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Altruistic Emotion, Cognition, and Behavior by Nancy Eisenberg
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59Originally published in 1986, this book was an effort to integrate thinking and research concerning the role of emotion and cognition in altruistic behaviour. Prior to publication there was a vast... -
Anarchy in the Kitchen: The Incomprehensible Hedonistic Journey of One Chef in Yesterday's Culinary World the Noxious Scuttlebutt and the Inconvenience of Knowing by Auguste Knuckles 9781665586931
Booksplease Price: £29.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665586931Author Auguste KnucklesFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher... -
Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II by Linda Porter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.75According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was 'addicted to women', and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms. Clever, urbane and handsome, Charles presided over... -
Writings on Distribution and Welfare by J. A. Hobson
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The articles in this volume, originally published in a variety of journals between 1890 and 1937, deal with the themes of the distribution of income and welfare. Highlighting the contribution which... -
Socrates, The Original and its Images by Alan F. Blum
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59This book, first published in 1978, is a radical approach to the philosophical distinction between Being and beings, in which the life of Socrates is used as the metaphor for the theoretical life, in... -
Anarchy in the Kitchen: The Incomprehensible Hedonistic Journey of One Chef in Yesterday's Culinary World the Noxious Scuttlebutt and the Inconvenience of Knowing by Auguste Knuckles 9781665586924
Booksplease Price: £15.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665586924Author Auguste KnucklesFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher... -
Value and the Good Life by Thomas L. Carson 9780268043537
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.69For as long as humans have pondered philosophical issues, they have contemplated "the good life." Yet most suggestions about how to live a good life rest on assumptions about what the good life... -
The Place of Science in Modern Civilization by Thorstein Veblen
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48On its original publication in 1919, The Place of Science in Modern Civilization was recognized as a major contribution, and today Veblen continues to command attention and respect. This volume... -
Junie Moon Rising: A True Story. a Hedonistic Woman Tries to Change So She Can Adopt a Child from the Streets of Asia. by June Collins 9781466991521
Booksplease Price: £14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466991521Author June CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher... -
Making Wonderful: Ideological Roots of Our Eco-Catastrophe by Martin M. Tweedale
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £28.68In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology in the West energized an economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. He takes us back to the rise of cities and autocratic... -
Eden Springs by Laura Kasischke 9780814334645
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In 1903, a preacher named Benjamin Purnell and five followers founded a colony called the House of David in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where they prepared for eternal life by creating a heaven on earth... -
The Good Pornographer Brian Bouldrey 9780299355845
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Walace Weiss, a famous fantasy novelist struggling with drug addiction, sets himself on a twofold quest: to finish his first book in more than a decade and, like the immortal elves of his stories, to... -
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 9781035085965
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Unstoppable . . . The impeccable timing captures the banalities of Clay's life in a way that both disgusts me and breaks my heart' - Ottessa Moshfegh, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and... -
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, rips into his most frightening subject yet: himself.He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and... -
Piccadilly: London's West End and the Pursuit of Pleasure by Stephen Hoare
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.80Piccadilly, London's milelong western artery, was originally known for its busy coaching inns and magnificent aristocratic palaces, and, more recently, for its internationally renowned department... -
Life Change: Sixteen Men Tell Their Extraordinary Stories by Mark Elsdon-Dew
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Is it possible for a life to change?In their own compelling words, fifteen men from all walks of life tell the stories of their lives and how they have been transformed, often in dramatic... -
The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain by Amanda Hopkins 9781843844433
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.14An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression and religion and the erotic. This... -
Health and Hedonism: A Cultural History of the Spa by Ian Bradley 9780755626465
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.78Delve into the history behind the glamorous baths and spas of Europe to reveal the hidden past of alternative treatments. Popular with people from Romans to royalty and hypochondriacs to... -
Well Behaved Women by Caroline Lamond
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42'An engaging portrait of an indomitable woman at the heart of Golden Age Hollywood' Gill Paul, bestselling author of The Manhattan Girls 'I was hooked from the first page... it had... -
Exposing Lifestyle Television: The Big Reveal Gareth Palmer 9781138267732
