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Public Reason in Political Philosophy: Classic Sources and Contemporary Commentaries by Piers Norris Turner
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08When people of good faith and sound mind disagree deeply about moral, religious, and other philosophical matters, how can we justify political institutions to all of them? The idea of public... -
Desire and the Female Therapist: Engendered Gazes in Psychotherapy and Art Therapy by Joy Schaverien
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Desire and the Female Therapist is one of the first full-length explorations of erotic transference and countertransference from the point of view of the female therapist. Particular attention is... -
Political Pluralism, Disagreement and Justice: The Case for Polycentric Democracy by Julian F. Muller 9780367728892
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44This book poses the question: How can we organize society in such a way that our disagreement about facts and norms works to the benefit of everyone? In response, it makes the argument for... -
Natural Philosophy: On Retrieving a Lost Disciplinary Imaginary by Alister McGrath 9780192865731
Booksplease Price: £39.21Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern world This book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a concept that faded into comparative obscurity as... -
Understanding Structural Equation Models: Models of Relationships Between Variables Phillip K. Wood 9781032962429
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14The field of structural equation models (SEMs) is rapidly expanding. A researcher who wants to select and apply SEMs to their data faces several challenges: (1) They can often become extremely... -
Uncharted: How to Map the Future by Margaret Heffernan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'An urgent read ... Karl Popper for the 21st century' Robert Phillips, former CEO, Edelman EMEA and author of Trust me, PR is Dead 'Heffernan is ... a deft storyteller. Uncharted is ... wise and... -
Towards an Economics of Natural Equals: A Documentary History of the Early Virginia School by David M. Levy 9781108428972
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £98.84The Virginia School's economics of natural equals makes consent critical for policy. Democracy is understood as government by discussion, not majority rule. The claim of efficiency unsupported by... -
Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology Susan Haack (University of Miami) 9780631196792
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £32.02In this important new work, Haack develops an original theory of empirical evidence or justification, and argues its appropriateness to the goals of inquiry. In so doing, Haack provides detailed... -
Wellsprings by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.41When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa-Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public... -
Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire by Malachi Haim Hacohen 9781316510377
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £85.17Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional... -
Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings by Michael Ruse 9780691135540
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.76Wittgenstein famously remarked in 1923, "Darwin's theory has no more relevance for philosophy than any other hypothesis in natural science." Yet today we are witnessing a major revival of interest in... -
A Farewell to Truth by Gianni Vattimo 9780231153089
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "truth" in politics has become a game of interpretations. Today, we face the demise of the very idea of truth as an objective... -
Thinking in Circles About Obesity: Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management by Tarek K. A. Hamid 9780387094687
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.10Today's children may well become the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will be shorter than that of their parents. The culprit, public health experts agree, is obesity and its... -
A Farewell to Truth by Gianni Vattimo 9780231153096
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "truth" in politics has become a game of interpretations. Today, we face the demise of the very idea of truth as an objective... -
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought by Tae-Yeoun Keum
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.56Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the HumanitiesWinner of the Istvan Hont Book PrizeAn ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato's basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of... -
Essays I: On the Sociology of Knowledge and the Sciences by Norbert Elias 9781906359010
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.65Between the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a wide range of topics. About a third of them have not previously appeared in English, and many of... -
Organization at the Limit: Lessons from the Columbia Disaster William Starbuck (New York University) 9781405131087
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £24.87The book offers important insight relevant to Corporate, Government and Global organizations management in general. The internationally recognised authors tackle vital issues in decision making, how... -
Stalking Nabokov by Brian Boyd 9780231158565
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.53At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part,... -
Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought by James T. Kloppenberg 9780190056711
Booksplease Price: £37.08In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled to envision and achieve it. The story of democracy... -
Michael Oakeshott by Edmund Neill 9781441141323
Booksplease Price: £36.44British philosopher Michael Oakeshott is widely considered as one of a key conservative thinkers of the 20th century. After publishing many works on religion, he became mostly known for his works on...