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Radical Sensibility: Literature and Ideas in the 1790s Chris Jones 9781138642539
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89First published in 1993. Radical Sensibility provides a detailed account of the interrelations of literature, ideas and history in the eighteenth century's Revolutionary decade. The book traces a... -
The Journalist's Moral Compass: Basic Principles by Steven R. Knowlton 9780275945374
Booksplease Price: £76.51What basic ethical principles should guide American journalists to help them justify their invasion of an individual's privacy, to be objective in their reporting, to avoid being influenced by... -
Jim Henson's Beneath the Dark Crystal Vol. 3 by Jim Henson 9781684151912
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.62THE NEW SEQUEL TO THE HIT DARK CRYSTAL FILM CONCLUDES! Thurma and Kensho have discovered shocking truths and must return to their homelands, but they may not be welcomed back to Thra and Mithra as... -
Off-Campus Study, Study Abroad, and Study Away in Economics: Leaving the Blackboard Behind by Joshua Hall 9783030738303
Booksplease Price: £56.12This volume discusses diverse methodologies in economics education, focusing on experiential economic education away from campus through study abroad, study away, and other off-campus programs. These... -
Blood and Money: War, Slavery, and the State by David McNally 9781642592276
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £40.69In most accounts of the origins of money we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. In this groundbreaking study David McNally... -
Classical Political Economy and British Policy in India by S. Ambirajan 9780521052825
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book examines the effect of Classical political economy - the economic and monetary writings of Adam Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, the Mills and others - on the policy-making of the British... -
Technology, Innovation and Industrial Economics: Institutionalist Perspectives: Essays in Honor of William E. Cole by Dilmus D. James 9780792381914
Booksplease Price: £91.68Technology, Innovation and Industrial Economics: Institutional Perspectives, inspired by the work of William E. Cole, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, extends his work... -
Foundations of Anthropological Theory: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern Europe by Robert Launay 9781405187763
RRP: £88.95Booksplease Price: £81.61Foundations of Anthropological Theory presents a selection of key texts that reflect the broad range of anthropological thought on human behavior, from Herodotus and Ibn Battuta to Adam Smith and... -
The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9781107045002
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £69.62This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls... -
Victorian Liberalism: Nineteenth-century political thought and practice by Richard Bellamy 9781032671567
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £91.55First published in 1990, Victorian Liberalism brings together leading political theorists and historians in order to examine the interplay of theory and ideology in nineteenth-century liberal thought... -
Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin by 9780367532154
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx. Yet a closer look at Hodgskin's works reveals that he was actually a committed... -
Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
Booksplease Price: £60.98Enlightenment's Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith's famous defense of free trade?... -
Why Work: The Perceptions of a Real Job and the Rhetoric of Work Through the Ages by Robin Patric Clair 9781557534545
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Why Work explores the contemporary cultural construction of work, beginning with the expression, A Real Job. This volume examines work in the writings of Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, St. Benedict,... -
Revolutionary Economies: What Archaeology Reveals about the Birth of American Capitalism by Thomas W. Cuddy 9780759111783
Booksplease Price: £113.11Revolutionary Economies explores the roots of American capitalism through the archaeology and history of the Chesapeake Bay region. Thomas W. Cuddy looks at the archaeological evidence concerning... -
The Passion for Liberty by Tibor R. Machan 9780742531031
Booksplease Price: £44.76In The Passion for Liberty, Tibor R. Machan defends a libertarian conception of a free society, one in which individuals are sovereign, self-governing beings, not subject to others' will without... -
A New Science: The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology by Bruce Mazlish 9780195058468
RRP: £122.50Booksplease Price: £99.43In this book Bruce Mazlish examines the historical origins of sociology, especially in terms of its relationship to the humanities and to economics. He is particularly concerned with how omnipresent... -
The Years of High Theory: Invention and Tradition in Economic Thought 1926-1939 by G. L. S. Shackle 9780521274784
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Even a decade after the end of the 1914-1918 war, economic theory assumed that the world was tranquil and orderly. By 1939 an economic slump without parallel, allied to the re-emergence of military... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment by Alexander Broadie 9780521802734
Booksplease Price: £78.08The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished... -
Off-Campus Study, Study Abroad, and Study Away in Economics: Leaving the Blackboard Behind by Joshua Hall 9783030738334
Booksplease Price: £41.36This volume discusses diverse methodologies in economics education, focusing on experiential economic education away from campus through study abroad, study away, and other off-campus programs. These... -
The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9781107622999
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.69This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls... -
Friedrich Hayek: The ideas and influence of the libertarian economist by Eamonn Butler
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This book is an accessible exploration of the life and work of Friedrich Hayek: Nobel economist, social theorist, influential critic of socialism and the man who arguably changed the course of... -
