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Attitudes And Persuasion: Classic And Contemporary Approaches Richard E Petty 9780813330051
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80This book provides a needed survey of a truly remarkable number of different theoretical approaches to the related phenomena of attitude and belief change. It focuses on variable perspective theory... -
Japan Through American Eyes: The Journal Of Francis Hall, 1859-1866 Fred G Notehelfer 9780813338675
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80This abridgement of the unique journal of Francis Hall, America's leading business pioneer in nineteenth-century Japan, offers a remarkable view of the period leading to the Meiji Restoration. An... -
Critical Issues In American Art: A Book Of Readings Mary Ann Calo 9780064309875
RRP: £66.99Booksplease Price: £59.79This anthology of essays on different critical approaches and methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of American art and artists is designed for students and teachers in American art... -
Dilemmas Of International Trade: Second Edition by Bruce E. Moon
Booksplease Price: £37.99In the post-Cold War world, trade is the new arena for competition-between nations, between groups, between ethical and theoretical ideas. In this revised and updated second edition of Dilemmas of... -
Julia Lathrop: Social Service and Progressive Government by Miriam Cohen
Booksplease Price: £37.99Julia Lathrop was a social servant, government activist, and social scientist who expanded notions of women's proper roles in public life during the early 1900s. Appointed as chief of the U.S... -
At The Fringes Of Science by Michael W. Friedlander
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.98Scientific discoveries are constantly in the news. Almost daily we hear about new and important breakthroughs. But sometimes it turns out that what was trumpeted as scientific truth is later... -
Minds Of Their Own: Thinking And Awareness In Animals Lesley J Rogers 9780813390659
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Do Animals have ideas? Do they experience pain like humans? Do they think about objects that they cannot see? About situations that have occurred in the past? Do they consciously make plans for the... -
American Artists On Art: From 1940 To 1980 Ellen H. Johnson 9780064301121
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80From the Preface:The fact that so much of modern art has devoted itself to the exploration and assertion of its own identity is reflected in, but does not explain, the increasing amount of writing... -
All Our Kin: Strategies For Survival In A Black Community by Carol Stack
Booksplease Price: £14.73All Our Kin is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto community, to study the support system family and friends form when coping with poverty. ... -
A Social History Of Women And Gender In The Modern Middle East Margaret Lee Meriwether 9780813321011
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Synthesizing the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years, Margaret L. Meriwether and Judith E. Tucker provide an accessible overview of the scholarship... -
Angry, Bored, Confused: A Citizen Handbook Of American Politics by Michael J. Kryzanek 9780813368856
Booksplease Price: £43.94Angry, Bored, and Confused-three words that aptly describe the typical American's view toward the world of politics. But it doesn't have to stay this way, argues Michael J. Kryzanek in Angry, Bored,... -
Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story by John Holt 9780201567632
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.29If I could learn to play the cello well, as I thought I could, I could show by my own example that we all have greater powers than we think that whatever we want to learn or learn to do, we probably... -
Spectral Evidence by Moira Johnston 9780813335872
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.22Spectral Evidence is a masterful account of the Ramona family of Napa Valley, CA, whose outward appearance of success was destroyed by allegations of child sexual abuse brought by Holly, the eldest... -
Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis 9780201567519
Booksplease Price: £16.59Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality, and meet a network of scientists bent on creating artificial life forms, building time machines, hatching plans for... -
Costs and Benefits of Preventing Crime by Brandon Welsh
Booksplease Price: £49.04What are the cost savings from preventing a typical burglary, robbery, assault, or even a criminal career? Who benefits from these savings? How often do the benefits from preventing crime or criminal... -
Pacification: The American Struggle For Vietnam's Hearts And Minds Richard A Hunt 9780813334592
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80During the Vietnam War, the United States embarked on an unusual crusade on behalf of the government of South Vietnam. Known as the pacification program, it sought to help South Vietnam's government... -
Thinking about Logic: Classic Essays by Steven M. Cahn
Booksplease Price: £37.99Thinking about Logic is an accessible and thought-provoking collection of classic articles in the philosophy of logic. An ideal companion to any formal logic course or textbook, this volume... -
The New Temperance: The American Obsession With Sin and Vice by David Wagner
Booksplease Price: £43.94The war on drugs ? the campaigns against smoking cigarettes ? v-chips to control what children watch on TV ? censoring the Internet and Calvin Klein jeans ads?bipartisan lectures about the dangers of... -
Li Da And Marxist Philosophy In China Nick Knight 9780813336398
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23"Scholars of Marxism will be in Nick Knight's debt for this pioneering study of one of the most important figures in the development of Marxism in China. Knight makes an important case about the... -
An Introduction To The World-system Perspective: Second Edition by Thomas R. Shannon
Booksplease Price: £40.54In this second edition, Thomas Shannon extends his overall assessment of the world-system perspective to include the new theoretical and empirical developments in the field since 1989. Incorporating... -
Comparing Asian Politics: India, China, and Japan Sue Ellen M. Charlton 9780813348834
