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The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78These thirteen selections from the polemical writings of Henry D. Thoreau represent every stage in his twenty-two years of active writing. This edition, introduced by writer and historian Howard... -
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor by J. E. Gordon 9780691180984
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.76J. E. Gordon's classic introduction to the properties of materials used in engineering answers some fascinating and fundamental questions about how the structural world around us works. Gordon... -
Birds of the Greater Sundas, the Philippines, and Wallacea by Norman Arlott 9780691180625
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $28.34A comprehensive illustrated guide to the birds of the Greater Sundas, the Philippines, and WallaceaBirds of the Greater Sundas, the Philippines, and Wallacea is a comprehensive illustrated guide to... -
The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It - New and Expanded Edition by Anat Admati 9780691251707
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.28A Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek Book of the YearWhy our banking system is broken-and what we must do to fix itNew bank failures have been a rude awakening for... -
Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics by Robert B. Banks 9780691158181
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.70Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers. Such common activities as throwing baseballs, skipping rope, growing flowers, playing football, measuring savings... -
Gravitation by Charles W. Misner
RRP: $87.10Booksplease Price: $77.83First published in 1973, Gravitation is a landmark graduate-level textbook that presents Einstein's general theory of relativity and offers a rigorous, full-year course on the physics of gravitation... -
Teesdale's Special Flora: Places, Plants and People by Margaret E. Bradshaw
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.22A definitive and richly illustrated guide to the botanically unique area of Upper Teesdale in England's County DurhamTo anyone who loves the wild flowers of Great Britain and Ireland, there are some... -
Birds and Animals of Australia's Top End: Darwin, Kakadu, Katherine, and Kununurra by Nick Leseberg
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $33.78One of the most amazing and accessible wildlife-watching destinations on earth, the "Top End" of Australia's Northern Territory is home to incredible birds and animals--from gaudy Red-collared... -
Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works by Eric H. Cline
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.81From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., an accessible primer to the archaeologist's craftAn archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, Eric H. Cline has conducted... -
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Expanded by Eric H. Cline 9780691208015
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780691208015Author Eric H. ClineFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Birds of South America: Non-Passerines: Rheas to Woodpeckers by Francisco Erize 9780691126883
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $28.74Here in an easy-to-use format is the first guide to the nearly 1,300 species of non-passerine South American birds. It complements Robert Ridgly and Guy Tudor's large reference volumes on the... -
Wildlife of Southeast Asia by Susan Myers 9780691154855
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.08This handy photographic guide offers a stunning look at the wildlife of Southeast Asia, which includes Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, West Malaysia, and Singapore. Accessible text and more... -
Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity by Ian Baucom 9780691004037
RRP: $56.28Booksplease Price: $55.85In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was... -
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences by Shannon Mattern
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers Computational models of urbanism-smart cities that use data-driven planning and... -
Birds of Mexico and Central America by Ber van Perlo
Booksplease Price: $34.37Birds of Mexico and Central America is the only field guide to illustrate and describe every species of bird in Central America from Mexico to Panama, including Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El... -
Wildlife of East Africa by Martin Withers 9780691007373
Booksplease Price: $23.26Those looking for a concise yet informative, visually breathtaking yet affordable East African safari need look no further than this spectacular field guide. Featuring full-color photos of 475 common... -
Racism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson 9780691167053
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.68Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the... -
The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner 9780691206035
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the... -
Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths of Central and South America, A Study in Beauty and Diversity by Emmet Gowin 9780691176895
RRP: $67.00Booksplease Price: $58.37A stunning portrait of the nocturnal moths of Central and South America by famed American photographer Emmet Gowin American photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) is best known for his portraits of his... -
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable by Paul J. Nahin 9780691207841
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.76An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable Heat, like gravity, shapes nearly every aspect of our... -
The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy by Professor Daniel Q. Gillion 9780691234182
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78How political protests and activism have a direct influence on voter and candidate behavior The "silent majority"-a phrase coined by Richard Nixon in 1969 in response to Vietnam War protests and... -
We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity by Chantelle Jessica Lewis 9780691262710
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion-and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarityAbleism is embedded in our daily lives. Social life, education, work, and,... -
The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections by Ben Wildavsky 9780691239811
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77A persuasive case for building career success through broad education, targeted skills, and social capitalYoung people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of... -
Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in Medieval Art by Colum Hourihane 9780691139562 [USED COPY]
RRP: $104.52Booksplease Price: $10.45Pontius Pilate is one of the Bible's best-known villains--but up until the tenth century, artistic imagery appears to have consistently portrayed him as a benevolent Christian and holy symbol of... -
Iran Between Two Revolutions by Ervand Abrahamian
RRP: $83.08Booksplease Price: $66.85Emphasizing the interaction between political organizations and social forces, Ervand Abrahamian discusses Iranian society and politics during the period between the Constitutional Revolution of... -
Privacy: A Manifesto by Wolfgang Sofsky 9780691136721
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77What ever happened to privacy? The simple right to be left alone? Surveillance cameras track our movements. Governments monitor our phone calls, e-mails, and Internet habits. Insurance companies know... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $23.25A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... -
Birds of Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Central and West Pacific by Ber van Perlo 9780691151885
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $25.77This is the only comprehensive and handy pocket guide that illustrates and describes the bird species of Hawaii, New Zealand, and the Central and West Pacific. Featuring more than 750 species... -
Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education by Jonathan Marks 9780691207728
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.82A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal education Not so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for... -
How to Fall Slower Than Gravity: And Other Everyday (and Not So Everyday) Uses of Mathematics and Physical Reasoning by Paul J. Nahin 9780691229171
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77An engaging collection of intriguing problems that shows you how to think like a mathematical physicist Paul Nahin is a master at explaining odd phenomena through straightforward mathematics. In... -
Nudibranchs of Britain, Ireland and Northwest Europe: Second Edition by Bernard Picton 9780691208794
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $36.77A strikingly illustrated photographic identification guide to sea slugs in all their colourful varietyNudibranchs, or sea slugs, are a group of marine gastropod molluscs whose adults lack shells, an... -
Trees of Britain and Ireland Jonathan Stokes 9780691224169
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.82A comprehensive photographic identification guide to all of the native trees and shrubs of Great Britain and Ireland and many of the common non-native speciesTrees of Britain and Ireland is packed... -
The Archetypal World of Henry Moore by Erich Neumann 9780691279251
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.82A groundbreaking exploration of the feminine archetype in Henry Moore’s sculptural worldHenry Moore (1898–1986) was an artist and sculptor renowned for his monumental semiabstract bronzes, many of... -
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G. Rajan 9780691146836 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $3.35Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy... -
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter – A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition by Peter Singer
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.36Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopherPeter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most... -
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $28.74The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern... -
Birds of Southern Africa by Ber van Perlo 9780691141695
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $30.44Birds of Southern Africa surpasses other field guides to the region by illustrating and describing all 1,250 bird species of South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana,... -
Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi by Henry Corbin 9780691058344
RRP: $60.30Booksplease Price: $48.32"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition...Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian Sufism... -
Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: East Coast by Steve N. G. Howell 9780691166216
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.75Two-thirds of our planet lies out of sight of land, just offshore beyond the horizon. What wildlife might you see out there? This handy guide, designed for quick use on day trips off the East Coast,... -
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison: A Biography by Martin E Marty 9780691202488
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73From National Book Award-winning author Martin Marty, the surprising story of a Christian classic born in a Nazi prison cell For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich...