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Readings of Wittgenstein's On Certainty by Daniele Moyal-Sharrock 9780230535527
Booksplease Price: £90.56This is the first collection of papers devoted to Ludwig Wittgenstein's cryptic but brilliant, On Certainty . This work, Wittgenstein's last, extends the thinking of his earlier, better known... -
Understanding Eyewitness Memory: Theory and Applications by Sean M. Lane 9781479842513
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £57.86An essential overview of how perception and memory affect eyewitness testimony In 1981, sixteen-year-old Michael Williams was convicted on charges of aggravated rape based on the victim's eyewitness... -
New Left, New Right and Beyond: Taking the Sixties Seriously by G. Andrews 9781349409952
Booksplease Price: £46.28The 1960s represented a defining turning-point in the politics and cultures of western societies. But what of the lasting political and cultural legacies of the sixties? In this book a range of... -
Making the Case: Advocacy and Judgment in Public Argument by Kathryn M. Olson 9781611860528
RRP: £76.95Booksplease Price: £41.73In an era when the value of the humanities and qualitative inquiry has been questioned in academia and beyond, Making the Case is an engaging and timely collection that brings together a veritable... -
Pyrrhonian Skepticism by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 9780195169720
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.83Throughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Yet the only skeptical view that has been truly held--by Sextus, Montaigne, Hume,... -
International Political Theory after Hobbes: Analysis, Interpretation and Orientation by Raia Prokhovnik 9780230241145
Booksplease Price: £46.74The idea of international political theory after Hobbes is a timely and lively focus through which to raise key questions about international politics, and to set up dialogues between historical... -
Teaching and Learning Geography Daniella Tilbury 9780415142441
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This book provides a clear overview of current thinking on the teaching and learning of geography. It is an ideal companion to all students beginning a career in teaching the subject in secondary... -
Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods M. Williams 9780230355446
Booksplease Price: £48.40Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for... -
Film Stardom, Myth and Classicism: The Rise of Hollywood's Gods by M. Williams 9781349347155
Booksplease Price: £48.40Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hollywood to divinise stars as Apollos and Venuses for... -
Star Attractions: Twentieth-Century Movie Magazines and Global Fandom by Tamar Jeffers McDonald 9781609386733
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £38.43During Hollywood's 'classic era,' from the 1920s to 1950s, roughly twenty major fan magazines were offered each month at American newsstands and abroad. These publications famously fed fan obsessions... -
Conversations with Kentucky Writers II by L.Elisabeth Beattie
Booksplease Price: £40.90In this sequel to Conversations with Kentucky Writers, L. Elisabeth Beattie brings together in-depth interviews with sixteen of the state's premiere wordsmiths. This new volume offers the... -
The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations by Michael C. Williams 9780521827522
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £81.70Realism is commonly portrayed as theory that reduces international relations to pure power politics. Michael Williams provides an important reexamination of the Realist tradition and its relevance... -
The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations by Michael C. Williams 9780521534758
Booksplease Price: £32.12Realism is commonly portrayed as theory that reduces international relations to pure power politics. Michael Williams provides an important reexamination of the Realist tradition and its relevance... -
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition by Richard Rorty 9780691178158
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.93When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers... -
New Left, New Right and Beyond: Taking the Sixties Seriously by G. Andrews 9780333741474
Booksplease Price: £46.28The 1960s represented a defining turning-point in the politics and cultures of western societies. But what of the lasting political and cultural legacies of the sixties? In this book a range of... -
Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities: Experience with Younger Children by John Chi-kin Lee 9781402096853
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development principally in Chinese contexts. It highlights contexts and case studies... -
Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this... -
Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities: Experience with Younger Children by John Chi-kin Lee 9789048181827
Booksplease Price: £92.61This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development principally in Chinese contexts. It highlights contexts and case studies... -
The Future of Quality News Journalism: A Cross-Continental Analysis by Peter J. Anderson
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08In the face of the continuously changing challenges of the digital age, it is difficult for quality news journalism to survive on any significant scale if a means for adequately funding it is not... -
Richard Rorty Alan Malachowski 9781902683133
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Richard Rorty is notorious for contending that the traditional, foundation-building and truth-seeking ambitions of systematic philosophy should be set aside in favour of a more pragmatic,... -
Anton Walbrook: A Life of Masks and Mirrors by James Downs 9781789977103
RRP: £59.40Booksplease Price: £53.16"In this first Walbrook biography, Downs perfectly captures the private story and the public persona of a greatly underexplored performer, combining facts, such as when Walbrook first obtained his... -
Understanding Eyewitness Memory: Theory and Applications by Sean M. Lane
