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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... -
Theories of Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy with a Selection of Classic Readings Gordon Graham (Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, USA) 9780415999472
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Theories of Ethics offers a comprehensive survey of the major schools and figures in moral philosophy, from Socrates to the present day. Written entirely in non-technical language, it aims to be... -
Utilitarianism and the Art School in Nineteenth-Century Britain Malcolm Quinn 9781138661936
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The mid-nineteenth century saw the introduction of publicly funded art education as an alternative to the established private institutions. Quinn explores the ways in which members of parliament... -
Ego Development and Psychopathology by David Ausubel 9781138509436
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Ego Development and Psychopathology presents an original theoretical underpinning for classification and interpretation of the major mental disorders, one based largely on the author's clinical... -
Lonely Planet Journey Iceland Ring Road Lonely Planet 9781837587292
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Lonely Planet's Journey Iceland's Ring Road is the definitive guide to one of the world's great adventures - bringing you closer to the culture, history and landscapes you'll encounter along the way... -
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... -
Politics, Values, and National Socialism Aurel Kolnai 9781138513402
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £55.28The essays in this collection, spanning 1925 to 1970, confirm Aurel Kolnai's place as one of the great conservative theorists of the twentieth century. Kolnai carefully analyzes the leading... -
Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon by Damian Collins 9780008127633
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68The story of a fascinating man who connected the great politicians, artists and thinkers at the height of British global power and influence. A famed aesthete,... -
Design and Aesthetics: A Reader Mo Dodson 9780415072335
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Design and Aesthetics: A Reader is a comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetic theory. It includes contributions from many of the writers whose work has been foundational to these... -
The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory Gunnar Myrdal 9780887388279
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Myrdal described this book as a discussion of three key notions in economic theory: the ideas of value, freedom, and collective house-keeping. It is through these concepts, he charged, that political... -
Freud and the Imaginative World by Harry Trosman
Booksplease Price: £60.08The current resurgence of interest in the scientific origins of psychoanalysis has overshadowed the artistic and literary models to which Freud had recourse time and again in the development and... -
Youth Development in Identity Societies: Paradoxes of Purpose James E. Cote (University of Western Ontario, Canada) 9781138353312
Booksplease Price: £58.29This book explores the causes and consequences of the contradictions in young people's lives stemming from the affluence-purpose paradox: a lack of purpose-in-life among many of those living in the... -
Common-Sense Ethics by C. E. M. Joad
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Originally published in 1921, this book makes philosophical ethics accessible to the non-philosopher and applies them to problems of everyday life. The author maintains that morality is the... -
What is this thing called The Meaning of Life? Stewart Goetz 9780415786775
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28What are we asking when we ask, "What is the meaning of life?"? Can there be meaning without God? Is a happy life a meaningful life? Can an immoral life be meaningful? Does our suffering have... -
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club by David Fleming 9781803996516
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.84'This is a pacey and colourful read ... elegantly written.' - Daisy Dunn, The Times'The whole book reads rather like a Powell novel, with unexpected meetings and reversals ... it is a constant... -
Varieties of Personal Theology: Charting the Beliefs and Values of American Young Adults by David T. Gortner
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Varieties of Personal Theology starts from the premise that all human beings are folk theologians, active not only in constructing selves but also in constructing worlds and guiding philosophies of... -
The Passing of Temporal Well-Being by Ben Bramble
Booksplease Price: £60.08The 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... -
Mill's A System of Logic: Critical Appraisals by Antis Loizides 9780815371946
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89John Stuart Mill considered his A System of Logic, first published in 1843, the methodological foundation and intellectual groundwork of his later works in ethical, social, and political theory. Yet... -
Ethics and Future Generations by Rahul Kumar 9780367891435
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Existing human beings stand in a unique relationship of asymmetrical influence over future generations. Our choices now can settle whether there are any human beings in the further future; how many... -
Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching Joseph O'Connor 9781138300521
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.63Everything we do, and sense, happens through our brain. In Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, highly experienced coaches Joseph O'Connor and Andrea Lages ask and... -
