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The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen 9781541647152
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541647152Author Simon Baron-CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom? by David Brin 9780738201443
Booksplease Price: £23.03In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. Host sites on the... -
Bound To Lead: The Changing Nature Of American Power by Joseph Nye 9780465007448
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Is America still Number 1? A leading scholar of international politics and former State Department official takes issue with Paul Kennedy and others and clearly demonstrates that the United States is... -
From Black Land To Fifth Sun: The Science Of Sacred Sites by Brian Fagan 9780738201412
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.47Until recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this ground-breaking book, master storyteller and respected archaeologist Brian Fagan... -
The Sword and the Shield by Christopher Andrew 9780465003129
Booksplease Price: £20.33The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has... -
Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It by Christof Koch 9781541602809
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.10In Then I Am Myself the World, Christof Koch explores the only thing we directly experience: consciousness. At the book's heart is integrated-information theory, the idea that the essence of... -
The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II by Thomas Fleming 9780465024650
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.48Acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming brings to life a flawed and troubled FDR struggling to manage World War II. Starting with the leak to the press of Roosevelt's famous Rainbow Plan, then spiraling... -
As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning by Richard John Neuhaus 9780465049318
Booksplease Price: £17.99"A profoundly serious rumination on the meaning of life and especially on the meaning of death. Father Neuhaus's book prompts us to think seriously about our own inevitable death, as well as the way... -
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop by Jeff Chang 9780465009091
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.03It's not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theatre, dance, performance, poetry, literature, fashion, design, photography, painting, and film, to become one of the most far-reaching and... -
The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms by Connie Barlow 9780465005529
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00A new vision is sweeping through ecological science: The dense web of dependencies that makes up an ecosystem has gained an added dimension-the dimension of time. Every field, forest, and park is... -
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by Judith Lewis Herman 9781541600553
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600553Author Judith Lewis HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Impr -
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm 9781541605152
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541605152Author Eckart FrahmFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint < -
The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life by Alan de Queiroz 9780465020515
Booksplease Price: £30.78Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are... -
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader by Abby Wolf 9780465028313
Booksplease Price: £44.37Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker,Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume,... -
Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself by Jason Wilkes 9780465053735
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.46Forget everything you've been taught about math. In Burn Math Class , Jason Wilkes takes the traditional approach to how we learn math,with its unwelcoming textbooks, unexplained rules, and... -
Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom 9780465097432
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.00In this stunning collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients' struggles--as well as his own--to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to... -
Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future by Chris Mooney 9780465019175
Booksplease Price: £18.06Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation,many of the most urgent problems of the twenty-first century require scientific solutions, yet America is paying less and less attention to... -
Supersymmetry and Beyond: From the Higgs Boson to the New Physics by Gordon Kane 9780465082971
Booksplease Price: £18.06The epic story of the quest to uncover a fully unified theory of physics, revised to reflect the possible discovery of the Higgs Boson.About the AuthorGordon Kane is the Victor Weisskopf Collegiate... -
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic by Michael Dyson 9780465002115
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.52At the age of nineteen, Nasir Nas" Jones began recording tracks for his debut album,and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has... -
The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late by Thomas Sowell 9780465081417
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73The Einstein Syndrome is a follow-up to Late-Talking Children, which established Thomas Sowell as a leading spokesman on the subject. While many children who talk late suffer from developmental... -
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Learn about Einstein's theory of relativity from a physics Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) in six memorable lessonsIt was Richard... -
The Making of Modern Zionism, Revised Edition: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed into an active political... -
Quirkology by Richard Wiseman 9780465010233
Booksplease Price: £16.36For over twenty years, psychologist Richard Wiseman has examined the quirky science of everyday life. In Quirkology, he navigates the oddities of human behavior, explaining the tell-tale signs that... -
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Fire In The Sky: The Air War In The South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud 9780813338699 [USED COPY]
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £3.19In the first two years of the Pacific War of World War II, air forces from Japan, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand engaged in a ruthless struggle for superiority in the skies over the... -
The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch 9780465022007
Booksplease Price: £19.77Irving Kirsch has the world doubting the efficacy of antidepressants. Based on fifteen years of research, The Emperor's New Drugs makes an overwhelming case that what the medical community... -
Fire In The Sky: The Air War In The South Pacific by Eric M. Bergerud 9780813338699
Booksplease Price: £35.51In the first two years of the Pacific War of World War II, air forces from Japan, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand engaged in a ruthless struggle for superiority in the skies over the... -
Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream by Suzanne Mettler 9780465044962
Booksplease Price: £31.89America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in... -
How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction by Robert Martin 9780465030156
Booksplease Price: £33.00Despite the widespread belief that natural is better when it comes to sex, pregnancy, and parenting, most of us have no idea what natural" really means the origins of our reproductive lives remain a... -
Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll 9780465025527
Booksplease Price: £34.40We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the food on our plates, and our national identity is... -
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and... -
Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman by Aida D. Donald 9780465031207
Booksplease Price: £31.89When Harry S. Truman left the White House in 1953, his reputation was in ruins. Tarred by corruption scandals and his controversial decision to drop nuclear bombs on Japan, he ended his second term... -
The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace by Eric Rauchway 9780465049691
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.10Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous at worst. But... -
Letters to a Young Gymnast by Nadia Comaneci
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75In Letters to a Young Gymnast , Nadia Comaneci tells how she found the inner strength to become a world-class athlete at such a young age. Now a woman of tremendous poise and self-assurance, she... -
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline Jones
Booksplease Price: £23.33The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the... -
The Pattern On The Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work by W.Daniel Hillis 9780465066933
Booksplease Price: £20.50Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize,and what Daniel Hillis's short book brilliantly demonstrates,is that... -
The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning by Marcelo Gleiser 9780465049646
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.82Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion... -
The Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children--and Its Aftermath by Susan Clancy 9780465022113
Booksplease Price: £16.95Drawing on the latest research on memory and traumatic experience, Susan Clancy, an expert in experimental psychopathology, demonstrates that children describe abuse and molestation encounters in... -
Basic Book Repair Methods by Abraham A. Schechter 9781563087004
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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes... -
Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames by Gregory Feifer 9780465009695
Booksplease Price: £20.82In his four decades as a KGB officer, Victor Cherkashin was a central player in the shadowy world of Cold War espionage. From his rigorous training in Soviet intelligence in the early 1950s to his...