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Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre 9780691203744
RRP: £25.00£18.79Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriouslyWhere do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a... -
Women and Employment in Public Policy: Learning from the UK Women and Work Commission (2004-2009) by Susan Milner 9780198875437
RRP: £90.00£81.58In the UK, women's economic empowerment through employment is a success story of the last three decades. And yet women are over-represented in low-paid, insecure jobs, are under-represented in top jobs, and earn less than men on average, with a marked... -
The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females by Kevin Lee Teather 9780198886716
£81.03The evolutionary objective of both sexes is to optimize the number of genes they contribute to following generations. Invariably the most efficient way to achieve this is to have many high quality offspring. However, males and females can be influenced... -
English Legal System by Helen Rutherford 9780198898504
RRP: £42.99£40.40The strongest foundation for students: clear, complete, contextualised. Straightforward explanations of key topics are paired with learning features showcasing the law in its everyday context to give students a firm grasp of the fundamentals of the legal... -
The Heart and its Attitudes by Stephen Darwall 9780198879565
RRP: £30.00£25.95Philosophers don't often write about the heart. At least, analytical philosophers don't. Why is this? Philosophers are said to live life “in their heads” rather than “from their hearts.” But even if that is so, why don't they think and write about the... -
The Pause: Experiencing Time Interrupted by Julian Jason Haladyn 9780228020813
RRP: £17.99£16.26When COVID-19 spread across the globe, people experienced protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine as a kind of shutting down or putting on hold of life. Many referred to this experience as a pause.Calling... -
The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood by Grace E. Howard 9780520391079
RRP: £25.00£21.19Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against the fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses they gestated. The Pregnancy Police investigates the legal arguments undergirding these... -
The Political Development of American Debt Relief by Emily Zackin 9780226832357
RRP: £80.00£76.61A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing for debt relief. Throughout the nineteenth century, indebted citizens demanded government protection... -
What Women Represent: The Impact of Women in Parliament by Erica Rayment 9780228020950
£32.78Political equity advocates and academics often argue that we must elect more women, but what difference does it make if we do? What Women Represent shows that women can and do influence the issues raised and the decisions made in parliamentary debate and... -
Understanding Nuclear Reactors: Global Warming and the Hydrogen Strategy by Dr Brian Hooton 9780198902669
RRP: £24.99£23.26Understanding Nuclear Reactors provides a non-mathematical understanding of how nuclear reactors operate. It describes the components, the Pressure Vessel, the Pressuriser to control the pressure in a Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR), and the Steam... -
In the Shadows: True Stories of High-Stakes Negotiations to Free Americans Captured Abroad by Mickey Bergman 9781546004752
RRP: £30.00£19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546004752Author Mickey BergmanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Center StreetPublisher Center Street -
René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis by Andreas Wilmes 9781611864953
RRP: £40.95£33.54This edited volume situates RenÉ Girard in relation to the Western philosophical tradition. Each chapter engages the French anthropologist in dialogue with a key figure from the history of Western philosophy, from Plato to Kierkegaard. The pivotal... -
The Politics of Intersectional Practice: Representation, Coalition and Solidarity in UK NGOs by Ashlee Christoffersen 9781529236095
RRP: £80.00£60.87It is increasingly recognized that, to achieve social justice, policies and organizations need to apply an intersectional approach, rather than addressing inequalities separately. However, intersectionality is a challenging theory to apply, as policy... -
Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting by Ira Chinoy 9781640125964
RRP: £35.00£24.48The history of American elections changed profoundly on the night of November 4, 1952. An outside-the-box approach to predicting winners from early returns with new tools—computers—was launched live and untested on the newest medium for news: television... -
Odagahodhes: Reflecting on Our Journeys by Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs 9780228021414
£28.53In the words of Cayuga Elder Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs: “We have forgotten about that sacred meeting space between the Settler ship and the Indigenous canoe, odagahodhes, where we originally agreed on the Two Row, and where today we need to return to... -
Voting Online: Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections by Nicole Goodman 9780228021254
£32.78In an attempt to reverse declining rates of voter participation, governments around the world are turning to electronic voting to improve the efficiency of vote counts, and increase the accessibility and equity of the voting process for electors who may... -
Art Monster: On the Impossibility of New York by Marin Kosut 9780231216135
RRP: £22.00£19.89Why do people choose the life of an artist, and what happens when they find themselves barely scraping by? Why does New York City, even in an era of hypergentrification, still beckon to aspiring artists as a place to make art and remake yourself?Art... -
Aristotelian Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of David Charles by David Bronstein 9780198908678
RRP: £103.00£93.18This volume provides a rich collection of original essays on Aristotle's metaphysics written by sixteen prominent scholars in the field. Honouring the seminal influence of David Charles to philosophical scholarship, it offers fresh interpretations and... -
Ways of Releasement: Writings on God, Eckhart, and Zen by Reiner Schürmann 9783035804317
£59.16Never-before-published writing from a key twentieth-century philosopher. In 1962, Reiner Schürmann began studying at the Dominican school of theology Le Saulchoir, outside Paris. That experience radically shaped his life and work, enabling him to begin... -
Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 10 by David Sobel 9780198909460
RRP: £70.00£63.74This is the tenth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s, political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political... -