The Good, the Right, Life and Death: Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman by Jason R. Raibley 9781138274693
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Fred Feldman, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is widely recognized for his subtle defense of hedonistic consequentialism and for his plain-spoken and exact... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Gothic Chronicles Collection) Oscar Wilde 9781400344161
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.10"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic." The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, a beloved Gothic masterpiece of supernatural terror, is now available in an... -
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780785839996
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Relive the glorious excess of the roaring 1920s with this beautifully designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-known novel is set in hedonistic Jazz Age... -
In Due Season: A Catholic Life by Paul Wilkes
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.77Paul Wilkes has been a writer/journalist, a TV producer, a monastic, a hedonist, a friend of the famous, a family man, and ultimately a true prodigal son. With In Due Season , Wilkes, one of... -
Socrates, Pleasure, and Value by George Rudebusch 9780195128550
Booksplease Price: £112.35Plato's early Socratic dialogues on the nature of virtue, knowledge, and the good life stand at the core of Western ethical thought. Yet, basic questions about these dialogues and about Socrate's... -
Five Guys Chillin': Dual-language edition by Peter Darney 9781786829443
Booksplease Price: £12.27The volume comprises both the original text and the French translation of Peter Darney's play; a graphic, gripping, funny and frank verbatim drama exposing the chill-out chem-sex scene. "Wanna pair... -
Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life: Interdisciplinary perspectives by Karen Lykke Syse 9781138212466
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world... -
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780785847588
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.94Relive the romance and tragedy of the Roaring Twenties with this stunning 100th-anniversary edition of The Great Gatsby.F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-known novel is set in hedonistic Jazz Age Long... -
Health and Hedonism in Plato and Epicurus by Dr Kelly Arenson 9781350212312
Booksplease Price: £35.46This book links Plato and Epicurus, two of the most prominent ethicists in the history of philosophy, exploring how Platonic material lays the conceptual groundwork for Epicurean hedonism. It argues... -
South Wind Norman Douglas 9781786690678
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11The bishop was feeling rather sea-sick. Confoundedly sea-sick, in fact. An Anglican bishop, on recuperative leave from his African diocese, alights at the island of Nepenthe for a short stay on... -
The Fall of Princes by Robert Goolrick 9781616206031
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Goolrick's literary chops are on full display, painting an authentic portrait of a hedonistic era, tense and stylish, perfectly mixing adrenaline and melancholy. Stunning in its acute observations... -
Olfaction, Taste, and Cognition by Catherine Rouby 9780521020978
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £55.95The human organs of perception are constantly bombarded with chemicals from the environment. Our bodies have in turn developed complex processing systems, which manifest themselves in our emotions,... -
Complete Darkness by Matt Adcock 9781916212671
Booksplease Price: £14.92In the near future, we map 'dark matter', only to find out that it is Hell itself... As satanic President Razour attempts to start Armageddon, our fate rests in the hands of Cleric20, a hedonistic... -
Seven by John D. MacDonald 9781471913389
Booksplease Price: £18.18A choice collection of seven short stories by one of America's foremost storytellers and the author of the best-selling Travis McGee series. Featuring 'Dear Old Friend', 'The Annex', Quarrel',... -
The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek 9780199603695
Booksplease Price: £86.15What does the idea of taking 'the point of view of the universe' tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a... -
The Emergence of Modern Architecture: A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810 by Liane Lefaivre 9780415260251
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.74A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework... -
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.19'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily TelegraphTom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors... -
Durarara!!, Vol. 1 by Ryohgo Narita 9780316204903
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Welcome to Ikebukuro, where Tokyo's wildest characters gather!! Meet an ordinary boy who daydreams about the extraordinary. A naive stalker girl. The strongest man in Ikebukuro. A shut-in doctor with... -
Poems Of Wine & Revelry by Jim Colville
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 2005. Arabic literature has a distinguished tradition of bacchanals but none are so consistently entertaining or explicit or iconoclastic as those of Abu Nuwas al_hasan ibn Hani... -
Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Slutty Cheff 9781526682703
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - WITH A NEW CHAPTER!‘An instant, hedonistic culinary classic' The London Standard****‘It’s the two best things in the world: food and sex’Slutty Cheff is an anonymous...