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Comparing Asian Politics presents an invaluable comparative examination of politics and government in three Asian nations: India, China, and Japan. The author elucidates the links between politics... -
The Guatemalan Tax Reform by Roy W. Bahl
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.38This book describes the analysis that led to the reform of the Guatemalan tax system in 1992. It also describes the tax policy aspects to improve tax administration, budgeting and fiscal planning,... -
Payment Due: A Nation In Debt, A Generation In Trouble by Timothy J. Penny
Booksplease Price: £37.99T he generational wars are about to begin: competing for entitlements, wrestling over taxes, dancing around the deficit. Today's children and grandchildren are tomorrow's taxpayers and social fabric... -
The Regional Governing Of Metropolitan America by David Y. Miller
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The book explores the regional governing of metropolitan America in a comprehensive and systematic fashion. It reviews the financial system of state and local government at the broadest possible... -
Mining the Sky: Untold Riches From The Asteroids, Comets, And Planets by John Lewis 9780201328196
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00While we worry over the depletion of the earth's natural resources, the pollution of our planet, and the challenges presented by the earth's growing population, billions of dollars worth of metals,... -
Jobshift: How To Prosper In A Workplace Without Jobs by William Bridges 9780201489330
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.41The source of Fortune 's widely discussed cover story "The End of the Job," Job Shift breaks open our traditional work world. For all employees, executives, and entrepreneurs it reveals the new... -
Sally Hemings: Given Her Time Jon Kukla 9780813347738
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52This is a brief biography that explores the life of Sally Hemings. This book is a part of Westview?s `Lives of American Women? series, edited by Carol Berkin. Each title in the series features brief... -
The Mind-body Problem: An Opinionated Introduction D. M. Armstrong 9780813390574
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23The relation of mind to body has been argued about by philosophers for centuries. The Mind-Body Problem: An Opinionated Introduction presents the problem as a debate between materialists about the... -
Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth-century Theology And Philosophy Stanley Hauerwas 9780813333489
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Wilderness Wanderings slashes through the tangled undergrowth that Christianity in America has become to clear a space for those for whom theology still matters. Writing to a generation of Christians... -
Violence Within The Family: Social Psychological Perspectives by Sharon D. Herzberger
Booksplease Price: £49.04Perhaps one-fifth of all marriages are tainted by violence, and an equal number of children are harmed by parents. Abuse of elderly relatives is just beginning to be recognized as a major social... -
Revisioning The Political: Feminist Reconstructions Of Traditional Concepts In Western Political Theory Nancy J Hirschmann 9780813386409
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Feminist scholars have been remaking the landscape in political theory, and in this important book some of the most important feminist political theorists provide reconstructions of those concepts... -
The French National Front: The Extremist Challenge To Democracy by Harvey G. Simmons
Booksplease Price: £49.89Over the past few decades, extreme-right political parties have won increasing support throughout Europe. The largest and most sophisticated of these is the French National Front. Led by the... -
Semiclassical Physics by Rajat K. Bhaduri
Booksplease Price: £69.73This book attempts to convey to the reader that semiclassical physics can be fun, as well as useful for understanding quantum fluctuations in interacting many-body systems. It presents applications... -
Catharine Beecher: The Complexity of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America by Cindy R. Lobel
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59This is an accessibly written account of Catharine Beecher's life that will appeal to both researchers and the general reader.Offers contextual overview of a prominent figure in 19th Century... -
Across The Boundaries Of Belief: Contemporary Issues In The Anthropology Of Religion by Morton Klass 9780813326955
Booksplease Price: £54.14In this collection of anthropological writings drawn from many different world areas, contemporary theoretical issues and conflicts in the anthropological study of religion are explored and... -
Barbara Egger Lennon: Teacher, Mother, Activist by Tina Stewart Brakebill 9780813347974
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.66Facets of Barbara Egger Lennon's life depict an ordinary white Midwestern woman of her time: teacher, wife, mother. Her work as a union organizer and political activist, however, complicate that... -
Comparative Politics: A Policy Approach by Michael J. Kryzanek 9780813397924
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £67.80"Comparative Politics: A Policy Approach is a unique text that integrates a comprehensive study of eight nations with critical policy issues facing those nations. The individual chapters on the... -
Waiting For Godot In Sarajevo by David Toole 9780813335032
Booksplease Price: £28.18In the summer of 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, an event which led to the horror of World War I and which many historians suggest marked the beginning of the twentieth... -
The Resilient Spirit: Transforming Suffering Into Insight And Renewal by Polly Young-Eisendrath 9780201517453
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Young-Eisendrath teaches readers how to learn from their hardships by drawing on the traditions that have enriched her life experience--the theories of Jung, the practice of psychoanalysis, and the... -
Essentials Of Political Research Alan Monroe 9780813368665
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This text is a complete introduction to reseah methods in political science, covering all the topics typically included in a one semester undergraduate-level course. h concentrates on the basics of...