American Global Leadership: Ailing US Diplomacy and Solutions for the Twenty-First Century by G. Doug Davis 9781621908845
RRP: £118.00£101.55In American Global Leadership: Ailing US Diplomacy and Solutions for the Twenty-First Century, G. Doug Davis and Michael O. Slobodchikoff present a selection of fifteen essays that trace the history of American diplomacy from Eisenhower to Trump. Penned... -
Emotions in Crisis: Youth and Social Change in Spain by Nina Margies 9781529235036
RRP: £80.00£60.87We usually speak of crisis in numbers: decline in purchasing power, rise in unemployment rates or decreasing levels of life satisfaction. But what do people feel when their supposed securities for their futures crumble? The stories of the young adults... -
Chinatown, Honolulu: Place, Race, and Empire by Nancy E. Riley 9780231196796
RRP: £30.00£27.39The Chinese experience in Hawai‘i has long been told as a story of inclusion and success. During the Cold War, the United States touted the Chinese community in Hawai‘i as an example of racial harmony and American opportunity, claiming that all ethnic... -
Feminist Cyberlaw by Meg Leta Jones 9780520388543
RRP: £30.00£25.95A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist... -
Reproductive Trauma: Psychotherapy With Clients Experiencing Infertility and Pregnancy Loss by Janet Jaffe 9781433841453
RRP: £46.00£38.43This second edition gives mental health professionals the tools they need to treat patients who suffer from infertility or pregnancy loss, as well as new guidance for processing their own reproductive traumas. Prospective parents who experience... -
Reforming Legislatures: American Voters and State Ballot Measures, 1792-2020 by Peverill Squire 9780826223098
RRP: £48.95£45.27Legislatures are ubiquitous in the American political experience. First created in Virginia in 1619, they have existed continuously ever since. Indeed, they were established in even the most unlikely of places, notably in sparsely populated frontier... -
Literacy Instruction for Students Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing (2nd Edition) by Prof Jennifer S. Beal 9780198879114
RRP: £40.00£37.66Most students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) struggle with acquiring literacy skills, some as a direct result of their hearing loss, some because they are receiving insufficient modifications to access the general education curriculum, and some... -
Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia's Civil War by Andreas E. Feldmann 9780231213752
RRP: £30.00£27.39Why do armed groups employ terrorism in markedly different ways during civil wars? Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork, Andreas E. Feldmann examines the disparate behavior of actors including guerrilla groups, state security forces, and... -
Mapping Welfare Attitudes in East Asia: Cultural and Political Trajectories by Trude Sundberg 9781447357025
RRP: £79.99£60.86East Asian societies and welfare systems are rapidly changing, creating an increasing need for research that can help to establish sustainable and legitimate welfare systems. This original volume considers welfare attitudes in East Asia, including... -
Pressing the Police and Policing the Press: The History and Law of the U.S. Press-Police Relationship by Scott Memmel 9780826223067
RRP: £48.95£45.27In the second half of 2020 and continuing into 2021, protests against racial injustice spread across the United States after the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis Police Department officers. Members of the press covered these... -
Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools by Chana Teeger 9780231213417
RRP: £25.00£22.43How are histories of racial oppression dealt with in contexts of diversity? Chana Teeger tackles this question by examining how young South Africans, born into democracy, confront their country’s racist apartheid past in high school history lessons... -
The Sensitive Patient's Healing Guide: Top Experts Offer New Insights and Treatments for Environmental Toxins, Lyme Disease, and Emfs by Neil Nathan 9798985408645
RRP: £36.95£22.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985408645Author Neil NathanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Cypress HousePublisher Cypress HouseWeight(grams) 862g -
Physicians of the Future: Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine by Rosalynn A. Vega 9781477328682
RRP: £29.99£27.38The first scholarly exploration of the forums, practice, and economics of functional medicine.Physicians of the Future interrogates the hidden logics of inclusion and exclusion in functional medicine (FM), a holistic form of personalized medicine that... -
Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca: Healing Patriarchy, Marriage, and Mexico by Michelle Ramirez 9780817321956
RRP: £94.00£76.48An ethnography focusing on a Pentecostal church community and their pursuit of healing marriages and prosperityPentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca is a timely feminist ethnography set in a Pentecostal church community in Oaxaca de Juarez. Based on extensive... -
Reflecting on Therapy by Michael Jacobs 9781800132719
RRP: £16.99£16.12Michael Jacobs is the author of key texts, such as Psychodynamic Counselling in Action and The Presenting Past. Looking back over fifty years’ experience as a therapist and reflecting on some forty years as a supervisor and teacher, he invites you to... -
Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life by David Shoemaker 9780226832968
RRP: £92.00£87.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism by Lisa Diedrich 9781517917340
RRP: £9.00£8.36How illness on social media reveals the struggle for care and access against ableism and stigmaIllness Politics and Hashtag Activism explores illness and disability in action on social media, analyzing several popular hashtags as examples of how illness... -
Experimental Evolution and the Nature of Biodiversity by Rees Kassen 9780192898678
RRP: £39.99£37.65Uncovering the principles governing the origin and fate of biodiversity is the central goal of modern biology. The first edition (2014) of this novel textbook drew on more than two decades of research in microbial experimental evolution to provide a... -
The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism by Allan Hazlett 9780198889830
RRP: £70.00£63.74Most people have wondered whether anything really matters, some have temporarily thought that nothing really matters, and some philosophers have defended the view that nothing really matters. However, if someone thinks that nothing matters--if they are a... -
Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk by James T. Sears 9781439923801
RRP: £25.99£19.63“Create a More Positive Rehoboth” was a decades-long goal for progress and inclusiveness in a charming beach town in southern Delaware. Rehoboth, which was established in the 19th century as a Methodist Church meeting camp, has, over time, become a...