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The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' GuardianAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his... -
Methodology of Social Sciences Max Weber 9781412813198
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €54.30Edited and with a new introduction by Robert J. Antonio and Alan Sica.Max Weber wrote these methodological essays in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and... -
An Analysis of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Sebastian Guzman 9781912127269
Booksplease Price: €7.95The German sociologist Max Weber is considered to be one of the founding fathers of sociology, and ranks among the most influential writers of the 20th-century. His most famous book, The Protestant... -
Main Currents in Modern Economics by Ben B. Seligman
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €53.75Main Currents in Modern Economicsdeserves to be the classic it is. At the time of its original publication in 1962, Ben Seligman, a scholar's scholar, had immersed himself in the development of... -
Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur: Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City by Yat Ming Loo 9781138267008
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.36Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is a former colony of the British Empire which today prides itself in being a multicultural society par excellence. However, the Islamisation of the urban... -
The Scope of Understanding in Sociology by Werner Pelz 9781138791862
Booksplease Price: €51.18In their efforts to emulate the methodology which had proved so successful in the natural sciences, the social sciences - including sociology - have not yet faced the question as to what constitutes... -
The Open Society and Its Enemies Karl Popper 9781138126800
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €120.96'If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that,... -
The Evolution of Modern Economic Theory: And Other Papers on the History of Economic Thought Carl Cone 9780202309194
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €54.84The long paper which gives the title to this collection and which has never before been published as paperback was initially an attempt to promote international academic understanding. The Economics... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780241382684
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all... -
Experiential Education in the College Context: What it is, How it Works, and Why it Matters by Jay W. Roberts
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €41.16Experiential Education in the College Context provides college and university faculty with pedagogical approaches that engage students and support high-impact learning. Organized around four... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780141442327
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'It remains astonishingly radical ... one of Utopia's most striking aspects is its contemporaniety' Terry EagletonIn Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island... -
Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy by James Vigus
Booksplease Price: €98.82This book investigates how Laurence Sterne's humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction. It reveals that Shandean humour is a... -
Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore 9780141192970
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.16Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism,... -
Cruise Tourism in Polar Regions: Promoting Environmental and Social Sustainability? Michael Luck 9781138967038
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €54.30Cruises are the primary form of tourism in the Polar Regions and cruise ship tourism in both the Arctic and Antarctic is expanding rapidly. The industry has moved beyond its infancy, and is now... -
The Federalist Papers by James Madison
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.51Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted... -
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781857150841
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.93This autobiography includes the record of a sexual and spiritual quest, exploring the deepest recesses of the author's mind while narrating the farcical comedy of errors which was his life. P.N... -
The Portable Karl Marx by Karl Marx
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64This book is an outstanding overview of the life and thoughts of Karl Marx. The editor masterfully weaves together Marx's published works and private letters into a rich tapestry of history and ideas... -
Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern South China and Southeast Asia David Ownby 9781563241994
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.21A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries.About the AuthorDavid Ownby, Mary F... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.55'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect... -
Marx and Engels and the English Workers: And Other Essays by W. O. Henderson
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.31Published in the year 1989, Marx and Engels and the English Workers is a valuable contribution to the field of Economics.Book InformationISBN 9780714633343Author W. O. HendersonFormat PaperbackPage... -
A Critical Sense: Interviews with Intellectuals Peter Osborne 9780415115063
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.82A Critical Sense brings together in a single volume the leading figures of contemporary radical theory. Moving freely between philosophy, politics and cultural studies, it offers a fascinating... -
Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine Richard Brilliant 9781138246768
RRP: €72.58Booksplease Price: €64.43This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and... -
The Metaphysics by Aristotle 9780140446197
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought, translated from the with an... -
Captain Cook by Vanessa Collingridge 9780091888985 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €2.86A uniquely woven story encompassing three separate centuries and three different lives. Captain Cook, best known for his heroic voyages through the Pacific Ocean, is brought to life in vivid detail... -
Karl Marx: Man and Fighter by Boris Nicolaievsky
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.53Strife has raged about Karl Marx for decades, and never had it been so embittered as at the time of this book's first publication, 1936. Marx had impressed his image on the time as not other had done... -
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger 9780552773324 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €2.87John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of... -
Rural Rides by William Cobbett
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with... -
The Protestant Ethic Turns 100: Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis by William H. Swatos 9781594510991
RRP: €73.77Booksplease Price: €65.43Marking the centennial anniversary of the first publication of Max Weber's "Protestant Ethic" essays, a group of internationally recognized Weber scholars review the significance of Weber's essays by... -
The Invisible Hand by Adam Smith
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €6.53Adam Smith's landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to... -
Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila by Gavin Shatkin
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.36An estimated 600 million people now live in informal or 'squatter' settlements in the rapidly growing cities of the developing world. With such settlements often lacking basic necessities, there is... -
History and Society: Essays by R.H. Tawney by R. H. Tawney
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66R. H. Tawney believed that the subject of economic history raises questions which touch the fundamental concerns of all thinking people. By setting economic development firmly within the framework of... -
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in lifeThis landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek... -
Freedom Next Time by John Pilger
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of... -
Understanding Weber Sam Whimster (London Metropolitan University, UK) 9780415370769
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88Understanding Weber provides an accessible and comprehensive explanation of the central issues of Weber's work. Using the most recent scholarship and editions of Weber's writings, Sam Whimster... -
How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead by Dambisa Moyo
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46From the author of Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo's How the West was Lost explores how the 'first world' has its wasted inheritance with flawed economic policy - and what can be done to reverse the decline. ... -
Production and Distribution Theories George Stigler 9781560007104
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €54.66Production and Distribution Theories became a landmark in the study of economics when it was published in 1941. Nobel Laureate Stigler's book was the first to trace the development of theories... -
Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State: Theoretical Considerations by Raju J Das 9781032248813
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.60Marx's Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State examines the capitalist state in the abstract, and as it exists in advanced capitalism and peripheral capitalism, illustrating the ideas with... -
Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters by Simon Heffer 9780099537939 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €2.87"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer.""We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it."Simon Heffer's... -
Capital: Volume I by Karl Marx
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.41'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis. It is also a literary masterpice' Francis Wheen, GuardianOne of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9781857150612
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.94In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more misunderstood. First published in 1516, "Utopia" depicts an imaginary society free of private...