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What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson 9781591020509 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $1.68This first and only novel by Anna E Dickinson attracted tremendous interest when it first appeared in the fall of 1868, and was enthusiastically endorsed by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Set in the midst of... -
American Naturalism And Greek Philosophy by John Peter Anton 9781591022541 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.18Booksplease Price: $1.68In this in-depth examination of the relation between Greek philosophy and American naturalism, John P Anton assesses the various ways in which American philosophers found inspiration for a new... -
The Age of Aging: A Reader in Social Gerontology by Abraham Monk 9780879751142 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $2.10Ageing has become a high priority issue on the agenda of legislators, public forums, and human service agencies. Social scientists are acknowledging that the American society is ageing - that is,... -
American Philosophic Naturalism in the Twentieth Century by John Ryder 9780879758943 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.24Booksplease Price: $4.82This comprehensive collection, bringing together significant essays by leading philosophers of the twentieth century, represents one prominent school of American thought philosophic naturalism... -
A Church Divided by Terrance A. Sweeney 9780879757359 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.35Priest and ex-Jesuit, Terrance Sweeny explores in great detail the issues of Church authority and the priesthood. Is the Roman Catholic Church heading toward an irrevocable schism? Two factors that... -
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke 9780879754112
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.47As eighteenth-century Europe sizzled with revolutionary fervor fanned by the flames of the newly won freedom of the British colonies in America, one of the few lone voices of conservative government... -
But is it Science?: The Philosophical Question in the Creation / Evolution Controversy by Michael Ruse 9781573920872 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $1.68Is 'creation science' really scientific? What criteria, if any, exist for identifying a discipline as a science? This collection of essays answers these questions and many more about the... -
Responsibility of Intellectuals: Selected Essays on Marxist Traditions in Cultural Commitment by Alan M. Wald 9781573924085 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $1.68This collection brings together many of Alan M Wald's most influential and original essays. They provide a richly provocative inquiry into the antinomies of cultural radicalism and are characterised... -
Exploitation by Kai Nielsen 9781573922777 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $4.02This title examines the nature, extent, intensity, and import of exploitation and its relation to the issue of social justice. Noted scholars explore racial and gender exploitation and the way in... -
The Fatal Flaw by Duncan Howlett 9780879759230 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $4.02Liberalism in religion grew strong in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, then collapsed. Why, when so many people hunger for religious expression unhampered by traditionalism? Duncan... -
Let's Really Make Love by Robert H. Rimmer 9780879759643 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.35Rimmer issues a powerful call to change morality, education, and our attitudes about sex. He urges that the real root of America's sexual problems - teen pregnancy, high divorce rates, and the spread... -
The Morality Maze by Neil M. Daniels 9780879756970 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $1.82People still believe that any behaviour is permitted so long as they can get away with it. This attitude makes our current moral situation both confusing and discouraging. In addition, society has... -
With Faith and Fury by Delos B. Mckown 9780879752804
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $39.36When Manly John Plumwell hears the call of the Handmaiden of the Lord to join her Church of the Chosen, it is a call that plunges him into a world ablaze with religious fervor. The Chosen are those... -
On Christianity by Edward Gibbon 9780879756741 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $20.72Written originally as the 15th and 16th chapters of his great work, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788)", "On Christianity" joined the growing number of revisionist histories whose... -
Aviation Insecurity: The New Challenges of Air Travel by Andrew R. Thomas 9781591020745 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $2.41The events of September 11 compelled the American public to look at air travel as much more than merely another way of getting from point A to point B. An industry that was previously viewed as a... -
Cannibalism by Hans Askenasy 9780879759063
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $36.15Psychologist Hans Askenasy has put together the first comprehensive history of a subject combining violence, horror, and exotic customs. In Part One of his study, Dr. Askenasy gives a historical and... -
The Social Implications of Bioengineering by Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim 9781573926164 [USED COPY]
RRP: $58.96Booksplease Price: $1.68Very rapid developments have taken place in reproductive medicine, biology, and genetics in recent years and jointly, these technologies are making possible entirely new forms of intervention in the... -
Sexual Harassment: Confrontations and Decisions by Edmund Wall 9781573928304 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $2.41This important new collection not only presents some of the major debates in the current research on sexual harassment, but also attempts to demonstrate the need for further study of the problem... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780879755584
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.67If ever there was a thinker who swam against the social and ethical tide of his day, it was Nietzsche. Nineteenth-century Europe was for him a moral wasteland filled with false altruism, duplicity,... -
The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy by C. Dennis Mckinsey 9780879759261
