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Evil in Contemporary Political Theory by Bruce Haddock 9780748641963
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $136.28What role should the idea of evil have in contemporary moral and social thought? The concept of 'evil' has long been a key idea in moral discourse. Intuitively, we know what evil means. Now, the... -
Death in the Secular City: A Study of the Notion of Life after Death... by Russell Aldwinckle
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $107.12First published in 1972 Death in the Secular City grapples with questions like is resurrection and immortality a meaningful concept in the age of lunar expedition, what are the appropriate symbols... -
Death in the Secular City: A Study of the Notion of Life after Death... by Russell Aldwinckle 9781032369198
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $35.85First published in 1972 Death in the Secular City grapples with questions like is resurrection and immortality a meaningful concept in the age of lunar expedition, what are the appropriate symbols... -
Life: How to Get There From Here by Jay Strack 9781418505998
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.72For over 20 years, Dr. Jay Strack has been working with young Christian leaders throughout the U.S. and teaching them have a better understanding of God's Word and His calling in their lives. The... -
The British Contribution to the Europe of the Twenty-first Century: The Clifford Chance Lectures by Sir Basil S. Markesinis 9781841132761
Booksplease Price: $123.18"Europe" is one of the defining issues of our times. Politically, economically, legally, culturally, it is a source of division to some and inspiration for others. This book contains essays... -
The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought by Toivo Koivukoski 9781771121217
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $45.42The essays in The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought address the contribution that political theories of modern political philosophers have made to our understandings of peace. The... -
The Rhetoric of Oil in the Twenty-First Century: Government, Corporate, and Activist Discourses by Heather Graves
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92This book examines mass communication and civic participation in the age of oil, analyzing the rhetorical and discursive ways that governments and corporations shape public opinion and public policy... -
Not Angels But Anglicans: An Illustrated History of Christianity in the British Isles by Henry Chadwick 9781853118784
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.73This title traces the history and development of Christianity in Britain from Roman times through twenty often turbulent centuries. Learned, yet accessible, witty in style and attractively... -
Challenging Theocracy: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics by David E. Tabachnick 9781442626676
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $33.31Commonly perceived as a direct threat to the practice of liberal democracy, the global reemergence of theocratic claims to political rule is a misunderstood development of twenty-first-century... -
The Honest to God Debate by John A. T. Robinson 9780334049203
Booksplease Price: $29.00THE 1963 paperback Honest to God by Dr John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich, has caused an immense discussion by its call for a revolution in Christianity. It has sold more quickly than any other new... -
The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives by Richard Gelles 9780465053964
Booksplease Price: $23.30Using the true story of a murdered child as a point of departure, a leading expert on family violence argues that society's first priority must be protecting children rather than preserving families... -
Challenging Theocracy: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics by David E. Tabachnick 9781442649293
RRP: $85.14Booksplease Price: $70.00Commonly perceived as a direct threat to the practice of liberal democracy, the global reemergence of theocratic claims to political rule is a misunderstood development of twenty-first-century... -
Natural History: v. 10: Bks.XXXVI-XXXVII by Pliny the Elder
Booksplease Price: $32.65An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter ... -
Enduring Empire: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics by David E. Tabachnick 9780802095213
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.94An exploration of the ways in which ancient theories of empire can inform our understanding of present-day international relations, Enduring Empire engages in a serious discussion of empire as it... -
Hegel's "Philosophy of Right": A Reader's Guide by David Rose 9780826487117
Booksplease Price: $33.05"Hegel's Philosophy of Right" is a classic text in the history of Western political thought and one with which all serious students of political philosophy must engage. While it is a hugely important... -
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan by Robert D. Crews 9780674032248
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $37.02The Taliban remain one of the most elusive forces in modern history. A ragtag collection of clerics and madrasa students, this obscure movement emerged out of the rubble of the Cold War to shock the... -
A Guide to Preaching by Roger Bowen
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $17.42Preaching can be an extremely daunting experience for many but is an essential part of any service or Christian occasion. It is so important for the preacher to engage with their listeners and... -
Watsujiō Tetsur's Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan by Watsuji Tetsuro 9780791430934
RRP: $93.53Booksplease Price: $77.25Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku (literally, the principles that allow us to live in friendly community) has been regarded as the definitive study of Japanese ethics for half a century. In Japan, ethics... -
The Secret Chain: Evolution and Ethics by Michael Bradie 9780791421062
Booksplease Price: $33.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMichael Bradie is Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University.Reviews"Bradie's is the first... -
The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745 by Mr. Toby Barnard
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88Biographical studies of the two Dukes of Ormonde illuminate aspects of the operation of political power in seventeenth-century Ireland, and, on a wider European stage, the predicaments facing the... -
