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On Politics by Alan Ryan
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.83A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan RyanThis is a book about the answers that... -
Justice by Alan Ryan 9780198780380
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $94.86This collection of extracts from works by philosophers, political theorists, and social critics ranges over two millennia, from the ideas of Plato and Aristotle to those of contemporary thinkers such... -
The Making of Modern Liberalism by Alan Ryan
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $99.41The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and... -
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America by Alan Ryan 9781631490590
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.56In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 and went on to catalogue the unique features of the... -
Reader's Companion to Cuba by Alan Ryan 9780156003674
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $46.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156003674Author Alan RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
The Making of Modern Liberalism by Alan Ryan 9780691163680
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and... -
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory by Alan Ryan 9781631490583
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.33For his insistence on the amoral character of successful government, Machiavelli remains a contentious figure. Often reviled as a teacher of evil, Machiavelli's influence on the modern state is... -
The Reader's Companion to Ireland by Alan Ryan 9780156005593
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $40.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156005593Author Alan RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
The Reader's Companion to Alaska by Alan Ryan 9780156003681
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $48.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156003681Author Alan RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
The Philosophy of The Social Sciences by Alan Ryan 9780333109724
Booksplease Price: $98.15Are the Social Sciences in principle a different and more dubious undertaking than the Natural Sciences? This book is an introduction to the major problems of the philosophy of social science. It... -
On Marx: Revolutionary and Utopian by Alan Ryan 9781631490606
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.48In On Marx, Alan Ryan examines Marx's writing, not within the framework of Lenin or Tolstoy but within its own time, tracing its Hegelian roots and providing a sterling explication and critique of... -
A Guide to Careers in Physical Anthropology by Alan Ryan 9780897896931
Booksplease Price: $161.30The field of physical anthropology deals with issues that everyone thinks about and cares about: our origins, our evolutionary history, and why we look and act the way we do. The field has benefited... -
Bertrand Russell: A Political Life by Alan Ryan 9780374528201
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $32.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528201Author Alan RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Farrar, Strauss &... -
J.S. Mill (Routledge Revivals) Alan Ryan 9781138683365
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.19First published in 1974. As logician, economist, political theorist, practical politician and active champion of social freedom, John Stuart Mill is a figure of continuing importance. In this book... -
On Augustine: The Two Cities Alan Ryan (Princeton University) 9780871407078
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81Augustine's political philosophy is pregnant with arguments that racked not only Christian Europe but also much of the modern world. In On Augustine Alan Ryan carefully lays out the complicated... -
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Alan Ryan 9781631490576
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.41In On Aristotle, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic. Aristotle was the first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men. His strongly... -
On Hobbes: Escaping the War of All Against All by Alan Ryan
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.29In Leviathan, Hobbes created the idea of a "social contract" and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of government. In On Hobbes, Ryan explains how he... -
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America Alan Ryan (Princeton University) 9780871407047
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 and went on to catalogue the unique features of the... -
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory Alan Ryan (Princeton University) 9780871407054
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.38In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of Italian... -
John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism by Alan Ryan 9780393315509
RRP: $70.35Booksplease Price: $62.16When John Dewey died in 1952, he was memorialized as America's most famous philosopher, revered by liberal educators and deplored by conservatives, but universally acknowledged as his country's... -
Magpie: A tender journey into the broken heart of Austrralia by Alan Ryan 9780954852948
Booksplease Price: $26.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954852948Author Alan RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Gone Walkabout BooksPublisher Gone... -
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy Alan Ryan (Princeton University) 9780871407061
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science,... -
Chosen & Unfrozen: James 2:5 by Dr Martin Alan Bryant 9798887033501
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887033501Author Dr Martin Alan BryantFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Litprime... -
Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial Clive Webb 9781800812338
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.75Guilty: the conclusion of many trials. But this verdict was unusual, delivered by a jury of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, among them Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, James... -
Isaiah Berlin in the Twenty-First Century: Liberal Pluralism for Troubled Times George Crowder 9780367764647
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58Isaiah Berlin is well known as a defender of liberal democracy in the Cold War. In this path-breaking study, George Crowder argues that Berlin's ideas have application beyond their original context... -
Streets of Blood: Vampire Stories from New York City by Lawrence Schimel 9781888952780
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.35The stories in Streets of Blood all take place in the greater New York City area. Authors include Mercedes Lackey, Norma Collins, Laura Ann Gilman, Edward Bryant, Evelyn E. Smith, Esther F. Friesner,... -
Streets of Blood: Vampire Stories from New York City by Lawrence Schimel 9781630264291
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $36.75The stories in Streets of Blood all take place in the greater New York City area. Authors include Mercedes Lackey, Norma Collins, Laura Ann Gilman, Edward Bryant, Evelyn E. Smith, Esther F. Friesner,... -
Mill's A System of Logic: Critical Appraisals by Antis Loizides 9780815371946
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.38John Stuart Mill considered his A System of Logic, first published in 1843, the methodological foundation and intellectual groundwork of his later works in ethical, social, and political theory. Yet... -
Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.40Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct,... -
Redeeming The Prince: The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece by Maurizio Viroli
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.19In Redeeming "The Prince," one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western... -
Redeeming The Prince: The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece by Maurizio Viroli 9780691160016
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94In Redeeming "The Prince," one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western... -
J.S. Mill's On Liberty in Focus by John Gray
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58This volume brings together J.S. Mills On Liberty and a selection of important essays by such eminent scholars as Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, John Rees, C.L. Ten and Richard Wollheim. As well as... -
Fit: An Architect's Manifesto by Robert Geddes 9780691155753
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.98Fit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. Distinguished architect and urbanist Robert Geddes argues... -
Globalizing Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1999 by Matthew J. Gibney
Booksplease Price: $57.67This book, based on the prestigious Oxford Amnesty Lecture series, investigates the relationship between globalization and human rights. The contributors come to the subject from a wide range of... -
The Economic Borders of the State by Dieter Helm 9780198286066
Booksplease Price: $245.53One of the central themes of politics in the 1980s was the rolling back of the state's economic borders, placing greater emphasis on the role of individual choice and markets allocating resources... -
Trozas by B. Traven 9781566630443
Booksplease Price: $49.33This first English translation of Trozas, the fourth of Traven's legendary Jungle Novels, brings to completion his epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution. A fine and powerful novel...stark in... -
Levelling the Playing Field: The Idea of Equal Opportunity and its Place in Egalitarian Thought by Andrew Mason 9780199264414
RRP: $195.30Booksplease Price: $146.03"Equality of opportunity for all" is a fine piece of political rhetoric but the ideal that lies behind it is slippery to say the least. Some see it as an alternative to a more robust form... -
Equality and Partiality by Thomas Nagel 9780195098396
RRP: $117.60Booksplease Price: $111.13This collection of essays, based on the Locke Lectures that Nagel delivered at Oxford University in 1990, addresses the conflict between the claims of the group and those of the individual. Nagel... -
A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein by Roger Scruton
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.76Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern... -
A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein Roger Scruton 9780415267625
RRP: $209.98Booksplease Price: $185.58Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern...