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The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.11In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a... -
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316409148Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint -
Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this... -
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition by Jared Diamond
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.11**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what... -
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Quill Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143117001Author Jared DiamondFormat Paperback -
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.49'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW... -
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.Now in a revised... -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Booksplease Price: £24.81Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or... -
The Third Chimpanzee: On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal Jared Diamond 9781780747484
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31The Third Chimpanzee was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and... -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 9780393354324
Booksplease Price: £11.05Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York... -
Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality Jared Diamond 9781780226880
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom.Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in... -
Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley 9780008262785
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and... -
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Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley 9780008262747 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.63'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and... -
An Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies Riley Quinn 9781912127979
Booksplease Price: £6.68In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded... -
Swing Kings: The Inside Story Of Baseball's Home Run Revolution by Jared Diamond 9780062872111
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062872111Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Make a Difference? by Jared Diamond 9780241537466
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.94Can one political leader change the course of history? Should CEOs be given big bonuses when a company performs well? Will firing a coach actually change the fortunes of the team? What does a... -
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus... -
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us todayOver the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance,... -
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23David Christian, creator of Big History ('My favourite course of all time' Bill Gates), brings us the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote... -
Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World Alice Roberts 9781786090010
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15**'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX****'Will appeal to fans of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens'. Mail on Sunday **The extraordinary story of the species that became our... -
Between Light and Storm: Our Lives With Other Species by Esther Woolfson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in... -
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live by Jared Diamond
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.47From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our... -
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Professor of Geography Jared Diamond
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £9.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143124405Author Jared DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint -
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The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live by Jared Diamond 9780099913801 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.27From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys our... -
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"The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power " by Daniel Yergin
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.34Synopsis coming soon.......AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) 1992.Book InformationISBN 9781439110126Author YerginFormat PaperbackPage Count 928< -
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £6.50Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question,... -
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline Darrell Bricker 9781472142979
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26**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... -
Migrants: The Story of Us All Sam Miller 9781408713549
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £10.18Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move.'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable,... -
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Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future by Ian Morris 9781846682087 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.41In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the... -
Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe... -
Conquistadores by Fernando Cervantes
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary ReviewThe... -
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... -
Why The West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the Future Ian Morris 9781846682087
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the... -
Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid by Gregory Forth
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spectrum-and whether or not they still survive.While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of... -
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' by Michael Spitzer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.65A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History 'Extraordinary range ... All the... -
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The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester 9780140280395 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.85THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first... -
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first... -
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Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958-1978 by Andy Neill 9780753512173 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.32The most dynamic day-to-day chronicle of the band ever compiled. Organised by year, each chapter of the book gives an overview of the band's fortunes and presents in diary fashion exactly what the... -
Life Story: From Cells to Civilisations and Beyond by Jonathan Loh 9781911717164
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.24'Profound and timely' Tony Juniper'A tour de force' Lorna GibbA panoramic history of life, revealing the forces that have shaped our world - and could shape it againLife evolved in two phases. First... -
Money: A Story of Humanity David McWilliams 9781471195440
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.95THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it' PROFESSOR BRIAN COX 'Exceptional'...