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70An essential overview of how perception and memory affect eyewitness testimony In 1981, sixteen-year-old Michael Williams was convicted on charges of aggravated rape based on the victim's eyewitness... -
Call Me by Your Name: Perspectives on the Film Edward Lamberti 9781789389425
Booksplease Price: £111.53Adapted by James Ivory from Andre Aciman's novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among audiences and critics ever since its 2017 release... -
Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism: Designing and Evaluating Evidence-Based Programs by Michael J. Williams
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This textbook serves as a guide to design and evaluate evidence-based programs intended to prevent or counter violent extremism (P/CVE).Violent extremism and related hate crimes are problems which... -
Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture by Liz Gloyn 9781350109612
Booksplease Price: £30.23What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling? Why do the monsters of antiquity continue to stride across the modern world? In this book, the first in-depth study... -
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement by Graham Gooch
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.58A Dictionary of Law Enforcement is the only dictionary available with a primary focus on UK law enforcement terms. Succinct and practical in its approach, it contains over 3,400 entries covering ever... -
Making a Difference: Essays on the Philosophy of Causation by Helen Beebee 9780198746911
Booksplease Price: £101.24Making a Difference presents fifteen original essays on causation and counterfactuals by an international team of experts. Collectively, they represent the state of the art on these topics. The... -
Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India Christian Wolmar 9781782397670
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, an Empire that needed a rail network to facilitate its exploitation and reflect its ambition. But, by building India's railways, Britain... -
Law, Science, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare: The Quest for Humanity in Conflict Stephanie Carvin (University of Ottawa) 9781107637139
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Founded and rooted in Enlightenment values, the United States is caught between two conflicting imperatives when it comes to war: achieving perfect security through the annihilation of threats; and a... -
Meaning Without Representation: Essays on Truth, Expression, Normativity, and Naturalism by Steven Gross 9780198722199
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £100.10Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a... -
Devotions on the Hebrew Bible: 54 Reflections to Inspire and Instruct by Milton Eng 9780310494539
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Fifty-four short devotions based on passages from the Hebrew Bible--written by some of the top biblical language scholars of today. The main point of each meditation in Devotions on the Hebrew Bible... -
Sellars and his Legacy by James R. O'Shea 9780198766872
Booksplease Price: £85.85This collection of new essays on the systematic thought and intellectual legacy of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) comes at a time when Sellars's influence on contemporary... -
Delighting in the Law of the Lord: God's Alternative to Legalism and Moralism by Jerram Barrs 9781433537134
Booksplease Price: £22.44Sometimes the Bible's rules can appear to be outdated and overbearing. In this eye-opening book, Barrs highlights the wisdom and beauty of God's perfect law, demonstrating its crucial importance for... -
The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste: The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective by Malcolm Pryce
Booksplease Price: £10.86Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detectives created at the Weeping Cross Railway Servants' Orphanage, who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the... -
Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr by Michael Vinson Williams 9781557286468
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers was well aware of the dangers he would face when he challenged the status quo in Mississippi in the 1950s and '60s, a place and time known for the brutal... -
Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent Hollywood by Agata Frymus
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.402020 Best Early Career Research Monograph, Monash University Malaysia Damsels and Divas investigates the meanings of Europeanness in Hollywood during the 1920s by charting professional trajectories... -
Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent Hollywood by Agata Frymus 9781978806092
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.402020 Best Early Career Research Monograph, Monash University Malaysia Damsels and Divas investigates the meanings of Europeanness in Hollywood during the 1920s by charting professional trajectories... -
Mapping Queerness in Times of Uncertainty: Stories of Struggle, Invisibility and Space Arnaud Kurze 9781032934389
Booksplease Price: £60.08This book offers a new critical perspective on emerging and alternative 'spaces' for emancipation within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. It considers these across... -
From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars by Robert B. Brandom 9780674187283
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.56The American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading twentieth-century critics of empiricism-a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience... -
The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies: Schools for the Knowledge Society by Kerry J. Kennedy 9780415586887
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Walk into a classroom in Tokyo, New York, London or Rotterdam, and the similarities in structure, activity, purpose and style will outweigh differences in language, dress and ethnic characteristics...