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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash,... -
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD 'A remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain' Oliver Sacks'Utterly wonderful . . . without question one of the most important books... -
Language Myths by Laurie Bauer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.65A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children... -
The Human Mind by Robert Winston
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54It is the most complex and mysterious object in the universe. Covered by a dull grey membrane, it resembles a gigantic, convoluted fungus. Its inscrutability has captivated scientists, philosophers... -
Why We Lie by David Livingstone Smith 9780312310400
Booksplease Price: £13.42Deceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. We have been... -
Dispatches From the Sofa: The Collected Wisdom of Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner 9780099564928
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73A collection of Frank Skinner's most brilliant, biting, gut-bustingly funny columns for The Times.For several years, legendary comedian Frank Skinner wrote a weekly column for The Times. Without... -
The Awakened Brain: The Psychology of Spirituality and Our Search for Meaning by Lisa Miller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience'Lisa Miller is the leading psychologist of her generation' Martin... -
Writings from the Zen Masters by Various
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02These are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea, flowers and dogs, the writings of the Masters challenge... -
The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be by Dexter Dias
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.45The inspiration behind the hit podcast THE 100 TYPES OF HUMAN with DEXTER DIAS and BBC 5 Live host NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE'This book is the one. Think Sapiens and triple it.' - Julia Hobsbawm, author of... -
Is It Ever Just Sex? Darian Leader 9780241998168
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'Insanely readable! I loved it' Slavoj ZizekA delightfully thought-provoking study of why we have sex, from award-winning psychoanalyst Darian Leader'It was just sex...'It's a familiar claim. But... -
Yes To Life In Spite of Everything by Viktor E Frankl
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'Offers a path to finding hope even in these dark times' The New York... -
The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You by Rob Walker
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04Notice more, and notice more joy in the everyday.Distracted? Overwhelmed? Feel like your attention is constantly being pulled in different directions? Learn how to steal it back. ... -
In Writing by Adam Phillips
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Acclaimed author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On KindnessA collection of literary essays like no other - exploring the deep connections between literature and psychoanalysis - from... -
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin 9780141036199
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art... -
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The Human Mind by Robert Winston 9780553816198 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.41It is the most complex and mysterious object in the universe. Covered by a dull grey membrane, it resembles a gigantic, convoluted fungus. Its inscrutability has captivated scientists, philosophers... -
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Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer 9780099537939 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.41"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer.""We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it."Simon Heffer's... -
Don't Believe A Word: From Myths to Misunderstandings - How Language Really Works David Shariatmadari 9781474608459
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Wonderful. You finish the book more alive than ever to the enduring mystery and miracle of that thing that makes us most human' STEPHEN FRY'Most popular books on language dumb down; Shariatmadari's... -
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse by Edward Lear
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. He created an... -
Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer.""We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it."Simon Heffer's... -
Yes To Life In Spite of Everything by Viktor E Frankl 9781846046360
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'Offers a path to finding hope even in these dark times' The New York... -
Tripping the World Fantastic: A Journey Through the Music of Our Planet by Glenn Dixon 9781459706545
Booksplease Price: £18.58A fascinating journey through the world's musical cultures. Every culture on Earth has music. Every culture that's ever existed has had it, but we don't exactly know why. Music is not like food,... -
Why We Read by 9781802060959
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give... -
What I Believe: Humanist ideas and philosophies to live by Andrew Copson 9780349438429
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Discover the rich diversity of non-religious thought today in this inspiring collection of interviews with over thirty different humanists in the public eye, including Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and... -
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease by Charles Kenny
Booksplease Price: £12.55A vivid, sweeping, and "fact-filled" (Booklist, starred review) history of mankind's battles with infectious disease that "contextualizes the COVID-19 pandemic" (Publishers Weekly)-for readers of the... -
A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking: From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics James M. Russell 9781472143686
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a... -
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was given three... -
Violence and Visibility in Modern History by Jurgen Martschukat 9781349478439
Booksplease Price: £46.28Despite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed. Accordingly,... -
Violence and Visibility in Modern History by Jurgen Martschukat 9781137378682
Booksplease Price: £46.28Despite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed. Accordingly,... -
The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization - Updated Edition by Michael C. Corballis 9780691160948
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.65The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal... -
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 'I loved this book... An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times' Margaret Atwood 'Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening' George... -
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (The Sunday Times Bestseller) by Professor Anil Seth
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A BOOK OF THE YEARGUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERGAnil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for... -
This Is the Voice by John Colapinto
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.88A New York Times bestselling writer explores what our unique sonic signature reveals about our species, our culture, and each one of us. Finally, a vital topic that has never had its own book gets... -
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times Jonathan Sacks 9781473617315
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state on the other. The markets have brought wealth to many, and the... -
The Unpredictable Species: What Makes Humans Unique by Philip Lieberman 9780691148588
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82The Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation. In doing so, the book challenges the central... -
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Jonathan Sacks
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state on the other. The markets have brought wealth to many, and the... -
On Violence in History by Philip Dwyer 9781789204643
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.57Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker's highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and... -
On Violence in History by Philip Dwyer 9781789204650
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.42Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker's highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and... -
Psych.: The Story of Psychology by DK 9780241774168
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.05Take a fascinating trip through more than 2,500 years of groundbreaking ideas and discoveries that have shaped how we understand the human mind.Psych. takes you on a journey through the rich and... -
The Recursive Mind: The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization by Michael C. Corballis 9780691145471
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal... -
The Nature of Concepts: Evolution, Structure and Representation by Philip van Loocke
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The Nature of Concepts examines a central issue for all the main disciplines in cognitive science: how the human mind creates and passes on to other human minds a concept. An excellent...