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Deadly Blessings by Richard J. Brenneman 9780879755805
Booksplease Price: £30.56A young couple watched their infant son die of meningitis even as their Christian Science "practitioner" promised that prayer was all the child needed. The parents were prosecuted, leading to a... -
The Kaspar Hauser Syndrome of Psychosocial Dwarfism by John Money 9780879757540
Booksplease Price: £35.27Hauser was a physically stunted adult with the mind of a child, who was abandoned at the city gate of Nuremburg in 1828, after seventeen years of neglect and isolation in a dungeon. The notoriety of... -
The Sorcerer of Kings by Gordon Stein 9780879758639
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.23Spiritualism spread rapidly both in Britain and in the United States, with mediums setting up shop everywhere. Some mediums were obvious charlatans, while others were highly skilled conjurors. Some... -
The Gospel and the Church by Alfred Firmin Loisy 9780879754334
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Originally published at the turn of the century, this classic work by a French priest and historian attempts to understand the role of Catholic dogma in a world undergoing wide-ranging changes in... -
Science and Supernature by James E. Alcock 9780879755485
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.39Is there more to our existence than modern science can measure? For more than a hundred years, parapsychology - the scientific study of paranormal phenomena - has tried to find the answer to this... -
The Vitamin Pushers by Stephan J. Barrett 9780879759094
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.24Barrett and Herbert present a detailed and comprehensive picture of the multibillion-dollar health-food industry and counter the false assertions of health-food hucksters with reliable,... -
The Fatal Flaw by Duncan Howlett 9780879759230
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.45Liberalism in religion grew strong in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, then collapsed. Why, when so many people hunger for religious expression unhampered by traditionalism? Duncan... -
The Dual Brain, Religion and the Unconscious by Sim C. Liddon 9780879755232
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.96The findings of split-brain research and the mind's symbolic processes are combined to examine the implications for understanding subjective experience of the religious and the sacred.Book... -
Science versus Religion by Tad S. Clements 9780879755935
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Clements adroitly strips away the comfortable notion that science and religion can forever be conveniently positioned in their own domains - the world of empirical analysis occupying the former,... -
Esthetics Contemporary by Richard Kostelanetz 9780879755362
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £38.42Kostelanetz captures the rich diversity of our changing views of art while at the same time discloses its variegated influence on the contemporary art scene. Featured in this volume are discussions... -
The Question of Humanism by David Goicoechea 9780879756147
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.4223 contributors investigate the meaning of humanism today, its range of perspectives, and how humanists can deal with the challenges of contemporary life and those it will face as the new century... -
The Handbook of Forensic Sexology by James J. Krivacska 9780879758837
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £88.71The relationship of scientific research on human sexuality (sexology) to society's legal, judicial, and law enforcement systems (forensics) is the focus of this encyclopaedic volume. Editors James J... -
The Final Superstition by Joseph L. Daleiden 9780879758967
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £38.41As we approach the 21st century, our society continues to grapple with a host of complex socio-economic issues such as population control, voluntary and involuntary euthanasia, in-vitro and ex-vitro... -
Philosophy of Religion, Physics, And Psychology: Essays in Honor of Adolph Grunbaum by Aleksandar Jokic 9781591023692
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £41.77This work contains contributions by leading philosophers on the vast influence of Adolf Grunbaum on the philosophies of religion and science. A reprint of Grunbaum's "The Poverty of Theistic... -
The Fibromyalgia Controversy by M. Clement Hall 9781591026815
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.73This book examines the controversial yet debilitating illness known as Fibromyalgia. As many as 15 million women suffer from it the US but there are hugely differing opinions as to whether these... -
Full Employment by John H. G. Pierson 9781573920728
Booksplease Price: £20.55There are many proposals for stimulating economic growth and lowering unemployment, and though they sometimes make full employment a goal, none of them except the plan highlighted in this... -
The Lifestyle Puzzle: Who We Are in the 21st Century by Henrick Vejlgaard 9781616141851
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616141851Author Henrick VejlgaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher... -
From One Root Many Flowers: A Century of Family Life in China and America by Virginia C. Li 9781591020813
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.31Family history sometimes offers a glimpse of the world stage. Through the collective memories of family members a window to the past is opened and we come to know what it was like to be swept up by... -
Resilient Widowers: Older Men Adjusting to a New Life by Alinde J. Moore 9781591020820
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.95Based on an intensive qualitative study of a diverse group of 51 older widowers, this unique book sets widowhood within the context of life experience and identifies characteristics and patterns of... -
The Da Vinci Fraud: Why the Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction by Robert M. Price 9781591023487
Booksplease Price: £16.29Was Leonardo Da Vinci a member of the 'Priory of Sion', a secret society reaching all the way back to the Crusades" Does his famous painting, "The Last Supper", contain a hidden code about this... -
Studies Show: A Popular Guide to Understanding Scientific Studies by John H. Fennick 9781573921367
Booksplease Price: £20.21If you are not sure what to make of all the claims and counterclaims, this new book will help cut through the conflicting reports and contradictory findings. We are bombarded daily with media reports... -
