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Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies by Charles J. Adams 9781851682683
Booksplease Price: $48.05Based on a symposium on the theme 'Islam and the History of Religions', this important work features thoughtful essays on the study of Islam. In essays organized around five themes in religious... -
British Muslim Converts: Choosing Alternative Lives by Kate Zebiri 9781851685462
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $39.90When the Western mass-media talk of conversion to Islam, we are bombarded with accounts of vulnerable people brainwashed into a culture of extremism. However, in reality, the vast majority who... -
Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak 9781780742496
Booksplease Price: $59.57Using a semiotic model of poetic change, Recasting Persian Poetry presents a critical history of the evolution of Persian poetry in modern Iran. Iran's contact with Europe in the nineteenth century... -
Muhammad and the Christian: A Question of Response by Kenneth Cragg 9781851681792
Booksplease Price: $40.38In this study, Cragg attempts to reconcile the importance of Muhammad with the very nature of the Christian faith.Book InformationISBN 9781851681792Author Kenneth CraggFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Danger: Our Quest for Excitement by Michael J. Apter 9781851684816
RRP: $44.85Booksplease Price: $35.96Why do we slow down to look at car accidents? Why would rich people shoplift? What draws people to parachuting, military service, and sadistic sex? These are just some of the questions... -
Judaism: A Short Reader by Dan Cohn-Sherbok 9781851682782
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $30.19This reader includes extracts from a wide variety of sources, from the Pentateuch and the Talmud of ancient history, through to modern Jewish documents. Among the areas covered by this wide array of... -
The Call of the Minaret by Kenneth Cragg 9781851682102
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $48.54Taking the Muslim call to prayer as his starting point, the author unravels the significance of the muezzin's haunting cry, considering prophethood, prayer, politics and community to present a more... -
Understanding Human Nature by Alfred Adler 9781851681570
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $46.14In "Understanding Human Nature", Adler explores human personality from all angles - how character develops, the nature of the psyche, how we see the world and how we become who we are. He... -
Islam: A Short History by Prof. W. Montgomery Watt 9781851682058
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $30.19The purpose of this book is to provide the Western reader with a positive understanding of Islam, of its origins, its history and its beliefs; but it is hoped that there may also be something of... -
International Relations: A Beginner's Guide by Charles Jones 9781780743035
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.09Today, more than ever, we live in a global world. Whether it's war, economics, politics, or law, our lives are influenced by a complex web of cross-border transactions. Dr Charles Jones ably... -
Philosophy of Science: A Beginner's Guide by Geoffrey Gorham 9781851686841
Booksplease Price: $33.07The world didn't end on 10 September 2008, but the possibility may have got you thinking: was it worth the risk? What is the point of science actually? Geoffrey Gorham considers these questions and... -
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.09A Book of the Year for The Economist and the Observer Our world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty,... -
Welcome to Your Child's Brain: How the Mind Grows from Birth to University by Sandra Aamodt 9781851689125
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $44.23Neuroscientists Aamodt and Wang illuminate how children's brains grow - and how they can be nurtured, scientifically, to reach their full potential. The authors investigate common child-rearing... -
Things We Left Unsaid by Zoya Pirzad
Booksplease Price: $47.09A heartwarming and humorous insight into the hopes and aspirations of Iranians in the years that led up to the Islamic Revolution Deep in an Iranian suburb, made rich by the booming oil... -
The Essentials of Mysticism and Other Essays by Evelyn Underhill 9781851681952
Booksplease Price: $42.30'Nothing is more striking in the literature of contemplation, and of high aesthetic experience, than an experienced reality, a joy and richness, which can never be conveyed save by allusion.'... -
What Life Could Mean to You: The Psychology of Personal Development by Alfred Adler 9781851686704
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.96In this positive and empowering book, Adler demonstrates how we can overcome the limitations of our past, and develop the courage to transform ourselves and the world we live in.A complete guide to... -
The Oil Kings: How the US, Iran and Saudi-Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East by Andrew Scott Cooper
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $22.41Oil Kings offers the first inside look at how an oil crisis was manipulated by Alan Greenspan, Donald Rumsfeld, and President Ford (hoping to secure his re-election), helping to precipitate the fall... -
Turkey: The Quest for Identity by Feroz Ahmad 9781780743011
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $39.90This concise history tells the story of Turkey, a country caught between the ideologies of East and West. From its beginnings as a disparate group of tribes to its status as the first secular... -
I'm Going to Ruin Their Lives: Inside Putin's War on Russia's Opposition by Marc Bennetts 9781780745244
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.09In 2012, on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a controversial third term as president, mass protests ended in violent clashes between demonstrators and the police. 'They ruined my big day,... -
Murder in the Name of Honour: The True Story of One Woman's Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime by Rana Husseini 9781851685240
Booksplease Price: $35.96Murder in the Name of Honour is Rana Husseini's hard-hitting and controversial examination of honour crimes. Common in many traditional societies around the world, as well as in migrant communities... -