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59In the last decade lifestyle television has become one of the most dominant television genres, with certain shows now global brands with formats exploited by producers all over the world. What unites... -
Monteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy by Ellen Rosand 9780520249349
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.24Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-century opera examines the composer's... -
Essays in Our Changing Order Thorstein Veblen 9781560009641
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Essays in Our Changing Order is the ninth volume in the collected works of America's pre-eminent social scientist. Each volume has a new opening essay, in this case, a comprehensive review of... -
Theories of Play and Postmodern Fiction by Brian Edwards 9781138864375
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Drawing on developments in critical theory and postmodernist fiction, this study makes an important contribution to the appreciation of playforms in language, texts, and cultural practices. Tracing... -
Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics by James Stacey Taylor
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address... -
Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa Jean Comaroff 9781594517655
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evolving' into the kind of societies normally... -
Albert Ellis Revisited Jon Carlson, Psy.D., Ed.D. 9780415875455
Booksplease Price: £54.29Albert Ellis was one of the most influential psychotherapists of all time, revolutionizing the field through his writings, teachings, research, and supervision for more than half a century. He was a... -
The Enquiring Tutor: Exploring The Process of Professional Learning by Stephen Rowland 9781138008342
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Stephen Rowland explores the relationship between the turor (or facilitator) and the professional worker on post-experience professional courses. His emphasis in on the processes of reflection and... -
Mind, Brain and the Path to Happiness: A GUIDE TO BUDDHIST MIND TRAINING AND THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MEDITATION by Dusana Dorjee 9780415626149
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.34Mind, Brain and the Path to Happiness presents a contemporary account of traditional Buddhist mind training and the pursuit of wellbeing and happiness in the context of the latest research in... -
The Scientific Intellectual: The Psychological & Sociological Origins of Modern Science by Lewis S. Feuer 9781560005711
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.49The birth of modern science was linked to the rise in Western Europe of a new sensibility, that of the scientific intellectual. Such a person was no more technician, looking at science as just a job... -
Considerations on the Fundamental Principles of Pure Political Economy by Vilfredo Pareto
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Between May 1892 and October 1893 the Giornale degli Economisti published Vilfredo Pareto's Considerazioni sui principi fondamentali dell'economia politica pura in five parts. Viewed in its entirety,... -
Coming Of Age In The Middle East Trevor Mostyn 9780710302083
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78First published in 1987. A simple record of the author's travels in the Middle East over a period of twenty years, it is intended faithfully to reflect the region as a catalyst to the development of... -
Mind, Brain and the Path to Happiness: A GUIDE TO BUDDHIST MIND TRAINING AND THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MEDITATION by Dusana Dorjee
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Mind, Brain and the Path to Happiness presents a contemporary account of traditional Buddhist mind training and the pursuit of wellbeing and happiness in the context of the latest research in... -
Individualism and the Social Order: The Social Element in Liberal Thought by Charles McCann
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Liberalism is typically misconceived as a philosophy of individualism, which cannot accept that man exists in society and that man's values are shaped by that society.This book attempts to identify... -
Socrates - Arguments of the Philosophers by Gerasimos Xenophon Santas
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical... -
Core Questions in Philosophy by Elliott Sober
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £63.11Writtten in an engaging lecture-style format, this 8th edition of Core Questions in Philosophy shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments and to... -
The Passing of Temporal Well-Being by Ben Bramble 9780367735159
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38The philosophical study of well-being concerns what makes lives good for their subjects. It is now standard among philosophers to distinguish between two kinds of well-being:* lifetime well-being, i... -
Practical Inferences by D S Clarke
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68First published in 1985, Practical Inferences describes how practical inferences are used. Starting with relatively simple inference patterns exhibited in everyday prudential decisions, the author... -
The Philosophy of Happiness: An Interdisciplinary Introduction by Lorraine L. Besser
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Emerging research on the subject of happiness-in psychology, economics, and public policy-reawakens and breathes new life into long-standing philosophical questions about happiness (e.g., What is it?... -
Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form Kim Dovey 9780415416351
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. Explored through a... -
Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge: Robert A. Dahl and his Critics on Modern Politics by Hans Blokland 9781138268746
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89The political discontent or malaise that typifies most modern democracies is mainly caused by the widely shared feeling that the political freedom of citizens to influence the development of their...