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Philosophy of Psychedelics by Chris Letheby
RRP: £30.49Booksplease Price: £28.05Recent clinical trials show that psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin can be given safely in controlled conditions, and can cause lasting psychological benefits with one or two administrations... -
Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain: Audience, Justice, Memory Lizzie Seal 9781138961296
Booksplease Price: £42.54Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the death penalty had changed - it was an issue that had become... -
Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance by Boris Groysberg 9780691154510
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.52It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But... -
Playing with Reality: How Games Shape Our World by Kelly Clancy 9780241545508
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.63'A book to get the neurons firing. As a passionate game player I loved reading a neuroscientist's perspective on the role games have played in humanity's attempts to navigate the game of life. A... -
Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World's Most Urgent Problems by Georgia Levenson Keohane
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.97Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natural disasters, political conflict, mass migration,... -
What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being by Richard Kraut 9780674032378
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £30.63What is good? How can we know, and how important is it? In this book Richard Kraut, one of our most respected analytical philosophers, reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human... -
Morality and Mathematics by Justin Clarke-Doane 9780198898863
Booksplease Price: £23.33To what extent are the subjects of our thoughts and talk real? This is the question of realism. In this book, Justin Clarke-Doane explores arguments for and against moral realism and mathematical... -
Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology by Dr. Geoffrey C. Kabat 9780231141499
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist... -
The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery by Thad Ziolkowski 9780062965936
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.67In this revelatory and original book, award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach... -
Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology by Dr. Geoffrey C. Kabat 9780231141482
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.50The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist... -
Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy by Phillip Deen 9780809339099
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32In 1947 America's premier philosopher, educator, and public intellectual John Dewey purportedly lost his last manuscript on modern philosophy in the back of a taxicab. Now, sixty-five years later,... -
Bluff by Francine Toon 9780857527554
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.35From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, Pine, comes a haunting and atmospheric new gothic thriller, set in the brooding Scottish landscape.'Fabulous' Sunday Times'Toon is great on atmosphere'... -
Actions and Objects from Hobbes to Richardson by Jonathan Brody Kramnick
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person's hands to move across the page, or believing something to be true cause a person to make a promise? In... -
The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions by Jaak Panksepp
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £47.30What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet... -
Excursions by Michael D. Jackson 9780822340751
Booksplease Price: £33.87A village in Sierra Leone. A refugee trail over the Pyrenees in French Catalonia. A historic copper mine in Sweden. The Shuf mountains in Lebanon. The Swiss Alps. The heart of the West African... -
Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium by John Corbett 9780822363668
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.71From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and... -
The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan by Dilip Hiro
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £5.56The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other. More than... -
Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium by John Corbett
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and... -
Sustainability in Austerity: How Local Government Can Deliver During Times of Crisis Philip Monaghan 9781906093570
Booksplease Price: £42.54As the economic crisis of 2008/09 unfolded, it became apparent that the huge mountains of debt being built up by central governments were unsustainable and that savage cuts would be needed to balance... -
Leadership Without Easy Answers by Ronald A. Heifetz
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £29.73The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don't deliver, we... -
Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide by Bill McGuire
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'It's a paradox but this was one of the most chilling books I've read this year. It's the definitive guide to where we're heading' ANTHONY HOROWITZ'The Earth is already in a dangerous phase of... -
Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways by Derek Gow 9781645021223
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £11.95"Derek Gow might be the most colorful character in all of Beaverdom."-Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager"Gow's triumph has been the reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver."-The New YorkerBringing Back the... -
Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways Derek Gow 9781645021230
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89'Gow reinvents what it means to be a guardian of the countryside.' Guardian 'This authentic, impassioned manifesto-cum-memoir will hopefully have a major impact on what is likely to be a... -
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £13.26In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, both conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian... -
Poso Wells by Gabriela Aleman 9780872867550
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.97Celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Aleman's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just... -
Wahala: Three friends, three ‘perfect’ lives. Here Comes Trouble by Nikki May 9781804990872
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC TV SERIESWINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT NEWCOMER AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL and the DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS'"WAHALA" means trouble and there's plenty... -
Warren Zevon and Philosophy: Beyond Reptile Wisdom by John E. MacKinnon 9781637700280
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Warren Zevon and Philosophy is a collection of chapters on Zevon's life and music, authored by philosophers who are also Zevon fans, providing new and exciting insights into Zevon's thinking, his...