The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley 9781780748634
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $41.34*Winner of the 2016 Edna Staebler Award for Non-Fiction* How to start a book club in a men's prison? After a violent mugging, Ann Walmsley was understandably anxious when her friend set one up and... -
The Cancer Survivors Club: A collection of inspirational and uplifting stories by Chris Geiger 9781780747262
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $38.45The Cancer Survivors Club brings together first-hand accounts of ordinary people who have beaten cancer. They are old and young, their diagnoses common and rare, their courses of treatment long and... -
The Empire of Necessity: The Untold History of a Slave Rebellion in the Age of Liberty by Greg Grandin 9781780746456
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.09SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2014 WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE 2015 One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, seal hunter and abolitionist... -
The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam by Mehdi Aminrazavi 9781851685042
Booksplease Price: $59.57The intoxicating message of Khayyam's famous Ruba'iyyat created an image of exotic Orientalism in the West but, as author Mehdi Aminrazavi reveals, Khayyam's achievements went far beyond the... -
The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire by Andrew O'Shaughnessy 9781780745015
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $56.75The loss of America in 1781 has traditionally been blamed on incompetent British military commanders and political leaders whose arrogant confidence and out-dated tactics were no match for the... -
The Secret Lives of People In Love: Includes the award-winning collection Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy 9781780745596
RRP: $56.55Booksplease Price: $45.65Since the publication of his critically acclaimed debut collection The Secret Lives of People in Love, Simon Van Booy has been hailed as one of the most exciting and talented short-story writers in... -
Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying) by Bill Gifford 9781780748511
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.09We've been tantalised by the idea of eternal youth since time immemorial. We're always asking how we can live longer, and better. Or, to put it another way, why can't we all be like Madame Calment... -
In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen 9781780746081
RRP: $44.85Booksplease Price: $35.96CURIOUS ANIMAL BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2014 PICK In Paradise tells the story of a group of men and women who come together for a weeklong meditation retreat at the site of a World War II... -
How Women Decide: What's True, What's Not, and Why It Matters by Therese Huston 9781780749068
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.09When a man faces a difficult decision, he needs to make a judgement. When a woman faces the same decision, she must also deal with being judged. It's hardly surprising then that even the smartest... -
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2020 To be an astronomer is to journey to... -
Spite: and the Upside of Your Dark Side by Simon McCarthy-Jones
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.20Have you ever done something stupid, dangerous or self-sabotaging just to get one over someone else? Most of us have. Simon McCarthy-Jones draws on psychology, current affairs, literature and... -
Fluke: The Maths and Myths of Coincidences by Joseph Mazur
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and thousands of miles apart or, in a second-hand bookshop... -
Neither Devil Nor Child: How Western Attitudes Are Harming Africa by Tom Young 9781786070630
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.07If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible? Decades after the colonial powers withdrew... -
Who Will Catch Us As We Fall by Iman Verjee
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.68Growing up in the Nairobi of the 90s, a seething boiling pot of racial tension and conflicting cultural taboos, Leena and Jai are raised to believe in a Kenya full of possibility and potential. But... -
The Prophet: A New Annotated Edition by Kahlil Gibran 9781851689453
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.47Originally published in 1923, The Prophet continues to inspire millions worldwide with its timeless words of love and mystical longing. Writing with insight, hope, and a remarkable compassion for the... -
Who Really Runs Britain?: The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHS Alan White 9781786070661
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88'Outsourcing' - when will the horror stories stop coming? Every year the government gives private companies like G4S, Serco, Capita and ATOS GBP80 billion of taxpayers' money to handle some of... -
Examined Lives: Twelve Great Thinkers and the Search for Wisdom, from Socrates to Nietzsche by Prof. James Miller 9781786072672
RRP: $64.35Booksplease Price: $40.89Who are we? How should we live? Professor James Miller introduces twelve great philosophers who dedicated their lives to answering these questions. From Plato, who risked his reputation to tutor a... -
Justice: A Beginner's Guide by Raymond Wacks
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88In this highly topical introduction, Professor Raymond Wacks explains and evaluates the leading theories of justice that have shaped our societies and their legislative and judicial systems, and... -
The War and the Death of News: From Battlefield to Newsroom - My Fifty Years in Journalism by Martin Bell
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.85A smoke bomb went off. Then shots were fired from buildings overlooking the square... The camera had a BBC News sign on it. Someone cried out from the crowd: 'You are the world, you are the world,... -
The World After the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957 by Derek Leebaert
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.95One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments...