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The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815738862Author Jonathan RauchFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint -
Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought by Jonathan Rauch
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £15.20A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it... -
Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul by Jonathan Rauch 9781949450019
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949450019Author Jonathan RauchFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy Jonathan Rauch 9780300288681
Booksplease Price: £13.92Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy "Concise and elegant. . . . Rauch applies careful research and incisive prose to examine, diagnose, and prescribe a cure for the... -
Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy Jonathan Rauch 9780300273540
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.34Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy What happens to American democracy if Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions on which our... -
The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 by Jonathan Rauch 9781250080912
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250080912Author Jonathan RauchFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage by Stephen Macedo 9780691166483
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30The institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. As gay marriage equality gains acceptance in law and public opinion, questions abound regarding marriage's future. Will same-sex marriage... -
Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage by Stephen Macedo 9780691176338
Booksplease Price: £24.18The institution of marriage stands at a critical juncture. As gay marriage equality gains acceptance in law and public opinion, questions abound regarding marriage's future. Will same-sex marriage... -
Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays by Susan Haack
Booksplease Price: £21.99Forthright and wryly humorous, philosopher Susan Haack deploys her penetrating analytic skills on some of the most highly charged cultural and social debates of recent years. Relativism,... -
Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights: The Battle over Litigation in American Society by Thomas F. Burke 9780520243231
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.40Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation 'horror stories' create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book... -
Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families by Sean Cahill 9780472030613
Booksplease Price: £26.28Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people face the same family issues as their heterosexual counterparts, but that is only the beginning of their struggle. The LGBT community also encounters... -
What Is Truth For? Nick Enfield 9781529249385
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Truth is for striving at, for the sake of good collective action. With new media technologies, it seems that falsehoods can spread faster and further than ever. And with new norms of public... -
Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty?: The Unnecessary Conflict by Andrew Koppelman 9780197500989
Booksplease Price: £48.38Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination... -
Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative by Joshua Claybourn 9781640121706
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.27Over the past couple of decades in America, the enduring, complicated divides of ideology, geography, party, class, religion, and race mutated into something deeper and more ominous. America now... -
Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech by William A. Galston 9780300303742
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.94A renowned political theorist offers a road map to the dark forces that threaten democracy "Politics is different now because something awful has been unleashed. William A. Galston defines this... -
Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age Greg Berman 9780197826966
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.83A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change. Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in... -
Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail by Raymond J. La Raja 9780472072996
Booksplease Price: £55.25Efforts to reform the U.S. campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms aimed at... -
Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail by Raymond J. La Raja 9780472052998
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Efforts to reform the U.S. campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms aimed at... -
The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing Brink Lindsey 9780197803967
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.24In The Permanent Problem, Brink Lindsey reshapes our understanding of the vital but complex relationship between material prosperity and human flourishing. The advanced capitalist democracies of... -
Clear and Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans by Michael A. Cohen
Booksplease Price: £27.01An eye-opening look at the history of national security fear-mongering in America and how it distracts citizens from the issues that really matter What most frightens the average American?... -
The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom Ronan McCrea 9781509570003
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03The gay rights movement in the West has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams - but this success seems suddenly fragile. Ronan McCrea's important book argues that this is no blip. Forces favourable to... -
The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom David Boaz 9781668084120
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02An updated edition of David Boaz's timeless primer on libertarianism, with a new preface by the author. Libertarianism-the philosophy of personal and economic freedom-has deep roots in Western... -
The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom by David Boaz 9781476752846
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £19.94A revised, updated, and retitled edition of David Boaz's classic book Libertarianism: A Primer, which was praised as uniting "history, philosophy, economics and law-spiced with just the right... -
Free Expression Under Fire: Defending Free Speech and Free Press Across the Political Spectrum Stuart N. Brotman 9781510786752
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88How can we rebuild a culture of free expression?As America approaches its 250th anniversary, free speech and press freedom face unprecedented threats from campus censorship, social media content... -
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Michael Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? invites readers of all ages and political persuasions on a journey of moral reflection, and shows how reasoned debate can illuminate our lives... -
Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media Jacob Mchangama 9781529382198
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times... -
Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mchangama
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today.Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times... -
Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre 9780691203744
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.81Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life-and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriouslyWhere do you get your... -
HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship by Nadine Strossen 9780190089009
Booksplease Price: £14.73The updated paperback edition of HATE dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and... -
Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre 9780691255545
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life-and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriouslyWhere do you get your...