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Figuring by Maria Popova
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.78Figuring 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: €24.99Booksplease Price: €16.35Apologies 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: €34.50Booksplease Price: €23.30In 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: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.91A 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: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.99How 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: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.22The 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.00A 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.77A 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.32The 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... -
Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan W Watts
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.07'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... -
A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin's Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution by Jeremy DeSilva 9780691242064
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.46Leading 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... -
The Cello and the Nightingales: The Life of Beatrice Harrison by Patricia Cleveland-Peck 9781805300182
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46In 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.14Bruce 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: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07When 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... -
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Wild: An Elemental Journey by Jay Griffiths 9780141006444 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.01WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD Part travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author'Undefinable, untameable,... -
Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden by Hockley Clarke 9781961341722
Booksplease Price: €16.77From 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... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf 9781913724474
RRP: €5.95Booksplease Price: €5.50First 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... -
Is Peace Possible? Kathleen Lonsdale 9781837264216
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Kathleen 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... -
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words by Ella Frances Sanders 9780224100809 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.21Did 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... -
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words by Ella Frances Sanders
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26Did 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79What 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... -
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: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28THE 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: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.82"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: €35.70Booksplease Price: €27.64'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... -
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life Martin Seligman 9781473684317
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95From 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... -
Pig and Horse and the Something Scary by Zoey Abbott
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.19A 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... -
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Take Away the A by Michael Escoffier 9781783443444 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €2.61A word totally transforms if you take away just one letter - without the A, the beast is best. Without the W, the witch has an itch! This is an alphabet book like no other. An irreverant exploration... -
Listening: Interviews, 1970–1989 Jonathan Cott 9781517907617
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91A 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... -
A History of the World (in Dingbats): Drawings & Words by David Byrne
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €24.68As 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... -
I Like You by Sandol Stoddard Warburg
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.59A 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: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.78The 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... -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.82On 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... -
Pride and Prejudice: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Jane Austen 9780143138730
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.34Generations 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.862018 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98A 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: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'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... -
Candide, or Optimism by Francois Voltaire
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.82'The prince of philosophical novels' John UpdikeIn Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most glorious satires of... -
Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale by Herman Melville 9780143105954
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.34In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of... -
The Fox and the Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €15.04***Waterstones Book of the Year 2015***From an award-winning designer comes an original fable about need and lossOnce there was a Fox who lived in a deep, dense forest. For as long as Fox could...