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The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change by Henrik Svensmark 9781840468151 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.35Scientists agree that over the last century the earth has become warmer. But do we really know why this has happened? A deftly written and enjoyable read, "The Chilling Stars" outlines a brilliant,... -
"Minding My Own Football Business": The Inside Story Of Leicester City's Success In The 90s by Barrie Pierpoint 9781838232900 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $3.27On the 11th May 1991, Leicester City beat Oxford United to avoid relegation to the third tier of English football. Off the field, the crumbling Main Stand did not meet the requirements of theTaylor... -
Chums: How a tiny group of Oxford Tories took over Britain by Simon Kuper 9781788167383 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.99THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 Power. Privilege. Parties. It's a very small world at the top. 'Brilliant ... traces Brexit back to the debating chambers of the Oxford... -
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Allan Ropper 9781782395508 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $4.07What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the life-altering... -
Wordie Puzzles: Fantastic Puzzles for the Word Lover by Eric Saunders 9781398822573 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $4.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398822573Author Eric SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson 9780330375481 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.10The Men Who Stare at Goats reveals the extraordinary - and completely nutty - national secrets at the core of Bush's government. Often funny, sometimes chilling, Jon Ronson's bestseller is a story so... -
The Ancient Mythology of Modern Science: A Mythologist Looks (Seriously) at Popular Science Writing by Gregory Schrempp 9780773539891 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $3.89Humans have long been captivated by mythology and theorized about the lessons embedded in their tales. In The Ancient Mythology of Modern Science, Gregory Schrempp brings a mythologist's critical eye... -
The End of Ethics in a Technological Society by Lawrence E. Schmidt 9780773533363 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $3.48Lawrence Schmidt and Scott Marratto challenge modern liberal ethics, arguing that there is no consistent ethical framework to deal with the long-range negative consequences of certain technological... -
Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-offs, and Canada's Future by Janice R. MacKinnon 9780773527492 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $3.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCABook InformationISBN 9780773527492Author Janice MacKinnonFormat Paperback -
A Generative Thought: An Introduction to the Works of Luigi Giussani by Elisa Buzzi 9780773526310 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $2.95An in-depth discussion of some of the most important works by Luigi Giussani, showing the effect hisAn in-depth discussion of some of the most important works by Luigi Giussani, showing the effect... -
In the Eyes of God: A Study on the Culture of Suffering by Gonzalbo Fernando Escalante 9780292714335 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $2.81"Every culture needs to appropriate the universal truth of human suffering," says Fernando Escalante, ". . . to give its own meaning to this suffering, so that human existence is bearable."... -
Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression by David Welky 9780252032998 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print culture shaped... -
The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy by Rodolphe Gasche 9780804754224 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $1.68Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Niklas Luhmann's Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation by William W. Rasch 9780804739917 [USED COPY]
RRP: $160.80Booksplease Price: $1.68Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Organizing in Hard Times: Labor and Neighborhoods In Hartford by Louise Simmons 9781566391559 [USED COPY]
RRP: $97.82Booksplease Price: $9.78In 1990, Hartford, Connecticut, ranked as the eight poorest city in the country by the census; the real estate market was severely depressed; downtown insurance companies were laying off and the... -
The Machinery of Whiteness: Studies in the Structure of Racialization by Steve Martinot 9781439900512 [USED COPY]
RRP: $81.74Booksplease Price: $8.17An extensive critique of the structures of whiteness and how they produce racism in the United StatesAn extensive critique of the structures of whiteness and how they produce racism in the United... -
Nature's Keeper by Peter S. Wenz 9781566394284 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $3.35In the West, humans tend to separate themselves from nature, valuing nature only as a means of meeting their own needs and happiness. This domination of nature often fosters human oppression instead... -
The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies by Barry Cooper 9780822307938 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $4.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
PADRES: The National Chicano Priest Movement by Richard Edward Martinez 9780292706781 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $2.01From the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the 1960s, Mexican American Catholics experienced racism and discrimination within the U.S. Catholic church, as white priests and bishops maintained a... -
Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge by Sarah Winter 9780804733069 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $4.69How did psychoanalytic knowledge attain a dual status both as common sense about the "inner life" among the educated and as seemingly indispensable psychological expertise during the first half of... -
Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays by Howard Wettstein 9780804725279 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $3.22A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804725279Author Howard WettsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint -
The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law, and the Postcolonial Dilemma in Hong Kong by Kwai Hang Ng 9780804761642 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79Hong Kong is one of the very few places in the world where the common law can be practiced in a language other than English. Introduced into the courtroom over a decade ago, Cantonese has... -
Family and Population in East Asian History by Susan B. Hanley 9780804712323 [USED COPY]
RRP: $96.48Booksplease Price: $9.65A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804712323Author Susan B. HanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint -
Tethered Deer: Government and Economy in a Chinese County by Marc Blecher 9780804725651 [USED COPY]
RRP: $75.04Booksplease Price: $7.50A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804725651Author Marc BlecherFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint -
The Difference "Difference" Makes: Women and Leadership by Deborah L. Rhode 9780804746342 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72Why are women so dramatically underrepresented in formal leadership positions-and what can be done to improve the situation? This unique collection takes up these questions in the crucial practical... -
Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China by Margery Wolf 9780804712439 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $5.56The Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of subjugation, an equality with men in all matters legal, political, social, and economic. This book examines the extent... -
Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp by Maya Rosenfeld 9780804737517 [USED COPY]
RRP: $160.80Booksplease Price: $1.77Confronting the Occupation is a study of work, education, political-national resistance, family, and community relations in a Palestinian refugee camp under conditions of Israeli military occupation... -
Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China by Ban Wang 9780804749466 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $15.01This book offers a cultural history of modern China by looking at the tension between memory and history. Mainstream books on China tend to focus on the hard aspects of economics, government,... -
The Welfare Experiments: Politics and Policy Evaluation by Robin H. Rogers-Dillon 9780804747301 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $1.53Welfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical-and unexpected-role in the broader policymaking process... -
Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features by Muthiah Alagappa 9780804746281 [USED COPY]
RRP: $235.84Booksplease Price: $23.58More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but Asia still faces serious security challenges. These include the current security environment in the Korean peninsula, across the... -
Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001 by Jacques Derrida 9780804738910 [USED COPY]
RRP: $160.80Booksplease Price: $1.77This collection of essays and interviews, some previously unpublished and almost all of which appear in English for the first time, encompasses the political and ethical thinking of Jacques Derrida... -
Framing Democracy: Civil Society and Civic Movements in Eastern Europe by John K. Glenn 9780804738613 [USED COPY]
RRP: $96.48Booksplease Price: $9.65At the close of the twentieth century, democracy appeared to have overcome the Cold War partition of the world, as countries across the globe had deposed autocratic regimes and held free elections... -
The Dubious Link: Civic Engagement and Democratization by Ariel C. Armony 9780804748988 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11It is often argued that civic activity, such as the participation of average citizens in voluntary associations, benefits all democracies. But sometimes the involvement of citizens contributes to the... -
Learning to Choose: Electoral Politics in East-Central Europe by Hubert Tworzecki 9780804744072 [USED COPY]
RRP: $85.76Booksplease Price: $8.58This is a detailed analytic study of voting behavior and party representation in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland in the decade since the fall of communism. The author seeks to map out the... -
NATO in the "New Europe": The Politics of International Socialization After the Cold War by Alexandra I. Gheciu 9780804751612 [USED COPY]
RRP: $96.48Booksplease Price: $9.65In recent years, the question of the post-Cold War NATO, particularly in relation to the former communist countries of Europe, has been at the heart of a series of international reform debates. NATO... -
Speaking about Torture by Julie A. Carlson 9780823242245 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 9780804744355 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $15.01Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's "Artwork" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with... -
Who Supports the Family?: Gender and Breadwinning in Dual-Earner Marriages by Jean L. Potuchek 9780804728355 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife' s paid employment much less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband's? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine... -
Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica by Marc Edelman 9780804734011 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.52Booksplease Price: $17.15This book tells the story of how small farmers responded to a free-market onslaught that devastated one of the Western Hemisphere's most advanced social-democratic welfare states. In the early 1980s,... -
On Sociology Second Edition Volume Two: Illustration and Retrospect by John H. Goldthorpe 9780804749992 [USED COPY]
RRP: $121.94Booksplease Price: $1.34see copy for volume one.About the AuthorJohn H. Goldthorpe is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Academia Europaea, and...