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Standing Up for Philosophy: Armchairs, experiments, and the case for methodological reform Joshua Alexander 9780192856982
RRP: $99.33Booksplease Price: $91.18In Standing up for Philosophy, Jonathan Weinberg and Joshua Alexander seek to radically reformulate the debate over armchair philosophy. Have results in experimental philosophy shown... -
Handbook of Alternative Theories of Political Economy by Frank Stilwell 9781035334247
RRP: $68.31Booksplease Price: $63.35This Handbook provides an overview of established and cutting-edge contributions to political economic thought. Chapters by leading and emerging scholars showcase the diverse approaches and... -
On a Discourse that Might Not be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII Jacques Lacan 9781509510108
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.38The title is, at first glance, enigmatic. Clue: it concerns men and women-their most concrete, amorous, and sexual relations in everyday life, as well as in their dreams and fantasies. It has nothing... -
Green Political Theory by Robert E. Goodin 9780745610276
Booksplease Price: $26.70With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwide seized the political imagination of friends and foes alike. Mainstream politicians busily disparage them and imitate them in turn... -
Persuasion in Parallel: How Information Changes Minds about Politics by Alexander Coppock
Booksplease Price: $36.83A bold re-examination of how political attitudes change in response to information. Many mistakenly believe that it is fruitless to try to persuade those who disagree with them about politics... -
Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning by Simon Blackburn 9780198247852
RRP: $127.71Booksplease Price: $111.51Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are... -
Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power by Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet the move toward ethics has obscured the ongoing... -
Ephesians: A Theological Commentary on the Bible by Allen Verhey 9780664232665
RRP: $52.89Booksplease Price: $52.04Historical-critical approaches to Scripture rule out some readings and commend others, but they rarely offer much help to either theological reflection or the preaching of the Word. They do not point... -
Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality by Douglas W. Portmore 9780199396450
RRP: $78.69Booksplease Price: $53.28Commonsense Consequentialism is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two. In it, Douglas W. Portmore defends a version of consequentialism that both comports with... -
Perception: Essays After Frege by Charles Travis 9780199676545
Booksplease Price: $148.93Charles Travis presents a series of connected essays on current topics in philosophy of perception. The book is informed throughout by a number of central insights of Gottlob Frege's, notably about... -
Necessity Lost: Modality and Logic in Early Analytic Philosophy, Volume 1 by Sanford Shieh
RRP: $145.13Booksplease Price: $92.94A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the... -
Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge by Jennifer Lackey
Booksplease Price: $44.83Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge. We rely on the reports of those around us for everything from the ingredients in our food and medicine to the identity of our family members. Recent... -
The Nonexistent by Anthony Everett 9780199674794
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $81.14Anthony Everett defends the commonsense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things. More precisely he develops and defends a pretense theoretic account on which there... -
Meaning and Normativity by Allan Gibbard 9780199646074
RRP: $117.39Booksplease Price: $81.53What does talk of meaning mean? All thinking consists in natural happenings in the brain. Talk of meaning though, has resisted interpretation in terms of anything that is clearly natural, such as... -
An Introduction to Utilitarianism: From Theory to Practice by Richard Chappell 9781647922009
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.48An Introduction to Utilitarianism: From Theory to Practice is a state-of-the-art text, simultaneously accessible to introductory students and informative for more advanced readers. Two key features... -
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner's Guide by Reza Rad 9781849688888
Booksplease Price: $58.82Written in an easy-to-follow, example-driven format, there are plenty of step by step instructions to help get you started! The book has a friendly approach, with the opportunity to learn by... -
Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain Martin Cohen (The Philosopher, UK) 9781444337099
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $20.85This original and innovative book is an exploration of one of the key mysteries of the mind, the question of consciousness. Conducted through a one month course of both practical and entertaining... -
What Do Corporations Want?: Communicative Capitalism, Corporate Purpose, and a New Theory of the Firm Timothy Kuhn 9781529214284
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.28'Corporate purpose' has become a battleground for stakeholders' competing desires. Some argue that corporations must simply generate profit; others suggest that we must make them create social change... -
Kant and Religion by Allen W. Wood 9781108432054
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $30.65This masterful work on Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason explores Kant's treatment of the Idea of God, his views concerning evil, and the moral grounds for faith in God. Kant and... -
The Rules Of Wolfe by James Carlos Blake 9781843444084
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Longlisted for the 2015 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger Award Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gunrunners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by... -
Futurism: A Very Short Introduction Ara Merjian 9780192871008
