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Behavioralism in Political Science by Heinz Eulau
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Changes in the thinking of science are usually accompanied by lively intellectual conflicts between opposing or divergent points of view. The clash of ideas is a major ingredient in the stimulation... -
Patriarcha and Other Political Works by Sir Robert Filmer
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Robert Filmer's prime assumption is that the Bible contains the entire truth about the nature of the world and the nature of society. Along with details of recorded history from the beginning to the... -
Sweet Madness: A Study of Humor Joan Lipsitz 9781412811682
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Written for all who are interested in the mechanics of humor, Sweet Madness presents a general discussion and introduction to the roles of paradox, metaphor, and fantasy in humor. The operation of... -
China's Long March to Freedom: Grassroots Modernization by Kate Zhou
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98China is more than a socialist market economy led by ever more reform-minded leaders. It is a country whose people seek liberty on a daily basis. Th eir success has been phenomenal, despite the fact... -
Satire: Origins and Principles Matthew Hodgart 9781412810609
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Satire, according to Jonathan Swift, is a mirror where beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own. and over twenty-four centuries the mirror of satirical literature has taken on many... -
Post-Secular Society Peter Nynas 9781412854825
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Post-Secular Society argues for several characteristics of the secular: the experience of living in a secular age and the experience of living without religion as a normal condition. Religion in the... -
Family Development in Three Generations: A Longitudinal Study of Changing Patterns of Planning and Achievement by Reuben Hill
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Family Development in Three Generations is an unusual kind of multigenerational gathering-the result of a massive, in-depth research effort. It is based upon Hill's personal interviews conducted with... -
Political and Military Sociology: Volume 41, The Social Implications of National Defense: An Annual Review Bruce D. McDonald III 9781412852647
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Political and Military Sociology, Volume 41 explores the social elements and impact of national defense. The origin of government is a response to a society's common interest in security and defense... -
The Life of the Sudanese Mahdi by Haim Shaked
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The Mahdia was an important Islamic millenarian movement of the Nilotic Sudan in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It contributed substantially to the emergence of the Sudan as a... -
From Instinct to Identity: The Development of Personality by Louis Breger
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.68From Instinct to Identity begins an account of personality development by tracing the legacy of the human species from its primate heritage to its present form. Findings from ethology, primate... -
Laughter and Liberation Harvey Mindess 9781412814713
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Laughter and Liberation is based on the idea that humor is an agent of psychological liberation. Since we are able to include every kind of wit and humor under the umbrella of this thesis, it amounts... -
The Unsheltered Woman: Women and Housing by Eugenie Ladner Birch
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Defining the "unsheltered woman" and her needs is a complicated task. Regardless of the roots of the condition, a significant number of women are not being housed as well as they could be... -
Utopia: The Potential and Prospect of the Human Condition by George Kateb
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Amid the twentieth century's seemingly overwhelming problems, some thinkers dared to envisage a world order governed by utopian proposals that would eliminate--or at least alleviate--the evils of... -
The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust: An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations by Wallace P. Sillanpoa
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome's ancient Jewish community, shocked his co-religionists in Italy and throughout the Jewish world by converting to Catholicism and taking as his... -
Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky: Master Builders of the Spirit Stefan Zweig 9781412810470
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Written over a period of twenty-five years, this first volume in a trilogy is intended to depict in the life and work of writers of different nationalities--Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky--the... -
A Cultural History of the Modern Age: The Crisis of the European Soul Egon Friedell 9781412811712
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.74Volume three of A Cultural History of the Modern Age finishes a journey that begins with Descartes in the first volume and ends with Freud and the psychoanalytical movement in the third volume... -
The Chinese Economy Under Maoism: The Early Years, 1949-1969 by Nai-ruenn Chen
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Over sixty years have elapsed since the Communists gained control of the Chinese mainland. The years between 1949 and 1969 were a time of constant change and periodic cataclysm - the initial purges,... -
Christianity and Political Philosophy Frederick D. Wilhelmsen 9781412852791
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Each chapter in Christianity and Political Philosophy addresses a philosophical problem generated by history. Frederick D. Wilhelmsen discusses the limits of natural law; Cicero and the politics of... -
Faith, War, and Violence by Gabriel R. Ricci
RRP: £66.99Booksplease Price: £61.79Faith, War, and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic... -
Leadership in Higher Education: Views from the Presidency by Francis L. Lawrence
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79In this collection of interviews, presidents and chancellors of some of America's most respected universities candidly reflect on their experiences during the decade leading up to the twenty-first... -
