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Christianity and Political Philosophy Frederick D. Wilhelmsen 9781412852791
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Each chapter in Christianity and Political Philosophy addresses a philosophical problem generated by history. Frederick D. Wilhelmsen discusses the limits of natural law; Cicero and the politics of... -
Faith, War, and Violence by Gabriel R. Ricci
RRP: £66.99Booksplease Price: £61.79Faith, War, and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic... -
Leadership in Higher Education: Views from the Presidency by Francis L. Lawrence
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79In this collection of interviews, presidents and chancellors of some of America's most respected universities candidly reflect on their experiences during the decade leading up to the twenty-first... -
Literature and Mass Culture: Volume 1, Communication in Society Leo Lowenthal 9781412856980
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This first volume of the collected writings of sociologist Leo Lowenthal contains his classic theoretical and historical writings on the relationship of art to mass culture. This book series presents... -
The Changing Contract across Generations by Vern Bengtson
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.69Generational conflict has attracted considerable attention in the media and within academic circles during the past decade. At the center of this collection of papers analyzing various facets of that... -
Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century England by Louis Kronenberger
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The goal of Kings and Desperate Men is to provide a picture of eighteenth-century England up to the French Revolution. Kronenberger's work lies much closer to a social chronicle than an orthodox... -
Edmund Burke: Essential Works and Speeches by Peter J. Stanlis
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £47.29In this unique book, Peter J. Stanlis, the leading Burke scholar in America, has collected all the most important works and speeches of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman, political... -
Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes Over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage by Peter Baehr
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions-feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial-question the... -
The Golden Vanity by Isabel Paterson
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49In The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald told the tale of a high society love affair that became an iconic depiction of life during the Jazz Age of the 1920s. After the 1929 stock market crash, life... -
Genetic Theory of Reality by James Mark Baldwin
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59James Mark Baldwin left a legacy that has yet to be fully examined, one with profound implications for science and the humanities. In some sense it paralleled that of his friend Charles Sanders... -
Beyond Malice: The Media's Years of Reckoning by Richard M. Clurman
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The national news media, as now practiced, were born in the 1950s, revealed their strength in the 1960s (Vietnam), asserted it in the 1970s (Watergate), and were hammered for it in the 1980s. By the... -
History of Higher Education Annual: 1998: The Land-Grant ACT and American Higher Education: Contexts and Consequences by Roger L. Geiger
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412805445Author Roger L. GeigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint -
American Labor and American Democracy by William Walling
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93In American Labor and American Democracy, William English Walling drew on his close association with Samuel Gompers and other leaders of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to write the... -
Picking Judges by Nancy Maveety 9781412863308
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49What defines a president? Is it policymaking? A good relationship with the American people? Or is it legacy? Most would argue that legacy imprints a president in the American consciousness. A... -
Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not?: The Determinants of Health Populations by Morris Barer 9780202304892
Booksplease Price: £110.69Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the findings of a five-year study, under the auspices of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, that probed... -
Daydreams and Nightmares: Expanded Edition by Irving Horowitz 9781412845892
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63*Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography and Autobiography This is the story of the making of a world-famous sociologist. It is even more the story of a boy hustling to survive. Here... -
Aging, Representation, and Thought: Gestalt and Feature-Intensive Processing by Matthew J. Sharps 9781412847612
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The brain contains many distinct functional and anatomical regions. Despite these differences, brain tissues are sufficiently uniform in the fact that they can engage in various types of processing... -
Ideology and Social Knowledge Harold J. Bershady 9781412853682
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences. Harold J. Bershady sets forth Parsons' version of the characteristics... -
Musical Cognition: A Science of Listening Henkjan Honing 9781412852920
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music? Musical Cognition suggests that music is a game. In music, our cognitive functions such as perception, memory, attention, and... -
Information Technologies and Social Orders by Carl J. Couch 9781412865623
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14According to Carl J. Couch, the history of human society is one of successive, sometimes overlapping, information technologies used to process the various symbolic representations that inform social... -
Balancing Juvenile Justice by Susan Guarino-Ghezzi 9781412805049
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The juvenile justice system in the United States has become a detrimental rather than a remedial experience, one that often reinforces youths' defiance of authority. Trying juveniles as adults,... -
Business Groups and Financial Markets: A Weberian Analysis by Sandro Segre 9781412856850
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This work builds on the classical sociological contributions of Weber, Simmel, and Toennies, and makes the case for different and alternative ideal-typical models of business relations, which the... -
Social Problems, Social Issues, Social Science: The Society Papers by James D. Wright 9781412865012
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Sociology has tackled some of the most formidable problems that confront contemporary society: inequality, homelessness, violence, gender, and many more. Sociologists assert that hypotheses can be... -
Heidegger: The Man and the Thinker Thomas Sheehan 9781412810845
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Many people consider Martin Heidegger the most important German philosopher of the twentieth century. He is indisputably controversial and influential. Athough much has been written about Heidegger,... -
Knowledge and Networking: On Communication in the Social Sciences by Anton Oleinik 9781412864077
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Success and career growth in academic life depend upon reaching and influencing the widest audience possible. To do so, scientists strive to develop personalized trust. They do so by establishing... -
False Consciousness: An Essay on Mystification by Guenter Lewy 9781412864114
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In this book, Guenter Lewy explains and critiques the idea of false consciousness - that people living under capitalism do not know their best interests. This idea was prevalent in the writings of... -
Justifying Ethics: Human Rights and Human Nature by Jan Gorecki 9781412865302
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64Human rights include individual rights against government oppression, such as the right to freedom of thought, religion, speech, assembly, and to a fair system of criminal justice. But even in this... -
First of the Year: 2009: Volume II by Benj DeMott 9781412811668
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This is the second volume in the First of the Year Series. Contributors like Armond White, Philip Levine, Donna Gaines, Lawrence Goodwyn, Irving Louis Horowitz, Charles O'Brien, Fredric Smoler, Paul... -
Green Energy Economies: The Search for Clean and Renewable Energy by 9781412853750
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Green Energy Economies offers insight into the major drivers that are shaping a new future powered by clean energy sources. Assembling cutting-edge researchers as contributors, the book provides a... -
Shaping the Culture of Peace in a Multilateral World by Patrick Petit
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63As the world faces a multitude of complexly-interwoven challenges, new values and new worldviews are emerging to change the ways in which human beings relate to each other, to our planet, and to all... -
Childbed Fever: A Scientific Biography of Ignaz Semmelweis K. Codell Carter 9781412804677
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The life and work of Ignaz Semmelweis is among the most engaging and moving stories in the history of science. Childbed Fever makes the Semmelweis story available to a general audience, while placing... -
What Do Unions Do?: A Twenty-year Perspective James T. Bennett 9781412805940
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984, the book proved to be a landmark because it... -
An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan's Dictatorship David L. Phillips 9781412865456
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey has descended into a dictatorship, promotes the Islamist agenda, abuses human rights, limits freedom of expression in the press, and wages war against... -
A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture Russell Fraser 9781412805834
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79In this volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen explores the U.S. Constitution's place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life, from ratification in 1788... -
Creative Ecologies: Where Thinking Is a Proper Job Bronislaw Malinowski 9781412814287
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The main question of our age is how we live our lives. As we struggle with this question, we face others. How do we handle ideas and knowledge, both our own and those of others? What relationship to... -
The Common Law Tradition: A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars by George W. Liebmann
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This book commemorates a place and a time in American law teaching, but more importantly, an outlook: the common law tradition. That outlook was empirical and tolerant. These values were carried into... -
A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Volume 2, Baroque, Rococo and Enlightenment Egon Friedell 9781412810241
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14This is the second volume of Friedell's monumental A Cultural History of the Modern Age. A key figure in the flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars, this three volume work is... -
Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians by Alan P. Merriam
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19All people, in no matter what culture, must be able to place their music firmly in the context of the totality of their beliefs, experiences, and activities, for without such ties, music cannot exist... -
Art in Crisis: The Lost Center Hans Sedlmayr 9781412806077
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic... -
In the Shadows of the Holocaust and Communism: Czech and Slovak Jews Since 1945 Alena Heitlinger 9781412849562
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49When traumatic historical events and transformations coincide with one's entry into young adulthood, the personal and historical significance of life-course transitions interact and intensify. In...