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From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History by Nancy Sinkoff
Booksplease Price: $48.61From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History is the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field... -
Deadly Paradigms: The Failure of U.S. Counterinsurgency Policy by D.Michael Shafer 9780691609249
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $90.75Michael Shafer argues that American policymakers have fundamentally misperceived the political context of revolutionary wars directed against American clients and that because American attempts at... -
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History by Nancy Sinkoff 9780814345108
Booksplease Price: $58.21From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History is the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field... -
American Cultural Critics by David Murray 9780859894043
RRP: $43.88Booksplease Price: $39.02This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its... -
Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers by Professor Stuart Sim
RRP: $74.08Booksplease Price: $70.75Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern... -
Theories of the Information Society by Frank Webster
RRP: $148.18Booksplease Price: $137.65Information is regarded as a distinguishing feature of our world. Where once economies were built on industry and conquest, we are now part of a global information economy. Pervasive media, expanding... -
The Last Intellectuals: American Culture In The Age Of Academe by Russell Jacoby 9780465036257
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.30This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel... -
Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context by Daniel A. Bell
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.91Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? In this provocative book, Daniel Bell argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style liberal democracy in the region. Beyond Liberal... -
East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia by Daniel A. Bell
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $86.87Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western powers shouldn't try to push human rights and... -
Investigating Information Society Hugh Mackay 9780415268325
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.84This lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society, and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of: * theorists... -
Science, Curriculum, and Liberal Education: Selected Essays Joseph J. Schwab 9780226741871
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $77.61What is a liberal education and what part can science play in it? How should we think about the task of developing a curriculum? How should educational research conceive of its goals? Joseph Schwab's... -
Investigating Information Society by Hugh Mackay
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $163.37This lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society, and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of: *... -
Appreciative Leadership (Pb) by Diana Whitney 9781265619527
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $51.27Advance Praise for Appreciative Leadership:"A must-read for leaders at all levels who believe that both common sense and business sense require engaging and encouraging rather than mandating or... -
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Business Networking and Sex: Not What You Think by Entrepreneur Press 9781599184241 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $3.96HE SAYS, SHE SAYS: "How Can We Do Business?"It's no surprise that communicating with the opposite sex can be tricky. Hidden in the glitches are often misleading assumptions about each gender that beg... -
Post-Sixties Narratives as Cultural Criticism: Seeking Radical Change in America by Lin Xiang 9781032173412
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.83This book examines the cultural criticism led by New York intellectuals from the 1960s onwards, considering the influence of such critique on American collective memory and contemporary public... -
Intellectuals Incorporated: Politics, Art, and Ideas Inside Henry Luce's Media Empire by Robert Vanderlan
Booksplease Price: $113.74Publishing tycoon Henry Luce famously championed many conservative causes, and his views as a capitalist and cold warrior were reflected in his glossy publications. Republican Luce aimed squarely for... -
The Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares by Robert Hassan 9780745641799
Booksplease Price: $109.45What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the... -
Just War as Christian Discipleship - Recentering the Tradition in the Church rather than the State Daniel M. Jr. Bell 9781587432255
Booksplease Price: $46.51This provocative and timely primer on the just war tradition connects just war to the concrete practices and challenges of the Christian life. Daniel Bell explains that the point is not simply to... -
The American Novel After Ideology, 1961–2000 by Professor or Dr. Laurie Rodrigues
Booksplease Price: $186.21Claims of ideology’s end are, on the one hand, performative denials of ideology’s inability to end; while, on the other hand, paradoxically, they also reiterate an idea that ‘ending’ is simply what... -
The American Novel After Ideology, 1961-2000 by Professor or Dr. Laurie Rodrigues 9781501371417
Booksplease Price: $65.99Claims of ideology's end are, on the one hand, performative denials of ideology's inability to end; while, on the other hand, paradoxically, they also reiterate an idea that 'ending' is simply what... -
