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John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life by Timothy Larsen 9780198753155
RRP: £44.49Booksplease Price: £33.49John Stuart Mill observed in his Autobiography that he was a rare case in nineteenth-century Britain because he had not lost his religion but never had any. He was a freethinker from beginning to end... -
The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences by Ian Shapiro
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.73In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of... -
Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires by Aurelian Craiutu 9780739106587
Booksplease Price: £45.30Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaries is a compelling examination of the French Doctrinaries, a largely neglected group of liberal thinkers in post-revolutionary... -
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy by Joel Mokyr 9780691180960
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.00Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that... -
The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values by James L. Shulman 9780691096193
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £48.57The President of Williams College faces a firestorm for not allowing the women's lacrosse team to postpone exams to attend the playoffs. The University of Michigan loses $2.8 million on athletics... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and... -
Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment by Emma Rothschild 9780674008373
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.15In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of... -
Leadership in Turbulent Times: Lessons from the Presidents by Doris Kearns Goodwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the origin, uncertain growth, and finally, the exercise of... -
Tocqueville between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life by Sheldon S. Wolin 9780691114545
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £53.85Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of... -
Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £21.45Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must... -
Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education by Derek Bok 9780691120126
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at... -
The Decent Society by Avishai Margalit 9780674194373
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28Avishai Margalit builds his social philosophy on this foundation: a decent society, or a civilized society, is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose... -
Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780674503809
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.18How can we achieve and sustain a "decent" liberal society, one that aspires to justice and equal opportunity for all and inspires individuals to sacrifice for the common good? In this book, a... -
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stephane Courtois
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £49.68Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the... -
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence by David Bromwich
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £35.19David Bromwich's portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730-1797) is the first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private... -
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.51Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £16.30A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty 9780674430006
Booksplease Price: £36.82A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial...