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The College Myth: Why You Shouldn't Go to College If You Want to Be Successful by Gene W Kelly 9781599321004
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $18.54Remember the housing bubble that collapsed in 2008? The causes look obvious in hindsight: easy credit overheated demand that lead to unsustainably high prices with catastrophic results. The same... -
Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $31.38Winner of the Grand Prix 2009 de la Critique Bande Dessinee.Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and... -
Christian Petzold: Interviews by Marco Abel 9781496846105
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $146.52Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the "Berlin School" of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his... -
Education for Refugees and Sustainable Green Urban Development: Building Skills through Non-formal Learning Aysuhan Tuba Saral 9789819516797
Booksplease Price: $216.16This book presents the results of a Hong Kong study that focused on refugees' contributions, and potential, to support green urban development. It describes education about sustainability principles... -
American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Nigel Hamilton
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.84The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now,... -
The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding by Dan Sperber
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00If reason is what makes us human, then why do we humans often behave so irrationally? Taking us from desert ants to Aristotle, cognitive psychologists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber explore how our... -
Innovation in Near-Surface Geophysics: Instrumentation, Application, and Data Processing Methods by Raffaele Persico 9780128124291
RRP: $230.10Booksplease Price: $211.42Innovation in Near-Surface Geophysics: Instrumentation, Application, and Data Processing Methods offers an advanced look at state-of-the-art and innovative technologies for near surface geophysics,... -
A History of British Baking: From Blood Bread to Bake-Off Emma Kay 9781526799678
Booksplease Price: $40.60The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with this much-loved art has changed, evolved and progressed over time. ... -
The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times Professor A. C. Grayling 9781408864623
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier... -
Christian Petzold: Interviews by Marco Abel 9781496846112
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the "Berlin School" of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his... -
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story) by Julian Barnes 9780099578581
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and... -
The Tribe by Michael Arditti 9781784633646
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Books to look out for in the first half of 2026 -Lucy Popescu, Camden New JournalThe Tribe is the epic tale of a family and its history and a family in history.The Carraches are a powerful Sephardic... -
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams 9781324050452
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.34When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn't expect is that she'll end up in the hospital, examining close-up... -
Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance by Karen Levy 9780691259123
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.75A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of lifeLong-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and... -
Eurojihad: Patterns of Islamist Radicalization and Terrorism in Europe by Angel Rabasa 9781107437203
Booksplease Price: $57.64Throughout history, factors of radicalization have involved social and economic conditions and issues of identity. Patterns of Islamist radicalization in Europe reflect the historical experience of... -
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Humanity: the Recent Moral History by Jonathan Glover 9780712665414 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $4.70This book is about history and morality in the twentieth century. It is about the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's... -
The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village by Shrabani Basu
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88'Basu's account of how Arthur Conan Doyle set about trying to get a pardon for Edalji is in itself a fine piece of detective work.' The Times 'Compulsive reading.' A.N. Wilson 'Nails the nastiness... -
Humanity: the Recent Moral History Jonathan Glover 9780712665414
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $35.67This book is about history and morality in the twentieth century. It is about the psychology which made possible Hiroshima, the Nazi genocide, the Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's... -
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb 9781529007626
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.45A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of the Year'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' Spectator'A fresh way to write history' Alan Johnson'A quirky, amused, erudite homage to France . . ... -
Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance by Karen Levy
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of lifeLong-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and... -
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.77'Superb ... likely to become a classic' ObserverIn the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took... -
American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present by Philip Gorski 9780691147673
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $64.16An authoritative account of the long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American story Was the United States founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither,... -
Welcome to Britain: Fixing our broken immigration system by Colin Yeo
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42How would we treat Paddington Bear if he came to the UK today? Perhaps he would be a casualty of extortionate visa application fees; perhaps he would experience a cruel term of imprisonment in a... -
Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.37A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK An original and revelatory journey through the three-billion-year history of slime - a substance upon which we and our world depend. Slime is an ambiguous thing. ... -
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.25A Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearWinner of the American Library in Paris Book Award'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator'A fresh way to write history' - Alan... -
Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City by Samira Shackle 9781783785407
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Pakistan's largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people. A place of political turbulence, where lavish wealth and absolute poverty sit side by side, and where the lines between... -
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story by Matti Friedman 9781785900433
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.97It was just one remote hilltop in an unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt today, foreshadowing the chaos of 21stcentury conflicts in the Middle East. The... -
Fuels Paradise: Seeking Energy Security in Europe, Japan, and the United States by John S. Duffield
RRP: $79.95Booksplease Price: $60.04In recent years, the efforts of nations to promote energy security have been hotly debated. Fuels Paradise examines how five major developed democracies - Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the... -
After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century by Norman Birnbaum 9780195158595
Booksplease Price: $67.61The twentieth century witnessed a profound shift in both socialism and social reform. In the early 1900s, social reform seemed to offer a veritable religion of redemption, but by the century's end,... -
The Wealth of Humans: Work and Its Absence in the Twenty-first Century by Ryan Avent 9780141981185
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32'Ryan Avent is a superb writer ... highly readable and lively' Thomas Piketty'A pleasure to read. This is an important argument on a subject that will shape the coming decades' Duncan Weldon,... -
How to Grow a Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made by Philip Ball
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading. After seeing his... -
Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom Philip Eade 9780753823811
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06The biography of the last Ranee of Sarawak, born into the aristocracy as Sylvia Brett in 1885 and destined to become 'Queen of the Headhunters'.'Jaw-dropping ... If you thought White Mischief the... -
French Love Poems Alistair Elliot 9781852241698
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.85French Love Poems is about the kinds of love that puzzle, delight and af?ict us throughout our lives, from going on walks with an attractive cousin before Sunday dinner (Nerval) to indulging a... -
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon 9781529156171
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023ONE OF THE... -
Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics by Matthew Goodwin
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.09*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A Financial Times 2023 book to watch*'Forceful ... The fundamental thrust of Goodwin's argument is right ... a new centre ground of British politics is being formed -... -
Gun Island: A spellbinding, globe-trotting novel by the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy Amitav Ghosh 9781473686687
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is... -
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh 9781805223474
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.03FROM THE ORWELL PRIZE-WINNER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Palestine's greatest prose writer' Observer 'A valuable read. As well as talking through the... -
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig 9781455537013
Booksplease Price: $47.66In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government-driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v... -
The Coming Wave: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider Mustafa Suleyman 9781529923834
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89*An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year*Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the YearThis is the only book you need to understand our new... -
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $21.43Winner of the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when...