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Philosophy and Technology
This collection of essays examines the philosophical and cultural aspects of technology. The issues range widely - from quantum technology to...
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Changing the Rules
The history of the social sciences has been marked by frequent and fierce debates on the rules of scientific methodology. Even the most general...
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Physics and Chance
Statistical mechanics is one of the crucial fundamental theories of physics, and in his new book Lawrence Sklar, one of the pre-eminent philosophers...
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The Immune Self
This is one of the first books in a new series that will publish the very best work in the philosophy of biology. The series will be non-sectarian in...
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Public Order in Ancient Rome
The absence of a professional police force in the city of Rome in classical times is often identified as a major cause of the collapse of the...
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Judgment and Decision-Making Research in Accounting and Auditing
The study of behavioural decision-making has expanded into the area of accounting and auditing. This branch of research seeks to understand the...
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T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets
Criticism of Eliot has ignored the public dimension of his life and work. His poetry is often seen as the private record of an internal spiritual...
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Novel Arguments
Novel Arguments deals with American innovative (postmodern, metafictional, experimental) fiction since the 1960s. It argues that innovative fiction...
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The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton’s fiction written both to meet the interest of the...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism
This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the...
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The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton
The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers a series of fresh examinations of Edith Wharton’s fiction written both to meet the interest of the...
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The Arabian Epic: Volume 2, Analysis
The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The...
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The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting...
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Judaism and Hebrew Prayer
This study traces the origins of Hebrew prayer among the Jews and explains how the first volumes of formal Jewish liturgy emerged. It describes in a...
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A Letter to the Friars Minor and Other Writings
More than any other single thinker, William of Ockham (c.1285–1347) is responsible for the widely held modern assumption that religious and...
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The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman
The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in...
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Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages
Translation played a crucial role in the emergence of vernacular literary culture in the Middle Ages. This is the first book to consider the rise of...
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A Letter to the Friars Minor and Other Writings
More than any other single thinker, William of Ockham (c.1285–1347) is responsible for the widely held modern assumption that religious and...
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The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book...
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The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings
The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin was the world’s foremost spokesman of anarchism at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the...
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit makes the case for Wharton as a novelist of morals rather than of manners; a novelist who sought answers to...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Man and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints
Mary Wollstonecraft, often described as the first major feminist, is remembered principally as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman...
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William Faulkner
A comprehensive collection of contemporary published reactions to the writing of William Faulkner from 1926 to 1962, these articles document the...
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Literature against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida
This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory, particularly within American and British academic circles, has led to a...
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