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Techno-Cultural Evolution: Cycles of Creation and Conflict by William McDonald Wallace 9781597971072
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Evolution has long shaped human behavior. Yet just recently have we learned that evolution based on natural selection is not the continuous process Darwin assumed. It is instead a two-part process of... -
A Short History Of Progress Ronald Wright 9781841958309
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd over a cliff had made too much. Many of the great... -
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History Ian Morris 9781781258361
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel 'Morris succeeds triumphantly at cramming... -
The Survival of Easter Island: Dwindling Resources and Cultural Resilience by Jan J. Boersema 9781107027701
Booksplease Price: £111.85In this book, Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island and critiques the hitherto accepted theory of the collapse of its civilization. The collapse theory,... -
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters by Henry Gee
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Winner of the Royal Society Science Book.'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer' - The TimesFor billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably... -
The Political Thought of Abdullah OEcalan: Kurdistan, Woman's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism by Abdullah Ocalan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the Middle East, which is currently fighting for survival against religious extremism and state violence... -
The Political Thought of Abdullah OEcalan: Kurdistan, Woman's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism by Abdullah Ocalan 9780745399775
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £66.05These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the Middle East, which is currently fighting for survival against religious extremism and state violence... -
On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail 9780520258129
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.81When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a... -
The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History by J. R. McNeill 9780393925685
Booksplease Price: £25.00World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original... -
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman 9780393354256
Booksplease Price: £10.801939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only to see the occupiers ruthlessly kill many of their animals... -
The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection Werner Troesken 9780226922171
Booksplease Price: £35.12The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth-behind Cuba,... -
Patterns in Nature: The Analysis of Species Co-Occurrences by James G. Sanderson 9780226292724
Booksplease Price: £47.36What species occur where, and why, and why some places harbor more species than others are basic questions for ecologists. Some species simply live in different places: fish live underwater, birds do... -
The The Angel of St Piran John Ironmonger 9781915789556
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.91'NOT ALL OF THIS IS TRUE. But some surely is. Most of it, I hope. Some of this tale is already on its way to becoming a legend, and who can really tell us where to draw the faint line that lies... -
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or... -
The State of the Earth: Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100 by Paul K. Conkin 9780813192253
Booksplease Price: £28.48The present era of staggering scientific and technological innovations, with major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, and communications, seems to document unparalleled human... -
The Wager and the Bear 9781915789501
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.50When young idealist Tom publicly humiliates politician Monty in a Cornish pub, it sparks a simmering feud that cascades through their intertwined lives. The consequences of their argument, and the... -
Ecology and Evolution of Communities by Martin L. Cody 9780674224445
RRP: £129.95Booksplease Price: £105.80In recent times, the science of ecology has been rejuvenated and has moved to a central position in biology. This volume contains eighteen original, major contributions by leaders in the field, all... -
Extraction to Extinction: Rethinking our Relationship with Earth's Natural Resources David Howe 9781913393274
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Everything we use started life in the earth, as a rock or a mineral vein, a layer of an ancient seabed, or the remains of a long-extinct volcano. Humanity's ability to fashion nature to its own ends... -
The Coincidence Authority John Ironmonger 9781780220840
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02For fans of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, Mark Watson and Mark Haddon, here is a cleverly written mystery about fate, circumstance, destiny and coincidence from COSTA... -
Quarantine Life from Cholera to Covid-19: What Pandemics Teach Us about Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today by Kari Nixon 9781982172510
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.00For readers of Mary Roach and Jared Diamond, an innovative look at the histories of different epidemics and what it meant for society, alongside what lessons different diseases have to teach us as... -
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest, Fiercest and Most Mysterious Shark by Tim Flannery 9781804992265
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Big Meg is big fun! It's packed to the gills with gobsmacking facts, insightful conjecture, and personal obs from two world-class scientists and explorers ... a megaladon of delight for any... -
Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments by John Brockman 9780062562067
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand. Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world... -
Human-Earth System Dynamics: Implications to Civilizations by Rongxing Guo 9789811305467
Booksplease Price: £54.47This book explores the factors and mechanisms that may have influenced the dynamic behaviors of earliest civilizations, focusing on both environmental (geographic) factors on which traditional... -
This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know by John Brockman
Booksplease Price: £13.05From the bestselling editor of This Explains Everything, 206 of the world's most brilliant minds tackle Edge.org's 2017 question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? ... -
The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid by Ugo Bardi 9783319572062
RRP: £74.99Booksplease Price: £70.88The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the... -
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis Jeremy Rifkin (the Foundation on Economic Trends) 9780745641461
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.73In this sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin looks at the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development-and is... -
Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God by Greg Graffin
Booksplease Price: £11.78Most people know Greg Graffin as the lead singer of the punk band Bad Religion, but few know that he also received a Ph.D. from Cornell University and teaches evolution at the University of... -
The Whale at the End of the World John Ironmonger 9781474623414
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Previously published as NOT FORGETTING THE WHALETHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A gentle and uplifting tale of warding off apocalypse in a remote corner of Cornwall . . . charming' Financial TimesFor... -
The Annihilation of Nature: Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals by Gerardo Ceballos 9781421417189
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £22.15Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Paul R. Ehrlich serve as witnesses in this trial of human neglect, where the charge is the massive and escalating assault on living things. Nature is being... -
Teaching Challenging Texts: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia by Lawrence Baines 9781475805208
Booksplease Price: £81.47Teaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based... -
Teaching Challenging Texts: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Multimedia by Lawrence Baines 9781475805215
Booksplease Price: £43.76Teaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based... -
What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity - FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS Daron Acemoglu 9781805228646
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38'A very important work and a must-read' THOMAS PIKETTY, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century 'A thoughtful proposed solution to the most important question of modern democracy' JARED... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's... -
First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies by Peter Bellwood 9780631205654
RRP: £97.95Booksplease Price: £90.11First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life) by Yuval Noah Harari
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless... -
Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People by Shalom Salomon Wald 9781618113771
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £17.99Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People is a thought experiment in which the author examines the work of 23 historians of the last 2,400 years, from Thucydides to Jared... -
The Well-Tuned Brain: The Remedy for a Manic Society by Peter C. Whybrow 9780393353044
Booksplease Price: £12.11The Well-Tuned Brain is a call to action. Swept along by the cascading advances of today's technology, most of us take for granted that progress brings improvement. Despite spectacular material... -
The Story of Life by Richard Southwood 9780198607861
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £14.74How did life begin? What was 'snowball earth'? Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Are we all descended from 'African Eve'? Will humans be responsible for the next major extinction? These and many... -
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RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £3.19'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's... -
First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies Peter Bellwood (Australian National University) 9780631205661
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £34.01First Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from...