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Dragons for Sale by Robert E. Wheeler 9780879758271
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.06Fear and ignorance have run rampant throughout human history, stifling creativity and unleashing unspeakable cruelty. Those sinister mythical dragons that have often stood in the path of truth and... -
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Women and Men by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 9780879758844
Booksplease Price: £15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879758844Author Charlotte Perkins GilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 353Imprint Prometheus... -
False Security by Kenneth D. Myers 9780879759285
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.31Insurance is affordable protection for ourselves, our loved ones, and our belongings. As most people maintain some kind of insurance, it is also an extremely lucrative industry, generating billions... -
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo 9781573921091
Booksplease Price: £13.74David Ricardo (1772-1823), the founder of the classical school of economics, applied the deductive logic of the philosopher James Mill to the analysis of monetary principles. His chief work,... -
Exodus to Humanism: Jewish Identity Without Religion by David Ibry 9781573922678
Booksplease Price: £20.00The object of this book is to engage in a dialogue with the millions of the indifferent, the undecided, the don't knows and the don't cares who carry on pretending without any real conviction.Book... -
A Lethal Inheritance: A Mother Uncovers the Science Behind Three Generations of Mental Illness by Victoria Costello 9781616144661
Booksplease Price: £15.63Every family has secrets; only some secrets are lethal. In Victoria Costello's family mental illness had been given many names over at least four generations until this inherited conspiracy of... -
Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity (Revised & Expanded) by John W. Loftus 9781616145774
Booksplease Price: £16.86For about two decades John W. Loftus was a devout evangelical Christian, an ordained minister of the Church of Christ, and an ardent apologist for Christianity. With three degrees--in philosophy,... -
It Started with Copernicus: Vital Questions About Science by Keith Parsons 9781616149291
Booksplease Price: £15.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616149291Author Keith ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher... -
Divided on D-Day: How Leadership Failures Threatened the Normandy Invasion by Edward E. Gordon 9781633889071
Booksplease Price: £18.44Two historians--one American and one British--examine the ways in which rivalries and personality conflicts among Allied commanders adversely affected the D-Day invasion and its aftermath.In... -
The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us by Victor J. Stenger 9781616144432
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.44A number of authors have noted that if some physical parameters were slightly changed, the universe could no longer support life, as we know it. This implies that life depends sensitively on the... -
Science in a Nanosecond by James A. Haugt 9780879756376
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.68Journalist James Haught grew up in an Appalachian farm town in the 1930's and clearly remembers the use of outdoor plumbing, kerosene lamps, handle pumps, and horses and wagons. He now does his work... -
Flying Saucers Are Everywhere by Tom McHugh 9780879759827
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.07This irreverent, satirical look at the never-ending flying saucer controversy lampoons the full spectrum of the UFO "invasion", from the ancient astronaut theories to the evolution of today's alien... -
Understanding Senility by Virginia Fraser 9780879753924
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.56"Understanding "Senility"" is designed to provide basic information about Alzheimer's disease and to help families who are dealing with a mentally impaired older person. In clear, understandable... -
After the Stroke by Evelyn Shirk 9780879756949
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.77In just a few seconds - without warning - a stroke can shatter the life of its adult victim and radically affect the unsuspecting family. Confused, frightened, and completely unprepared, family... -
When Living Alone Means Living at Risk by Robert W. Buckingham 9780879758738
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.11This important book brings together an impressive array of experts who seek to assist family and friends in recognising the danger signs that surround an at-risk elder, and points out the vital, but... -
Religious Liberty and State Constitutions by Edd Doerr 9780879758394
Booksplease Price: £21.02This comprehensive volume brings together all of the religious liberty and church/state provisions of the fifty state constitutions. The only work of its kind, "Religious Liberty and State... -
Taking Time for Me by L. Katherine Karr 9780879757960
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.05If those who care for the ill and the infirm are to remain effective, they must confront the reality of stress and their obligation, both to themselves and their loved ones, to take the time to find... -
Morality and the Law by Robert M. Baird 9780879754747
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.60All civilised societies share a common desire for internal order and security. For this reason, among others, moral codes and legal structures are developed to give form to social belief systems, to... -
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley 9780879754990
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Throughout history, but most especially during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, great minds of philosophy grappled with two thorny questions: What are the objects of knowledge? and How do we... -
Vitamin Politics by John J. Fried 9780879752224
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.06'While millions of people in this country take moderate to massive doses of vitamins and minerals, only one in a thousand actually requires such a supplement in his or her diet. This book explores... -
