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The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar by Mark C. Baker
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.88Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies... -
Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country by Shelby Steele 9780465066971
Booksplease Price: £31.07The United States today is hopelessly polarized the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia,... -
The Shared Experience Of Illness: Stories of Patients, Families, and Their Therapists by Jeri Hepworth 9780465044306
Booksplease Price: £33.53In the narrative of every human life and family, illness is a prominent character. Even if we have avoided serious illness ourselves, we cannot escape its reach into our circle of family and friends... -
The Cornel West Reader by Cornel West 9780465091102
Booksplease Price: £30.26Cornel West is one of the nation's premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era. Whether he is writing a scholarly book or an article for Newsweek, whether he is... -
Group Therapy For Cancer Patients: A Research-based Handbook Of Psychosocial Care by David Spiegel 9780465095650
Booksplease Price: £50.01This extraordinary resource celebrates and expands on Dr. David Spiegel's discovery that a shared intimacy with mortality creates very different concerns in the patient from those that apply in... -
Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series by David Pietrusza 9780465029389
Booksplease Price: £25.91History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Meyer Wolfsheim and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls,... -
The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China by Ralph D. Sawyer 9780465072057
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.90The history of China is a history of warfare. Wars have caused dynasties to collapse, fractured the thin facade of national unity, and brought decades of alien occupation. But throughout Chinese... -
Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness by John L. Jackson 9780465018130
Booksplease Price: £22.34In this courageous book, John L. Jackson, Jr. draws on current events as well as everyday interactions to demonstrate the culture of race-based paranoia and its profound effects on our lives. He... -
An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation Of An Ex-liber by Linda Chavez 9780465089048
Booksplease Price: £19.07When President George W. Bush nominated Linda Chavez to be Secretary of labour in 2001, few people realized that this hard-nosed conservative began her career among socialists and labour union... -
The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain by Gene Cohen 9780465012046
Booksplease Price: £19.07The Mature Mind delivers good news for those in the second half of life, with an extraordinary account of cutting-edge neuroscience, ground-breaking psychology, fascinating vignettes from history... -
Worlds Of Pain: Life In The Working-class Family by Lillian Rubin 9780465092482
Booksplease Price: £20.16The classic that is widely acknowledged to be the most valuable and insightful book ever written on the dynamics of working-class family life by a renowned sociologist, psychotherapist, and... -
The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic by Jonathan Rottenberg 9780465022212
Booksplease Price: £32.52Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying problem is a chemical imbalance. Such a simple... -
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America by Allan Brandt 9780465070480
Booksplease Price: £28.09From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply implicated in our culture, science, policy, and law... -
Dialogues With Forgotten Voices: Relational Perspectives On Child Abuse Trauma And The Treatment Of Severe Dissociative Disorders by Harvey Schwartz 9780465095735
Booksplease Price: £51.72Harvey Schwartz's territory is the severe end of the child sexual abuse continuum, where victims' experiences are so unthinkable and their adaptations so bizarre that the rest of us are tempted to... -
High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years To Solve Them by Jean-Francois Rischard 9780465070107
Booksplease Price: £19.07In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed... -
Product Leadership: Pathways to Profitable Innovation by Robert G. Cooper 9780465014330
Booksplease Price: £33.24As we learned from New Coke, Pets.com, Apple's original handheld device, the Newton, and the reissued Ford Thunderbird, all the promotion in the world won't save a product that somehow isn't right... -
A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age by Joao Magueijo 9780465009039
Booksplease Price: £43.74On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand. He was never seen again. In A Brilliant Darkness , theoretical physicist Joao Magueijo... -
The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps by Peter Douglas Ward 9780465029051
Booksplease Price: £19.07No matter what efforts we make to halt global warming, sea level rise will be an unavoidable part of our future. In The Flooded Earth , species extinction expert Peter D. Ward describes in intricate... -
The Careless Society: Community And Its Counterfeits by John McKnight 9780465091263
Booksplease Price: £25.61Amid all the hand-wringing about the loss of community in America these days, here is a book that celebrates the ability of neighbourhoods to heal themselves from within. John McKnight shows how... -
The Hidden Hitler by Lothar Machtan 9780465043095
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Lothar Machtan makes a compelling case that Adolf Hitler was homosexual, and that one cannot begin to understand him, his entry into politics, and the early Nazi movement without a clear... -
Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth by Peter Henry 9780465031894
