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The Happiness Curve by Jonathan Rauch
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump even when you're successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, will it ever end? Drawing on... -
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... -
More Meditations of a Militant Moderate Peter H. Schuck 9781839999468
Booksplease Price: £25.71The book collects almost thirty-five opinion pieces, essays, and two poems by the author on a wide variety of public policy topics written and published between 2006 and 2022. The author, a... -
More Meditations of a Militant Moderate by Peter H. Schuck 9781839988530
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09The book collects almost thirty-five opinion pieces, essays, and two poems by the author on a wide variety of public policy topics written and published between 2006 and 2022. The author, a... -
Campus Sexual Assault: Constitutional Rights and Fundamental Fairness by Evan Gerstmann 9781108709316
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Sexual assault on college campuses has drawn tremendous public attention and colleges are under great pressure to respond. In many cases, the result has been a system of sexual assault tribunals that... -
You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms by Keith E. Whittington 9781509564521
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Who controls what is taught in American universities - professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented efforts are now underway to restrict what ideas can... -
Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution by Evan Gerstmann 9781107174290
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £91.46In 2015 the Supreme Court made history by ruling that the constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to get married. The third edition of perhaps the most influential book on the subject... -
Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution by Evan Gerstmann 9781316626467
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92In 2015 the Supreme Court made history by ruling that the constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to get married. The third edition of perhaps the most influential book on the subject... -
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... -
Hate Crimes: Criminal Law and Identity Politics by James B. Jacobs 9780195114485
Booksplease Price: £119.95Early in the 1980s, a new category of crime appeared in the criminal law lexicon. In response to what was said to be an epidemic of prejudice-motivated violence, Congress and many state legislatures... -
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... -
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus by Donald Alexander Downs
Booksplease Price: £84.67This book addresses a major problem in contemporary American higher education: deprivations of free speech, due process, and other basic civil liberties in the name of favored political causes. Downs... -
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... -
The War on Science: Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process Lawrence Krauss 9781800756182
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38An unparalleled group of prominent scholars from wide-ranging disciplines detail ongoing efforts to impose ideological restrictions on science and scholarship throughout western society. From... -
How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News: Exploring the Impacts of Social Media, Deepfakes, GPT-3, and More by Noah Giansiracusa 9781484271544
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £27.31"It's a joy to read a book by a mathematician who knows how to write. [...] There is no better guide to the strategies and stakes of this battle for the future."---Paul Romer, Nobel Laureate,... -
Artists of the Possible: Governing Networks and American Policy since 1945 by Matt Grossmann 9780199967841
Booksplease Price: £48.90This book presents a new view of American policymaking, focusing on networks of actors responsible for policymaking. Policy change is not easily predictable from election results or public opinion... -
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?... -
Religious Freedom, LGBT Rights, and the Prospects for Common Ground by William N. Eskridge Jr 9781108454582
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £47.48The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons (LGBT) are strongly contested by certain faith communities, and this confrontation has become increasingly pronounced following the... -
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... -
The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom Ronan McCrea 9781509569991
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.53The 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... -
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History by Douglass C. North 9780521761734
Booksplease Price: £87.92All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing... -
Learning from Loss: The Democrats, 2016–2020 by Seth Masket 9781108482127
Booksplease Price: £24.68The Democrats' decision to nominate Joe Biden for 2020 was hardly a fluke but rather a strategic choice by a party that had elevated electability above all other concerns. In Learning from Loss, one... -
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...