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What's Wrong with Rights? by Nigel Biggar
RRP: £20.49Booksplease Price: £19.47Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be... -
In Defence of War by Nigel Biggar 9780198725831
Booksplease Price: £35.62Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is wicked,... -
In Defence of War by Nigel Biggar 9780199672615
Booksplease Price: £49.20Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is wicked,... -
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar 9780008511678
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.10The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed... -
Between Kin and Cosmopolis by Nigel Biggar 9781498205412
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498205412Author Nigel BiggarFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher... -
What's Wrong with Rights? by Nigel Biggar 9780198861973
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.43Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be... -
Reparations: The Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt Nigel Biggar 9781800755598
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38'Compelling and timely' Tirthankar Roy 'Essential reading' David Eltis Many now claim that Western countries should pay reparations to former colonies for the lasting damage they caused, especially... -
The Hastening that Waits: Karl Barth's Ethics by Nigel Biggar 9780198263906
Booksplease Price: £60.70A fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians, Karl Barth. Dr Biggar recovers Barth's ethics from some widespread misunderstandings, and... -
The Hastening that Waits: Karl Barth's Ethics by Nigel Biggar 9780198264576
Booksplease Price: £59.58This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians: Karl Barth. In it, the author seeks to recover Barth's ethics from some... -
Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt Nigel Biggar 9781800755611
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation by Nigel Biggar 9781620325131
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620325131Author Nigel BiggarFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher... -
Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation by Nigel Biggar 9780227174722
Booksplease Price: £25.72The nation-state is here to stay. Thirty years ago it was fashionable to predict its imminent demise, but the sudden break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s unshackled long-repressed nationalisms... -
Behaving in Public: How to Do Christian Ethics by Nigel Biggar 9780802864000
Booksplease Price: £13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802864000Author Nigel BiggarFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Aiming to Kill: The Ethics of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide by Nigel Biggar 9780232524062
Booksplease Price: £21.69Controversy about the morality of euthanasia and assisted suicide and their legalisation has been running for over a generation, and it shows no sign of flagging. The main arguments for and against... -
Cities of Gods: Faith, Politics and Pluralism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Nigel Biggar 9780313249440
Booksplease Price: £61.05In this fertile collection of essays, prominent theologians, philosophers, historians, and social scientists explore the mutual entanglements of religious identity with political activity in... -
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John DarwinThe British Empire shaped the world in... -
The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win the Culture War Nigel Biggar 9781509568321
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.55In an increasingly polarised age, culture wars are everywhere. They are often criticised as superficial or confected disagreements designed to distract us from more important issues. Is this true, or... -
The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School Nigel Biggar 9781138256712
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Natural law theory has been enjoying a significant revival in recent times. Led by Germain Grisez in the USA and John Finnis in the UK, one school of thinkers has been articulating a highly developed... -
The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD... -
Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice After Civil Conflict, Expanded and Updated Edition by Nigel Biggar 9780878403943
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £25.21No one can deny how September 11, 2001, has altered our understandings of "Peace" and "Justice" and "Civil Conflict." Those have become words with startling new life in our vocabularies. Yet "making"... -
In The Heart Of The Country by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster... -
The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia by Thomas Keneally
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting. From this situation was born the... -
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The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia by Thomas Keneally 9780099483748 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.52The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting. From this situation was born the... -
Black Shack Alley by Joseph Zobel
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Jose, a young boy grappling with his... -
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe Sathnam Sanghera 9780241997086
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the world.'A wonderful book' Rory Stewart'Nuanced and deeply... -
Decolonising My Body: A radical exploration of rituals and beauty by Afua Hirsch 9781529908664
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54A 2023 POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR (WATERSTONES) | 'GROUND-BREAKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'UNIVERSAL AND TIMELY' Elif Shafak | 'IMPORTANT' Sathnam Sanghera | 'A GENEROUS OFFERING' Nana Darkoa... -
Not Your Victim: How our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us Marie Daouda 9781509571697
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.55Empire and race have become the most discussed - and most problematic - subjects in political and historical discourse. It is now an unquestionable orthodoxy both in academia and in progressive... -
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Priya Satia
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil... -
How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York TimesThe United States denies having dreams of empire.We know America has spread its money,... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire by Nigel Dalziel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire traces the emergence of the world's greatest empire from its earliest beginnings in the British Isles, through its ascendancy in Victorian times, to... -
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empireOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of... -
The Warrior and the Pacifist: Competing Motifs in Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Lester R. Kurtz 9781138585447
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £64.33This book looks at two contradictory ethical motifs-the warrior and the pacifist-across four major faith traditions-Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-and their role in shaping our... -
Goodbye, Dr Banda: Lessons for the West From a Small African Country Alexander Chula 9781846977305
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'You may never have been, may never go, may never even have heard of the place - but Malawi will repay your attention. It is one of the smallest, poorest countries in Africa, often overlooked; but... -
The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York 1652-1836. The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize Essay of the American Society of Church History by David G. Hackett 9780195065138
Booksplease Price: £87.86Tracing the social and religious transformation of Albany, New York, from its colonial origins through the industrialization of the early nineteenth century, Hackett's study not only illuminates the... -
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom Preeti Dhillon 9780349702834
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.13** Eastern Eye's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 **** Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2024**The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and the legacies of Empire and... -
A Theology of Disagreement: New Testament Ethics for Ecclesial Conflicts by Christopher Landau 9780334060451
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £25.49Even the most casual contemporary observer of Christianity must recognise that the notion of Christian community being identifiable through the mutual love of its members (John 13:35) is difficult to... -
Faithfulness and Fortitude: Conversations with the Theological Ethics of Stanley Haverwas by Mark Thiessen Nation 9780567087386
Booksplease Price: £112.13This book marks the first detailed engagement with the work of Stanley Hauerwas in a British context.An important group of theologians including Colin Gunton, Duncan Forrester, Gerard Loughlin, Ann... -
Just War and Christian Traditions by Eric Patterson 9780268203818
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £79.80This much-needed anthology contains historically informed insights and analysis about Christian just war thinking and its application to contemporary conflicts. Recent Christian reflection on war... -
Just War and Christian Traditions by Eric Patterson 9780268203825
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.42This much-needed anthology contains historically informed insights and analysis about Christian just war thinking and its application to contemporary conflicts. Recent Christian reflection on war... -
Christian Political Ethics by John A. Coleman 9780691134819
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions...