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Freedom and History and Other Essays: An Introduction to the Thought of Richard McKeon by Richard P. McKeon 9780226560298
Booksplease Price: £30.43This volume of essays is an important introduction to the thought of one of the twentieth century's most significant yet underappreciated philosophers, Richard McKeon. The originator of philosophical... -
Mutual Accompaniment as Faith-Filled Living: Recognition of the Vulnerable Other by Gerard J. Ryan 9783031060090
Booksplease Price: £112.12In this book, Gerard J. Ryan examines the interrelationship between recognition theory and theology with their respective concerns for what it means to be a human. He advocates a mutual accompaniment... -
Management Education: Fragments of an Emancipatory Theory by Thomas Klikauer 9783319821818
Booksplease Price: £91.38Written in the tradition of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, this book develops a practical theory designed to humanise management education. Inevitably encountering deeply authoritarian... -
Humanity in Healthcare: The Heart and Soul of Medicine Peter Barritt 9781857758368
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The impressive progress of medical science over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has tended to overshadow the art of caring for the patient and their families. This book aims to restore the... -
Reflecting on Reflexivity: The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise T. M. S. (Terry) Evens 9781789200928
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.36Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of... -
Innovations in Psychological Anthropology by Rebecca Lester 9781032318554
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This volume offers a bold and long-overdue intervention into the field of psychological anthropology. It asks how scholars might both constructively destabilize old frameworks borne from the field’s... -
Travels in the Colonies in 1773-1775 Described in the Letters of William Mylne by William Mylne 9780820359885
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £35.90Travels in the Colonies in 1773–1775 Described in the Letters of William Mylne contains a narrative of the two years that Scottish architect and engineer William Mylne spent in the American colonies... -
Communication in the Analects of Confucius by Francisco Garcia Marcos 9781433192579
RRP: £32.40Booksplease Price: £30.14This work offers a new perspective on the work of Confucius, the great reference of classical Chinese thought. In general, relatively little work has been done on Confucius' linguistic concerns,... -
On an Electric Arc: Andrzej Bobkowski Writing by Maciej Nowak 9783631816998
RRP: £46.35Booksplease Price: £41.93Maciej Nowak’s book is the first monograph on the writings of Andrzej Bobkowski (1913–1961), a Polish émigré writer from the millieu of Jerzy Giedroyc’s Kultura journal. Bobkowski is famous for his... -
Heritage and Tourism in Britain and Ireland by Glenn Hooper 9781137520821
Booksplease Price: £115.02This edited collection examines the natural, but sometimes troubled, relationship that exists between heritage and tourism. Chapters included focus on a selection of topics, including literary... -
Advice To A Young Scientist by P. B. Medawar
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.99To those interested in a life in science, Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel laureate, deflates the myths of invincibility, superiority, and genius instead, he demonstrates it is common sense and an inquiring... -
Courage by Daisaku Ikeda 9780972326766
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £5.90Based on the tenets of the Japanese monk Nichiren, these guides provide insight and advice on injecting Buddhist philosophies into one's relationships and spirituality. Drawing on ancient themes of... -
Reflecting on Reflexivity: The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise by T. M. S. Evens 9781782387510
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.46Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of... -
Life Sciences for the Non-Scientist by Viqar Zaman 9789812383310
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.92This well-illustrated book on the life sciences covers many topical issues, ranging from the origin of life to mad-cow disease. The illustrations include line drawings, mostly in color, and many... -
Among the Aspen: Northwoods Grouse and Woodcock Hunting by Mark Parman 9780299317508
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £15.73Following his English setters into thickets in search of grouse and woodcock, Mark Parman feels the pull of older ways and lost wisdom. How rare it is, in our high-tech world, to find oneself... -
In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali by Edward C. Dimock 9780226152318
Booksplease Price: £23.87Arising out of a devotional and enthusiastic religious movement that swept across most of northern and eastern India in the period from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, the powerful... -
The Journal of Peter Gordon, 1732-1735 by E. Merton Coulter 9780820359373
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £35.95The Journal of Peter Gordon, 1732–1735, provides a rare first-hand account of one of the original Georgia colonists. In his journal, Gordon, who served as chief bailiff of Savannah, Georgia,... -
Home: International Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Belonging by Margarethe Kusenbach 9783631620090
RRP: £51.30Booksplease Price: £46.18This book presents fourteen original contributions by authors examining the importance of dwellings and local communities in people's everyday lives. Through qualitative research conducted in North... -
Maelstrom by Baldip Kaur 9781787192744
Booksplease Price: £16.21Maelstrom is a novel that centers on plots that, whilst being profound and intense, are also shrouded in mystery and suspense. The multi-faceted challenges of love, horrific experiences, human... -
The Peace Machine by Ozgur Mumcu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64We'll create a machine. A peace machine that will put an end to all wars. As the twentieth century dawns the world stands on the brink of yet another bloody war. But what if conflict were not... -
Love: Buddhism for You by Daisaku Ikeda
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £5.87Based on the tenets of the Japanese monk Nichiren, these guides provide insight and advice on injecting Buddhist philosophies into one's relationships and spirituality. Drawing on ancient themes of... -
The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future by Margaret Mead 9781571818188
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.42Born in the first year of the 20th century, it is fitting that Margaret Mead should have been one of the first anthropologists to use anthropological analysis to study the future course of human... -
The King Within: Reformations of Power in Shakespeare and Calderon by Anita Howard 9783039115303
RRP: £38.80Booksplease Price: £33.03This book contrasts the portrayal of kings and kingship in the drama of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-81), concentrating on the ways in... -
Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis by Sune Borkfelt 9783031110221
Booksplease Price: £112.12Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features... -
The Journal of the Earl of Egmont: Abstract of the Trustees Proceedings for Establishing the Colony of Georgia, 1732-1738 by John Perceval 9780820359854
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £35.95The Journal of the Earl of Egmont reveals private historical records kept by John Perceval, the first Earl of Egmont and secretary for the Common Council, a council appointed by the Charter of the... -
Law and the Arts by Susan Tiefenbrun 9780313308055
Booksplease Price: £76.51This interdisciplinary study examines the relationships between law and the humanities. The goal of the essays is to promote exchanges of ideas in such diverse, but related fields as law, literature,... -
Computer Animation and Social Agents: 37th International Conference, CASA 2024, Wuhan, China, June 5–7, 2024, Revised Selected Papers, Part I Nadia Magnenat Thalmann 9789819626809
Booksplease Price: £66.71This two-volume set, CCIS 2374 and CCIS 2375, constitutes the revised selected papers from the 37th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2024, held in Wuhan, China,... -
Circulation of Academic Thought: Rethinking Translation in the Academic Field by Rafael Y. Schoegler 9783631765715
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £34.30Academic thought circulates on a time-space continuum: authors, ideas and methods are discovered, discussed, discarded, praised, rewritten, refracted, transformed, transposed and translated. The... -
Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays by Kent Lehnhof 9781009613873
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.14Breaking new ground in Shakespearean sound studies, Kent Lehnhof draws scholarly attention to the rich ethical significance of the voice and vocality. Less concerned with semantics, stylistics, and... -
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Magic of Dogs: 101 Tales of Family, Friendship & Fun by Amy Newmark
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62You'll recognize your own dog in this entertaining collection of stories about the surprising, amusing, heartwarming, and even magical things that our dogs do. They come in all shapes, sizes, and... -
A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans, Vol. 1 Kurusu Natsume 9781975371050
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26I'm Rei Hitoma, a self-professed misanthrope thanks to some past trauma. Just when I thought my new teaching job in the mountains would provide a chill, rejuvenating environment, it turns out that... -
The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future by Margaret Mead 9781571818171
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £93.95Born in the first year of the 20th century, it is fitting that Margaret Mead should have been one of the first anthropologists to use anthropological analysis to study the future course of human... -
Buddhism: the First Millennium by Daisaku Ikeda 9780977924530
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.32Beginning with the events immediately following the dark days after the death of Shakyamuni and continuing over a period of 1,000 years, this dynamic tome covers a vast and complex series of events... -
Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa by Michael Onyebuchi Eze 9780230622999
Booksplease Price: £46.74In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and aftermath of South Africa s overall... -
Risky Business: Genetic Testing and Exclusionary Practices in the Hazardous Workplace by Elaine Draper 9780521422482
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £31.24At a time when more corporate employers are using genetic information as a cornerstone of their hiring practices, when workers find their chromosomes considered alongside their resumes, the... -
Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ 2019 and Its Natural Language Processing Applications: 13th International Conference, NooJ 2019, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-9, 2019, Revised Selected Papers by Hela Fehri 9783030388324
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference, NooJ 2019, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in June 2019. NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows... -
On Commemoration: Global Reflections upon Remembering War by Niall Munro 9781788747325
RRP: £35.65Booksplease Price: £32.71How, in the twenty-first century, can we do commemoration better? In particular, how can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction? In this book, a global roster of... -
Mack. Sculptures (Bilingual edition): 2003-2020 by Beat Wyss 9783777436593
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £42.93Apart from the range of materials such as natural stone, metal, wood, plaster, sand and glass, the sculptures of Heinz Mack are characterised by their elemental, powerful nature in connection with... -
Beyond Habermas: Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere Christian J. Emden 9781782386681
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.36During the 1960s the German philosopher Jurgen Habermas introduced the notion of a "bourgeois public sphere" in order to describe the symbolic arena of political life and conversation that... -
Beyond Habermas: Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere by Christopher J. Emden 9780857457219
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16During the 1960s the German philosopher Jurgen Habermas introduced the notion of a "bourgeois public sphere" in order to describe the symbolic arena of political life and conversation that...