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The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans - And Other Possible Phenomena by Mike Pearl
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92__________If you live on planet Earth, you're probably scared about the future.Terrorism, complicated international relations, global warming, killer viruses and a raft of other issues make it hard... -
The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans - And Other Possible Phenomena by Mike Pearl 9781473685574
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.42__________If you live on planet Earth, you're probably scared about the future. Terrorism, complicated international relations, global warming, killer viruses and a raft of other issues make it hard... -
Homo Prospectus by Martin E. P. Seligman
Booksplease Price: $72.32Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter... -
Not the End of the World: Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth Hannah Ritchie 9781529931242
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and show how together we can solve them.** THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER **'Truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD'Inspiring'... -
The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual Ward Farnsworth 9781567928242
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.65"Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn't just a book to read-it's a book to return... -
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue by Sam Harris
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $20.05"A civil but honest dialogue...As illuminating as it is fascinating."-Ayaan Hirsi AliIs Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem to be drawn to... -
The Selfish Gene: 50th Anniversary Edition Richard Dawkins 9780198985389
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Celebrating 50 years with a new anniversary edition, this critically acclaimed international bestseller has sold millions of copies and been translated into over 30 languages. Among the most... -
The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual by Ward Farnsworth
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $25.57"Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn't just a book to read-it's a book to return... -
Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong by Christopher J. Ferguson 9781942952985
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.99In family rooms across America, millions of children and teenagers are playing video games, such as Call of Duty, Halo, and Grand Theft Auto, roaming violent virtual worlds--with virtual guns in... -
If Science is to Save Us by Rees 9781509554201
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.25There has never been a time when 'following the science' has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor... -
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling 9781473637467 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.19OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD 'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases'BARACK OBAMA'One of the most important books I've ever read -... -
Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years by Ian Goldin
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $32.62'Amazing. It would be my desert island choice' Martin Rees'Fascinating, beautiful, alarming and revelatory use of mapping and infographics' Stephen Fry on EarthTime maps'An indispensable read'... -
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling 9781473637498
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts... -
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think by Bryan Caplan 9780465028610
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.52In Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids , contrarian economist Bryan Caplan argues that we've needlessly turned parenting into an unpleasant chore, and don't know the real plusses and minuses of having... -
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Factfulness (Illustrated) by Hans Rosling 9781529387155 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $4.37The international best-selling phenomenon loved by BARACK OBAMA and BILL GATES in a new and updated illustrated edition'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts... -
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen 9780691178240
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.33Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the... -
Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mchangama
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times... -
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled... -
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.28One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the... -
Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media Jacob Mchangama 9781529382198
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.37A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times... -
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence Krauss
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10'Probably the most readable, exciting and authoritative writer on science we have. A new Lawrence Krauss book always goes to the top of the curious mind's wish list.' Stephen Fry 'A great educator as... -
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think Hans Rosling 9781473637467
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.96'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.' BARACK OBAMA'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to... -
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.38The international bestseller'A manual for thinking clearly in an uncertain world. Read it.' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow_________________________What if we could improve our... -
The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World by Severine Autesserre
RRP: $32.82Booksplease Price: $25.75At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word... -
Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey by John Barnett
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99An illustrated adaptation of 'Carbon,' a short story from Italian chemist, writer, and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi. It traces the life story and many molecular manifestations of a single atom of... -
The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist's Journey from Helplessness to Optimism by Martin Seligman
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83One of the most important psychologists alive today tells the story of the transformation of modern psychology through the lens of his own career and change of heart.Martin E. P. Seligman is one of... -
Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Dreger 9780143108115
Booksplease Price: $25.38"Smart, delightful . . . a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism, and science." -The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) An impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and... -
Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization by Scott Barry Kaufman
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83'A MASTERPIECE' Susan CainHow to realise your full potential and live your most creative life. When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow's unfinished theory of transcendence,... -
What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity - FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS Daron Acemoglu 9781805228677
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.75'Timely ... an important call to arms' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A must-read' THOMAS PIKETTY, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century 'A thoughtful solution to the most important question of... -
The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World by Severine Autesserre 9780197679197
RRP: $22.10Booksplease Price: $21.00At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word... -
That Book Is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing by Adam Szetela 9780262057325
RRP: $30.75Booksplease Price: $19.94An alarming expose of the new challenges to literary freedom in the age of social media when anyone with an identity and an internet connection can be a censor. In That Book Is Dangerous!, Adam... -
Bad Men: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment and Assault by David Buss
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Sexual conflict permeates ancient religions, from injunctions about thy neighbor's wife to the sexual obligations of marriage. It is etched in written laws that dictate who can and cannot have sex... -
Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom 9780465097432
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.08In 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...