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Instructive Tales for the Young by Instructive Tales 9780371138786
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371138786Author Instructive TalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint < -
A Queen and Her Court: An Instructional Tale of Beginning Chess Moves by Robert T Savageau 9780991572502
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991572502Author Robert T SavageauFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint < -
The Amusing Companion, Or, Interesting Story Teller: Being a Collection of Marvellous, Wonderful, Moral, Sentimental, Humorous, and Instructive Tales by Charles P. Fessenden 9780461649406
RRP: $18.00Booksplease Price: $17.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461649406Author Charles P. FessendenFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Im -
The Weekly Miscellany; Or, Instructive Entertainer: Containing a Collection of Select Pieces, Both in Prose and Verse; Curious Anecdotes, Instructive Tales, and Ingenious Essays on Different Subjects by Goadby Goadby 9780371411490
Booksplease Price: $31.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371411490Author Goadby GoadbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint -
Daphne's Lot by Chris Abani 9781888996623
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20"The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems (whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the coming-of-age of a young Englishwoman-the power of her ties to family,... -
Our Friendship Rules by Peggy Moss 9780884482918
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.88Kids are under a lot of pressure to fit in. Sometimes bowing to this pressure forces them to betray their own ideas of what is right and wrong. Momentarily dazzled by the glamor of a new girl at... -
Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context: Folklore or Fakelore by Margaret Ziolkowski 9781611494563
Booksplease Price: $124.29Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context discusses key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore as well as its often intensely political aspect and its preoccupation with chimerical... -
Saving Emily by Nicholas Read 9781573928977
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.55This unique, sensitively written novel for young readers about life on a modern farm skillfully interweaves two stories, one from the animal perspective of a cow named Emily and the other from the... -
Generation Desperation: The must-read memoir of trading your way to a million dollars by Alexander Hurst 9781399728287
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.64Wealth, poverty, and what it means to live a 'good life': this is the must-read story for fans of The Trading Game and The Psychology of Money.'A fantastically compelling personal story that is also... -
The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made by Cliff Sloan 9781541736481
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $26.24The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country-with consequences that endure today By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his... -
Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations by Patrick L Schmidt 9781538168288
Booksplease Price: $117.89This book tells the little-known story of how some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century struggled to elevate their emerging disciplines of cultural anthropology,... -
Love's Executioner by Irvin D. Yalom
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of ten of his patients - and through them into the minds of us allWhy was Saul... -
The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth by Wendy Doniger 9780231156417
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $117.98Wendy Doniger's foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical, cross-cultural approach. By responsibly... -
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.36One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not... -
Animal Sacrifice and Religious Freedom: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah by David M. O'Brien 9780700613021
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $59.70The Santeria religion of Cuba - the Way of the Saints - mixes West African Yoruba culture with Catholicism. Similar to Haitian voodoo, Santeria has long practiced animal sacrifice in certain rites... -
Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul: AS SEEN ON NETFLIX Jamie Ducharme 9781529345827
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35**Now adapted as the Netflix documentary - Big Vape tells the story of how a cigarette start-up became a multibillion-dollar company until an epidemic causes its success to go up in smoke**'Big Vape... -
The Politics of Capitalist Transformation: Brazilian Informatics Policy, Regime Change, and State Autonomy by Jeff Seward 9780367000295
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86The Politics of Capitalist Transformation is the only book-length study of the highly protectionist Brazilian informatics policy from its origins in the early 1970s to the collapse of the market... -
Our Friendship Rules by Peggy Moss
Booksplease Price: $10.32Kids are under a lot of pressure to fit in. Sometimes bowing to this pressure forces them to betray their own ideas of what is right and wrong. Alexandra and Jenny have been best friends for a long... -
A Jewish Bestiary: Fabulous Creatures from Hebraic Legend and Lore by Mark Podwal 9780271091730
Booksplease Price: $7.13"Ask the beast and it will teach thee, and the birds of heaven and they will tell thee." -Job 12:7In the Middle Ages, the bestiary achieved a popularity second only to that of the Bible. In addition... -
Creating Effective Transitions: Moving from the Elementary Grades to Middle School by C. Thomas, II Potter 9781475842678
Booksplease Price: $55.19This book focuses primarily on elementary to middle school transitions. This book was developed with a two-fold premise: one, that educators and parents understand the role they play in meeting the... -
Creating Effective Transitions: Moving from the Elementary Grades to Middle School by C. Thomas, II Potter 9781475842685
Booksplease Price: $29.58This book focuses primarily on elementary to middle school transitions. This book was developed with a two-fold premise: one, that educators and parents understand the role they play in meeting the... -
American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century by Robert E Gallamore
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $30.03Once an icon of American industry, railroads fell into a long decline beginning around the turn of the twentieth century. Overburdened with regulation and often displaced by barge traffic on... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780199599028
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.26'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a... -
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic Ilan Pappe 9780861549160
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.98In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen? Ilan Pappe unveils how over a century of aggressive lobbying changed... -
The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition by Gregory Hickok 9780393089615
RRP: $48.38Booksplease Price: $44.20In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok re-examines the mirror neuron story and finds that it is built on a tenuous foundation-a pair of co-dependent assumptions about mirror... -
Generation Desperation: The must-read memoir of trading your way to a million dollars via Robinhood and WallStreetBets by Alexander Hurst 9781399728294
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.40'Somewhere in the multiverse, innumerable possibilities are collapsing into infinite different realities. Am I happier in any of them? I still don't know. The answer to that question is just one more... -
The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise by David K. Randall 9780393240993
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.62Frederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu's transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart... -
The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise by David K. Randall 9780393353945
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.84Frederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu's transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart... -
Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations by Patrick L Schmidt 9781538168295
Booksplease Price: $48.77Harvard's Department of Social Relations and its audacious goal of creating a new science was a unique experiment in American academia, and its rise and fall is a little-known story. Among its... -
Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context: Folklore or Fakelore by Margaret Ziolkowski 9781611496512
Booksplease Price: $66.69Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context discusses key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore as well as its often intensely political aspect and its preoccupation with chimerical... -
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound by Wendy Moore 9781474602303
RRP: $5.15Booksplease Price: $4.37Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could... -
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell by Donald Worster 9780195156355
Booksplease Price: $34.71If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated... -
The Outlaw League and the Battle That Forged Modern Baseball by Daniel R. Levitt 9781589799547
Booksplease Price: $19.79In late 1913, the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of America's wealthiest merchants and... -
Touched with Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle Against Racial and Religious Discrimination by David E. Lowe 9781640120969
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $33.63Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography Morris B. Abram (1918-2000) emerged from humble origins in a rural South Georgia town to become one of the leading civil rights lawyers in the... -
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound Wendy Moore 9781474602310
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.37Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could... -
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound by Wendy Moore 9781474602297
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $6.79Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could... -
Earthquakes: Tragic Challenges in History Peter Moczo 9783031647062
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.90Discover the profound, surprising, and instructive tales embedded within the tragic earthquakes and tsunamis of the years 1755, 1906, 1960, 1985, 2004, 2011, and 2023. Uncover the impact these events... -
Once Upon A Revolution: An Egyptian Story by Thanassis Cambanis 9781451659009
Booksplease Price: $15.27Award-winning journalist Thanassis Cambanis tells the "wonderfully readable and insightful" (Booklist, starred review) inside story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Cambanis brings to life the noble... -
Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary by Arnold Thackray 9780465055647
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.95Our world today,from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon,has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon... -
A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA by Joshua Kurlantzick 9781451667882
Booksplease Price: $17.38The untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.January,...