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Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.39Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2016 An anonymous package arrives in the post: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling New York-artist Jack's secret... -
Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18A heady story about a life-changing summer romance, perfect for fans of A Theatre for Dreamers and Sorrow & Bliss 'A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and... -
The Torah: A Beginner's Guide by Joel S. Kaminsky
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98There is no question that the Torah is one of the most influential documents in Western civilization. It is the source of widely known characters like Joseph, Moses, and Noah, and timeless stories... -
Mayday!: A History of Flight through its Martyrs, Oddballs and Daredevils by David Darling
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.59In a world without aircraft, to believe flight might be possible required a certain kind of character. You had to be starry-eyed, a possessor of practical ingenuity, nerves of steel and a level of... -
Libya: From Colony to Revolution by Ronald Bruce St. John
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60Since Qaddafi's ousting in 2011, Libya has been beset by instability and conflict. To understand the tumultuous state of the country today, one must look to its past. With great clarity and... -
Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide Peter Cave 9781851689378
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18Philosophy, the "love of wisdom", is the product of our endless fascination and curiosity about the world - the child of wonder. Through it, we seek to answer the most fundamental of questions: How... -
The Middle East: A Beginner's Guide by Philip Robins
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18The wave of popular uprisings that swept through the Middle East promised to pave the way for democracy. It brought down dictators and captured the popular imagination, but for most of the region,... -
A Short History of the First World War Gary Sheffield 9781780743646
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.51The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creating multiple interpretations and confusion for... -
Crimes Against Humanity: A Beginner's Guide by Adam Jones 9781851686018
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18Murder, extermination, enslavement, ethnic cleansing, rape, and torture: all these actions constitute 'crimes against humanity' when carried out in a widespread or systematic way. And unfortunately,... -
The Fifth Dimension: An Exploration of the Spiritual Realm by John Hick 9781851689910
Booksplease Price: $26.39Many of us today are all too willing to accept a humanist and scientific account of the universe which considers human existence as a fleeting accident. The triumph of John Hick's gripping work is... -
Homer: A Beginner's Guide Elton T. E. Barker 9781780742298
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18Widely revered as the father of Western literature, Homer was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the epic poems which immortalised such names as Achilles, Cyclops, Menelaus, and Helen of Troy... -
Fair Trade: A Beginner's Guide by Jacqueline DeCarlo 9781851685219
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18What's wrong with buying regular coffee? Does Fair Trade necessarily mean ethical trade? What impact can consumers have on global economics? Fair Trade: A Beginner's Guide reveals why Fair Trade... -
Understanding Religion: A Thematic Approach by Moojan Momen 9781851685998
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.45Drawing from all major religious traditions in the world, as well as a variety of non-religious disciplines such as psychology, philosophy and sociology, Momen's study is an innovative, thematic... -
Journalism: A Beginner's Guide by Sarah Niblock 9781851687039
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18Journalism today is moving faster than ever before. With web 2.0, blogging, huge media conglomerates, 24-hour news-networks, and tight legal frameworks, this introduction investigates the role of... -
The Northern Ireland Conflict: A Beginner's Guide by Aaron Edwards 9781851687299
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98The Northern Ireland conflict was one of the most bloody, protracted, and bitter campaigns of terrorist violence in modern history. Rooted in the partition of Ireland in 1921, over 50,000 people were... -
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Life in the Universe: A Beginner's Guide by Lewis Dartnell 9781851685059 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.61Astrobiology, the study of life and its existence in the universe, is one of the hottest areas of scientific research. Lewis Dartnell considers some of the fascinating questions facing researchers... -
Wisdom of the Tao by Julian F. Pas 9781851682324
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18The way of the Tao is one of peace - of serenity, meditation and inner contentment. For centuries the followers of the Tao have drawn strength from its great wisdom, its faith in the laws of the... -
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The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment by Martin Ford 9781780748481 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.99Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors,... -
Neanderthals Among Us: The Making of a Prehistoric Human by Peter Sahlins 9781836432548
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.26Why are we so obsessed with a group of archaic humans who disappeared 40,000 years ago? Neanderthals Among Us brings together an accessible history of scientific debates over human origins and... -
The Cold War: A Beginner's Guide by Merrilyn Thomas
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.04This guide exposes the reality behind the war between capitalism and communism, two ideologies divided by the Iron Curtain. New revelations show that what was once regarded as simply a struggle... -
A Rumi Anthology by Jelaluddin Rumi
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.87Comprising two books of translations by Reynold A. Nicholson, Rumi Poet and Mystic and Tales of Mystic Meaning, this new anthology offers 170 passages from Rumi's greatest works in one volume.About... -
