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Trade World: A Transporting Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway 9780753562277
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $40.40The 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68THE 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... -
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway 9780593467428
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $27.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023.Book InformationISBN... -
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibres Became the Backbone of Civilization Tim Queeney 9781837733316
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.83A 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... -
50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know Edmund Conway 9781529425130
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ed Conway introduces and explains the essential economic concepts needed to understand booms and busts, bulls and bears, and how economics influences every aspect... -
Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams 9781471195464
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84*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 Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset by Mike Bird 9781399733670
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.96LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD"One of those books that changes the way you see the world. Gripping, urgent, important."ED CONWAY"This wonderful book... -
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill 9781398509177
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $24.30'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... -
The People's Emperor: The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III by Edward Shawcross 9780571361304
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.66'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: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.60'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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'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... -
Blood and Treasure: The Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to Ukraine by Duncan Weldon 9780349145419
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Blood and Treasure is the story of the economics of conflict from the Viking Age to the war in Ukraine.'Absolutely fascinating and totally absorbing' JAMES HOLLAND'A brilliant book' MARTIN WOLF,... -
Braver New World: The Countries Daring to Do Things Others Won’t by John Kampfner 9781805462514
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.93'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: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.54'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... -
Being Human: How our biology shaped world history by Lewis Dartnell 9781529925531
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'Illuminating' TIM MARSHALL'Refreshing' THOMAS HALLIDAYA mind-expanding, revolutionary journey across time that shows how our biology has determined human history for the first time. This book will... -
The Price of Money: How to Prosper in a Financial World That’s Rigged Against You by Rob Dix 9781804945643
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12The 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... -
Impossible Odds: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Mike Lynch, Britain’s Bill Gates by Katie Prescott 9781035074235
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.18'Excellent, meticulously researched biography' - The Guardian'Totally gripping . . . A real-life story that reads like a novel' - Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of EmpirelandA maverick outsider... -
The Evolution of Everything: How Small Changes Transform Our World by Matt Ridley
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39'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... -
How to Win a Trade War: A Friendly Guide to an Unfriendly World by Soumaya Keynes 9781035090198
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $29.02'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... -
Stuff: Humanity's Epic Journey from Naked Ape to Nonstop Shopper by Chip Colwell 9781805260493
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.25The fascinating tale of humankind's journey from owning nothing to being owned-by our stuff. Why, when and how did our needs become world-destroying addictions? Over 3 million years ago, our... -
We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work by Sarah O'Connor 9780241704226
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.55From award-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O'Connor, a deeply reported investigation into how AI is transforming our working lives in unpredictable waysA tsunami of change, we are told, is... -
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy by Mervyn King
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05'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: $73.50Booksplease Price: $71.61Shortly 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38In 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: $46.20Booksplease Price: $36.98What 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... -
Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State by Paul Tucker 9780691176734
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common goodCentral bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great... -
Promise the Earth: A Safe Climate in Good Faith by Julian Allwood 9781009563994
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $30.11Politicians 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 Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet Brett Christophers 9781804292310
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.22RECENT 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... -
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato 9781802060263
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.15There 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: $36.90In 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: $52.50Booksplease Price: $46.62"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...