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The Growth Delusion by David Pilling
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 'A near miracle' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism According to the economy, we have never been... -
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival by David Pilling
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The second edition of the definitive book on how modern Japan works, now fully updated up to include the new 'Reiwa' Era and the year of the Olympics'A superb book that, better than any other I have... -
Edward I and Wales, 1254–1307 David Pilling 9781399016391
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20The late 13th century witnessed the conquest of Wales after two hundred years of conflict between Welsh princes and the English crown. In 1282 Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the only native Prince of Wales to... -
Edward I and Wales, 1254-1307 by David Pilling 9781526776419
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Edward Longshanks' Forgotten Conflict: The Anglo-French War 1294-1303 by David Pilling 9781398113510
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $21.23The Anglo-French war of 1294-1303 has not been the subject of a major study since the early 1900s. Recent histories tend to treat it as a sideshow compared to Edward I's wars in Wales and Scotland,... -
Edward Longshanks' Forgotten Conflict: The Anglo-French War 1294-1303 David Pilling 9781398133563
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.92New paperback edition - The conflict that effectively laid the bloody foundations for the Hundred Years War and taught military and logistical lessons to both sides that would not be forgotten. -
The Material Culture of Failure: When Things Do Wrong David Jeevendrampillai 9781350091719
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57What happens when objects behave unexpectedly or fail to do what they 'should'? Who defines failure? Is failure always bad? Rather than viewing concepts such as failure, incoherence or incompetence... -
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline Darrell Bricker 9781472142979
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95**A SUNDAY TIMES MUST-READ**'Riveting and vitally important' - Steven Pinker'A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change' - Anjana Ahuja, New StatesmanEmpty Planet offers a... -
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane 9781474624930
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie... -
From the Fatherland with Love by Ryu Murakami 9781908968494
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.84An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire. From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and... -
Examining Japan's Lost Decades Yoichi Funabashi 9780415788854
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $71.31This book examines five features of Japan's 'Lost Decades': the speed of the economic decline in Japan compared to Japan's earlier global prowess; a rapidly declining population; considerable... -
From the Fatherland with Love by Ryu Murakami
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.74An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire. From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's... -
Will Africa Feed China? by Deborah Brautigam 9780199396856
RRP: $31.59Booksplease Price: $25.74Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent... -
Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes by Ha-Joon Chang
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formFor decades, a single free market... -
Bullfight Yasushi Inoue 9781805332022
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Tsugami, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in war-scarred Osaka, agrees to sponsor a bullfight. For months this great gamble consumes him, makes him as wary and combative as if he was in a ring... -
Beyond Self-Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It by Krzysztof Pelc
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.62'Lucid, smartly written ... A welcome intervention into the debate surrounding the future of liberalism' Financial Times 'It takes scholarly courage and knowledge to upend Adam Smith, but this is... -
Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R.Taggart Murphy
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $22.69Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world... -
The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan by Tobias S. Harris 9781805260370
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.70Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of... -
The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan by Tobias S. Harris 9781787383104
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.75Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of... -
Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R.Taggart Murphy 9780199845989
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.39Should we care about Japan anymore? It has a long history and a rich artistic heritage; kids today can't seem to get enough of its popular culture; and it is supposed to be America's number one ally... -
Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire by Simukai Chigudu 9781847927194
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.00In my home country, they call me a 'bornfree'.Simukai Chigudu was one of the first generation to be born after the end of colonial rule in Zimbabwe. Growing up he heard stories about his... -
The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia Tom Gardner 9781911723103
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.25In 2018, Ethiopia and the world were in the throes of 'Abiymania', a fervour of popular support for the divided country's young, charismatic new prime minister. Arriving as if from nowhere, Abiy... -
Coffeeland: A History by Augustine Sedgewick
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianCoffee is one of the most valuable commodities... -
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry 9781784704889
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Literary SupplementOn 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake...