. What was uncommon in this case was... -
Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality by David J. Linden
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58As a scientist, David Linden had devoted his career to understanding the brain processes and behaviors that are common to us all. That is, until a few years ago, when he found himself on OKCupid... -
The Nature Of Prejudice: 25th Anniversary Edition by Gordon W. Allport
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.17With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice... -
Exile Economics: What Happens if Globalisation Fails Ben Chu 9781399817165
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.29A provocative essay exploring how isolationism weakens the global economy.Nations are turning away from each other via sanctions, trade wars and real wars. With every shock, governments double down... -
Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin Kruse 9781541604667
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our... -
The Web We Weave: Why We Must Reclaim the Internet from Moguls, Misanthropes, and Moral Panic Jeff Jarvis 9781541604124
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58A bold defense of the internet, arguing that attempts to fix and regulate it are often misguidedThe internet stands accused of dividing us, spying on us, making us stupid, and addicting our children... -
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59The story of humanity is the story of textiles-as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered invention. They established trade routes and drew nations' borders. Since the first... -
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement by Ernest Freeberg
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $19.10Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs rooting through garbage in the streets, geese and chickens... -
The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time by Julian Barbour 9780465095469
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $30.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465095469Author Julian BarbourFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World by Leslie G. Valiant
Booksplease Price: $24.20From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns.How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know that... -
The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century by Peniel E Joseph
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues,...