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Trade World: A Transporting Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway 9780753562277
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.53The story of trade is the story of humanity. From the copper in Mesopotamian ploughs to the silicon atoms within the chip inside your smartphone, intricate global trading networks have evolved over... -
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future Ed Conway 9780753559178
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award**Picked as a Book of the Year by FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST and NEW STATESMANA BBC RADIO 4 Book... -
Trade World: A Transporting Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway 9780753562284
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.60From the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Material World, a story that will take you from ancient civilizations, empire and globalisation through to the most influential... -
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibres Became the Backbone of Civilization Tim Queeney 9781837733316
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68A unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilisation, in the vein of single-subject bestsellers like Salt and Cod.Tim Queeney is a sailor who knows more about... -
Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams 9781471195464
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A... -
The People's Emperor: The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III by Edward Shawcross 9780571361304
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.41'Rigorously researched, endlessly illuminating. The People's Emperor is a real page-turner'ED CONWAY'This is a book written to be enjoyed: it's a gripping, fascinating biography' SIMON SEBAG... -
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill 9781398509184
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.19'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES Best Books of 2023'In a gripping - and sometimes creepy - book, Hill explores the repercussions of [facial recognition] technology and finds out who is... -
How Infrastructure Works: Transforming our shared systems for a changing world Deb Chachra 9781804995952
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece' Ed Yong'You won't see the world the same after reading this book!' Austin KleonEvery day, we are granted the power to... -
Braver New World: The Countries Daring to Do Things Others Won’t by John Kampfner 9781805462514
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.30'A ray of sunshine' Start the Week, Radio 4'Read this book as an antidote to fatalism and gloom' Robert Peston'Closely reported, surprising and, above all, hopeful' Jonathan FreedlandAt a time when... -
Braver New World: The Countries Daring to Do Things Others Won’t by John Kampfner 9781805462507
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97'Compelling and compassionate' Sadiq Khan'Solutions-focused authorship at its best' Andrew Roberts'A how-to book with inspired answers to our urgent questions' Lyse Doucet'Read this book as an... -
The Price of Money: How to Prosper in a Financial World That’s Rigged Against You by Rob Dix 9781804945643
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The Sunday Times Bestseller'Excellent . . . Filled with knowledge that will help you make better money decisions.' Laura Whateley, author of Money: A User's GuideWe all depend on money every day. But... -
How to Win a Trade War: A Friendly Guide to an Unfriendly World by Soumaya Keynes 9781035090198
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.82'An amazing book' - Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics'Timely, witty and wise' - Tim Harford, bestselling author of The Undercover EconomistAn essential guide to our new era of economic... -
The Evolution of Everything: How Small Changes Transform Our World by Matt Ridley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make ... it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.' From the... -
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy by Mervyn King
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A fearless and important book . . . The End of Alchemy isn't just an elegant guide to the history of economic ideas. It also gives a genuine insider's account' TelegraphThe past twenty years saw... -
The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace by Eric Rauchway 9780465049691
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.10Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous at worst. But... -
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate... -
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet by Brett Christophers 9781804292303
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.61What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently... -
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet Brett Christophers 9781804292310
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15RECENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too... -
Promise the Earth: A Safe Climate in Good Faith by Julian Allwood 9781009563994
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.47Politicians and business leaders tell us that climate change can be solved with new technologies, but global emissions keep rising. Engineers show us technological options that could be deployed... -
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato 9781802060263
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.12There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our... -
Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? by Brett Christophers 9781788739757
Booksplease Price: £27.13In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-twenty-first-century capitalism. Brett Christophers styles this as 'rentier... -
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey 9780691172798
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.20"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of...