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Starborn: How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them by Roberto Trotta 9781529346084
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.17A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'A STUNNING AND UNFORGETTABLE VOYAGE THROUGH THE STARS' STEPHEN FRYA sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped what it means to be human. One of our species'... -
The Virtue of Nationalism Yoram Hazony 9781541645370
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $26.93In the wake of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, countless words have been written and uttered about nationalism-many accusing nationalists of racism, hatred, and violence. But nationalism... -
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $19.70A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But... -
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal by Alexandra Natapoff
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.69Punishment Without Crime provides a sweeping and revelatory new account of America's broken criminal justice system from the perspective of the paradigmatic American crime-the lowly misdemeanor... -
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $11.51Examine the inner workings of the mind and learn what consciousness and a sense of self really means - and if it even exists. We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something... -
Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Soll
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $27.26After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The History of an Idea shows how the idea became so... -
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford 9781541608863
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541608863Author Martin FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint -
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems by Professor Joseph L Graves
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99Evolution has, ever since its inception, been one of the most ideologically fraught fields in all of science. It has given birth to the myth about biological racial "types," with distinct rankings of... -
July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin 9780465060740
Booksplease Price: $23.61When an assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, no one could have imagined the shocking bloodshed that would soon follow. Indeed, as award-winning historian Sean McMeekin... -
A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History Jay Sexton 9781541617230
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05Americans have long understood their history as a story of inevitable progress, of a steadily rising standard of living and of the gradual extension of rights and freedoms to previously... -
Acrylic Landscapes for Beginners: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Painting Scenic Drives, Misty Forests, Snowy Mountains and More by Sarah Johnston 9781645678533
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $19.94In this all-in-one guide to painting the most gorgeous acrylic landscapes, viral artist Sarah Johnston gives you all the tools to create your own nature-inspired masterpieces. There's no such thing... -
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by James Horn 9780465024902
Booksplease Price: $20.53In 1587, John White led 117 English men, women, and children to Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. They hoped to establish a British foothold in North America, but soon found themselves... -
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn 9781541645769
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $28.61It's the dream scenario for many of us after a long week: having the house completely to ourselves. No partners, no parents, no kids, no pets. But as we settle into the couch, something stirs: maybe... -
Treekeepers: The Race for a Forested Future by Lauren E Oakes 9781541603349
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58How the path from climate change to a habitable future winds through the world's forests In recent years, planting a tree has become a catchall to represent "doing something good for the planet."... -
Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behaviour Moshe Hoffman 9781529376821
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58'Packed with fresh and clear insights that will change the way you think about the world' Uri Gneezy'One of those books that you pick up and then can't put down' Steve Stewart-Williams'This is a book... -
Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behaviour by Moshe Hoffman 9781529376845
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.11'Packed with fresh and clear insights that will change the way you think about the world' Uri Gneezy'One of those books that you pick up and then can't put down' Steve Stewart-Williams'This is a book... -
Dog-eared: Poems About Humanity's Best Friend by Duncan Wu
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05Dogs are at once among the most ordinary of animals and the most beloved by mankind. But what we may not realize is that for as long as we have loved dogs, our poets have been seriously engaged with... -
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.99We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life: supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe... -
Mastery: The Transformation of Learning for the Twenty-First Century by Tony Wagner 9781541601925
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58A radical new approach to education for learners of any ageHow much information is forgotten almost immediately after it is taught? How many students graduate from high school unprepared for careers... -
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War by Lyndal Roper 9781541647053
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $30.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541647053Author Roper LFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton Joe Moshenska 9781529364286
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.37'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of... -
The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands by Eric Topol
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.26A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the doctor will see you now",but only for... -
The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down by Jonathan Gottschall
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there... -
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.26One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self,... -
Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine Eugene Finkel 9781399809719
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $21.47A history of Russian violence waged against Ukraine across the centuries. Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet this attack was in fact the latest episode... -
Economic Facts and Fallacies: Second Edition by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Thomas Sowell "both surprises and overturns received wisdom" in this indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies (The Economist)Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most... -
The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need (Fifth Edition) by Ellen Karsh
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05Written by two expert authors who have won millions of dollars in government and foundation grants, this is the essential book on securing grants. It provides comprehensive, step-by-step guide for... -
Enchanting Embroidery Designs: Whimsical Animal and Plant Motifs to Stitch MiW Morita 9784805316184
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85Enchanting Embroidery Designs invites you to create your own world using bright thread colors and imaginative stitches.Full of motifs that are both simple and playful, from zany crocodiles, and... -
Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy by Deborah Anna Luepnitz 9780465042876
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.07Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine through a fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer's Porcupines she recounts five true... -
The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence by Richard L. Hudson
Booksplease Price: $27.30Mathematical superstar and inventor of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot, has spent the past forty years studying the underlying mathematics of space and natural patterns. What many of his... -
In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World by Lauren E. Oakes
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05Where mountains meet ocean in Alaska's Alexander Archipelago, white skeletons of dead yellow cedar trees stand prominently amidst a verdant landscape of old-growth forests. Researchers spent nearly... -
The Spinoza Problem: A Novel by Irvin D. Yalom
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.59A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkersIn The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and... -
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler by Peter Fritzsche
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.29World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children made up the vast majority of those killed by the war, and the conflict... -
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... -
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.84Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeA metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis CarrollDouglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal... -
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, 3rd Edition: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $15.79In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children-and outlines... -
On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.91Deemed the dean of leadership gurus" by Forbes magazine, Warren Bennis has for years persuasively argued that leaders are not born,they are made. Delving into the qualities that define leadership,... -
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $8.07Embodying the entire system of Robert Henri's teaching, The Art Spirit contains much valuable advice, critical comment, and inspiration to every student of the arts.About the AuthorRobert Henri was... -
Elixir: A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life by Theresa Levitt 9781399803250
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A FINANCIAL TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA STRONG WORDS TOP 50 BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Dizzying and fragrant . . . truly a captivating achievement!' Aimee Nezhukumatathil'If you read this book you will be... -
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence Jeff Hawkins 9781541675797
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.59For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence?Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses...