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The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism by Helene Lee
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $24.43Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta-ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks-this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man... -
The Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings - An Anthology Eileen John (University of Warwick, UK) 9781405112086
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $66.32Essential readings in the philosophy of literature are brought together for the first time in this anthology. Contains forty-five substantial and carefully chosen essays and extractsProvides a... -
The People Paradox: Does the world have too many or too few people? by Steven E. Landsburg
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $18.74It's one of the big questions of our time: Are there too many people in the world? Or too few? Whichever way, how would we decide? Here, economist Steven E. Landsburg, acclaimed author of The... -
Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene by Barry Allen 9780197508930
RRP: $209.63Booksplease Price: $142.66In this sweeping volume of comparative philosophy and intellectual history, Barry Allen reassesses the values of experience and experiment in European and world traditions. His work traces the... -
Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers by Professor Alessandro Giovannelli 9781350085558
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $149.19Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. Thirty specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of philosophers who... -
Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers by Professor Alessandro Giovannelli
Booksplease Price: $54.78Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. Thirty specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of philosophers who... -
The Impact of the Euro: Debating Britain's Future by P. Whyman 9780312225735
Booksplease Price: $176.59Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) will have far-reaching consequences for participating nations. This book contains a unique and editorially neutral collection of key arguments favouring and opposing... -
Red Sea Pilot: 2025 Imray 9781846239410
Booksplease Price: $73.03In the meticulously revised third edition of this comprehensive guide, authors Elaine Morgan and Stephen Davies build upon the foundations that have made Red Sea Pilot a classic title.Complemented by... -
Structure and Process in Southeastern Archaeology by Roy Dickens Jr 9780817311889
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Within the general structure-and-process theme of this compendium, the authors have focused on either intrasite problems (those dealing with the formation and... -
Aesthetic Essays by Malcolm Budd 9780199596263
RRP: $85.78Booksplease Price: $64.35The book brings together a selection of Malcolm Budd's essays in aesthetics. A number of the essays are aimed at the abstract heart of aesthetics, attempting to solve a cluster of the most important... -
Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project by Jerry L. Walls 9780190842222
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $62.05Thirty years ago, Alvin Plantinga gave a lecture called "Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments," which served as an underground inspiration for two generations of scholars and students. In it, he... -
Musicologia: Musical Knowledge from Plato to John Cage by Robin Maconie 9780810876965
Booksplease Price: $159.45In Musicologia-meaning "musical reasoning" as distinct from a mere love of music-author and composer Robin Maconie takes aim against the fashionable misconception that music is empty of meaning, or... -
Philosophy of the Performing Arts by David Davies 9781405188029
RRP: $136.40Booksplease Price: $123.75PHILOSOPHY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS "David Davies's Philosophy of the Performing Arts is long-awaited. Not since Paul Thom's For an Audience has a book in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition... -
Christianity and Monasticism in the Fayoum Oasis: Essays from the 2004 International Symposium of the Saint Mark Foundation and the Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society in Honor of Martin Krause Gawdat Gabra 9789774248924
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $51.27Christianity began in the large and fertile Fayoum oasis of Egypt's Western Desert as early as the third century, and its presence has endured to the present day. This volume, which constitutes a... -
The Christology of Karl Barth and Matta al-Miskin by Hani Hanna 9781978704206
Booksplease Price: $178.21In The Christology of Karl Barth and Matta al-Miskin, Hani Hanna argues that two of the most renowned theologians of the twentieth century, Karl Barth and Matta al-Miskin (Matthew the Poor), redefine... -
Elements of Land Law by Kevin Gray
RRP: $159.88Booksplease Price: $159.69'Here is a book whose breadth of purpose and depth of learning are breathtaking.' Peter Butt, [2005] 69 Conv 363 Gray & Gray's Elements of Land Law is the definitive textbook on the subject. The... -
Philosophy of the Performing Arts David Davies (McGill University, Canada) 9781405188036
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $54.23PHILOSOPHY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS "David Davies's Philosophy of the Performing Arts is long-awaited. Not since Paul Thom's For an Audience has a book in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition... -
The Music of Our Lives by Kathleen Marie Higgins 9780739120859