Surviving Climate Change: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe by David Cromwell 9780745325675
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $27.34Climate change is a pressing reality. Hurricane Katrina, melting polar ice and increased threats to food and water security show that planetary blowback is becoming all too evident. Governments... -
An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin by Peter Jones 9781107615601
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $27.30Reading Latin, first published in 1986, is a bestselling Latin course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin fluently and intelligently. It does this by combining the understanding of... -
The Europeanisation of UK Competition Law by Nicholas Green
Booksplease Price: $144.65The Competition Act 1998 makes fundamental changes to United Kingdom competition law,introducing two new prohibitions based on European Community rules. In September 1998, the Centre for the Law of... -
Rulers, Warriors, Traders, Clerics: The Central Sahel and the North Sea, 800-1500 by Anne Haour 9780197264119
Booksplease Price: $61.40What do we learn if we look in parallel at the past of two distinct parts of the world? Anne Haour weighs this question by considering both the central Sahel of West Africa and the European countries... -
Confronting Tyranny: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics by Toivo Koivukoski 9780742544017
Booksplease Price: $57.16Motivated by the reentry of tyranny into political discourse and political action, this new collection of essays compares ancient and contemporary accounts of tyranny in an effort to find responses... -
Early Modern Military Identities, 1560-1639 - Reality and Representation by Matthew Woodcock 9781843845324
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88An investigation into how soldiers of this period considered and presented themselves. Within the large-scale historiography of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century warfare and the early modern... -
The public health system in England David J. Hunter (Newcastle University) 9781847424624
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.98Health systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response to new threats to health, including from lifestyle diseases, risks of pandemic flu, and the global effects of climate change but... -
On Oligarchy: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics by David E. Tabachnick 9781442609860
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Economic power is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of the few, even as democratic movements worldwide allow for political power to be dispersed among the many. With their access to... -
Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan by David B. Edwards 9780520303461
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.19What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a crowded street? Scholars have answered this question by focusing on the pathology of the "terrorist... -
Schema Therapy for Memory Reconsolidation and Transformational Change Pierre Cousineau 9781041043782
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $43.51Schema Therapy for Memory Reconsolidation and Transformational Change offers psychotherapists a model for clearly and coherently conceptualizing human complexity in a transparent, accessible form.The... -
English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors by Christopher Haigh 9780198221623
Booksplease Price: $82.73English Reformations takes a refreshing new approach to the study of the Reformation in England. Christopher Haigh's lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of... -
The Motorcycle Industry in New York State, Second Edition: A Concise Encyclopedia of Inventors, Builders, and Manufacturers by Geoffrey N. Stein 9781438493022
RRP: $93.53Booksplease Price: $76.86The compelling chronicle of 120 years of motorcycle making in the Empire State.The Motorcycle Industry in New York State is the first book to focus on the over 120-year history of motorcycle... -
Encounter with Enlightenment: A Study of Japanese Ethics by Robert E. Carter 9780791450185
Booksplease Price: $34.02Examines the influence of Shintoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism on Japanese ethics, with implications for our understanding of various social, economic, and environmental problems.In... -
Research Handbook on EU Law and Human Rights by Sionaidh Douglas-Scott 9781789902150
RRP: $72.18Booksplease Price: $67.14The place of human rights in EU law has been a central issue in contemporary debates about the character of the European Union as a political organisation. This Research Handbook explores the... -
Oceans: A Very Short Introduction by Dorrik Stow 9780199655076
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.40The importance of the oceans to life on Earth cannot be overstated. Liquid water covers more than 70% of our planet's surface and, in past geological time, has spread over 85%. Life on Earth began in... -
Creating Spaces of Wellbeing and Belonging for Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Students: Skills and Strategies for Classroom Teachers Maura Sellars 9781032076089
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $36.24Creating Spaces of Wellbeing and Belonging for Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Students: Skills and Strategies for Classroom Teachers outlines the ways educators can support positive educational and social... -
Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the Intervention by Noah Coburn 9780804797771
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53The U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds, and people on an international level not seen since World War II. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and tens of billions of... -
Exploring the Planets: A Memoir by Fred Taylor
Booksplease Price: $59.21The planets fascinate us, and naturally we care about our own Earth, and things like how well we can forecast the weather and whether climate is really changing. Exploring the Planets offers a... -
Losing Afghanistan: An Obituary for the Intervention by Noah Coburn 9780804796637
Booksplease Price: $90.95The U.S.-led intervention in Afghanistan mobilized troops, funds, and people on an international level not seen since World War II. Hundreds of thousands of individuals and tens of billions of... -
From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt by Donald Bruce Redford
Booksplease Price: $34.96In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that...