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Aristotle and the Science of Nature
Andrea Falcon’s work is guided by the exegetical ideal of recreating the mind of Aristotle and his distinctive conception of the theoretical...
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The Socialist Corporation and Technocratic Power
In this book Dr Woodall analyses the political implications of the pursuit of industrial growth for the authority of the Polish United Workers'...
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Toward a Theory of Human Rights
Neither the morality of human rights nor its relation to the law of human rights is well understood. In this book, Michael Perry addresses three...
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H.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910–1950
Diana Collecott proposes that Sappho’s presence in H. D.’s work is as significant as that of Homer in Pound’s and of Dante in Eliot’s. She...
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The Stoics on Ambiguity
Stoic work on ambiguity represents one of the most innovative, sophisticated and rigorous contributions to philosophy and the study of language in...
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Boundaries and Belonging
This interdisciplinary volume maintains the importance of a spatial understanding of society and history, but suggests a way of conceiving of borders...
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Negotiation and the Global Information Economy
What role do diplomacy and negotiations play in economic globalization? Many argue that great powers shape diplomacy to their advantage, others that,...
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American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995
Focusing on key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of...
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The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Grain Agreement
This study of the 1975 US-USSR Grain Agreement negotiations illuminates the parameters and constraints faced by policy makers in a democratic,...
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A Theory of Syntax
Human language seems to have arisen roughly within the last 50-100,000 years. In evolutionary terms, this is the mere blink of an eye. If this is...
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An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
This comprehensive introductory textbook to early Chinese philosophy covers a range of philosophical traditions which arose during the Spring and...
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The Fate of Young Democracies
The recent backlash against democracy in such countries as Bolivia, Venezuela, Russia, and Georgia poses renewed concerns about the viability of this...
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Newton as Philosopher
Newton's philosophical views are unique and uniquely difficult to categorise. In the course of a long career from the early 1670s until his death in...
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Crude Democracy
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both...
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Science, Politics, and Evolution
This book brings together important essays by one of the leading philosophers of science at work today. Elisabeth A. Lloyd examines several of the...
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The Public Forum and Christian Ethics
This book addresses the question of the communication of Christian ethics in the public forum of liberal, pluralist societies. Drawing on debates in...
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Counter-Democracy
Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence,...
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The Liberal Project and Human Rights
The ‘Liberal Project’ aims to transform society in accordance with liberal values and practices. This volume argues that the United Nations...
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That Nothing is Known
This is an edition of one of the crucial texts of Renaissance scepticism, Quod nihil scitur, by the Portuguese scholar Franciso Sanches. The...
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Political Institutions under Dictatorship
Often dismissed as window-dressing, nominally democratic institutions, such as legislatures and political parties, play an important role in...
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Appropriating Heidegger
Although Martin Heidegger is undeniably one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, among the philosophers who study his work...
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Christian Realism and the New Realities
Are religion and public life really separate spheres of human activity? Should they be? In this book, Robin W. Lovin criticizes contemporary...
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Managing Strategic Surprise
The scope and applicability of risk management have expanded greatly over the past decade. Banks, corporations, and public agencies employ its new...
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God, the Mind’s Desire
This book reconfigures the basic problem of Christian thinking - ‘How can human discourse refer meaningfully to a transcendent God?’ - as a...
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