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Figuring by Maria Popova
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.02Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the... -
Figuring by Maria Popova 9780525565420
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $17.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Science and Tech) 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780525565420Author Maria Popova -
A Velocity of Being: Letters to A Young Reader by Maria Popova
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $25.26In these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture-makers-writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers-reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human... -
The Snail with the Right Heart: A True Story Maria Popova 9781592703494
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.91A Kirkus Best Book of 2021: A Best Informational Picture Book A Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) Best Children's Book of 2021 A Spirituality & Practice Best Spiritual Book of 2021Based on a... -
An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days by Maria Popova 9781837265411
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.51How do we live with uncertainty? Maria Popova was navigating a challenging season, longing for guidance, when she conceived of this project fusing her love of birds and her love of language, her... -
The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science and Poetry Maria Popova 9781635868838
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.58The Universe in Verse is an ode to wonder and an exploration of the human search for truth and meaning. Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the... -
Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine by Maria Popova 9781107694033
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Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.18A courageous, heart-warming book about death that has become a cornerstone of the Gecko Press catalogue worldwide In a strangely heart-warming and beautifully illustrated story, a duck strikes up... -
Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch 9781877467172
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.42A courageous, heart-warming book about death that has become a cornerstone of the Gecko Press catalogue worldwide In a strangely heart-warming and beautifully illustrated story, a duck strikes up... -
The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Collector's Edition by Edward Gorey 9781408891421
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.35The perfectly creepy, amusing book that inspired Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro. A is for AMY who fell down the stairs B is for BASIL assaulted by bears C is for CLARA who wasted... -
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution by Jeremy DeSilva 9780691242064
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.01Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern scienceIn 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he... -
Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan W Watts
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'A revelatory classic' Maria Popova 'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest' Deepak ChopraWhat we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to... -
The Cello and the Nightingales: The Life of Beatrice Harrison by Patricia Cleveland-Peck 9781805300182
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In May 1924, the BBC broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing a duet with a remarkable young cellist called Beatrice Harrison. Over a million people tuned in to hear this live... -
Be Water, My Friend: The True Teachings of Bruce Lee by Shannon Lee
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies, and how we can apply his teachings to our daily lives'Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water'Bruce Lee is a... -
Moomin Begins a New Life by Tove Jansson 9781770462717
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75When a charismatic prophet comes to town, the residents of Moominvalley are easily convinced to follow his doctrine for true happiness. Intrigued by their friends and neighbours... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf 9781913724474
RRP: $6.45Booksplease Price: $5.96First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a measured... -
Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden by Hockley Clarke 9781961341722
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.75From Marginalian Editions comes a moving meditation on our connection with other creatures, told through the unforgettable story of a family of blackbirds sharing a birder’s backyard garden. In the... -
Is Peace Possible? Kathleen Lonsdale 9781837264216
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison... -
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words by Ella Frances Sanders
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that there's a Swedish word that means a traveller's particular sense of anticipation... -
Physics for Cats Tom Gauld 9781837265305
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.76What happens to a cat who goes through a wormhole?Tom Gauld returns with Physics for Cats, his second collection of science-based cartoons for the New Scientist. Find out why every scientist worth... -
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words by Ella Frances Sanders 9780224100809 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $1.32Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that there's a Swedish word that means a traveller's particular sense of anticipation... -
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius by Ryan Holiday
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $9.37THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I read this book every day' - Jake Humphrey, author of High Performance 'A generous gift of guidance' - Maria Popova, editor of Brain Pickings 'A richly rewarding... -
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit 9780520285958
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.99"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly... -
The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf 9780241711217
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.97'Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling' Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of FiguringAn inspiring biography of the... -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.99On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with... -
Pig and Horse and the Something Scary by Zoey Abbott
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.29A gentle, perceptive story about facing our fears, worries, and anxieties-and the power of a supportive friend"I have something in my head and it is scaring me," Pig said."What is it?" asked Horse."I... -
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life Martin Seligman 9781473684317
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.20From the bestselling author of Authentic HappinessKnown as the father of the science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate... -
Listening: Interviews, 1970–1989 Jonathan Cott 9781517907617
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott's remarkable writings "All I really need to do is simply ask a question," Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds... -
I Like You by Sandol Stoddard Warburg
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15A tiny book with a big heart - a favourite gift for weddings, best friends and Valentines When I think something is important You think it's important too We have good ideas When I say... -
Life Lessons from Bergson by Michael Foley 9781447245612
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.60The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Henri Bergson was a French professor and philosopher. Born in Paris in 1859 to a... -
A History of the World (in Dingbats): Drawings & Words by David Byrne
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $26.75As featured in The New York Times, T Magazine, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon The phenomenally creative musician and filmmaker David Byrne presents new artwork that explores daily life in... -
Pride and Prejudice: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen 9780143138730
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.54Generations of readers have fallen in love with Jane Austen's beloved classic, Pride and Prejudice. The sparkling Elizabeth Bennet, the taciturn Fitzwilliam Darcy, and an array of characters that... -
Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.032018 EISNER AWARD-WINNER - BEST HUMOUR PUBLICATION In Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld asks the questions no one else dares ask about civilisation as we know it. - How do you get published during a... -
The Portable Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A newly edited collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader.The life of Frederick Douglass is nothing less than the history of America in the... -
Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books Ursula K. Le Guin 9781837265084
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'One of the literary greats of the twentieth century' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A crafter of fierce, focused, fertile dreams' DAVID MITCHELL 'A literary icon' STEPHEN KING Hard times are coming, when we'll be... -
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91A revolutionary new understanding of the human brain and its changeable nature. The brain is a dynamic, electric, living forest. It is not rigidly fixed but instead constantly modifies its patterns -... -
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMESThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our timeNot since the early twentieth century has... -
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd 9781786897350
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' GuardianIntroduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette WintersonIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd... -
Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
Booksplease Price: $21.81Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB... -
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.03In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing...