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In the Words of Nelson Mandela by Jennifer Crwys-Williams 9781846684470 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.69Through his words and actions, Nelson Mandela has been embraced worldwide as our leading symbol of courage, hope and reconciliation. In the Words of Nelson Mandela is a unique collection of... -
The Great War: 1914-1918 by Peter Hart 9781846682476 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.29The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history In this magnum opus, critically-acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena... -
The Beauty And The Sorrow: An intimate history of the First World War by Peter Englund 9781846683435 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.54There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people... -
A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin by Chris Mullin 9781846682308 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.54'It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris Mullin Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe... -
In Search Of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies by Robert H. Waterman 9781861977168 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.65The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury UK), In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table. Based on a study of... -
Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most... -
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge by John Gimlette 9781846682537 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.48Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012 Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out... -
Triggers: Sparking positive change and making it last by Marshall Goldsmith
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.76In business - as in life - the right behaviours matter. But getting it right is tricky. Even when we acknowledge the need to change what we do and how we do it, life has a habit of getting in the... -
Japan Through the Looking Glass by Alan MacFarlane
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.76This entertaining and endlessly surprising book takes us on an exploration into every aspect of Japanese society from the most public to the most intimate. A series of meticulous investigations... -
Nijinsky: A Life by Lucy Moore
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34'He achieves the miraculous,' the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. 'He embodies all the beauty of classical frescoes and statues'. Like so many since, Rodin recognised that in... -
The Friar of Carcassonne: The Last Days of the Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34Nearly a century had passed since Languedoc had been put to the sword in the Albigensian Crusade, but the stain of Catharism still lay on the land. Any accusation of Catharism invited peril. But... -
The Customer Rules: The 39 essential rules for delivering sensational service by Lee Cockerell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.08Today, consumers have more choice than ever before. It's no longer enough to simply provide a service - companies who want to stay in business must also provide impeccable service with such... -
The Wonderbox: Curious histories of how to live Roman Krznaric 9781846683947
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.70There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history... -
How to Make a Tornado: The strange and wonderful things that happen when scientists break free New Scientist 9781846682872
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.56Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we... -
The Universe, The Gods And Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.36In this engrossing retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his profound knowledge of the subject with brilliant and original story-telling. Beginning with the creation of Earth out of... -
On The Roof: A Thatcher's Journey Tom Allan 9781788167437
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.31The reed goes on, the reed comes off. The reed rots and returns to the earth. The houses we work on outlast us. The thatch we use has never stood still. On The Roof is a thatcher's tale - a journey... -
The Obstacle is the Way: 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph Ryan Holiday 9781805222477
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.02Since bestselling author Ryan Holiday re-introduced Stoicism to the world with The Obstacle Is the Way in 2014, this simple but powerful philosophy for life has become a global phenomenon. From... -
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 Diarmaid Ferriter 9781800810945
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.51Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate about... -
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict by Andrew Pettegree 9781800814936
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.56'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.' David... -
Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story by Peter Guber
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Stories have always had the power to move, but it has only recently become clear that purposeful stories - those created with a specific mission in mind - are essential in persuading others to... -
Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an... -
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World by Joe Roman 9781805221692
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.77A Scientific American Top Ten Book of 2023 If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the way-are its heart... -
Jesus: The Unauthorised Version by Mian Ridge 9781861978899 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £1.98The Da Vinci Code asserts that the Holy Grail is a two-thousand-year-old secret - that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus and had his child, whose descendants live in France. There have been... -
Lessons from the Top: The three universal stories that all successful leaders tell by Gavin Esler 9781846685002 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.48Great leaders have always understood the power of stories. Through the stories they tell, the most successful leaders educate, persuade and bring about change, but we rarely have the background... -
Game Query: The Mind-Stretching Economist Quiz by Philip Coggan 9781788160100 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.98TEST YOURSELF AGAINST THE ECONOMIST'S CHAMPION QUIZ TEAM - THE ONLY QUIZ BOOK YOU NEED THIS CHRISTMAS General knowledge quizzes are ten a penny. Trust The Economist, which knows both the price and... -
Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things by Prof. Steven Connor 9781846682711 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.73From keys and handkerchiefs to sweets and rubber bands, the curious objects we surround ourselves with, though often seemingly mundane, have a magical quality. Their surprising power to disturb,... -
The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers Andrew Dilnot 9781846681110
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.59Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most maths is really simple - as easy as 2+2 in fact. Better... -
Mindful Work: How Meditation is Changing Business from the Inside Out by David Gelles
Booksplease Price: £7.65A mindful revolution is reshaping the workplace. The world's most dynamic businesspeople are using mindfulness to become happier and more fulfilled at work - and more successful. In Mindful Work,... -
Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010 Chris Mullin 9781846684005
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.08On the backbenches but still in the thick of it, Decline and Fall runs from Chris Mullin's sacking as a minister by Tony ('The Man') Blair in 2005 to the fall of New Labour in May 2010. Here is... -
Diaghilev: A Life by Sjeng Scheijen
Booksplease Price: £15.74This magnificent new biography of the extraordinary impresario of the arts and creator of the Ballets Russes 100 years ago draws on important new research, notably from Russia. 'Scheijen... -
The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding by Al Ries
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Everyone knows that building your product or service into a bona fide brand is the only way to stand out in today's insanely crowded marketplace. The only question is how do you do it? This is the... -
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb
Booksplease Price: £9.62Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our... -
Metamorphosis: How and Why We Change by Polly Morland 9781781254127 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.48What makes a violinist become a policeman, or a monk fall in love? How does someone lose eighteen stone in as many months? Or a follower of radical Islam turn his back on holy war? When can simply... -
Pocket World in Figures 2019 by The Economist 9781788161145 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been the indispensable handbook on the state of the world, covering demographics, industry, politics, geography, culture and more. Where else would... -
Moscow 1941: A City & Its People at War by Sir Rodric Braithwaite 9781861977595 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.37A magnificent narrative of 1941 and the Battle of Moscow, by some criteria the biggest battle in history, and the Russian ordinary men (and women) who fought it. It was fought over a territory the... -
Christmas Carols: From Village Green to Church Choir by Andrew Gant 9781781253526 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.37Everyone loves a Christmas carol - in the end, even Scrooge. They have the power to summon up a special kind of midwinter mood, like the aroma of mince pies and mulled wine and the twinkle of lights... -
Engel's England: Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man by Matthew Engel 9781846685729 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.37England, says Matthew Engel, is the most complicated place in the world. And, as he travels through each of the historic English counties, he discovers that's just the start of it. Every county is... -
OxTravels: Meetings with remarkable travel writers by Michael Palin 9781846684968 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.37You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that compares to OxTravels. Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top... -
We-Think: Mass innovation, not mass production by Charles Leadbeater 9781861978370 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.37Society is no longer based on mass consumption but on mass participation. New forms of collaboration - such as Wikipedia and YouTube - are paving the way for an age in which people want to be... -
Going Dutch in Beijing: The International Guide to Doing the Right Thing by Mark McCrum 9781861971708 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.98In China your host will lose face if he does not pick up the tab In Tokyo, 'Chin-Chin' is slang for 'small penis'. In Sardinia a raised thumb means 'sit on this!' - try that in a traffic jam in...