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Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of Gender in the Nineteenth Century by Susan Mendus
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.84Sexuality and Subordination uses the insights of a range of disciplines to examine the construction of gender in nineteenth-century Britain and France. With contributions from history, literature,... -
An Essay on Government by James Mill 9781107594043
Booksplease Price: $38.45James Mill (1773-1836) was a Scottish political philosopher, economist and proponent of Utilitarianism. He was the father of John Stuart Mill. Originally published in 1937, this book presents the... -
OCR Religious Ethics for AS and A2 by Jill Oliphant
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.75Structured directly around the specification of the OCR, this is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses. The updated third edition covers all the... -
The Economic Writings of William Thornton Vol 4 by Philip Mirowski
Booksplease Price: $201.22Thornton's writings are central to the history of the "Laws of Supply and Demand" and seminal in understanding the rise of neoclassical economics. Thornton has been cast as a minor player in John... -
The Economic Writings of William Thornton Vol 2 by Philip Mirowski
Booksplease Price: $201.22Thornton's writings are central to the history of the "Laws of Supply and Demand" and seminal in understanding the rise of neoclassical economics. Thornton has been cast as a minor player in John... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Mill's On Liberty by Jonathan Riley
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $49.76John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is widely regarded as one of the most influential and stirring pieces of political philosophy ever written. Ever relevant in our increasingly surveillance dominated... -
The Cambridge Companion to Mill by John Skorupski
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $69.75John Stuart Mill (1806-73) ranks among the very greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. His impact through his books, journalism, correspondence, and political activity on modern culture and... -
Mill's On Liberty: Critical Essays by Gerald Dworkin 9780847684892
Booksplease Price: $78.74John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1860) continues to shape modern Western conceptions of individual freedom. In this volume, eight leading Mill scholars comment on this landmark work. Their essays,... -
The Classical Utilitarians by Jeremy Bentham 9780872206496
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.93This volume includes the complete texts of two of John Stuart Mill's most important works, Utilitarianism and On Liberty, and selections from his other writings, including the complete text of his... -
The Classical Utilitarians by Jeremy Bentham 9780872206502
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $51.38This volume includes the complete texts of two of John Stuart Mill's most important works, Utilitarianism and On Liberty, and selections from his other writings, including the complete text of his... -
The Economic Writings of William Thornton Vol 5 by Philip Mirowski
Booksplease Price: $201.22Thornton's writings are central to the history of the "Laws of Supply and Demand" and seminal in understanding the rise of neoclassical economics. Thornton has been cast as a minor player in John... -
Cultural Studies and the 'Juridical Turn': Culture, law, and legitimacy in the era of neoliberal capitalism Jaafar Aksikas (Columbia College Chicago, Illinois, USA) 9781138502604
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $91.24The relationship between culture and the law has become an emergent concern within contemporary Cultural Studies as a field, but the recent focus has been largely limited to the role played by... -
Politics Hacks Julian Flanders 9781788400404
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.06Understanding the history and significance of today's political climate can be confusing and daunting. Politics Hacks is here to give you quick definitions and background on 100 key political... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193236
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $192.17An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in... -
The Philosophy of Well-Being: An Introduction Guy Fletcher 9781138818354
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42Well-being occupies a central role in ethics and political philosophy, including in major theories such as utilitarianism. It also extends far beyond philosophy: recent studies into the science and... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $32.21An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in... -
Mill: A Guide for the Perplexed by Sujith Kumar 9781847064035
Booksplease Price: $58.95John Stuart Mill is best known for his moral and political writings, and is a central figure in political philosophy. However, the full ambition of his thought is often neglected in favour of an... -
Moral Theory and Climate Change: Ethical Perspectives on a Warming Planet by Professor Dale E. Miller
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.34Climate change has become the most pressing moral and political problem of our time. Ethical theories help us think clearly and more fully about important moral and political issues. And yet, to... -
Conservatism: Ideas in Profile by Roger Scruton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.20Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the role of the state on the one hand; and freedom... -
The Strand: A Biography Geoff Browell 9781526179111
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $38.69The first history of one of London's most extraordinary streets.Running along the Thames's northern shore and spanning three-quarters of a mile from Trafalgar Square to Temple Bar, the Strand has... -
Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $64.58Should laws about sex and pornography be based on social conventions about what is disgusting? Should felons be required to display bumper stickers or wear T-shirts that announce their crimes? This... -
The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought by Duncan Kelly 9780691143132
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $91.34In this book, Duncan Kelly excavates, from the history of modern political thought, a largely forgotten claim about liberty as a form of propriety. By rethinking the intellectual and historical... -
A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France by Jennifer Pitts 9780691127910
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $72.01A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund... -
Reading Mill: Studies in Political Theory by Ian Cook 9780333696095
Booksplease Price: $176.59Reading Mill begins with the idea that political theory, as it is understood and practised in Anglophone Universities, is not one practice but a set of four alternative practices marked by divergent... -
The Making of Modern Liberalism by Alan Ryan
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $92.31The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and... -
Victorian Pain by Rachel Ablow 9780691202884
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set... -
Nationalism in Europe: From 1815 to the Present Stuart Woolf 9780415125642
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82Nationalism is virtually impossible not to identify oneself with a nation-state, and yet nationalism is historically a modern phenomenon. This reader of classic texts draws on authors spanning a... -
Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us by Morton Schapiro
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $38.28A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature-and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be pushing democracy to the breaking point. But few... -
The Limits of Reform in the Enlightenment: Attitudes Toward the Education of the Lower Classes in Eighteenth-Century France by Harvey Chisick 9780691614977
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $78.84Examining the attitudes toward the education of the lower classes in eighteenth- century France, Harvey Chisick uncovers severe limitations to enlightened social thought. Originally published in... -
The Making of Modern Liberalism by Alan Ryan 9780691163680
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and... -
How Do You Know?: The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge by Russell Hardin 9780691137551
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $90.75How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? We need an account of this process to help explain why people act as they do. You might think I am acting irrationally--against my... -
Government Paternalism: Nanny State or Helpful Friend? by Julian Le Grand 9780691164373
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.59Should governments save people from themselves? Do governments have the right to influence citizens' behavior related to smoking tobacco, eating too much, not saving enough, drinking alcohol, or... -
Victorian Pain by Rachel Ablow 9780691174464
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $75.91The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780691254074
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.65A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today's complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and... -
Surviving Death by Mark Johnston 9780691130132
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $56.26In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death. Death threatens our sense... -
How Do You Know?: The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge by Russell Hardin 9780691162225
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $42.02How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? We need an account of this process to help explain why people act as they do. You might think I am acting irrationally--against my... -
The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians by Bart Schultz 9780691154770
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $75.91A colorful history of utilitarianism told through the lives and ideas of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and its other founders In The Happiness Philosophers, Bart Schultz tells the colorful story... -
Government Paternalism: Nanny State or Helpful Friend? by Julian Le Grand
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21Should governments save people from themselves? Do governments have the right to influence citizens' behavior related to smoking tobacco, eating too much, not saving enough, drinking alcohol, or...