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Non-Trial Advocacy Stephen Nathanson 9781859416129
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Lawyers use non-trial advocacy skills in court for pre- and post-trial submissions. They are easier to learn than trial advocacy skills, and are much more relevant to the work of most new lawyers. ... -
Terrorism and the Ethics of War by Stephen Nathanson 9780521199957
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £72.27Most people strongly condemn terrorism; yet they often fail to say how terrorist acts differ from other acts of violence such as the killing of civilians in war. Stephen Nathanson argues that we... -
Terrorism and the Ethics of War by Stephen Nathanson 9780521137164
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.92Most people strongly condemn terrorism; yet they often fail to say how terrorist acts differ from other acts of violence such as the killing of civilians in war. Stephen Nathanson argues that we... -
Patriotism, Morality, and Peace by Stephen Nathanson 9780847678006
Booksplease Price: £56.12Is patriotism a worthy ideal, one that we ought to promote and support? Or is it a dangerous and destructive notion that leads to war and hostility? Patriotism, Morality, and Peace provides the first... -
An Eye for an Eye?: The Immorality of Punishing by Death by Stephen Nathanson 9780742513266
Booksplease Price: £40.38The death penalty issue has become the epitome of the unresolvable issue, the question which people answer on the basis of gut reactions rather than logical arguments. In the second edition of An Eye... -
Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy by John Stuart Mill 9780872207141
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £26.35Stephen Nathanson's clear-sighted abridgment of Principles of Political Economy, Mill's first major work in moral and political philosophy, provides a challenging, sometimes surprising account of... -
Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy by John Stuart Mill 9780872207134
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Stephen Nathanson's clear-sighted abridgment of Principles of Political Economy , Mill's first major work in moral and political philosophy, provides a challenging, sometimes surprising account of... -
Making Mortal Choices: Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry by Hugo Adam Bedau 9780195108774
Booksplease Price: £50.63Bedau demonstrates the usefulness of 'casuistry', or 'the method of cases' in arriving at moral decisions. He examines well-known cases that compel us to consider questions about who ought to survive... -
Facing Evil by John Kekes
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of... -
Making Mortal Choices: Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry by Hugo Adam Bedau 9780195108781
RRP: £41.49Booksplease Price: £30.54Bedau demonstrates the usefulness of "casuistry", or "the method of cases" in arriving at moral decisions. He examines well-known cases that compel us to consider questions about who ought to survive... -
Terror From the Sky: The Bombing of German Cities in World War II by Professor Igor Primoratz 9781845456870
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £85.16"This is an interesting, informative, and important work. Overall, the quality of the essays is very high, and the focus of the book is on a topic of great importance." * Stephen... -
Punishment: A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader by A. John Simmons 9780691029559
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96The problem of justifying legal punishment has been at the heart of legal and social philosophy from the very earliest recorded philosophical texts. However, despite several hundred years of debate,... -
War after September 11 by Verna V. Gehring 9780742514683
Booksplease Price: £27.58What are the limits of justified retaliation against aggression? What actions are morally permissible in preventing future aggression? Against whom may retaliation be aimed? These questions have long... -
War after September 11 by Verna V. Gehring 9780742514676
Booksplease Price: £86.43What are the limits of justified retaliation against aggression? What actions are morally permissible in preventing future aggression? Against whom may retaliation be aimed? These questions have long... -
One Child: Do We Have a Right to More? by Sarah Conly 9780190203436
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £25.92Sarah Conly argues that we do not have the right to have more than one child. If recent increases in global population continue, we will reduce the welfare of future generations to unacceptable... -
A Theory of Truces by Nir Eisikovits 9781349552733
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book argues that understanding truces is crucial for our ability to wind down wars. We have paid too much attention to the idea of permanent peace, yet few conflicts end in this way. The book... -
Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War by William H. Shaw
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book offers a detailed utilitarian analysis of the ethical issues involved in war.Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War addresses the two basic ethical questions posed by war: when, if ever, are... -
The Foreign Policy of John Rawls and Amartya Sen by Neal Leavitt 9781498515474
Booksplease Price: £43.76The foreign policy writings of John Rawls and Amartya Sen provide insight and clarity into some of the most difficult problems confronting humanity. What is the most effective strategy of national...