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Nijinsky: A Life by Lucy Moore
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'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... -
Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010 Chris Mullin 9781846684005
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50On 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... -
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... -
Mindful Work: How Meditation is Changing Business from the Inside Out by David Gelles
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A 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,... -
Triggers: Sparking positive change and making it last by Marshall Goldsmith
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64In 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... -
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... -
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... -
The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers Andrew Dilnot 9781846681110
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Mathematics 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... -
Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In 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... -
Diaghilev: A Life by Sjeng Scheijen
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05This 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 Wonderbox: Curious histories of how to live Roman Krznaric 9781846683947
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78There 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... -
The Friar of Carcassonne: The Last Days of the Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Nearly 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... -
Japan Through the Looking Glass by Alan MacFarlane
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64This 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... -
The Universe, The Gods And Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In 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... -
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Life'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... -
The Customer Rules: The 39 essential rules for delivering sensational service by Lee Cockerell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Today, 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 Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict by Andrew Pettegree 9781800814936
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.24'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... -
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World by Joe Roman 9781805221692
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54A 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... -
How to Make a Tornado: The strange and wonderful things that happen when scientists break free New Scientist 9781846682872
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.77Science 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... -
On The Roof: A Thatcher's Journey Tom Allan 9781788167437
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07The 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 Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 Diarmaid Ferriter 9781800810945
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37Ireland 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... -
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Mindful Work: How Meditation is Changing Business from the Inside Out by David Gelles 9781781251775 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.28A 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,... -
The Forbidden City by Geremie Barme 9781846680267
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Built by the Ming emperor in the fifteenth century as the earthly reflection of the realm of the Jade Emperor - whose court was said to rule over the whole universe - the Forbidden City consists of a... -
![Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons by Michael Haag 9781846681530 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9693826/10710542/9781846681530__46164.1781314856.jpg?c=1 "Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons by Michael Haag 9781846681530 [USED COPY]")
Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons by Michael Haag 9781846681530 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later, they were arrested,... -
![On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield 9781846685101 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9693843/10710559/9781846685101__51045.1781314870.jpg?c=1 "On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield 9781846685101 [USED COPY]")
On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield 9781846685101 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Maps 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... -
![Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions by New Scientist 9781846681301 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9734095/10750728/9781846681301__50228.1781405859.jpg?c=1 "Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions by New Scientist 9781846681301 [USED COPY]")
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions by New Scientist 9781846681301 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.51Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal... -
![Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers: and Other Odd Events on the Way to Scientific Discovery by New Scientist 9781846685088 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9734108/10750741/9781846685088__37576.1781405880.jpg?c=1 "Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers: and Other Odd Events on the Way to Scientific Discovery by New Scientist 9781846685088 [USED COPY]")
Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers: and Other Odd Events on the Way to Scientific Discovery by New Scientist 9781846685088 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.50In August 1931, New Zealand farmer Richard Buckley hit the local headlines - or rather his trousers did. One minute they were drying in front of the fire; the next there was a huge blast and a ball... -
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On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield 9781846685095 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Maps 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... -
![Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions by New Scientist 9781861979735 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9736801/10753428/9781861979735__62131.1781409826.jpg?c=1 "Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions by New Scientist 9781861979735 [USED COPY]")
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions by New Scientist 9781861979735 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.53Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the 'Last Word' column - regularly... -
What If We Got AI Right?: How to stop catastrophising and build an ethical future by Eleanor Drage 9781805225447
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50We're confused about AI: what it is, and where it's leading us - whether into a utopia or an apocalypse. Yet these obsessions thwart efforts to make meaningful change in an industry with very real... -
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Provence A-Z by Peter Mayle 9781861978844 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £3.92An indispensable, hugely informative and consistently entertaining guide to Provence by the best-selling writer who has made the region his own. Organised from A-Z but far from a conventional work... -
What Management Is: How it works and why it's everyone's business by Joan Magretta
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Whether you're new to the field or a seasoned executive, this book will give you a firm grasp on what it takes to make an organization perform. It presents the basic principles of management simply,... -
Queenie Alice Munro 9781781253175
Booksplease Price: £3.06'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell slowly: they are made to last' Guardian When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister... -
Time by Eva Hoffman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Time has always been the great Given, a fact of existence which cannot be denied or wished away; but the character of lived time is changing dramatically. Medical advances extend our longevity, while... -
Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants by Richard Mabey
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of 'thorns and thistles' in Genesis and , two millennia later, as a symbol... -
The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France. Their subversive beliefs... -
The small BIG: Small Changes that Spark Big Influence by Steve Martin
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.02At some point today you will have to influence or persuade someone - perhaps ask a colleague a favour, negotiate with a contractor or get your spouse to put out the recycling. In The small BIG, three... -
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics... -
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of... -
Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly by John Kay
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02If you want to go in one direction, the best route may involve going in another. This is the concept of 'obliquity': paradoxical as it sounds, many goals are more likely to be achieved when pursued...