Booksplease Price: $100.19Although many of the world's musical traditions recognize the positive value of music for ethical life, the Western philosophical tradition has largely forgotten this idea. The dominance of formalism... -
![Listening to Popular Music: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ""Led Zeppelin by Theodore Gracyk 9780472069835](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8919895/9954495/9780472069835__05585.1752216636.jpg?c=1 "Listening to Popular Music: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ""Led Zeppelin by Theodore Gracyk 9780472069835")
Listening to Popular Music: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ""Led Zeppelin by Theodore Gracyk 9780472069835
RRP: $44.75Booksplease Price: $43.66It has long been assumed that people who prefer Led Zeppelin to Mozart live aesthetically impoverished lives. But why? In Listening to Popular Music, award-winning popular music scholar Theodore... -
Buyer Power and Competition in European Food Retailing by Roger Clarke 9781840646856
Booksplease Price: $214.66In this book, leading experts in the field examine the effects of the recent growth in concentration in the European food retailing sector. In particular, the book develops a number of buyer power... -
Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers by Alessandro Giovannelli 9781441187772
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $61.74This title gives a concise, but comprehensive introduction to the history of aesthetics, designed specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate students. "Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers" offers a... -
Lessons From History: Hidden heroes, villains and places from the past, and what we can learn from them by Alex Deane 9781785907104
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.40History is full to the brim with untold tales of heroics and villainy, gruesome battles, hilarious happenings and downright bizarre coincidences. Meet the war veteran who lost an eye and amputated... -
The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, 641-1517: The Popes of Egypt, Volume 2 by Mark N Swanson
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.68An authoritative account of the Coptic Papacy in Egypt from the coming of Islam to the onset of the Ottoman era, by a leading religious studies scholar, new in paperbackIn Volume 1 of this series,... -
Two at the Top: A Shared Dream of Everest by Uma Krishnaswami 9781773067414
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.62Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary each tell their story, culminating in their thrilling ascent of Mount Everest. Tenzing Norgay grew up in Nepal, herding yaks in the shadow of Chomolungma, the... -
The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics by Peter Cheyne 9780199347773
Booksplease Price: $201.73Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic... -
The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics by Peter Cheyne 9780199347780
Booksplease Price: $93.99Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic... -
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel 9780691172187
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $50.47The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this... -
Aesthetics and Music by Andy Hamilton 9780826485199
Booksplease Price: $87.28The Continuum Aesthetics Series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and accessible, the series offers food for thought not only for... -
Christian Philosophy of Religion: Essays in Honor of Stephen T. Davis by C. P. Ruloff
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $65.52Christian Philosophy of Religion celebrates the work and influence of Stephen T. Davis over the past four decades in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and biblical studies. Davis's work... -
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind by Jan Lucassen
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.14The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day "Beginning in the hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how... -
Governance, Stewardship and Sustainability: Theory, Practice and Evidence George Dallas 9781032308784
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.05The first introductory practical guide of its kind, this book brings together principles of corporate governance, investor stewardship and enterprise sustainability in the context of institutional... -
Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-1840 by Brooke M. Bauer 9780817361907
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79The story of Catawba women who experienced sweeping changes to their world but held onto traditional customs to create and preserve a Catawba identity and build a nationWinner of the Anne B. & James... -
Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Booksplease Price: $48.36The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive... -
Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey 9780226823980
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $28.76The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its... -
The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life by Bradley G. Green 9781433514425
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.22By establishing central themes of the West's Christian inheritance as the basis of the intellectual life, Green demonstrates that the recovery of the life of the mind depends upon a recovery of the... -
From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 by David T. Beito 9780807848418
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $67.96During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with the possible exception of churches...