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Educating the Democratic Mind by Walter C. Parker 9780791427088
Booksplease Price: $36.42Addresses the question: How can schools help shape young minds to address the challenges of a democratic society?There can be no democracy without democrats, and democrats are made, not born. This... -
William Marshal by David Crouch
Booksplease Price: $63.42David Crouch's William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and a brutal but efficient... -
Espionage and Secrecy (Routledge Revivals): The Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989 of the United Kingdom Rosamund Thomas 9781138686915
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.39This prize-winning book, first published in 1991, provides a detailed legal account of the development of the UK Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989. In particular, the Espionage section (s.1) of this... -
Immortality by Paul Edwards
Booksplease Price: $24.82Is there life after death or do we simply cease to exist? Renowned scholar Paul Edwards has compiled Immortality, a superb group of philosophical selections featuring the work of both classical and... -
The Ecological Community by Roger S. Gottlieb 9780415916127
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36The Ecological Community offers important and previously unexplored responses to the environmental crisis. The premise of this volume, writes editor Roger Gottlieb, is that the environmental crisis... -
Cohort Analysis in Social Research: Beyond the Identification Problem by W. M. Mason 9781461385387
Booksplease Price: $60.09The existence of the present volume can be traced to methodological concerns about cohort analysis, all of which were evident throughout most of the social sciences by the late 1970s. For some social... -
Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers by William C. Banfield 9780252044823
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $82.56Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield’s acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid... -
The Colorful Conservative: American Conversations with the Ancients from Wheatley to Whitman by R. O. P. Lopez 9780761856276
Booksplease Price: $73.09In The Colorful Conservative, R.O.P. Lopez culls important insights into American culture from the works of Phillis Wheatley, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, William Wells Brown, and Walt... -
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages: Beyond Evil by Christopher Berry-Dee 9781789461152 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.84'I wrapped duct tape around her mouth and her nose and watched her suffocate to death . . . then I went back to work' - former Colonel David Russell Williams of the Royal Canadian Air Force,... -
Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers by William C. Banfield
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield's acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid... -
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages: Beyond Evil by Christopher Berry-Dee
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.31'I wrapped duct tape around her mouth and her nose and watched her suffocate to death . . . then I went back to work' - former Colonel David Russell Williams of the Royal Canadian Air Force,... -
A Painted Ridge: Rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa by David Mendel Witelson 9781789692440
Booksplease Price: $47.02A Painted Ridge is a book about the San (Bushmen) practice of rock painting. In it, David Witelson explores a suite of spatially close San rock painting sites in the Maclear District of South... -
Acknowledging the Divine Benefactor: The Second Letter of Peter by Terrance Callan 9780227175217
Booksplease Price: $30.87'Acknowledging the Divine Benefactor' is a socio-rhetorical interpretation of the Second Letter of Peter. Using multiple interpretive perspectives and emphasising the pictorial dimensions of 2 Peter,... -
Myth and Meaning: San-Bushman Folklore in Global Context by J. D. Lewis-Williams 9781629581552
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological stories of the San-Bushmen to create a larger theory of how... -
The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies by Hamar Foster 9780774814911
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $88.13The essays in this volume reflect the exciting new directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. The contributors show how local life and culture in... -
Wildlife Management and Landscapes: Principles and Applications by William F. Porter
Booksplease Price: $89.93Wildlife management specialists and landscape ecologists offer a new perspective on the important intersection of these fields in the twenty-first century.It's been clear for decades that... -
Molecular Astrophysics by A. G. G. M. Tielens 9781107169289
Booksplease Price: $130.96Focusing on the organic inventory of regions of star and planet formation in the interstellar medium of galaxies, this comprehensive overview of the molecular universe is an invaluable reference... -
China and the Globalization of Biomedicine by David Luesink
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $117.88Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of... -
Charley Patton: Voice of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Sacre 9781496816139
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $91.77Contributions by Luther Allison, John Broven, Daniel Droixhe, David Evans, William Ferris, Jim O'Neal, Mike Rowe, Robert Sacre, Arnold Shaw, and Dick ShurmanFifty years after Charley Patton's death... -
Charley Patton: Voice of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Sacre 9781496818560
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Contributions by Luther Allison, John Broven, Daniel Droixhe, David Evans, William Ferris, Jim O'Neal, Mike Rowe, Robert Sacre, Arnold Shaw, and Dick ShurmanFifty years after Charley Patton's death... -
Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage by Haru Matsukata Reischauer 9780674788015
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $38.42Samurai and Silk is a rare treasure: a book of penetrating insight into the Japanese character and the forging of modern Japan from the feudal Tokugawa shoguns to present day economic titans. Only... -
