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The Power of Nothing to Lose: The Hail Mary Effect in Politics, War, and Business by William L. Silber 9780063011526
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.06Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L. Silber explores the Hail Mary effect, from its origins in sports to its applications to history, nature,... -
Taxation in Colonial America by Alvin Rabushka 9780691133454
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £85.15Taxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists. Spanning the turbulent years from the... -
Undermoney: A Novel by Jay Newman
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.90From a seasoned insider of global finance comes a "stimulating, relevant, and dramatic" (The Wall Street Journal) thriller about a group of American operatives who secretly take over the world's... -
Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARDAdolf Hitler and Winston... -
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin 9780141999289
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.23THE THOUGHT BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE TIMESA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Game of Thrones-style intra-elite conflict meets big data' TLS'Extraordinary. . . the culmination of many years of highly original... -
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance () by Ian Goldin
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.08'A landmark new book.' - The Guardian Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks the question, how do we avoid chaos and disruption, and share more widely the... -
The Trade Trap: How To Stop Doing Business with Dictators Mathias Döpfner 9781668016268
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01Global business leader Mathias Doepfner offers a "compelling" (Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs columnist for Financial Times) and revolutionary road map to reshape global trade, strengthen our... -
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power by Sergey Radchenko 9781108477352
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.53What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey... -
In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine by Tim Judah
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42An urgent, insightful account of the human side of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine by seasoned war reporter Tim Judah Making his way from the Polish border in the west, through the capital city and... -
The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London by Ivan Maisky
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.22Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary... -
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century by Jamie Susskind 9781526625298
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK TO READ _______________ 'One of the foremost thinkers on the transformative impact of the technology revolution' - TONY BLAIR 'Original and hopeful . . . a unique guide to... -
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power Sergey Radchenko 9781108708593
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey... -
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 Frank Dikoetter 9781408856529
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.99Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. 'The seminal English... -
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy Henry Kissinger 9780141998688
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the... -
America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience by Robert H. Zieger 9780847696451
Booksplease Price: £40.79Recent bestsellers by Niall Ferguson and John Keegan have created tremendous popular interest in World War I. In America's Great War prominent historian Robert H. Zieger examines the causes,... -
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations by Eric H. Cline 9780691192130
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.71In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed-why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why... -
The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism by Antoinette Burton 9780190858551
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £24.14The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past... -
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 by J. H. Elliott
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.99This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H... -
Presenting History: Past and Present by Peter Beck
Booksplease Price: £33.84Who reads academic histories? Should historians reach out more beyond academia to the general public? Why do Hollywood films, historical novels and television histories prove more successful in... -
In Defense of Public Debt by Barry Eichengreen
RRP: £28.49Booksplease Price: £21.93A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the... -
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi
RRP: £26.49Booksplease Price: £19.85Given the turbulence in the international order in recent years, one of the central concerns among observers of world politics is the question of China's ultimate goals. As China emerges as a... -
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West 9781780225593 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.Why do organisms and... -
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.Why do organisms and... -
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi 9780197645482
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.60For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception,... -
Leadership in Turbulent Times: Lessons from the Presidents by Doris Kearns Goodwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the origin, uncertain growth, and finally, the exercise of... -
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise by Scott Rozelle
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.60As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as... -
When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy by William L. Silber 9780691138763
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90When Washington Shut Down Wall Street unfolds like a mystery story. It traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo's triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened... -
Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War - THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edward Fishman 9781783968930
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN ECONOMIST 'BEST BOOK OF 2025' 'Chokepoints is a masterful narrative of US economic... -
Henry Kissinger and the American Century by Jeremi Suri 9780674032521
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £28.57What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Jeremi Suri offers... -
Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium by Ronald Findlay 9780691143279
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.47International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its... -
Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes 9780195076769
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.90In this radical account of the decline of twentieth-century American culture, Time art critic Robert Hughes insists that the politicization of almost every area of American culture has resulted in... -
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question,... -
Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power by Gene Dattel 9781566639682
Booksplease Price: £16.51Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social... -
Major Problems in American History Since 1945 by Robert Griffith 9781133944140
Booksplease Price: £60.00Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S... -
Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India by Ananya Vajpeyi
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £37.45What India's founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India's own rich knowledge... -
Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service 9780674022584
Booksplease Price: £34.48Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story...