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Teesdale's Special Flora: Places, Plants and People by Margaret E. Bradshaw
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.29A 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... -
The One Hundred Circle Farm by Emmet Gowin
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.23A powerful photographic survey of the impact of irrigation systems on the landscape of the United StatesIn The One Hundred Circle Farm, renowned photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) presents stunning... -
Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life by Theodore M. Porter
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social... -
Climate Dynamics by Kerry Cook
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £61.67Climate Dynamics is an advanced undergraduate-level textbook that provides an essential foundation in the physical understanding of the earth's climate system. The book assumes no background in... -
Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life by Ryan Patrick Hanley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of modern economics Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher... -
In My Time of Dying: A History of Death and the Dead in West Africa by John Parker
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuries In My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in... -
Edible Fungi of Britain and Northern Europe: How to Identify, Collect and Prepare by Jens H. Petersen
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.99A richly illustrated guide to edible mushrooms by one of Europe's leading fungi expertsIn this beautifully illustrated introductory guide, Jens Petersen shows how to successfully identify and forage... -
Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women by David Alan Brown
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.14This beautifully illustrated and exquisitely designed volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning... -
Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales by Kurt Schwitters
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.97Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that... -
Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature by Chih Chung Tsai
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69During a period of political and social upheaval in China, the unconventional insights of the great Daoist Zhuangzi (369?-286? B.C.) pointed to a way of living naturally. Inspired by his fascination... -
Birds and Animals of Australia's Top End: Darwin, Kakadu, Katherine, and Kununurra by Nick Leseberg
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.00One 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... -
Young Islam: The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World by Avi Max Spiegel
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Today, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. Young Islam takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support--a competition not simply between Islamism and the... -
Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change by Adriana Petryna
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worlds As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth's fragile ecosystems are growing... -
Health Policies, Health Politics: The British and American Experience, 1911-1965 by Daniel M. Fox
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30Drawing on a wide range of sources, from popular literature, movies, and television drama to government and institutional documents, this book reveals similarities in the presumptions underlying... -
In Hora Mortis / Under the Iron of the Moon: Poems by Thomas Bernhard
Booksplease Price: £28.16Internationally acclaimed Austrian novelist, playwright, and memoirist Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) has been compared to Kafka and Beckett, and critics have ranked his novels among the masterpieces of... -
Robust Optimization by Aharon Ben-Tal
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £75.51Robust optimization is still a relatively new approach to optimization problems affected by uncertainty, but it has already proved so useful in real applications that it is difficult to tackle such... -
Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations by Ray Fisman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.37Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the... -
Automorphic Forms on Adele Groups. (AM-83), Volume 83 by Stephen S. Gelbart
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £74.71This volume investigates the interplay between the classical theory of automorphic forms and the modern theory of representations of adele groups. Interpreting important recent contributions of... -
Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade by Douglas A. Irwin
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82About two hundred years ago, largely as a result of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, free trade achieved an intellectual status unrivaled by any other doctrine in the field of economics. What accounts... -
Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido by C. G. Jung
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.38"This book became a landmark, set up on the spot where two ways divided. Because of its imperfections and its incompleteness it laid down the program to be followed for the next few decades of my... -
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.00A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthWhat is it that transforms a simple object, an idea, or a promise to pay into an asset that creates wealth? Katharina Pistor... -
A Course in Complex Analysis by Saeed Zakeri
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £56.48A comprehensive graduate-level textbook that takes a fresh approach to complex analysis A Course in Complex Analysis explores a central branch of mathematical analysis, with broad applications in... -
Conflict Among Nations: Bargaining, Decision Making, and System Structure in International Crises by Glenn Herald Snyder
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £65.61How do nations act in a crisis? This book seeks to answer that question both theoretically and historically. It tests and synthesizes theories of political behavior by comparing them with the... -
The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics by Michael C. Horowitz
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82The Diffusion of Military Power examines how the financial and organizational challenges of adopting new methods of fighting wars can influence the international balance of power. Michael Horowitz... -
Insects of North America by Dr. John C. Abbott
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.91The ultimate photographic field guide to North American insectsThis amazing field guide enables you to identify all 783 families of insects currently recognized in the United States and Canada... -
24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News by Kathryn Cramer Brownell 9780691246666
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.79How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influenceAs television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies,... -
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton 9780691247625
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.51From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craftWhen economist Angus... -
Birds of Mexico and Central America by Ber van Perlo
Booksplease Price: £26.00Birds 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... -
Virtue and Vice: The Personifications in the Index of Christian Art by Colum Hourihane 9780691050379
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.12The concept of opposing forces of good and evil expressed in a broad range of moral qualities--virtues and vices--is one of the most dominant themes in the history of Christian art. The complex... -
Birds of South America: Non-Passerines: Rheas to Woodpeckers by Francisco Erize 9780691126883
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.57Here 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... -
Racism: A Short History by George M. Fredrickson 9780691167053
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.67Are 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 Inglorious Years: The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society by Daniel Cohen 9780691222257
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world... -
Introduction to Modeling Convection in Planets and Stars: Magnetic Field, Density Stratification, Rotation by Gary A. Glatzmaier 9780691141725
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £101.66This book provides readers with the skills they need to write computer codes that simulate convection, internal gravity waves, and magnetic field generation in the interiors and atmospheres of... -
Scaffolding: Poems by Elena Rivera 9780691172255
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Scaffolding is a sequence of eighty-two sonnets written over the course of a year, dated and arranged in roughly chronological order, and vividly reflecting life in New York City. In this, her third... -
Wasps of the World: A Guide to Every Family by Simon van Noort 9780691238548
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.27A richly illustrated guide to wasps around the worldWasps have been around since before the dinosaurs and are one of the world's largest insect groups. More than 150,000 species have been identified,... -
A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture by Hung Wu 9780691155029
Booksplease Price: £109.28This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. Leading scholar of... -
All About Birds Texas and Oklahoma by Cornell Lab of Ornithology 9780691990064
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.53The perfect guide to the birds of Texas and Oklahoma, from the #1 birding website AllAboutBirds.org The All About Birds Regional Field-Guide Series brings birding enthusiasts the best information... -
The New Princeton Companion by Robert Durkee 9780691198743
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £30.49The definitive single-volume compendium of all things Princeton The New Princeton Companion is the ultimate reference book on Princeton University's history and traditions, personalities and key... -
Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia by Mark Brazil 9780691139265
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £32.67With 234 superb color plates, and more than 950 color maps, Birds of East Asia makes it easy to identify all of the region's species. The first single-volume field guide for eastern Asia, the book... -
The Eternal Present, Volume I: The Beginnings of Art by Sigfried Giedion 9780691251905
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.25A groundbreaking reevaluation of paleolithic art through the lens of modernism, from the acclaimed historian of art and architectureIn The Beginnings of Art, Sigfried Giedion, best known as a...