RRP: $80.33Booksplease Price: $55.74This important new volume is the most comprehensive critique of the Bible ever written. Author C. Dennis McKinsey believes that Americans have only seen or heard the good things about the Bible,... -
Immigration: Debating the Issues by Nicholas Capaldi 9781573921428 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $2.41Nothing more precious is at stake than how we view ourselves as a nation. A white-hot flash point has ignited intense arguments over immigration. The source: an influx of illegal aliens crossing U.S... -
Richard Rorty's Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century by Markar Melkonian 9781573927246 [USED COPY]
RRP: $75.04Booksplease Price: $1.68Much of what Richard Rorty has to say about the triumph of American liberalism is largely accepted and unquestioned by a wide variety of scholars. Yet, there are inconsistencies in Rorty's work, and... -
Creationism's Upside-Down Pyramid by Lee Tiffin 9780879758981 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $4.02Scientists and educators are deeply concerned that as fundamentalists gain ever more political power, their clout will be used to foist creationism onto the curriculums of tax-supported educational... -
James Madison on Religious Liberty by Robert S. Alley 9780879755379 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $2.39This long-overdue volume is the only one of its kind containing all of Madison's religious writings, as well as new contributions by leading scholars. Madison's writings assume even more importance... -
The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture by Frederick S. Lane 9781591024279 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $3.35Janet Jackson's infamous 'wardrobe malfunction' at the 2004 Superbowl precipitated a nation-wide controversy. To judge by the hysterical reaction, one would think that nothing so shocking had ever... -
Original Intent by Derek Davis 9780879756499 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $1.97This is a readable and objective summary of the views of Chief Justice Rehnquist and an enlightening treatise on the future of church/state relations in America.Book InformationISBN... -
Humble Pi: The Role Mathematics Should Play in American Education by Michael K. Smith 9780879758776 [USED COPY]
RRP: $44.15Booksplease Price: $1.68Anyone who has ever suffered through a tough math class has probably wondered, "When am I going to use this stuff?" If you are confused by how real life problems can be helped by pi, cosine, and the... -
The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II by John Quigley 9780879757670 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $1.68As a prelude to war in 2003, the administration of George W Bush did its utmost to convince the public that Saddam Hussein's Iraq posed a threat to American security from the secret development of... -
Nothing Sacred by Tom Flynn 9781591021278 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $1.68If Harlan Ellison, Tom Clancy, James Morrow, and Friedrich Nietzsche co-wrote a novel, they might produce. This sequel to Tom Flynn's critically acclaimed first novel, "Galactic Rapture" takes place... -
The Problem of God: A Short Introduction by Peter Adam Angeles 9780879752163
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $24.11The material in this book is philosophically (as opposed to theologically or religiously) oriented, stressing the problem of God as a logical and philosophical problem. The perspective is critically... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780879759179
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.84What is known? And how do we come to know it? These are the primary points of focus for metaphysics and epistemology, respectively. Here, in one of the classic works of early-modern empiricist... -
The Dialectics Of Secret Society Power In States by Stanton K. Tefft 9781573924061 [USED COPY]
RRP: $77.72Booksplease Price: $1.68Unlike earlier studies of secret organisations that present largely descriptive accounts of secret society organisations and rituals, this book portrays the development of secret societies as... -
The Real World of Democracy Revisited: and Other Essays on Democracy and Socialism by Frank Cunningham 9781573924122 [USED COPY]
RRP: $56.28Booksplease Price: $1.68Frank Cunningham examines a selection of contested questions of political theory and methodology pertinent to the relationship of democracy and socialism. A central section of the book addresses... -
Mind, Body, and Freedom by Patrick T. Mackenzie 9781591020011 [USED COPY]
RRP: $49.58Booksplease Price: $4.96Descartes with his sharp separation of the mental and the physical set the stage for the philosophy of mind for the next 350 years. Philosopher Patrick T Mackenzie finds in the later writings of... -
Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Humanism by Paul Kurtz 9780879754556 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $2.00Fundamentalists from all religious persuasions deny the possibility of morality without belief in God. Yet belief in God is no guarantee of moral virtue - as the recent televangelist scandals have... -
The Complete Guide to Preventing Cancer by Elizabeth M. Whelan 9780879758905 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $4.02This is a guide to understanding cancer and its causes. Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, a well-known consumer advocate, explains in layperson's terms what the average consumer can do to reduce the risks of... -
Mystical Diets by Jack Raso 9780879757618 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $4.02In writing "Mystical Diets", author Jack Raso, trained in scientific reasoning and a registered dietician, offers an accessible yet authoritative tool to assist laypersons and health professionals in... -
Setting the Captives Free by Austin Miles 9780879756178
RRP: $46.83Booksplease Price: $35.75Ten years as a minister with the Assemblies of God Church turned Austin Miles into one of today's most outspoken critics of the church and propelled him into the international spotlight as an... -
Relativity by Albert Einstein 9780879759797
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.89Albert Einstein (1879-1955), pacifist and humanitarian, has been universally acclaimed the greatest theoretical physicist who ever lived. Adapting the old laws of physics to Einstein's space-time... -
Mormon Polygamy: A History by Richard S. Van Wagoner 9780941214797
Booksplease Price: $18.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941214797Author Richard S. Van WagonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 362