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Polymer Dynamics and Relaxation by Richard Boyd 9780521152914
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $85.10Polymers exhibit a range of physical characteristics, from rubber-like elasticity to the glassy state. These particular properties are controlled at the molecular level by the mobility of the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America by Richard Boyd
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $51.81This collection of essays is an invaluable companion for understanding the composition, reception, and contemporary legacy of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic work Democracy in America. Chapters by... -
Polymer Dynamics and Relaxation by Richard Boyd 9780521814195
RRP: $253.50Booksplease Price: $232.79Polymers exhibit a range of physical characteristics, from rubber-like elasticity to the glassy state. These particular properties are controlled at the molecular level by the mobility of the... -
State Making in Asia by Richard Boyd 9780415546812
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52Including contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume examines state making from a uniquely Asian perspective and reveals some of the misunderstandings that arise when... -
Crockett: A Bio-Bibliography by Richard Boyd Hauck 9780313222726
Booksplease Price: $149.19Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313222726Author Richard B. HauckFormat HardbackPage Count 169Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc -
The Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America by Richard Boyd 9781107189812
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $184.10This collection of essays is an invaluable companion for understanding the composition, reception, and contemporary legacy of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic work Democracy in America. Chapters by... -
Asian States: Beyond the Developmental Perspective by Richard Boyd
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.52A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory. Asian States argues that regardless... -
Political Conflict and Development in East Asia and Latin America by Richard Boyd
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $83.19Long run processes of socio-economic change generate prodigious problems of social conflict and social control, and governments responsible for these processes must therefore manage the resultant... -
Uncivil Society: The Perils of Pluralism and the Making of Modern Liberalism by Richard Boyd 9780739109090
Booksplease Price: $87.28Civil society is one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary political theory. These debates often assume that a vibrant associational life between individual and state is essential for... -
Stardust, Supernovae and the Molecules of Life: Might We All Be Aliens? by Richard Boyd 9781461413318
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $46.82Where were the amino acids, the molecules of life, created: perhaps in a lightning storm in the early Earth, or perhaps elsewhere in the cosmos? This book argues that at least some of them must have... -
State Structure, Policy Formation, and Economic Development in Southeast Asia: The Political Economy of Thailand and the Philippines by Antoinette R. Raquiza
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23Why do some small, developing countries industrialize and others don't? What factors account for different economic performance among states that are vulnerable to external shocks, crony capitalism,... -
Essays on Moral Realism by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 9780801422409
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $81.43For the greater part of this century, most philosophers and social scientists have eschewed moral realism. According to their view, moral facts cannot be accommodated by a suitably scientific picture... -
The Ethics of Competition Peter F. Drucker 9781560009559
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.27The Ethics of Competition is a book of Frank H. Knight's writings on a common theme: the problem of social control and its various implications. Knight believed in free economic institutions but was... -
The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds Marion Godman 9780367653187
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $39.74Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy - the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature. Natural kinds are... -
Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization Ewa Atanassow 9780691241029
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.88How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our... -
Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization by Ewa Atanassow
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.36How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our... -
The Epistemology and Morality of Human Kinds by Marion Godman
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $95.63Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy - the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature. Natural kinds are... -
Essays on Moral Realism by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 9780801495410
RRP: $64.35Booksplease Price: $40.74For the greater part of this century, most philosophers and social scientists have eschewed moral realism. According to their view, moral facts cannot be accommodated by a suitably scientific picture... -
Measuring the Intentional World: Realism, Naturalism, and Quantitative Methods in the Behavioral Sciences by J. D. Trout 9780195166590
RRP: $120.90Booksplease Price: $114.02Scientific realism has been advanced as an interpretation of the natural sciences but never the behavioral sciences. This exciting book introduces a novel version of scientific realism--Measured... -
Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science by John Earman 9780520356559
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $138.24These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in the field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their... -
Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science by John Earman 9780520304802
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $74.43These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in the field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their... -
Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy Ewa Atanassow 9780521263757
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $56.12Alexis de Tocqueville is widely cited as an authority on civil society, religion and American political culture, yet his thoughts on democratization outside the West and the challenges of a... -
Images of Anarchy: The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes's State of Nature by Ioannis D. Evrigenis 9780521513722
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $174.90Hobbes's concept of the natural condition of mankind became an inescapable point of reference for subsequent political thought, shaping the theories of emulators and critics alike, and has had a... -
Images of Anarchy: The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes's State of Nature by Ioannis D. Evrigenis 9781316608005
Booksplease Price: $62.63Hobbes's concept of the natural condition of mankind became an inescapable point of reference for subsequent political thought, shaping the theories of emulators and critics alike, and has had a... -
The Last Drop: The Politics of Water Mike Gonzalez 9780745334912
Booksplease Price: $52.46Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water. The Last Drop is a wake-up call to everyone... -
Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism by Alan S. Kahan 9780691250670
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.44A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today's liberalsFreedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time:... -
A Companion to Michael Oakeshott by Paul Franco
Booksplease Price: $62.11Michael Oakeshott has long been recognized as one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, but until now no single volume has been able to examine all the facets of his... -
Tax Haven Ireland by Brian O'Boyle 9780745345321
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $135.72This is the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe became one of the world's major tax havens. From global corporations such as Apple and Google, to investment bankers and mainstream... -
Tax Haven Ireland Brian O'Boyle 9780745345314
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.13This is the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe became one of the world's major tax havens. From global corporations such as Apple and Google, to investment bankers and mainstream... -
Capital as a Social Kind: Definitions and Transformations in the Critique of Political Economy Adam T. Hill (Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden) 9781138013117
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $102.26Capital as a Social Kind provides an introduction to social kinds in social theory. Thinking about kinds, the way we sort the things of the world into categories -- water, for example, is a natural... -
Compromise: A Political and Philosophical History by Alin Fumurescu 9781107448544
Booksplease Price: $62.63This book offers for the first time a conceptual history of compromise. Alin Fumurescu combines contextual historical analysis of daily parlance and a survey of the usage of the word from the end of...