Literature and Mass Culture: Volume 1, Communication in Society Leo Lowenthal 9781412856980
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This first volume of the collected writings of sociologist Leo Lowenthal contains his classic theoretical and historical writings on the relationship of art to mass culture. This book series presents... -
The Changing Contract across Generations by Vern Bengtson
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.69Generational conflict has attracted considerable attention in the media and within academic circles during the past decade. At the center of this collection of papers analyzing various facets of that... -
Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century England by Louis Kronenberger
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The goal of Kings and Desperate Men is to provide a picture of eighteenth-century England up to the French Revolution. Kronenberger's work lies much closer to a social chronicle than an orthodox... -
Edmund Burke: Essential Works and Speeches by Peter J. Stanlis
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £47.29In this unique book, Peter J. Stanlis, the leading Burke scholar in America, has collected all the most important works and speeches of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman, political... -
Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes Over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage by Peter Baehr
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology's identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions-feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial-question the... -
The Golden Vanity by Isabel Paterson
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49In The Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald told the tale of a high society love affair that became an iconic depiction of life during the Jazz Age of the 1920s. After the 1929 stock market crash, life... -
Genetic Theory of Reality by James Mark Baldwin
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59James Mark Baldwin left a legacy that has yet to be fully examined, one with profound implications for science and the humanities. In some sense it paralleled that of his friend Charles Sanders... -
Beyond Malice: The Media's Years of Reckoning by Richard M. Clurman
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The national news media, as now practiced, were born in the 1950s, revealed their strength in the 1960s (Vietnam), asserted it in the 1970s (Watergate), and were hammered for it in the 1980s. By the... -
History of Higher Education Annual: 1998: The Land-Grant ACT and American Higher Education: Contexts and Consequences by Roger L. Geiger
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412805445Author Roger L. GeigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint AldineTransactionPublisher... -
American Labor and American Democracy by William Walling
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93In American Labor and American Democracy, William English Walling drew on his close association with Samuel Gompers and other leaders of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to write the... -
Picking Judges by Nancy Maveety 9781412863308
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49What defines a president? Is it policymaking? A good relationship with the American people? Or is it legacy? Most would argue that legacy imprints a president in the American consciousness. A... -
Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not?: The Determinants of Health Populations by Morris Barer 9780202304892
Booksplease Price: £110.69Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the findings of a five-year study, under the auspices of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, that probed... -
Daydreams and Nightmares: Expanded Edition by Irving Horowitz 9781412845892
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63*Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography and Autobiography This is the story of the making of a world-famous sociologist. It is even more the story of a boy hustling to survive. Here... -
Aging, Representation, and Thought: Gestalt and Feature-Intensive Processing by Matthew J. Sharps 9781412847612
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The brain contains many distinct functional and anatomical regions. Despite these differences, brain tissues are sufficiently uniform in the fact that they can engage in various types of processing... -
Ideology and Social Knowledge Harold J. Bershady 9781412853682
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences. Harold J. Bershady sets forth Parsons' version of the characteristics... -
Musical Cognition: A Science of Listening Henkjan Honing 9781412852920
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music? Musical Cognition suggests that music is a game. In music, our cognitive functions such as perception, memory, attention, and... -
Information Technologies and Social Orders by Carl J. Couch 9781412865623
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14According to Carl J. Couch, the history of human society is one of successive, sometimes overlapping, information technologies used to process the various symbolic representations that inform social... -
Balancing Juvenile Justice by Susan Guarino-Ghezzi 9781412805049
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The juvenile justice system in the United States has become a detrimental rather than a remedial experience, one that often reinforces youths' defiance of authority. Trying juveniles as adults,... -
Business Groups and Financial Markets: A Weberian Analysis by Sandro Segre 9781412856850
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This work builds on the classical sociological contributions of Weber, Simmel, and Toennies, and makes the case for different and alternative ideal-typical models of business relations, which the... -
Social Problems, Social Issues, Social Science: The Society Papers by James D. Wright 9781412865012
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Sociology has tackled some of the most formidable problems that confront contemporary society: inequality, homelessness, violence, gender, and many more. Sociologists assert that hypotheses can be...