The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know by Kal K. Korff 9781573921275
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.34There is no doubt something occurred in that remote desert outpost near Roswell, New Mexico: the question is what, and has our government been hiding the facts for half a century? Were alien bodies... -
Preventing Falls: A Defensive Approach by J. Thomas, M.D. Hutton 9781573927611
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.68This is an essential guide for seniors, caregivers, Parkinson's sufferers, and others who face this health risk in their daily lives. As people age, knowing how to adapt to motor, sensory, and... -
CRS Computer-Related Syndrome: The Prevention & Treatment of Computer-Related Injuries by Richard Dean, M.D. Smith 9781573921459
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.20If you're one of the millions who use computers at work or at home, the hours you spend in front of the monitor could be giving you a pain in the neck, back, hand, wrist, or arm. If so, you may be... -
What's a Nice Republican Girl Like Me Doing in the Aclu? by Sheila Suess Kennedy 9781573921435
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.69Republicans have a lot more in common with the ACLU than they think! For decades conservative Republicans have railed against the 'liberal' American Civil Liberties Union and its state affiliates for... -
The Complete Prostate Book: What Every Man Needs To Know by J. Stephen Jones 9781591023043
Booksplease Price: £18.04For men approaching forty and older, the prostate gland is frequently a source of health problems, ranging from mild nuisances to life-threatening malignancies. Thus, it's important that every man... -
Escape from Nicotine Country: How to Stop Smoking Painlessly by James Christopher 9781573927512
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.81'The prospect of stopping smoking is scary as hell. I know-I've been there' - so opens "Escape from Nicotine Country", James Christopher's unique and uplifting guide to quitting smoking without pain... -
Educational Theory: Philosophical and Political Perspectives by Edmund Wall 9781573928380
Booksplease Price: £20.86The debate over the proper approach to educating our youth on the post-secondary level has never been more contentious than now. On one side are traditionalists who argue for preservation of the... -
In Search of Our Humanity: Neither Paradise Nor Hell by Valerii Aleksandrovich Kuvakin 9781573928854
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.45Russian philosopher, Valery A. Kuvakin reviews the major principles of humanism as the starting point for an overall definition of humanity. Humanism, as defined by Kuvakin, is based on the... -
The Happy Heretic by Judith Hayes 9781573928021
Booksplease Price: £20.86Judith Hayes, the Erma Bombeck of the secular humanist community, has the unique ability to raise serious points while making us laugh as she throws buckets of cold water on the irrational beliefs... -
Race for a Remedy: The Science and Scientists behind the Next Life-Saving Cancer Medicine Makhdum Ahmed, M.D. 9781633889521
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.00How does a mere molecule—a chemical structure—become a drug? And, how do we know that is works safely? In a one-trillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry with high-stakes profits and perils, battles... -
The Old Faith and the New by David Friedrich Strauss 9781573921183
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.78German philosopher and radical theologian David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874) distinguished himself as one of Europe's most controversial critics of the Bible and an intellectual martyr for... -
Goodparents.Com: What Every Good Parent Should Know About the Internet by Robert Maynard 9781573922708
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.24The Internet may now be the most powerful, single source of information in the world, and with an estimated 200 million computers in homes by 2000, the ability to send and receive virtually any type... -
Under the Gun in Iraq: My Year Training the Iraqi Police by Robert Cole 9781591025559
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.16This book presents a vivid account of the challenges of training the Iraqis to handle their own security. In blunt everyday language, Cole gives readers an unusually candid and often hair-raising... -
The Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700 by James R. Jacob 9781573925464
Booksplease Price: £23.92An introduction to a large and complicated subject, which has come to be called the Scientific Revolution, this book refers to the fundamental changes in our understanding of the natural world that... -
Invisible Walls: Why We Ignore the Damage We Inflict on the Planet--And Ourselves by Peter Seidel 9781573922173
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Our wants for food, housing, medicine, transportation, luxuries, and all the other benefits of industrialisation have resulted in the exploitation of our natural surroundings. We know our actions... -
The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture by Frederick S. Lane 9781591024279
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.53Janet Jackson's infamous 'wardrobe malfunction' at the 2004 Superbowl precipitated a nation-wide controversy. To judge by the hysterical reaction, one would think that nothing so shocking had ever... -
When Good Thinking Goes Bad: How Your Brain Can Have a Mind of Its Own by Todd C. Riniolo 9781591025863
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.68In 1975, the Environmental Fund sponsored a full-page advertisement in leading newspapers, which predicted that 'the world as we know it will likely be ruined before the year 2000', due to the... -
In Search of Self, in the Service of Others: Reflections of a Retired Physician on Medicine, the Bible & the Jews by Heinz Hartmann 9781573922302
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.67The life of Holocaust survivor Dr. Heinz Hartmann is a fascinating one indeed, from escaping Hitler's concentration camps as a young man to making house-calls as a general practitioner in America. As... -
Aviation Insecurity: The New Challenges of Air Travel by Andrew R. Thomas 9781591020745
Booksplease Price: £18.44The events of September 11 compelled the American public to look at air travel as much more than merely another way of getting from point A to point B. An industry that was previously viewed as a...