Understanding Science by Arthur Strahler 9780879757243
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.54Humanity reaps the many advantages of science while bemoaning the frequent misapplications and abuses of modern technology. Yet, far too many of us admit to possessing little, if any, real knowledge... -
Dark Sky Legacy by George Reed 9780879755416
Booksplease Price: £30.26The way mankind has responded to the dark sky throughout history has determined humanity's scientific and cultural progress. In this way, astronomy is in some way connected to everything. This... -
Turncoats and True Believers by Ted Goetzel 9780879757557
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.32This book probes the psychology and group dynamics underlying political beliefs. The concepts of "left" and "right" are no longer adequate descriptions of the ideological landscape of our diverse... -
Fanatics and Hypocrites by Jay Newman 9780879753481
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.78In an age of terrorism, religious skirmishing, global revolution and counterrevolution, political assassinations, moral conflict, and unceasing turmoil, there are many ideas and concepts that remain... -
Between Home and Nursing Home by Ivy M. Down 9780879756192
Booksplease Price: £30.26America urgently needs innovative housing and care solutions for our growing population of older persons. For those who do not require or cannot afford costly, full-time nursing care, yet find it... -
This Is the Place by Ernest H. Taves 9780879756284
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.33The unfolding of the American West is paralleled by the evolution of the Mormon religion. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith. Public hostility to his... -
Mystical Diets by Jack Raso 9780879757618
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.09In writing "Mystical Diets", author Jack Raso, trained in scientific reasoning and a registered dietician, offers an accessible yet authoritative tool to assist laypersons and health professionals in... -
Mysterious Realms by Joe Nickell 9780879757656
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.17Investigative writer Joe Nickell and forensic analyst John F. Fischer probe ten tantalizing mysteries that, for decades, have defied rational analysis and convinced many people that supernatural... -
Looking for a Miracle by Joe Nickell 9780879758400
Booksplease Price: £25.41The willingness of people to believe in magical icons, mystical relics, and miraculous pictures (like the Image of Guadalupe) is almost as curious as these phenomena themselves. Though they cry out... -
Rediscovering the Moral Life by James Gouinlock 9780879758158
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.98Periodically, someone must remind philosophers of just how far removed they are from the all-too-real and vital human concerns that affect people's lives. Someone has to point the way to a philosophy... -
Extrasensory Deception by Henry Gordon 9780879754075
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.26In an eye-opening collection of essays, aptly titled "Extrasensory Deception", Gordon, a professional magician and journalist, takes on psychics, astrologers, myth-makers and other assorted purveyors... -
Vive la Difference by Anthony Walsh 9780879758523
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.18What is the first question our parents asked about us after we were born? Probably, 'Is it a boy or a girl?' No single fact about us is more significant than our sex. In any human culture, it... -
Once a Doctor, Always a Doctor by Heinz Hartmann 9780879753429
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.81Heinz Hartmann, a young, ambitious medical student, had fulfilled all the requirements for his degree in medicine except one - Aryan descent. As a Jew in the Germany of the 1930's, Hartmann saw his... -
My Return by Jack Henry Abbot 9780879753559
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.46"My Return" is sure to provoke intense public discussion and controversy. The author, Jack Henry Abbott, is now serving a fifteen-years-to-life sentence for the 1981 stabbing of Richard Adan, a young... -
Reviving the Left: The Need to Restore Liberal Values in America by Dwight Furrow 9781591027034
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.90In this fresh assessment of the liberal perspective on politics, philosopher Dwight Furrow explains how liberalism lost its moral credentials in the face of challenges from conservatives. He... -
King of the Mountain: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Chief Judge Sol Wachtler by John M. Caher 9781573921978
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.78This is a forthright picture of Wachtler's persecuted boyhood in North Carolina, his early years in law, his rise to the top of New York political circles, and his appointment as chief judge by... -
The Eldercare 911 Question and Answer Book by Susan Beerman 9781591022930
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.93Both the content and format of this new essential book show the authors' unique understanding of what caregivers need most and have the hardest time finding: direct, practical, problem-solving... -
Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and on the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery by Louis Pasteur 9781573920650
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.37Before the introduction of antisepsis and inoculation, people commonly died due to unsanitary conditions in the home, or following surgery or childbirth. Between them, the great scientists Louis... -
Immigration: Debating the Issues by Nicholas Capaldi 9781573921428
Booksplease Price: £18.44Nothing more precious is at stake than how we view ourselves as a nation. A white-hot flash point has ignited intense arguments over immigration. The source: an influx of illegal aliens crossing U.S... -
Islamic Mysticism: A Secular Perspective by Ibn Al-Rawandi 9781573927673
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.02Beneath the battle cries of the jihad and an Islamic politics that draws attention to a religion of rigid rules and obsessive devotion, lies the mystical Islam, known as Sufism. What attracts so many...