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The Lamp of Memory by John Ruskin
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.22John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is... -
Democratic Socialism in Britain, Vol. 4: Classic Texts in Economic and Political Thought, 1825-1952 by David Reisman
Booksplease Price: $91.50The texts in this collection demonstrate both the diversity and continuity in British theories of democratic socialism. The selection encompasses the Ricardian socialists, the Christian socialists,... -
Building Regions: The Regionalization of the World Order by Luk Van Langenhove
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $67.65Regions. How they emerge and how they are dramatically changing the appearance of the present 'world of states' and its related forms of governance from local to global levels is analysed in this... -
The Greek Alexander Romance by Richard Stoneman
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.15Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One... -
History as Wonder: Beginning with Historiography Marnie Hughes-Warrington 9781138846227
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder.From Ancient Greek histories and... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment by Alexander Broadie
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $108.09The second edition of this Companion presents a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century phenomenon that has had a profound influence on Western culture. A distinguished team of... -
Push by Sapphire
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.'This is the story of Precious, a sixteen-year-old illiterate Black girl who has never been out of Harlem. Pregnant by... -
We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End by Winston Churchill
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77'Wars are not won by evacuations''We can take it!''Westward look, the land is bright'This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous words on the... -
Vietnam: Anatomy of a Peace by Gabriel Kolko
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $48.40Vietnam has experienced huge political and economic development since the war. In Anatomy of a Peace, Gabriel Kolko looks at the main economic phases the Communist Party has embarked upon since 1986... -
Democratic Socialism in Britain, Vol. 1: Classic Texts in Economic and Political Thought, 1825-1952 by David Reisman
Booksplease Price: $91.50The texts in this collection demonstrate both the diversity and continuity in British theories of democratic socialism. The selection encompasses the Ricardian socialists, the Christian socialists,... -
Multicultural Curriculum: New Directions for Social Theory, Practice, and Policy by Ram Mahalingam 9780415920148
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $47.29Multicultural Curriculum is a collection of original essays brought together to develop new theories and meaningful praxis to build a new paradigm for teaching multiculturalism in today's classroom... -
The Fastidious Assassins by Albert Camus
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing... -
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'Kindness and co-operation have played a crucial role in raising humans to the top of the evolutionary tree ... We have thrived on the milk of human kindness.' Observer BY THE AUTHOR OF ARE WE... -
The Little Book Of Philosophy by Andre Comte-Sponville
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a series of sparkling chapters on the 'big questions'. In doing so he reveals the... -
Useful Work v. Useless Toil by William Morris
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to... -
Towards a Competence Theory of the Firm by Nicolai J. Foss
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.45This book explores a new theory of the firm produced through an exchange between management theory and economics. In the process economics is seen to provide a foundational element for strategy... -
Power and Crime Vincenzo Ruggiero 9781138792388
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01This book provides an analysis of the two concepts of power and crime and posits that criminologists can learn more about these concepts by incorporating ideas from disciplines outside of criminology... -
Push by Sapphire 9781784877361
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66* READ THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE FILM PRECIOUS *This 25th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface from Tayari Jones, and a new afterword by the author. This is the story of Precious Jones, a... -
The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241656839
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.41What happens in a recession? How does money work? Why do we pay tax? Explaining the key milestones in the field of economics in a clear and simple way, The Economics Book answers these questions and... -
Lessons from Russia: Clinton and US Democracy Promotion by Lee Marsden
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $36.95Lee Marsden presents one of the most original and comprehensive analyses of US democracy promotion in Russia and argues that in order to understand the failings of democracy assistance in Russia, it... -
History of Ethics by Daniel Star
RRP: $87.66Booksplease Price: $81.81Is there an objective moral standard that applies to all our actions? To what extent should I sacrifice my own interests for the sake of others? How might philosophers of the past help us think about... -
What are Universities For? by Stefan Collini
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are... -
Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement by Kate Parker 9781684485048
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $124.03In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of "the long eighteenth century," a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching means in this historical moment: one of attacks... -
The Transatlantic Persuasion: Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of Gladstone by Robert Kelley 9780887386350
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.62This pioneering work is the basic and largely unmatched study of the single transatlantic community of thought shared by nineteenth century British and Canadian Liberals and American Democrats. The... -
Health Care Economics John B. Davis 9781138183049
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $64.36The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care. This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation of care, and... -
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019 One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019 Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize'As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared DiamondBy the authors... -
Universities and Innovation Economies: The Creative Wasteland of Post-Industrial Society by Peter Murphy
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81Students drop out of universities in large numbers, many graduate to jobs that do not require a degree and a large number learn little at university, whilst graduate salaries have shrunk over time... -
The Transatlantic Persuasion: Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of Gladstone by Robert Kelley 9781138539143
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $147.95This pioneering work is the basic and largely unmatched study of the single transatlantic community of thought shared by nineteenth century British and Canadian Liberals and American Democrats. The... -
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi 9780241685556
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.86'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written' Thomas Piketty'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a must-read'... -
Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing... -
Human Happiness by Blaise Pascal
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real... -
Lessons from Russia: Clinton and US Democracy Promotion by Lee Marsden 9780815390213
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $108.08Lee Marsden presents one of the most original and comprehensive analyses of US democracy promotion in Russia and argues that in order to understand the failings of democracy assistance in Russia, it... -
Capital: Volume I by Karl Marx
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.94'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis. It is also a literary masterpice' Francis Wheen, GuardianOne of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique... -
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
Booksplease Price: $18.37The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book... -
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants by Aeschylus
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from... -
History of Ethics Daniel Star 9781405193870
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $44.98Is there an objective moral standard that applies to all our actions? To what extent should I sacrifice my own interests for the sake of others? How might philosophers of the past help us think about... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9781857150612
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more misunderstood. First published in 1516, "Utopia" depicts an imaginary society free of private... -
The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A Times Best Business Book of 2018What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time?'The best place to start to learn about the very greatest... -
Reconstructing Political Economy: The Great Divide in Economic Thought by William K. Tabb
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $69.40This volume offers an original perspective on the questions the great economists have asked and looks at their significance for todays world. Written in a provocative and accessible style, it... -
China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business by Edward Tse
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In China's Disruptors, Edward Tse takes an unprecedented inside look at rapidly emerging Chinese entrepreneurs and their game-changing impact on both China and the world.In September 2014, Chinese...