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The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction by David Wengrow 9780691159041
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $82.38It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The... -
The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction by David Wengrow 9780691202396
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The... -
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna 9781399810654
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'Mind expanding - this book will change your view of the world forever' Matthew SyedA blueprint for a better future. Playing on the phrase "a theory of everything" in physics, Michael... -
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid... -
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 9781802061567
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the... -
The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World by Jennifer Jacquet
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.43'This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful rich and powerful. . . A landmark book' Brian Eno'Very funny,... -
Abundance: What Progress Takes by Ezra Klein 9781668023488
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $37.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668023488Author Ezra KleinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint -
The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World by Jennifer Jacquet 9780141982342
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful rich and powerful. . . A landmark book' Brian Eno'Very funny,... -
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70A reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was given three... -
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century by Christina Riggs
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'Impeccably researched and beautifully written' David Wengrow'Utterly original' Paul StrathernWhen it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world,... -
The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West by Jean-Paul Demoule 9780197506479
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $175.29The existence of an Indo-European linguistic family, allowing for the fact that several languages widely dispersed across Eurasia share numerous traits, has been demonstrated for several centuries... -
The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West by Jean-Paul Demoule 9780197683286
Booksplease Price: $72.81The existence of an Indo-European linguistic family, allowing for the fact that several languages widely dispersed across Eurasia share numerous traits, has been demonstrated for several centuries... -
Enslavement: Past and Present Orlando Patterson 9781509561759
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.64Slavery is one of humanity's most ancient and persistent inequities. It predates the rise of civilization, played a key role in the growth of Western and Islamic cultures and was an integral part of... -
As If Already Free: Anthropology and Activism After David Graeber Holly High 9780745348452
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $39.88'A highly original thinker' - New York Times David Graeber (1961-2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist who left us with new ways to understand humankind. His writings picked... -
Enslavement: Past and Present Orlando Patterson 9781509561766
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.57Slavery is one of humanity's most ancient and persistent inequities. It predates the rise of civilization, played a key role in the growth of Western and Islamic cultures and was an integral part of... -
Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things by Sarah Newman
Booksplease Price: $59.96Explores the concept of waste from fresh historical, cultural, and geographical perspectives. Garbage is often assumed to be an inevitable part and problem of human existence. But when did people... -
The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World by Clifton Crais 9781035013425
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.04'Combines brilliant storytelling with rich and deeply researched evidence . . . essential reading for anyone seeking a global history that reexamines the past on a massive scale' - Caroline Elkins,... -
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $23.96THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times ... -
Collaborators through Time: How Humans Partnered with Nature, Technology, and Each Other R. Alexander Bentley 9781538197707
Booksplease Price: $59.03Spanning 2 million years, this book examines how humans partnered with nature, technology, and each other to shape their world, from evolutionary origins and ancient innovations to the rise of... -
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David M. Carballo
Booksplease Price: $45.68Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortes joined forces with tens of thousands of... -
Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America by Timothy R. Pauketat 9780197645109
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $45.23A sweeping account of Medieval North America when Indigenous peoples confronted climate change. Few Americans today are aware of one of the most consequential periods in North American...