Our Israeli Diary: Of That Time, Of That Place Antonia Fraser 9781786071538
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18In May 1978 Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser visited Israel at the time of the 30th Anniversary of Independence. It was three years after they first lived together; neither had set foot in Israel... -
Critical Thinking: A Beginner's Guide Sharon M. Kaye 9781851686544
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98Critical thinking shows people how to analyze arguments, speeches, and newspaper articles to see which faults the authors are making in their reasoning. It looks at the structure of language to... -
Economics: A Beginner's Guide James Forder 9781780746395
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18Markets, models, mechanisms and monopolies... most of us understand that economics is important, but what exactly is it - and what do economists do? In this fresh and engaging introduction, Oxford... -
The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide by Christopher Gair
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18The Beat Generation were a radical group of American writers whose relaxed, gritty and candid writing inspired generations. In his chronicle of the origins, adventures, and inner workings of the Beat... -
Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy by Jonathan A.C. Brown
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.20AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS ON RELIGION 2014 PICK Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Prophet Muhammad. Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad,... -
The English Civil Wars: A Beginner's Guide Dr. Patrick Little 9781780743318
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18A king beheaded. A monarchy abolished. And a commoner leading a republic by military rule set in their place. The wars that tore through the country in the mid-seventeenth century - splitting... -
Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory by Neil Johnson 9781851686308
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98What do traffic jams, stock market crashes, and wars have in common? They are all explained using complexity, an unsolved puzzle that many researchers believe is the key to predicting - and... -
Baha'u'llah: A Short Biography by Moojan Momen 9781851684694
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18Worldwide in its membership and increasingly being recognized as the youngest of the world religions, the Baha'i Faith is enjoying rapid expansion. In this captivating book, Moojan Momen gives a... -
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides 9781780747453
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.20The age of exploration was drawing to a close, yet the mystery of the North Pole remained. Contemporaries described the pole as the 'unattainable object of our dreams', and the urge to fill in this... -
How to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everyone by William Poundstone 9781780747200
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98We are hard-wired to believe that the world is more predictable than it is. We chase 'winning streaks' that are often just illusions, and we are all too predictable exactly when we try hardest not to... -
The Elusive Language of Ducks by Judith White 9781780744001
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.39As if it will make up for her loss, they bring Hannah a duckling to care for. They were well meaning, and it could have done the trick. However, Hannah's focus on the duck progressively alienates... -
The Qur'an: An Introduction by Anna M. Gade 9781851686940
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.06Explaining the language and the major themes of the Qur'an, its unique literary structure, and its alleged "inimitability", Gade highlights how it seamlessly weaves together law, narrative,... -
The Qur'an: A Beginner's Guide by Farid Esack 9781851686247
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86The Qur'an has spoken to Muslims for over one thousand years; it is seen as law-maker, moral code, and the word of God. Drawing on both contemporary and ancient sources, Esack outlines the key themes... -
International Relations: A Beginner's Guide by Charles Jones 9781780743035
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98Today, more than ever, we live in a global world. Whether it's war, economics, politics, or law, our lives are influenced by a complex web of cross-border transactions. Dr Charles Jones ably... -
War or Peace?: The United States and China, 2026–2049 Tim Hames 9781836432739
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $19.69Today, China and the USA account for forty per cent of the globe’s GDP and over a fifth of its population; their rivalry impacts the lives of everyone on this planet. As political relations between... -
Iran: A Beginner's Guide by Homa Katouzian 9781780742724
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has been locked in conflict with the United States and Europe. Personified in the West by a series of bogeymen from Ayatollah Khomeini to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, this... -
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A Concise Encyclopedia of Judaism by Dan Cohn-Sherbok 9781851681761 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $2.58Written with clarity and authority by an expert in the field, this new encyclopedia offers an in-depth study of all facets of this rich tradition. Combining breadth with a readable yet concise style,... -
Olya's Story: A Survivor's Personal and Dramatic Account of the Persecution of Baha'is in Revolutionary Iran by Olya Roohizadegan
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98It was a time of house burnings, mob violence, kidnapping, mass imprisonment, torture, endless trials, summary executions and secret burials. This was Iran in the early 1980s, and everyday reality... -
Falling to Heaven by Jeanne Peterson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.39Tibet, 1954. The highest pass of the Himalayas is enveloped in silence save the flapping of prayer flags. Seven thousand feet below, two Americans travelling on foot arrive in the remote town of...