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Dismantling America: and other controversial essays by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.05These 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... -
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad
Booksplease Price: £21.12As 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... -
Masters of Sex (Media tie-in): The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Now a New Showtime Original SeriesShowtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia... -
The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Ian Stewart
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.99Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square,... -
The Kennedy Assassination--24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President by Steven Gillon
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Riding 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... -
How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But what about relativity? Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this... -
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches by Myrlie Evers-Williams
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The Autobiography of Medgar Evers is the first and only comprehensive collection of the words of slain civil rights hero Medgar Evers. Evers became a leader of the civil rights movement during the... -
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The... -
Out Of Order: Arrogance, Corruption, And Incompetence On The Bench by Max Boot
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24Hear about the judge who got busted for selling crack? What about the judge who released from jail a felon who then promptly killed a rookie cop? Or the one who ordered a prison to supply its inmates... -
Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby by Stephen L. Carter
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24In a climate where whites who criticize affirmative action risk being termed racist and blacks who do the same risk charges of treason and self hatred, a frank and open discussion of racial... -
Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity by Roger Wiens
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71In its eerie likeness to Earth, Mars has long captured our imaginations,both as a destination for humankind and as a possible home to extraterrestrial life. It is our twenty-first century New World... -
Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs by Caryl Rivers
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, and even the controversial Harvard President Lawrence Summers, the message has long been the same: Men and women are... -
Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers by Michael Schudson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective news" was the social product of the democratization of political, economic,... -
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56In the age of globalization, some claim that where you live doesn't matter: Alaska, Idaho, and Alabama are interchangeable. The world is, after all, flat. Not so fast. Place, argues the great... -
Late-Talking Children by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.12The painful and baffling mystery as to why some obviously bright children do not begin talking until long after the "normal" time is explored in this book through personal experiences and the... -
I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror by Joachim Neugroschel
Booksplease Price: £18.06On a fateful day in May 1941, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, seventeen-year- old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. This was the beginning of his journey through the horrors of a concentration... -
The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.03Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every... -
Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph
Booksplease Price: £14.29Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial black activist, stepped into the pages of history when he called for Black Power" during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. A firebrand who... -
Without Roots: Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam by Joseph Ratzinger
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Bringing together their unique vantage points as leaders of Church and State, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Marcello Pera challenge us to imagine what can be the future of a civilization that has... -
The Fractured Republic (Revised Edition): Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism by Yuval Levin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Americans today are frustrated and anxious. Our economy is sluggish, political polarization is at an all-time high, our government seems paralyzed and our politics has failed to rise to these... -
Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship by Jack Flam
Booksplease Price: £20.82Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living... -
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter by Howard Gardner
Booksplease Price: £16.95From ancient times, philosophers, theologians, and artists have attempted to describe and categorize the defining virtues of civilization. In Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed , renowned... -
Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans by Simon Head
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs),the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless , Simon Head argues that... -
A Mood Apart: Depression, Mania, and Other Afflictions of the Self by Peter Whybrow
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50When first published in 1997 this ground-breaking work on the science of mood both redefined the field and,with compassion, understanding, and scientific rigor,made it accessible to those who would... -
Structural Anthropology by Claude Levi-Strauss
Booksplease Price: £25.01The structural method," first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Levi-Strauss's understanding of... -
Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past A Memoir by W. Ralph Eubanks
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93In 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,... -
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
Booksplease Price: £10.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541646766Author Sabine HossenfelderFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Basic BooksPublisher... -
Luther's Fortress: Martin Luther and His Reformation Under Siege by James Reston
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71In 1521, the Catholic Church declared war on Martin Luther. The German monk had already been excommunicated the year before, after nailing his Ninety-Five Theses,which accused the Church of rampant... -
The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar by Mark C. Baker
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Whether 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... -
Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Brookhiser
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.01Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the... -
Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America by Douglas R Egerton
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.60John and Abigail Adams sired the first dynasty to shape American politics but they would not witness their family's calamitous fall from grace. When President John Quincy Adams died in 1848, so began... -
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600775Author Andrew PettegreeFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Jonathan Sacks 9781541675339
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541675339Author Jonathan SacksFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service by Hayim H Donin 9781541674035
Booksplease Price: £22.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674035Author Hayim H DoninFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the Us Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Michael Willrich 9781541697379
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541697379Author Michael WillrichFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke 9781541674912
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £13.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541674912Author Lucy CookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree 9781541603721
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603721Author Andrew PettegreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs by Marc David Baer 9781541673793
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541673793Author Marc David BaerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton 9781541603646
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603646Author Roderick BeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
Vietnam: A New History by Christopher Goscha 9781541603653
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603653Author Christopher GoschaFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic...