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Sketches of the History of Dartmouth College and Moors' Charity School: With a Particular Account of Some Late Remarkable Proceedings of the Board of Trustees, from the Year 1779 to the Year 1815. by John Wheelock 9781275656727
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275656727Author John WheelockFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Gale Ecco, Sabin... -
Personal Identity, Second Edition by John Perry 9780520256422
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16This volume brings together the vital contributions of distinguished past and contemporary philosophers to the important topic of personal identity. The essays range from John Locke's classic... -
Back Over the Sexual Contract: A Hegelian Critique of Patriarchy by Lorenzo Rustighi 9781793638717
Booksplease Price: $188.47Is patriarchy an illness of democratic societies or a structural problem? To answer this dilemma, Back Over the Sexual Contract: A Hegelian Critique of Patriarchy examines the problem of patriarchy... -
David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability by William L Vanderburgh 9781498596954
Booksplease Price: $76.81David Hume's argument against believing in miracles has attracted nearly continuous attention from philosophers and theologians since it was first published in 1748. Hume's many commentators,... -
The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States Steven Sarson 9780813953977
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning Thomas Jefferson chose his words carefully. Few could have been more deliberate than 'When in the... -
British Empirical Philosophers: Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid and J. S. Mill. [An anthology.] by A. J. Ayer
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $83.77First published in 1952, British Empirical Philosophers is a comprehensive picture of one of the most important movements in the history of philosophic thought. In his introduction, Professor A. J... -
Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility by G. J. Barker-Benfield 9780226037431
Booksplease Price: $73.13During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to John Owen's Theology Kelly M. Kapic 9781472466969
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.30John Owen (1616-1683) is regarded as one of the greatest theologians Britain ever produced. Owen has had an important historical and theological influence, and his significance is widely recognized... -
Benjamin Franklin, Natural Right, and the Art of Virtue by Kevin Slack
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $178.19A thorough examination of Benjamin Franklin's works on philosophy and politics, arguing that Franklin was a philosopher of natural right Benjamin Franklin's writings on politics are voluminous,... -
David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability by William L. Vanderburgh 9781498596930
Booksplease Price: $176.61David Hume's argument against believing in miracles has attracted nearly continuous attention from philosophers and theologians since it was first published in 1748. Hume's many commentators,... -
The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States Steven Sarson 9780813953960
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $150.91How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning Thomas Jefferson chose his words carefully. Few could have been more deliberate than 'When in the... -
Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England by Melinda S. Zook
Booksplease Price: $64.27In this book Melinda Zook examines the political culture of England during the 1670s and 1680s. She singles out an underground network of radical conspirators and propagandists who have been... -
Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser 9780813944777
RRP: $154.05Booksplease Price: $144.83In the late seventeenth century, a team of scientists managed to free, for the first time, the soft tissues of the brain and nerves from the hard casing of the skull. In doing so, they not only... -
Platonism Pagan and Christian: Studies in Plotinus and Augustine by Gerard O'Daly
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $65.77This title was first published in 2001. A collection of fifteen studies which explore topics in the psychology and philosophy of mind of Plotinus, Augustine, and Boethius, as well as the development... -
Enlightenment Thought: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624667541
RRP: $124.78Booksplease Price: $88.34"Margaret L. King has put together a highly representative selection of readings from most of the more significant-but by no means the most obvious-texts by the authors who made up the movement we... -
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations by Jacob Soll
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00In The Reckoning, award-winning historian Jacob Soll shows how the use and misuse of financial bookkeeping has determined the fates of entire societies. Time and again, Soll reveals, good and honest... -
Enlightenment Thought: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624667534
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $30.54"Margaret L. King has put together a highly representative selection of readings from most of the more significant-but by no means the most obvious-texts by the authors who made up the movement we... -
Understanding Your Inner Child and Overcoming Addiction: A Recovery Manual and Workbook by Eddie Capparucci 9781032523026
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $47.31This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Inner Child Model (TM) for treating Addictive Behaviors, a trauma-based approach to the treatment of various addictions including alcohol, drugs,... -
Thinking About Thinking: Studies in the Background of some Psychological Approaches by Joan Wynn Reeves
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $96.21Originally published in 1965, this title is a series of exploratory essays on approaches to thinking. The central topic is the relation of processes of an associative kind (sometimes irrational, in... -
Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey by Joy Palmer
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $51.44In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Covering a time-span from 500 BC to the early twentieth century each... -
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph'A joy to read' EconomistThe author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of... -
Information Management: An Informing Approach by Fons Wijnhoven
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16Information and its management is central to modern society. Organizations - private and public, national and international - have recognized that information is a key resource and that its... -
Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire Sarah Irving 9781138665224
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $92.31Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation... -
Reparations and the Human by David L. Eng 9781478031864
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.62The Holocaust and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki invoked in graphic terms the specter of total human destruction. In response, a new international order of reparations and human rights... -
Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey by Joy Palmer 9780415231251
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $208.71In this unique work some of today's greatest educators present concise, accessible summaries of the great educators of the past. Covering a time-span from 500 BC to the early twentieth century each... -
Property Markets and the State in Adam Smith's System Robert Boyden Lamb 9781138230613
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $71.33This book, first published in 1987, is an attempt to explain Adam Smith's theory of property. The author examines Smith's theory in the context of The Wealth of Nations, and explores what Smith said,... -
Bold Conscience: Luther to Shakespeare to Milton by Joshua R. Held
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79How the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public actionBold Conscience chronicles the shifting conception of conscience in early modern England, as it evolved from a faculty... -
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies Association Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780241382684
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all... -
Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill by Derek Matravers
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $75.41This clear and thorough introduction provides students with the skills necessary to understand the main thinkers, texts and arguments of political philosophy and thought. Each chapter comprises a... -
Connectionist Approaches To Clinical Problems in Speech and Language: Therapeutic and Scientific Applications by Raymond G. Daniloff
Booksplease Price: $53.80Connectionist accounts of language acquisition, processing, and dissolution proliferate despite attacks from some linguists, cognitive scientists, and engineers. Although the networks of exquisitely... -
Science and Virtue: An Essay on the Impact of the Scientific Mentality on Moral Character by Louis Caruana
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $103.92Charting new territory in the interface between science and ethics, Science and Virtue is a study of how the scientific mentality can affect the building of character, or the attainment of virtue by... -
Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present by Patrick Murray
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52Reflections on Commercial Life, an anthology of writings, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary thinkers, provides students, scholars, and general readers an opportunity to develop a more... -
Natural Religion and the Nature of Religion: The Legacy of Deism by Peter Byrne
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $88.98This study offers students of religion and philosophy introductory chapters concerning the concept of natural religion. It holds that we can't engage in useful discussion about the present concept of... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780141442327
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'It remains astonishingly radical ... one of Utopia's most striking aspects is its contemporaniety' Terry EagletonIn Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island... -
Drone Enlightenment: The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare by Peter DeGabriele 9780813949543
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $37.09Drone warfare raises far-reaching questions about responsibility, war, and sovereignty. Who can be held accountable for drone strikes? Do drones conduct wars of national territories and sovereign... -
The Anatomy of Prose by Marjorie Boulton
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21First published in 1954, this title is a companion to The Anatomy of Poetry as a literary guide for the student reader. Writing that students generally find it more challenging to analyse a passage... -
Doctors Who Write: The Literary Lives of Physicians Seymour I. Schwartz 9781633884335
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.67An eminent surgeon, who has written books on the history of medicine and cartography, profiles physicians past and present who have also published works in the humanities. Throughout history... -
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson 9781479890040
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $118.42Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies Association Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association Winner, 2021... -
Sherlock's Squadron by Steve Holmes 9781782194217
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $6.61John Holmes was a schoolboy when World War II broke out in 1939, but even then he knew his destiny lay in the skies. 'Boys from these parts don't join the RAF', he was told on more than one occasion...