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What Nature Does For Britain by Tony Juniper 9781781253281 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97From the peat bogs and woodlands that help to secure our water supply, to the bees and soils that produce most of the food we eat, Britain is rich in 'natural capital'. Yet we take supplies of clean... -
State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century Francis Fukuyama 9781861977045
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.13Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The... -
The Change Book: Fifty models to explain how things happen by Mikael Krogerus
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15How do you make your way in a fast-changing world? Why do we have less and less time? Why are some people unfaithful? Who governs the world? This book is about change - from the small and... -
Gallipoli by Peter Hart
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the flames spared nothing. As for our young men, a few minutes ago, so alert, so self-confident, all now lying dead on the bare deck,... -
Stonehenge Rosemary Hill 9781861978806
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to... -
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing,... -
The Concise 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49From bestselling author Robert Greene comes a new guide to the strategies of war that can help us gain mastery in the modern world. Spanning world civilisations, and synthesising dozens of political,... -
Mountains Beyond Mountains: One doctor's quest to heal the world by Tracy Kidder
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Inspirational ... I can't recommend this book highly enough' Bill Gates Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia, as the charismatic... -
Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week Max Décharné 9781846689796
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Enormously enjoyable' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Excellent ... illuminates a fascinating and still under-explored period in British youth culture and social history' Jon Savage, New Statesman... -
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory Richard Holmes 9781846682315
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable... -
Your Right to Protest: Understand It, Use It Christian Weaver 9781805223443
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83An indispensable guide to your right to protest 'A lawyer in your pocket' - The Secret Barrister In this handbook, campaigning lawyer Christian Weaver brings together everything you need to know when... -
Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains by Stephen L. Macknik
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10What can magic tell us about ourselves and our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable conversation, did you know you're using attentional 'misdirection', a core... -
Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer by Jim Holt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?' remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose... -
The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme Gavin Stamp 9781781255063
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British... -
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art by Sebastian Smee 9781781251669
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78This is a story about rivalry among artists. Not the kind of rivalry that grows out of hatred and dislike, but rather, rivalry that emerges from admiration, friendship, love. The kind of rivalry that... -
Co-Opetition by Adam M. Brandenburger
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Co-opetition offers a new way of thinking that combines competition and cooperation. It is the first book to adapt game theory to the needs of CEOs, managers and entrepreneurs. Though often compared... -
Warriors, Rebels and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X Moshik Temkin 9781805221111
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Do leaders make history, or does history make leaders? What should we do when the wrong people are in power? And how can we harness the answers to find and become better leaders today? This book... -
Where Do Camels Belong?: The story and science of invasive species by Ken Thompson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. They evolved in North America, retain their greatest diversity in South America, and the... -
1864: The forgotten war that shaped modern Europe by Tom Buk-Swienty
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The Battle of Dybbol, 1864. Prussian troops lay siege to an outpost in the far south of Denmark. The conflict is over control of the Duchy of Schleswig, recently annexed by Denmark to the alarm of... -
Darwin'S Angel: An Angelic Riposte to the God Delusion by John Cornwell 9781846680656 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £1.25The God Delusion is a clarion call to the faithless, the waverers, and even firm religious believers, to follow the author into radical atheism not merely as a private conviction but as a public... -
Winning Without Losing: 66 strategies for succeeding in business while living a happy and balanced life by Martin Bjergegaard
Booksplease Price: £9.44Winner of the New Manager category at the CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2014 Whatever your job is, chances are you find it hard to switch off. Today, we work longer hours, at weekends, at... -
Family Enterprises: The Essentials by Peter Leach
Booksplease Price: £13.58Family firms are to be found in every sector of commercial activity. Commitment, family values and pride in the business are typically their special strengths, yet they also face major challenges in... -
Letters To Lily: On how the world works by Alan MacFarlane
Booksplease Price: £8.73In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave... -
Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War by Julie Summers
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.97In September 1939, just three weeks after the outbreak of war, Gladys Mason wrote briefly in her diary about events in Europe: 'Hitler watched German siege of Warsaw. City in flames.' And, she... -
The Signalman: A Ghost Story by Charles Dickens
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.62On the 9th of June 1865, Charles Dickens was travelling aboard the Folkestone to London Boat Train with his mistress and her mother, when it derailed while crossing a viaduct near Staplehurst in Kent... -
On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google... -
The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company Jack Stack 9781781251539
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.33In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a near bankrupt division of International Harvester. Today it's one of the most successful and... -
Wordsworth by J. R. Watson 9780853836384
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853836384Author Professor J. R. WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Profile Books... -
Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and FT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD NOMINEE: How We Build a Better Future Ezra Klein 9781805226062
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A must-read for progressives' BARACK OBAMA... -
Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense: Why some organisations consistently outperform others by Jules Goddard
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies... -
Are You Smarter Than A Chimpanzee?: Test yourself against the amazing minds of animals by Ben Ambridge
Booksplease Price: £7.33Animal science is bizarre and wonderful. At the extreme end of zoology, psychologists are designing personality tests for dogs and logic problems for pigeons. They're giving fish spatial reasoning... -
Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions by Phil Rosenzweig
Booksplease Price: £8.73Dozens of books have been published recently on the errors and biases that affect our judgments and choices. Drawing on cognitive science, their lessons are excellent for many kinds of decisions -... -
The Sleeping Army by Francesca Simon 9781846682797
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.13Freya is an ordinary girl living in modern Britain, but with a twist: people still worship the Viking gods. One evening, stuck with her dad on his night shift at the British Museum, she is drawn to... -
Meteorites: Travels in Space and Time Helen Gordon 9781800815346
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75From your window you can see the stars and distant planets: light years away, it's easy to think that our existences and theirs will never intersect. Yet meteorites - mysterious, irregular rocks of... -
Democracy: Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters by Margaret Atwood 9781805223719
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37This is an exceptional moment for democracy. In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and more on what democracy means - and why it matters. In 2024, nearly... -
The Roman Forum David Watkin 9781861978059
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05There are few more historic and evocative places in the world. Caesar was cremated there. Charles V and Mussolini rode by it in triumph. There Napoleon celebrated his festival of liberty. In this... -
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith by Mary Beard 9781805222460
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'The reigning Queen of Classics' Spectator What are civilisations? At the heart of this big question is how people have depicted the human and divine, from prehistory to the present day. Britain's... -
Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials Raja Shehadeh 9781805222415
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine - now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - and what they might tell us about the land and the... -
The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States Michael Haag 9781846684517
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish population... -
Language: The Cultural Tool by Daniel Everett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures. It's as essential to survival as fire - and, like fire, is found in all human...