Economics and Sociology: Redefining Their Boundaries: Conversations with Economists and Sociologists by Richard Swedberg
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $108.58The boundary between economics and sociology is presently being redefined--but how, why, and by whom? Richard Swedberg answers these questions in this thought-provoking book of conversations with... -
Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement by Stephen Macedo 9780195131994
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $59.55This volume is a collection of essays by notable political philosophers and legal scholars on the concept of "deliberative democracy". With this theory, moral issues like abortion or affirmative... -
Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s by Howard Brick 9780801487002
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $35.12In Age of Contradiction, Howard Brick provides a rich context for understanding historical events, cultural tensions, political figures, artistic works, and trends of intellectual life. His lucid and... -
The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics: Volume II: Selected Testimonies on the Epistemological 'Overturning' of Economic Theory and Policy by Franco Archibugi 9783319780597
Booksplease Price: $178.78This trilogy deals with an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of conventional analysis and providing an alternative to political economy and social sciences, based not on... -
Reason and Freedom in Sociological Thought by Frank Hearn 9781138984660
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98How has reason, believed since the Enlightenment to be the ally of freedom in the search for a better, more humanly satisfying world, been reduced to a technical rationality that has actually... -
Sister: An African American Life in Search of Justice by Sylvia Bell White 9780299294342
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $37.42Raised in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career and a freedom defined in part... -
The Rise of Business Ethics by Bernard Mees 9781032082738
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $85.68In 1973, Daniel Bell argued that corporations in post-industrial societies increasingly needed to behave in accord with widely accepted social norms, particularly in terms of ethical behavior and... -
No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives by Steven Belletto 9780199354351
RRP: $59.46Booksplease Price: $58.95No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers-politicians, novelists, historians, biologists, sociologists,... -
Culture and Civilization: Volume 4, Religion in the Shadows of Modernity by Irving Louis Horowitz 9781412846219
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life. The nineteenth-century imagery of "warfare"... -
American Culture in the 1970s by Will Kaufman
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $52.57The 1970s was one of the most culturally vibrant periods in American history. This book discusses the dominant cultural forms of the 1970s - fiction and poetry; television and drama; film and visual... -
The Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond by Daniel A. Bell 9780739108000
Booksplease Price: $91.14In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated,... -
The Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond by Daniel A. Bell 9780739107997
Booksplease Price: $221.15In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated,... -
Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future by Daniel A. Bell 9780691279800
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21An entertaining introduction to ancient Chinese thinkers—and what they can teach us about today’s most pressing political questions in China and beyondChina’s most original, diverse, and fascinating... -
Reviving Legitimacy: Lessons for and from China by Zhenglai Deng 9780739165225
Booksplease Price: $217.13The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during... -
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett 9780393319873
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.31In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on... -
Progress and Its Discontents by Gabriel A. Almond 9780520309081
RRP: $89.70Booksplease Price: $81.16Events of the past two decades have challenged many of the fundamental beliefs, institutions, and values of modern western culture--the culture of "progress." Are science and technology really... -
Progress and Its Discontents by Gabriel A. Almond 9780520360129
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $138.24Events of the past two decades have challenged many of the fundamental beliefs, institutions, and values of modern western culture--the culture of "progress." Are science and technology really... -
Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980s in America by Nicolaus Mills 9780929587714
Booksplease Price: $31.61As the Reagan administration began, Nancy Reagan chose new china for the White House-at a cost of $209,508. The pattern for the decade was struck. As the Reagans made wealth seem glamorous, what... -
Power to the People: Teaching Political Philosophy in Skeptical Times by Avner De-Shalit 9780739111260
Booksplease Price: $87.28Power to the People examines the teaching of political philosophy in what is taken to be skeptical times. Author Avner de-Shalit encourages political philosophers to remain committed to the... -
Power to the People: Teaching Political Philosophy in Skeptical Times by Avner De-Shalit 9780739111253
Booksplease Price: $220.56Power to the People examines the teaching of political philosophy in what is taken to be skeptical times. Author Avner de-Shalit encourages political philosophers to remain committed to the...