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The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants by Karen Bakker 9780691240978
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.36An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature's soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital... -
Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought by David Biale 9780691147239
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.49Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale... -
The Oxford Handbook of Banking: Third Edition by Allen N. Berger 9780192859501
Booksplease Price: £62.04The Oxford Handbook of Banking, Third Edition provides an overview and analysis of developments and research in this rapidly evolving field. Aimed at graduate students of economics, banking, and... -
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith by Timothy Larsen 9780199657872
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £31.34Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who... -
Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe by Charles S. Cockell
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.30Insightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologist's everyday conversations with his fellow humans-taxi drivers, to be... -
Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism by Joel A. Carpenter 9780195129076
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21By the end of the 1920s, fundamentalism in America was intellectually bankrupt and publicly disgraced. Bitterly humiliated by the famous Scopes "monkey trial," this once respected movement retreated... -
Digitising Command and Control: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Analysis of Mission Planning and Battlespace Management by Professor Neville A. Stanton
RRP: £62.99Booksplease Price: £56.37This book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM) system. An emphasis was placed on the activities at the Brigade (Bde)... -
Werewolf Cop: A Novel by Andrew Klavan 9781605986982
Booksplease Price: £19.71Zach Adams is one of the best detectives in the country. Nicknamed Cowboy, he's a soft-spoken homicide detective from Houston known for his integrity and courage under fire. He serves on a federal... -
Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.03Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This... -
Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity by Daniel Deudney 9780190903343
Booksplease Price: £37.98Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech... -
101 Playground Games: A Collection of Active and Engaging Playtime Games for Children by Therese Hoyle
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £27.11101 Playground Games is a collection of active and engaging school playground games that will encourage active learning and social development among children at playtime, this second edition has been... -
Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe Charles S. Cockell 9780674297227
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.78"Timely...Cockell makes us consider a gamut of new possibilities that boggle the mind." -Bruce Dorminey, Forbes "Taxi from Another Planet conveys an array of ideas-all fascinating, and some... -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf
RRP: £23.49Booksplease Price: £17.87The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that... -
Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba by Emmanuel Gerard
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £28.10Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a... -
428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina 9780691150253
Booksplease Price: £16.11This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428... -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf 9780199664733
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £25.29The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that... -
Czeslaw Milosz: A California Life by Cynthia L. Haven
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84The first book about the Nobel Laureate's transformative but conflicted time in the Golden State."There is much to learn from this book about Milosz and California, yes, but also about poetry and the... -
How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians by Quintus Tullius Cicero 9780691154084
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.99How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the... -
Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading by Isabel Hofmeyr
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.14At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper... -
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective... -
A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians by Timothy Larsen 9780199570096
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £55.99Although the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. They habitually read the Bible,... -
The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America by Adrian Johns 9780226821481
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.73For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today. Reading is perhaps the essential practice of modern civilization. For centuries, it... -
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price 9780691159546
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why... -
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain by Leah Price 9780691114170
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.20How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why... -
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession by Rakesh Khurana
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.55Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and... -
Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience by Jeremy Mynott
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.18What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world? And what do our ways of thinking...