Irma Stern: African in Europe - European in Africa by Sean O'Toole
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.21The vivid and powerful expressionist paintings of Irma Stern were a key factor in the modernization of early 20th-century South African art. Although she was widely recognized during her lifetime,... -
Rousseau’s Republicanism: The Hope of the Just by Megan K. Dyer 9781666918373
Booksplease Price: $105.10Reading Rousseau as a republican thinker might seem almost too obvious a proposition. All the same, the Genevan is often struck from accounts of modern republicanism given by those associated with... -
International Human Resource Development: Learning, Education and Training for Individuals and Organizations John P. Wilson 9780749461065
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $56.30International Human Resource Development provides thought-provoking questions and stimulating answers to key issues in human resource development today, putting HRD in its strategic organizational... -
Theological Reflection and the Pursuit of Ideals: Theology, Human Flourishing and Freedom Dale Wright 9781032179803
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Contemporary thought is marked by heated debates about the character, purpose and form of religious thinking and its relation to a range of ideals: spiritual, moral, aesthetic, political and... -
Richard's Himself Again: A Stage History of Richard III by J. Scott Colley 9780313262937
Booksplease Price: $79.89One of a handful of great Shakespearean roles, the part of Richard of Gloucester has maintained its importance from the beginning of its performance history in the late 1690s and has assumed an... -
Air: The Restless Shaper of the World by William Bryant Logan 9780393345391
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.36Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live, exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and rise, make clouds and fall again, fertilizing the dirt. Twenty thousand... -
MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning: Volume 1: Strategies by Richard Colwell 9780195386684
Booksplease Price: $85.63The MENC Handbook of Research on Music Learning, Volume 1: Strategies brings together the best and most current research on methods for music learning, focusing squarely on the profession's empirical... -
A Philosophy to Live By: Engaging Iris Murdoch by Maria Antonaccio 9780199855575
Booksplease Price: $138.40Iris Murdoch's philosophy has long attracted readers searching for a morally serious yet humane perspective on human life. Her eloquent call for "a theology which can continue without God" has been... -
Tales from Sacred Wind: Coming of Age in Appalachia. The Cratis Williams Chronicles. by Cratis D. Williams 9780786414901
Booksplease Price: $38.36Prior to his death in 1985, Cratis Williams was a leading scholar of and spokesperson for Appalachian life and literature and a pioneer of the Appalachian studies movement. Williams was born in a... -
Street Crhymes by Justin Rollins 9781904380993
Booksplease Price: $18.33Justin Rollins has a remarkable ability. His poems emerge not from agonising over a blank sheet of paper, but in rap-like fashion, in full-flow and in their complete form. This collection takes the... -
Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 10: 1942–1944 T. S. Eliot 9780571396498
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $52.58'What is accomplished by this sort of cultural warfare is impossible to say: but it [is] a part of total warfare which one must, as an individual, accept one's part in.'At the height of the Second... -
Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York by Cathy D. Matson
Booksplease Price: $35.99In Merchants and Empire, Cathy Matson examines the economic ideas and behavior of New York City's commercial wholesalers, especially the middling merchants who, as a majority of active traders,... -
America Ascendant: The Rise of American Exceptionalism by Dennis M. Spragg 9781640121430
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $32.06America Ascendant vividly portrays the global crisis that brought the media and the government into an alliance that changed the course of American and world history. President Franklin D. Roosevelt... -
The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars by Anthony D'Agostino 9780521154246
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $39.67Does a system of great powers necessarily imply a struggle for world primacy? Do great states merely hold onto what is theirs, or do they reach for more? Anthony D'Agostino offers a fascinating new... -
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660 - Tawney`s Agrarian Problem Revisited by Jane Whittle 9781843838500
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $24.79Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late Tudor and early modern Britain. This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the... -
The Ballad and its Pasts - Literary Histories and the Play of Memory by David Atkinson
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $105.84A new approach to the mysterious ballads, and their relationship with the past. Katharine Briggs Award 2018: Runner Up The ballad genre, and its material, are frequently backward-looking in... -
Smith's Law of Theft by Professor David Ormerod 9780199299898
RRP: $138.68Booksplease Price: $131.43Smith's Law of Theft has long been established as the definitive work on the subject and is frequently cited in the appellate courts. Now in its ninth edition, the book provides a detailed and... -
God in Postliberal Perspective: Between Realism and Non-Realism by Robert Andrew Cathey 9781032099514
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Who is God? The variety of images of God tends to overwhelm us in the present age. Is 'God' a fiction of human construction, or a reality that makes claims upon how we practice 'faith in God'? How... -
The Shapeshifting Crown: Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK by Cris Shore
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $121.79The Crown stands at the heart of the New Zealand, British, Australian and Canadian constitutions as the ultimate source of legal authority and embodiment of state power. A familiar icon of the...