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Confucianism: A Short Introduction by John Berthrong 9781851682362
Booksplease Price: £22.68Blending scholarship with an original approach, this new introduction to Confucianism is an informative and intriguing guide to China's ancient philosophical tradition. Against the backdrop of 17th... -
The Secret War with Iran: The 30-year Covert Struggle for Control of a Rogue State by Ronen Bergman 9781851686766
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.84While many now fear a looming war with Iran, few know that this war is already raging and has been doing so for the past three decades. Starting from the aftermath of the Iranian revolution,... -
Common Prayer: A Muslim-Christian Spiritual Anthology by Kenneth Cragg 9781851681815
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Compiled by a pioneer in interfaith dialogue, this is an unprecedented anthology of Christian and Muslim devotional writings. Bringing together prayers written in some twenty original languages and... -
The Heritage of Sufism: Classical Persian Sufism from Its Origins to Rumi (700-1300) v.1 by Leonard Lewisohn 9781851681884
Booksplease Price: £54.46The first volume in a three-volume set, this is a study of the rise of Persian Sufi spirituality and literature in Islam during the first six Muslim centuries. This collection of 24 essays covers the... -
What Buddhists Believe by Elizabeth Harris 9781851681686
Booksplease Price: £22.68Based on interviews with Buddhists living in both the West and the East, this is an accessible overview of the Buddhist tradition, which draws on personal insights, scholarly and non-scholarly, to... -
Understanding Life: An Introduction to the Psychology of Alfred Adler by Alfred Adler 9781851681280
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £16.22With Freud and Jung, Adler is one of the three founding fathers of the modern psychotherapy movement. This text introduces the key concepts of Adler's psychology, including: individual psychology;... -
The Baha'i Faith: A Short History by Peter Smith 9781851682089
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.53This succinct but comprehensive study of the history of the Baha'i Faith explores the religion from its origins in mid-nineteenth century Iran to the spiritual and social concerns of the present day,... -
Art: A Beginner's Guide by Laurie Schneider Adams 9781851688531
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.60Art has existed for as long as humankind, but defining it is famously difficult. In this whirlwind tour spanning from prehistory up to the present day and beyond, Laurie Schneider Adams explores how... -
Egypt: A Short History by James P. Jankowski 9781851682409
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £16.96Drawing on the latest scholarship, Jankowski provides a unique insight into the economic, political, and social history of Egypt. He focuses particularly on the last two centuries, and on the key... -
Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines by Dr William Pao 9781836430605
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Meet the doctors, scientists and patients patients fighting the world’s worst diseases ‘A must read.’ Siddhartha Mukherjee, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies What does it take to... -
The Victorians: A Beginner's Guide by David Gange 9781780748283
Booksplease Price: £16.96The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented transformation, yet it is often understood only through the stereotypes of crowded factories, child labour and emotional repression. In this entertaining... -
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A 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: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.68Neuroscientists 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... -
The Essentials of Mysticism and Other Essays by Evelyn Underhill 9781851681952
Booksplease Price: £21.69'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.'... -
Things We Left Unsaid by Zoya Pirzad
Booksplease Price: £24.15A 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... -
What Life Could Mean to You: The Psychology of Personal Development by Alfred Adler 9781851686704
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.44In 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... -
Turkey: The Quest for Identity by Feroz Ahmad 9781780743011
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.46This 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.15In 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,... -
The Oil Kings: How the US, Iran and Saudi-Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East by Andrew Scott Cooper
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.49Oil 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... -
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: £18.44Murder 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: £26.00Booksplease Price: £21.20*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: £24.00Booksplease Price: £19.72The 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.15SHORTLISTED 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: £30.55The 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: £36.00Booksplease Price: £29.10The 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: £29.00Booksplease Price: £23.41Since 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.15We'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: £23.00Booksplease Price: £18.44CURIOUS 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.15When 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.37SHORTLISTED 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... -
Fluke: The Maths and Myths of Coincidences by Joseph Mazur
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12What 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... -
Spite: and the Upside of Your Dark Side by Simon McCarthy-Jones
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.41Have 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... -
Who Will Catch Us As We Fall by Iman Verjee
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50Growing 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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.88Originally 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... -
Neither Devil Nor Child: How Western Attitudes Are Harming Africa by Tom Young 9781786070630
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37If 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 Really Runs Britain?: The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHS Alan White 9781786070661
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'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: £33.00Booksplease Price: £20.97Who 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12In 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 World After the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957 by Derek Leebaert
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23One 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... -
Man V. Nature: From the Booker-shortlisted author of The New Wilderness Diane Cook 9781786078858
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015* SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOKS PRIZE 2015 A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE NOTABLE BOOK OF 2014 A BOSTON GLOBE BEST FICTION OF 2014 ...