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The Car by Bryan Appleyard
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.42More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made... -
Bedford Park by Bryan Appleyard
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.77An evocative historical thriller based in one of London's original suburbs.Set in 1912, Bedford Park is not just a London suburb: it is a crucible for enlightenment and modernity inhabited by people... -
Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man by Bryan Appleyard 9780385420983
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385420983Author Bryan AppleyardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell... -
The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world Bryan Appleyard 9781474615419
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.75More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made... -
The Singularity: Could artificial intelligence really out-think us (and would we want it to)? by Bryan Appleyard
Booksplease Price: £49.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409074Author Bryan AppleyardFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher... -
The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World Bryan Appleyard 9781780220154
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A brand-new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard.Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives and simple solutions. And now our technology wants... -
Song of the Earth by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The most important critical work for decades' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times In the brilliantly engaging style that characterised The Genius of Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate has written a series of... -
Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays by Ms Brigitta Olubas 9781743324103
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £22.33This is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of the acclaimed Australian-born, New York-based author. In the course of the last half century, Hazzard's writing has crossed and... -
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrere
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'This is a brilliant, shocking book ... also witty, painfully self-critical and humane ... it is a work of great literature' Tim Whitmarsh, Guardian 'The Kingdom, already a huge bestseller in... -
We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's by Dick. F. Swaab
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires and our characters. Taking us through every stage in our... -
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it... -
The Strange Death of Christian England, and its Glorious Resurrection: Why Faith was nearly lost, and how it is being regained Andrew Hayward 9781806340750
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In 2019 Melvyn Bragg, in a Sunday Times interview with Bryan Appleyard, described being at a family christening when the priest asked everyone to join in the Lord's Prayer. Bragg realised he was the... -
Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History by Frank Close
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the... -
Collected Poems: 1958 - 2015 by Clive James
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18Spanning fifty years of work, Collected Poems sees Clive James make his own rich selection from across his exceptional career in poetry.From his debut collection in 1986 to his dazzling achievements... -
The Essential Mary Midgley David Midgley 9780415346412
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.65Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century. The Essential Mary Midgley collects... -
Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In the past few decades, legislatures throughout the world have suffered from gridlock. In democracies, laws and policies are just as soon unpicked as made. It seems... -
The Essential Mary Midgley by David Midgley 9780415346429
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.54Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century. The Essential Mary Midgley collects... -
Diane Arbus by Arthur Lubow
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.06Diane Arbus was one of the greatest photographers of the last century. Her portraiture of freaks, circus performers, twins, nudists and others on the social margins connected with a wide public at a... -
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Triumph of the City: How Urban Spaces Make Us Human by Edward Glaeser 9780330458078 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.44Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world's most exciting urban thinkers... -
Triumph of the City: How Urban Spaces Make Us Human by Edward Glaeser
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world's most exciting urban thinkers... -
The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation by John Casti 9780349108537
Booksplease Price: £15.23By 1949, the idea of duplicating human thought processes in a computer was starting to surface, as the outgrowth of code-breaking work done by Alan Turing and others in Britain during the Second... -
The Hopeless Biker - Who Went Twice Around the World Miles Morland 9781068389320
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.29From Sunday Times bestseller Miles Morland comes a brilliant, life-affirming and audacious travel memoir. 'A beautiful, profound and funny book about a very brave man.'- Bryan Appleyard. 'You don t... -
The Future Of Life by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the present century. These two contrasting themes--unexpected... -
Tyrant: Shakespeare On Power by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses... -
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Professor Edward O. Wilson 9780349111124
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition... -
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how... -
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Really made me think about how I think' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestTough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events... -
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88- What would it take to turn YOU into a suicide bomber? - Do heavy metal LPs contain subliminal messages? - What was MI6 doing with LSD in the 1950s? - Does the Unification Church brainwash recruits?... -
1939: Countdown to War by Richard Overy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A gripping analysis of the final days of peace ... indispensable' M. R. D. Foot, The TimesRichard Overy's 1939: Countdown to War re-creates hour-by-hour the last desperate attempts to salvage peace... -
Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Blending the critical essay with poetry, Gate of Lilacs is a collection of verse written by Clive James in response to - and profoundly inspired by - the work of Marcel Proust.'James picks out the... -
The New Evolution Diet: The Smart Way to Lose Weight, Feel Great and Live Longer by Arthur De Vany
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The simple way to lose weight, look younger and feel healthier - without restricting calories or excessive exercisingThe New Evolution Diet is Professor Arthur De Vany's astonishing lifestyle... -
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction by Nate Silver
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99The International Bestseller by 'The Galileo of number crunchers' (Independent)Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date, or set aside money for a rainy day, we are... -
Burning Angel and Other Stories Lawrence Osborne 9781529114966
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Brilliant' SUNDAY TIMES'Compelling and unnerving' SPECTATORThis first collection of stories by Lawrence Osborne perfectly showcases his talent for tension, atmosphere - and characters out of their... -
The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939 by Richard Overy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Richard Overy's The Morbid Age opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of... -
The Abolition Of Liberty by Peter Hitchens 9781843541493
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'It's fair to say that Peter Hitchens remains one of the most misrepresented figures in the British media... Hitchens is in reality one of the most thought-provoking and intelligent commentators on... -
Arthur Miller by Christopher Bigsby 9780753826157
Booksplease Price: £37.25Biography of one of the greatest of modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005).This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest playwrights whose postwar decade of... -
The Transit Of Venus Shirley Hazzard 9781860491818
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that... -
Perv by Jesse Bering
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81In this eye-opening book, psychologist Jesse Bering argues that we are all sexual deviants on one level or another. He introduces us to the young woman who falls madly in love with the Eiffel Tower,... -
The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time: A Proposal in Natural Philosophy by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781107423985
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.90Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their... -
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A Caro
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Robert A. Caro is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, whose landmark biographies are widely hailed as masterpieces.This is the captivating account of his life as a writer, describing...