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A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships by Sai Gaddam
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $15.84The book on sex in the twenty-first century"Alfred Kinsey only scratched the surface. Interviewing a mere 18,000 horny humans? Please . . . Drs. Ogas and Gaddam [offer] hot new scientific findings... -
Living by Numbers: In Defence of Quantity by Steven Connor
Booksplease Price: $17.84Ideas about quantities, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do. In Living by Numbers, now available in paperback, Steven Connor explores the... -
Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Won't Do As It's Told by Lane Greene
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Language is a wild animal: rough, ambiguous, inconsistent in countless ways. But that just makes it all the more tempting to tame it. Many have tried, from sticklers for supposedly correct grammar to... -
Creative Society: How the Future Can be Won Lars Tvede 9781910649725
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.62Human creativity has been one of the fundamental drivers of civilization and progress - solving immense problems, creating opportunities and overcoming enemies like no other force. Often it has... -
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning by Eli Burnstein 9781454952350
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.88"This delightful book is a tribute to the genius of the human mind for conceptual precision and the beauty of the English language in capturing it. It resolves a great deal of puzzlement over... -
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin 9780006387343
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14The definitive edition of Darwin's classic - a brilliantly entertaining and accessible exploration of human and animal behaviour, reissued to mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. ... -
Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A fascinating, practical guide to making better decisions with our money, health and personal lives from Gerd Gigerenzer, the author of Reckoning with Risk.Numbers don't lie - but they often mislead... -
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37An intelligently provocative book about Darwin's 'other' theory discusses the curious ways in which sexual attraction has influenced the evolution of the human mind.Many aspects of the human mind... -
Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Treating Clinical Depression by Oliver Kamm
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.04'A tour de force . . . an important, affecting and effective book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'[A] gorgeous and urgent book' STEVEN PINKER'MENDING THE MIND reminds us that, despite our hazy understanding of... -
The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything Robert H Frank 9780753513385
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07Have you ever wondered why there is a light in your fridge but not in your freezer? Or why 24-hour shops bother having locks on their doors? Or why soft drink cans are cylindrical, but milk cartons... -
80,000 Hours: How to Find a Fulfilling Career That Does Good by Benjamin Todd 9781529957570
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.40'If you're worried about wasting your life, read this book.' Rutger Bregman, author of HumankindA ridiculously in-depth guide to finding a fulfilling and impactful career in an age of AI.You have... -
The Compatibility Gene by Daniel M. Davis
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Short-listed for the Society of Biology Book Award 2014 Long-listed for the Royal Society Winton prize for science books 2014In The Compatibility Gene, leading scientist Daniel M Davis tells the... -
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The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything by Robert H. Frank 9780753513385 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.03Have you ever wondered why there is a light in your fridge but not in your freezer? Or why 24-hour shops bother having locks on their doors? Or why soft drink cans are cylindrical, but milk cartons... -
Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael Gazzaniga
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The prevailing orthodoxy in brain science is that since physical laws govern our physical brains, physical laws therefore govern our behaviour and even our conscious selves. Free will is meaningless,... -
How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The net's impact on our minds and future John Brockman (Ed.) 9780857892485
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.49The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is 'the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself. It's not about computers. It's not about what... -
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling 9780241993200
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.84'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' Independent_______________From the eminent philosopher,... -
The Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66'It will change the way you remember the 20th century and read the news in the 21st' Steven Pinker'A clarion call to preserve law and order across our planet' Philippe Sands'A fascinating and... -
Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains by Uta Frith
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.10'Charming and addictively accessible' STEVEN PINKER 'Original, authoritative and beautiful' BRIAN COX 'The most wonderful adventure' ROBIN INCE A brilliantly illustrated journey through the... -
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists by Napoleon A. Chagnon 9780684855110
RRP: $42.87Booksplease Price: $26.81"One of history's greatest anthropologists-and a rip-roaring storyteller-recounts his life with an endangered Amazonian tribe and the mind-boggling controversies his work ignited" (Steven Pinker,... -
80,000 Hours: How to Find a Fulfilling Career That Does Good by Benjamin Todd 9781529995060
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $23.01'If you're worried about wasting your life, read this book.' Rutger Bregman, author of HumankindA ridiculously in-depth guide to finding a fulfilling and impactful career in an age of AI.You have... -
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress by Peter Singer 9780691150697
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.71What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology - especially in... -
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.72'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW... -
This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know by John Brockman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11From 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 Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to... -
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.38Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. 'A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and animal... A beautifully... -
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is the problem. We think of empathy - the ability to feel the suffering of others for ourselves - as the ultimate source of all good behaviour. But... -
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Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat [Second Edition]: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11"A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience."- Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works A maverick scientist reveals the inconsistent... -
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared... -
The Marshmallow Test: Understanding Self-control and How To Master It by Walter Mischel
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.67A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behaviour later in life?Walter... -
The Perils of Perception: Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything by Bobby Duffy 9781786494580
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.05Do you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the rich pay? Are we more ignorant than we used to be?Take a minute to... -
What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night by John Brockman 9780062296238
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $15.79Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried... -
Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe by Lisa Randall
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2011.We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest), and when... -
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Psy-Q: A Mind-Bending Miscellany Of Everyday Psychology by Ben Ambridge 9781781252116 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64Psychology is everywhere. Our emotions and desires, the decisions we make on a daily basis - absolutely every aspect of the way we think and feel has been studied by psychologists. Through dozens of... -
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10'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... -
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05The New York Times bestsellerFinancial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial... -
English at Work: Find and Fix your Mistakes in Business English as a Foreign Language Ellen Jovin 9781529392852
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.07This Grammar Guru will solve the world's problems. Or, at least, help you figure out when to use an Oxford comma. The New York TimesPut your English skills to work for you! This book is ideal for... -
SuperCooperators Martin Nowak 9781847673381
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to LifeIf life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a... -
Six in a Bed: The Future of Love - from Sex Dolls and Avatars to Polyamory by Roanne van Voorst 9781509558421
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $15.89Love is the most important and intense experience of our life. It pushes us to elation, to heartbreak, to sing for joy and sob in disappointment. Connecting in this way to others is an essential... -
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to... -
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster 9781788164498
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58'Emily Oster is the non-judgemental girlfriend holding our hand and guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood. She has done the work to get us the hard facts in a soft, understandable way' Amy...