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.79Thirty years ago, China seemed hopelessly mired in poverty, Mexico triggered the Third World Debt Crisis, and Brazil suffered under hyperinflation. Since then, these and other developing countries... -
The Kennedy Assassination--24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President by Steven Gillon
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Riding in an open-topped convertible through Dallas on November 22, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson heard a sudden explosive sound at 12:30 PM. The Secret Service sped him away to safety, but not until 1:20... -
Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary by Arnold Thackray 9780465055647
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.35Our world today,from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon,has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon... -
Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine by Paul Offit
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.43In recent years, there have been major outbreaks of whooping cough among children in California, mumps in New York, and measles in Ohio's Amish country,despite the fact that these are all... -
Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus by Steven Goldman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.60In 1996, a brassy young team of fans produced a guide to baseball statistics. Printed on a photocopier, its distribution, which was in the low hundreds, was limited to friends, family, and die-hard... -
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad
Booksplease Price: £23.69As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its... -
The Malady Of Islam by Abdelwahab Meddeb 9780465044351
Booksplease Price: £24.74In this impassioned, erudite, and deeply moving book, Abdelwahab Meddeb, born and raised in Tunis and now living in Paris, details the breadth and scope of the Arab intellectual tradition and... -
Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country by Michael Novak 9780465051274
Booksplease Price: £25.61In Washington's God Michael Novak-one of America's leading neoconservative pundits-and his daughter, Jana, uncover George Washington's religious life. Finally the record is set straight on the most... -
The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers by Andrea Tone 9780465025206
Booksplease Price: £22.34Drugs for anxiety are a billion-dollar business in the United States. Yet in 1955, when the prescription tranquilizer Miltown became available, pharmaceutical executives worried that there was no... -
Cartesian Sonata And Other Novellas by William H. Gass 9780465026203
Booksplease Price: £21.50In the words of the late Walker Percy, William Gass is a totally committed, totally uncompromising, and extraordinarily gifted writer." His latest work is a suite of four novellas that explore Mind,... -
This Is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives by Ben Corbett 9780813342245
Booksplease Price: £22.34Beyond the throngs of tourists streaming through Central Havana's broad Prado Avenue, and outside the yoke of Castro's 43-year-old Revolutionary program, there exists a parallel Cuba - a separate... -
Berlin by David Large 9780465026326
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £26.68In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the same time, Berlin has also been a dynamic centre of artistic and... -
Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems by John Palfrey 9780465021970
Booksplease Price: £38.19In Interop , technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser explore the immense importance of interoperability,the standardization and integration of technology,and show how this simple principle... -
Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past A Memoir by W. Ralph Eubanks
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.06In June of 1957, Governor James Coleman stepped before the cameras of "Meet the Press" and was asked whether the public schools would ever be integrated. "Well, ever is a long time," he replied,... -
Dismantling America: and other controversial essays by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.34These wide-ranging essays- on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues- have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and... -
Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, And Peering In Modern Culture by Clay Calvert 9780813342368
Booksplease Price: £19.07From 24-hour-a-day "girl cam" sites on the World Wide Web to trash-talk television shows like "Jerry Springer" and reality television programs like "Cops," we've become... -
Hard Green: Saving The Environment From The Environmentalists A Conservative Manifesto by Peter Huber 9780465031139
Booksplease Price: £20.16This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda. Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, destroys the environment. Captured as it has been by the Soft Green... -
Medicine And The Family: A Feminist Perspective by Lucy M. Candib 9780465008254
Booksplease Price: £22.34For centuries, traditional medicine has been infused with a masculine bias, often to the disadvantage of both doctors and patients. This book challenges prevailing views and offers a family-oriented... -
The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil by James Hunter 9780465031771
Booksplease Price: £19.37The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon a huge empirical study of the children... -
Contexts And Connections: An Intersubjective Approach To Couples Therapy by David Shaddock 9780465095704
Booksplease Price: £49.23Shaddock makes sense of intersubjectivity, the functional paradigm shift in highbrow psychotherapy, as both a way of thinking about our psychological lives and a way of doing clinical work. Applying...