Reclaiming Liberalism by David F. Hardwick 9783030287627
Booksplease Price: £90.68"David Hardwick and Leslie Marsh have assembled a contentious collection of independent thinkers on liberalism's identity and prospects. Should liberalism be democratic, classical, ordo, legalistic,... -
Political Thought of Hume and His Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects by Frederick G. Whelan 9781032931289
RRP: £84.99Booksplease Price: £74.54Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries,... -
International Summitry and Global Governance: The rise of the G7 and the European Council, 1974-1991 by Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol 9781138377578
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34This volume is the first detailed study of the emergence of regular and frequent heads of government meetings (summits), covering the period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.Summit meetings of... -
Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Hume, Smith and Ferguson by Constantine Christos Vassiliou 9781399521192
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19Examines how Montesquieu, Hume, Smith, and Ferguson's foundational liberal theories responded to the moral and civic challenges of early capitalism Brings together discussions of key Enlightenment... -
David Hume: Moral and Political Theorist by Russell Hardin 9780199232567
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £77.59Russell Hardin presents a new explication of David Hume's moral and political theory. With Hume, he holds that our normative views can be scientifically explained but they cannot be justified as true... -
The Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People and the Environment by M. Perelman 9781403970879
Booksplease Price: £46.74The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural resources on which we all depend. It reveals how economic analysis justifies... -
History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen 9781108040402
Booksplease Price: £41.67Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) was a writer, philosopher and literary critic whose work was published widely in the nineteenth century. As a young man Stephen was ordained deacon, but he later became... -
Reclaiming Liberalism by David F. Hardwick 9783030287597
Booksplease Price: £90.68"David Hardwick and Leslie Marsh have assembled a contentious collection of independent thinkers on liberalism's identity and prospects. Should liberalism be democratic, classical, ordo, legalistic,... -
A Defence of Usury: Shewing the Impolicy of the Present Legal Restraints on the Terms of Pecuniary Bargains, in a Series of Letters to a Friend by Jeremy Bentham 9781108066945
Booksplease Price: £27.60The utilitarian philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) argues in this collection of letters for the cessation of government control of the rate of interest. The work first appeared in 1787... -
An Inquiry into Physiocracy (Routledge Revivals) Max Beer 9781138779600
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34The common understanding of physiocracy - the school of eighteenth-century political economy associated with thinkers such as Boisguillebert and Quesnay - is often confined to the view that it... -
Meeting of Minds by Steve Allen 9780879755652
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.37The nation's television critics voted Steve Allen's "Meeting of Minds" scripts as the 'Best TV Writing of 1976-1977', together with James Costigan's "Eleanor and Franklin". Subsequently the series... -
Technology, Innovation and Industrial Economics: Institutionalist Perspectives: Essays in Honor of William E. Cole by Dilmus D. James 9781461376088
Booksplease Price: £92.17Technology, Innovation and Industrial Economics: Institutional Perspectives, inspired by the work of William E. Cole, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, extends his work... -
Financial Petroleum Cultures: Narrating Volatile Futures, 1973–2050 Harry Pitt Scott 9783031996603
Booksplease Price: £112.12Financial Petroleum Cultures draws upon literature, film, architecture, photography, infrastructure, advertisements, and financial reports to explore how financial narratives shape the future of... -
The Nature and Logic of Capitalism by Robert L. Heilbroner 9780393955293
Booksplease Price: £24.30In search of an answer, The Nature and Logic of Capitalism takes us on a far-ranging exploration to the unconscious levels of the human psyche and the roots of domination and submission; to the... -
The Practice of Collective Escape: Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects Helen Traill 9781529220698
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.53Escape is an enticing idea in contemporary cities across the world. Austerity, climate breakdown and spatial stigma have led to retreatist behaviours such as gated communities, enclave urbanism and... -
A Theory and History of Rural-urban Governance in China by Chao Ye 9789811612008
Booksplease Price: £90.72This book divides the history of China's rural-urban relations into three stages: antagonism, integration and re-antagonism, and demonstrates that the two coupled variables i.e., policy-culture and... -
The Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People and the Environment by M. Perelman 9781403962713
Booksplease Price: £46.74The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural resources on which we all depend. It reveals how economic analysis justifies... -
The Practice of Collective Escape: Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects by Helen Traill 9781529220681
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £66.05Escape is an enticing idea in contemporary cities across the world. Austerity, climate breakdown and spatial stigma have led to retreatist behaviours such as gated communities, enclave urbanism and... -
Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment by Knud Haakonssen 9780521498029
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.75This major contribution to the history of philosophy provides the most comprehensive guide to modern natural law theory available, sets out the full background to liberal ideas of rights and...