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Maigret's Anger: Inspector Maigret #61 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray During a quiet spell in June Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman. When a body is discovered near the famous... -
Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society by Jerry Z. Muller 9780691001616
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $63.82Counter to the popular impression that Adam Smith was a champion of selfishness and greed, Jerry Muller shows that the Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations maintained that... -
Political Order: Nomos XXXVIII by Ian Shapiro
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $46.37The collapse of the Soviet empire stands as a dramatic reminder that political institutions are human creations that can be designed more or less well. The question of what constitutes a viable... -
Maigret and the Nahour Case: Inspector Maigret #65 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.13'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is shocked to recognise a... -
A Multimodal and Ethnographic Approach to Textbook Discourse by Germán Canale 9780367707330
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82This book offers a new framework for analysing textbook discourse, bridging the gap between contemporary ethnographic approaches and multimodality for a contextually sensitive approach which... -
Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice by William A. Galston 9780521012492
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $54.48William Galston is a distinguished political philosopher whose work is informed by the experience of having also served from 1993-5 as President Clinton's Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy. He is... -
Understanding Business: Markets: A Multidimensional Approach to the Market Economy Vivek Suneja 9780415405010
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $65.38How do markets work? Are there different types of market? Markets are central to business enterprise and to a wide range of social activities. Following the collapse of communism, the market economy... -
Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal by D. Conway 9780312219321
Booksplease Price: $78.76This text defends the ideal of minimum government against the charges put forward by egalitarian welfare liberals, communitarians and conservatives, arguing it best advances human well being.Springer... -
Maigret and the Saturday Caller: Inspector Maigret #59 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret intervenes and speaks to the... -
Cecile is Dead: Inspector Maigret #20 by Georges Simenon 9780141397054
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult... -
Maigret's Memoirs: Inspector Maigret #35 by Georges Simenon 9780241240175
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.31'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if possible, than before, but... -
Maigret and the Tramp: Inspector Maigret #60 Georges Simenon 9780241303993
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.31'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to figure out just who... -
Maigret's First Case: Inspector Maigret #30 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist ... he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest, a man capable of understanding... -
My Friend Maigret: Inspector Maigret #31 Georges Simenon 9780241206393
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun . . . It really felt as if they were stepping into another world,... -
Maigret and the Old Lady: Inspector Maigret #33 Georges Simenon 9780241206829
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'He had realized that it was her eyes as much as her vivacity that made her look so young. They were of a blue that was paler than the September sky... -
Maigret and the Tall Woman: Inspector Maigret #38 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.31'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'When he had set them to work, Maigret had had a merry, almost fierce glint in his eye. He had set them loose on the house like a pack of hounds on... -
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780393329339
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.76Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy-as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents-Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a... -
Mathematics Form and Function by Saunders MacLane 9781461293408
RRP: $233.98Booksplease Price: $219.22This book records my efforts over the past four years to capture in words a description of the form and function of Mathematics, as a background for the Philosophy of Mathematics. My efforts have... -
Night at the Crossroads: Inspector Maigret #6 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.13'She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent's dream. 'I gather you wish to talk to me,... -
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.31Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing... -
Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders - The Golden Age - The Breakdown by Leszek Kolakowski 9780393329438
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $66.61Renowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and the dangers posed by communist regimes. He now presents, for the first time in one paperback... -
Maigret Takes a Room: Inspector Maigret #37 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither less cheerful nor less... -
The Politics of Risk Society Jane Franklin (South Bank University) 9780745619255
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.63We live in a runaway world. New patterns of risk and uncertainty threaten the stability of our traditional institutions. To make sense of these profound changes in our lives, and invent new politics... -
The Two-Penny Bar: Inspector Maigret #11 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.31'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves 'A radiant late afternoon. The sunshine almost as thick as syrup in the quiet streets of the Left Bank . . .there are days like... -
The Saint-Fiacre Affair: Inspector Maigret #13 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.31'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves Maigret savoured the sensations of his youth again: the cold, stinging eyes, frozen fingertips, an aftertaste of coffee. Then,... -
Liberty Bar: Inspector Maigret #17 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.31'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves It had a smell of holidays. The previous evening, in Cannes harbour, with the setting sun, had also had the smell of holidays,... -
Felicie: Inspector Maigret #25 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.31'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert nose and especially the... -
The Madman of Bergerac: Inspector Maigret #15 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep? - his sighs, and his sobbing. Then the two dangling... -
Maigret Sets a Trap: Inspector Maigret #48 by Georges Simenon 9780241297643
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'The most addictive of writers' Observer 'High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables where rose wine was being served ... Yet a hundred... -
Maigret in New York: Inspector Maigret #27 by Georges Simenon 9780241206362
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.31'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? . . . Little John had cold eyes! . . . Four or five times in his life, he had met people... -
Maigret's Dead Man: Inspector Maigret #29 by Georges Simenon 9780241206379
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series.'That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying... -
The Flemish House: Inspector Maigret #14 by Georges Simenon
Booksplease Price: $19.60'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly,... -
Maigret Gets Angry: Inspector Maigret #26 by Georges Simenon 9780141397320
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.31'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray All that was still unclear, for sure. Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret with a smile that was a mixture of sarcasm and... -
Maigret's Holiday: Inspector Maigret #28 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.31'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket?It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper,... -
Maigret and the Ghost: Inspector Maigret #62 Georges Simenon 9780241304037
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.13'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray It wasn't a traditional painter's smock that Madam Jonker was wearing. It was more a Dominican's monk's habit, the fabric as thick and soft as a... -
Maigret Goes to School: Inspector Maigret #44 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or, rather, futility. He would find... -
Maigret at Picratt's: Inspector Maigret #36 by Georges Simenon 9780241240281
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.31'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'He opened the door for her and watched her walk away down the huge corridor, then hesitate at the top of the stairs. Heads turned as she passed. You... -
Maigret at the Coroner's: Inspector Maigret #32 by Georges Simenon 9780241206812
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was incapable of figuring... -
Madame Maigret's Friend: Inspector Maigret #34 by Georges Simenon 9780241240168
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell any food. He went in, crossed the dining room, where... -
The Cellars of the Majestic: Inspector Maigret #21 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess . . . In a suite that costs more...