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring From the motorcar to the radio, modern technology radically transformed urban life by the first decade of the twentieth century. As one of... -
Performing Indigeneity: Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences by Laura R. Graham
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.68This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of "being" indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior... -
A Minimal Libertarianism: Free Will and the Promise of Reduction by Christopher Evan Franklin 9780190682781
RRP: $138.68Booksplease Price: $109.70In this book, Christopher Evan Franklin develops and defends a novel version of event-causal libertarianism. This view is a combination of libertarianism--the view that humans sometimes act freely... -
The Break-Up of Britain by Tom Nairn 9781781683200
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89In this classic text, first published in 1977, Tom Nairn memorably depicts the 'slow foundering' of the United Kingdom on the rocks of imperial decline, constitutional anachronism and the gathering... -
Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health by Mike Slade 9781107543058
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $59.09This book brings together two bodies of knowledge - wellbeing and recovery. Wellbeing and 'positive' approaches are increasingly influencing many areas of society. Recovery in mental illness has a... -
Kant and Religion by Allen W. Wood
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $95.14This masterful work on Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason explores Kant's treatment of the Idea of God, his views concerning evil, and the moral grounds for faith in God. Kant and... -
Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility by Peg Birmingham
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Hannah Arendt's most important contribution to political thought may be her well-known and often-cited notion of the "right to have rights." In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Peg Birmingham... -
Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality by Douglas W. Portmore 9780199794539
RRP: $158.03Booksplease Price: $115.42Commonsense Consequentialism is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two. In it, Douglas W. Portmore defends a version of consequentialism that both comports with... -
On the Emic Gesture: Difference and Ethnography in Roy Wagner Iracema Dulley 9780367731304
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92Roy Wagner's work deals with two fundamental issues in anthropology: how to describe difference, and where to place it in anthropological discourse. His discussion and displacement of anthropological... -
The Cosmic Zoom - Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation by Horton
Booksplease Price: $31.99In The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, a view of two people enjoying a picnic zooms up and away to show their surroundings, moving progressively farther into space, then zooms back in for a... -
Competing on Culture: Driving Change in Community Colleges by Randall VanWagoner 9781475834000
Booksplease Price: $85.90Community colleges are under intense pressure to change in response to shifts in an increasingly complex environment. Stakeholders are placing simultaneously contradictory demands on colleges for... -
Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life by David DeGrazia 9780195389630
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $76.86The ethics of creating-or declining to create-human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and embryo research; literature on "self-creation"; and discussions of... -
A Natural History of Revolution: Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789-1794 by Mary Ashburn Miller
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $53.48How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of... -
Equality, Citizenship, and Segregation: A Defense of Separation by Michael S. Merry 9781137033703
Booksplease Price: $59.70Merry argues that most voluntary separation experiments in education are not driven by a sense of racial, cultural or religious superiority. Rather, they are driven among other things by a desire for... -
The War on Critical Race Theory – Or, The Remaking of Racism by DT Goldberg 9781509558537
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $42.16"Critical Race Theory" is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving... -
Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power by Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo 9780231174848
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $118.58Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet the move toward ethics has obscured the ongoing... -
The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism David Theo Goldberg (University of California, Irvine) 9781509558544
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.30"Critical Race Theory" is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving... -
Media and the Experience of Social Change: The Arab World by Tim Markham 9781786604224
Booksplease Price: $56.45For centuries scholars have fretted about the gulf that exists between the enormity of historical change and the banality of people's everyday lives. This is said to be exacerbated in our media... -
Intellectual Imagination: Knowledge and Aesthetics in North Atlantic and African Philosophy by Omedi Ochieng 9780268103293
RRP: $56.76Booksplease Price: $54.79The Intellectual Imagination unfolds a sweeping vision of the form, meaning, and value of intellectual practice. The book breaks new ground in offering a comprehensive vision of the intellectual... -
The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China: God Above Party? Carsten Vala 9780367209285
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24Among China's restive religious and social groups, Protestants have arguably created the most sustained structural challenges to the Chinese Communist Party's ordering of society. By drawing on...