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Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment: Where History and Literature Intersect Peter Viereck 9780765808066
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £33.19The 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: £46.49In 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: £73.69This 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: £46.79Walter 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... -
Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends: Incomplete Theory and Complete Bibliography by Irving Louis Horowitz
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Candor, 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... -
Against the Stream: Reflections of an Unconventional Demographer by William Petersen 9780765802224
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68With 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: £45.63Critiques 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
Booksplease Price: £46.49This 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: £31.19Greene'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 Golden Age of the Moor by Ivan Van Sertima 9781560005810
Booksplease Price: £24.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560005810Author Ivan Van SertimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint
Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America William B. Helmreich 9781560008651
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Against 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: £90.68Three 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: £45.63The 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: £45.63Poet 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: £32.89Managing 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: £24.38The 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...
Gorbachev: The Man and the System by Ilya Zemtsov 9780887382222
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.69Gorbachev: 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: £46.49Supergrow 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...
Music in American Society by George McCue 9780878556342
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This 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...
Outlines of Sociology by Ludwig Gumplowicz 9780878556939
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...
Financing Education: The Struggle between Governmental Monopoly and Parental Control by Quentin L. Quade 9781560002550
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Lack of family structure, violence in the schools, and overcrowded classrooms spur a never-ending cry for "reforms" to confront such issues. Quentin L. Quade cuts through the alarming din to what he...
The Southeast Asian Economic Miracle by Young C. Kim 9780765804198
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79There is widespread agreement that the world's most successful developing countries in the 1980s were those in Southeast Asia. Following in the footsteps of postwar Japan and more recently Korea, the...
One-Armed Economist: On the Intersection of Business and Government by Murray L. Weidenbaum 9780765802521
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.69One-Armed Economist represents a personal, if eclectic, approach to public policy. Weidenbaum avoids doctrinaire positions, be they Keynesian or monetarist or supply side or libertarian. This...
Lotteries by Alan J. Karcher 9781560005780
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Economic pressure on states in the 1980s have led a number in this country to market lotteries in an unprecedentedly aggressive manner. This book was inspired by the author's experience with the New...
The French Revolution and the Psychology of Revolution by Gustave Le Bon
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18In 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: £45.63In 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: £45.63In 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: £90.68What 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: £45.63The 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 "women," with...
Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology by James E. Katz 9780765801586
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.69Social 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...
Reflections on a Politically Skeptical Era by Dennis Wrong 9780765801951
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68All 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...
Race and Representation by Georgia A. Persons 9781560009597
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93The 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: £32.89The 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: £57.65Thinking 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: £49.84Mount 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: £30.34This 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 why and how...
Iraq: Threat and Response by Gerhard Beestermoller 9780765802071
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39This 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 theology,...
The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions and Government Policies James A. Clifton 9781560007456
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48This is an explosive collection of essays, written by leading scholars of North American Indians, most of them heavily involved in service and applied work, often on behalf of Indian clients,...
Boys in White Howard S. Becker 9780878556229
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.29The transition from young layman aspiring to be a physician to the young physician skilled in technique and confident in his dealings with patients is slow and halting. To study medicine is generally...
Men of Destiny by Walter Lippmann
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63A great editorial commentator of the twentieth century, Walter Lippmann, was a major contributor to the central periodicals and journals of the age, including the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs,...