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Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment: Where History and Literature Intersect Peter Viereck 9780765808066
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.82The great critic Peter Viereck, in a volume that both reproduces an earlier effort and presents an entirely new work on the intersection of history and literature, offers a biting critique of the... -
Archetypes of Thought Thomas Molnar 9781560008484
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79In Archetypes of Thought, originally published in 1991 with the title Philosophical Grounds, Thomas Molnar follows seven basic themes of Western philosophical speculation from their development in... -
Police, Military and Ethnicity: Foundations of State Power by Cynthia Enloe
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £65.79This collection of essays describes and analyzes the ways in which government policymakers go about designing police forces and militaries. The author includes both wide-ranging comparative... -
Freud, Alder, and Jung: Discovering the Mind Walter Kaufmann 9780887383953
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.53Walter Kaufmann completed this, the third and final volume of his landmark trilogy, shortly before his death in 1980. The trilogy is the crowning achievement of a lifetime of study, writing, and... -
Restructuring American Education: Innovations and Alternatives by Ray Rist
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Structured schools, free schools, graded schools, ungraded schools, no schools at all-the conflicts over public education in America rage on, for contemporary schools have not lived up to our... -
Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends: Incomplete Theory and Complete Bibliography by Irving Louis Horowitz
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81Candor, breadth, judiciousness-all these are attributes Irving Louis Horowitz possesses as a scholar. Under his leadership there is no academic publication from which I have learned as much as... -
The New Democracy: An Essay on Certain Political and Economic Tendencies in the United States by Walter E. Weyl 9780765808356
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.81When The New Democracy first appeared in 1912, it was widely regarded as one of the most influential works of the Progressive Era. Yet, despite continuing interest in the political thought of the... -
Against the Stream: Reflections of an Unconventional Demographer by William Petersen 9780765802224
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78With the insight and clarity that mark all of Petersen's writings, Against the Stream brings together reflections of an unconventional demographer. Thirteen essays on various topics become a cohesive... -
Interdisciplinary Planning by Kan Chen 9780882851167
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Critiques of traditional urban planning are numerous. The debate about direction within the profession and why urban planning seems to be in a state of despair continues. However, and as Milan J... -
America's Water and Wastewater Crisis: The Role of Private Enterprise by Lewis D. Soloman 9781412818230
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book examines the role of private firms in the American water and wastewater industry. As more water infrastructure shifts from public- to private-sector control, vendors, consultants, and... -
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene 9781412807418
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Greene's fine sense of humor is displayed in this warm and far-reaching comic novel, Travels with My Aunt, a bestseller when it appeared originally. At his mother's funeral, Henry Pulling, a stuffy,... -
The French Revolution and the Psychology of Revolution by Gustave Le Bon
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08In his discussion of the general psychological causes of revolution, LeBon draws detailed illustrations of fundamental points from the French Revolution, especially the period from 1789 to 1800... -
Evolutionary Economics: A Study of Change in Economic Thought by Dr. David Hamilton
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37In reviewing this book in The Economic Journal, S.G. Checkland said that it should be read as a vigorous attempt to relate economics to general thinking and as a challenge to those who are... -
The New Know-nothings: The Political Foes of the Scientific Study of Human Nature Morton Hunt 9780765804976
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37In recent years, political, religious, and other special-interest groups have waged war on behavioral and social research projects that threaten their interests and values. They have hounded... -
Mental Disorder Among Prisoners: Toward an Epidemiologic Inventory by Nathaniel J. Pallone
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78What do we know about the mental health of inmates? What are the implications of what we know? Nathaniel J. Pallone characterizes opinion on these questions as falling into two broad camps: the... -
Slipping Through the Cracks: Status of Black Women by Margaret C. Simms
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The problems and special needs of black women are still given inadequate attention in social science analysis. Too often black women are subsumed under the category of "blacks" or... -
Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology by James E. Katz 9780765801586
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.33Social critics and artificial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of history. Many among the general population seem to have... -
Violence in Canada: Sociopolitical Perspectives by Jeffrey Ross 9780765808073
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.67Many people consider Canada, particularly in comparison to its southern cousin, as a "peaceable kingdom." However, as the historical record demonstrates, Canadians have never been a... -
Reflections on a Politically Skeptical Era by Dennis Wrong 9780765801951
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78All of the essays included in the present volume were written between 1995 and 2001. This attests to the timeliness and relevance of Dennis H. Wrong's writings. He notes that the... -
Poor Jews: An American Awakening by Naomi Levine 9780878555703
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The popular image of the Jewish community is that it consists primarily of members of the middle and upper middle classes. But this image is far from true. Poor Jews: An American Awakening shatters,... -
Race and Representation by Georgia A. Persons 9781560009597
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.24The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This series, now entering its sixth volume, includes significant scholarly... -
Black Electoral Politics: Participation, Performance, Promise by Lucius J. Barker 9780887388217
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.52The official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS), this annual publication includes significant scholarly research reflecting the diverse interests of... -
Thinking Politically: Liberalism in the Age of Ideology by Raymond Aron 9781560009344
Booksplease Price: £55.41Thinking Politically brings together a series of remarkable interviews with Raymond Aron that form a political history of our time. Ranging over an entire lifetime, from his youthful experience with... -
Mount Laurel II by W. Patrick Beaton 9780882850986
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £47.74Mount Laurel II is a historic state supreme court decision which mandates that all new residential development include housing for low- and moder-ate-income families.This study provides a rational... -
The Dawn of the Pacific Century by William McCord 9781560008866
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £28.64This book is a bold affirmation of the Asian "miracle" of development, an explanation of the reasons for its success, and a review of its implications. As McCord reminds us, understanding... -
Iraq: Threat and Response by Gerhard Beestermoller 9780765802071
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.93This volume of essays about the ongoing crisis concerning Iraq is written from the perspective of the "thoughtful opposition." German and American scholars from diverse backgrounds--moral... -
Ranching, Mining, and the Human Impact of Natural Resource Development by Raymond L. Gold 9780887380259
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.93In Ranching, Mining, and the Human Impact of Natural Resource Development, Raymond L. Gold observes and reports on people whose lives have been significantly affected by the industrialization of... -
Economic Growth and Fiscal Planning in New York by Roy Bahl 9780882851341
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £101.23In an era of federal deficits and struggling municipalities, states have emerged as the most significant governmental actors. But state governments face the major challenge of fiscal planning in the... -
The Economics of Race and Crime by Samuel L. Myers 9780887387555
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The relationship between crime and the economy has received too little attention from researchers. This volume remedies that deficit, resurrecting several classic writings on this elusive topic by... -
Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America William B. Helmreich 9781560008651
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have made here. William Helmreich writes of their experiences... -
The Regionalization of Warfare: The Falkland/Malvinas Islands, Lebanon, and the Iran-Iraq Conflict by James Brown
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £85.50Three wars have dominated world events in recent years: The conflict which erupted between the United Kingdom and Argentina over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands; the multinational conflict in Lebanon... -
Delinquency and Drift by David Matza
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The first C. Wright Mills Award-winning book, Delinquency and Drift has become a recognized classic in the fields of criminology and social problems. In it, Matza argues persuasively that delinquent... -
The Last Romantic: Life of Max Eastman by William L. O'Neill
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Poet and Journalist, Max Eastman is perhaps the most famous example of an American intellectual who during his life moved across the entire political spectrum. This reexamination of his career and... -
Managing Large Systems: Organizations for the Future by Leonard R. Sayles
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Managing Large Systems examines a range of human, organizational, and managerial challenges associated with large systems. Special attention is given to the behavioral relationships among scientists... -
Art of Judging: Volume 8 by Bond
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81The single most important issue in American constitutional law is the role the Supreme Court should play in interpretation of the constitution. This issue has been a source of controversy since at... -
Property Rights: From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment by Bernard H. Siegan 9780765800572
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.33Property Rights: From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment breaks new ground in our understanding of the genesis of property rights in the United States. According to the standard interpretation,... -
Gorbachev: The Man and the System by Ilya Zemtsov 9780887382222
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.33Gorbachev: The Man and the System portrays Gorbachev's rise to power and his tenure in office against the background of a period of critical change and development in the Soviet system. The research... -
Supergrow: Essays and Reports on Imagination in America by Benjamin DeMott 9780765805218
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Supergrow is a collection of fifteen essays that appeared between 1966 and 1969 in publications such as the American Scholar, the New York Times, Antioch Review, Esquire, and the Saturday Review... -
Educating Language Minority Children by Rosalie Porter 9780765806697
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51READ Perspectives, a refereed annual publication of the Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development (READ), Washington, D.C., begins its sixth year with the theme "Educating... -
Music in American Society by George McCue 9780878556342
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This book is the literary legacy of a national music festival in St. Louis, organized to identify as clearly as possible the specifically native character of music originating in the United States of...