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The Structure of Biological Science
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the conceptual methodological, and epistemological problems of biology, and treats in depth the major...
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Essays on the Philosophy of Music
This volume contains a selection of essays in translation by the German philosopher and man of letters Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), on the philosophy...
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What is a Law of Nature?
This is a study of a crucial and controversial topic in metaphysics and the philosophy of science: the status of the laws of nature. D. M. Armstrong...
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Philosophical Papers
Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his ‘philosophical anthropology’ spans an...
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The New Comedy of Greece and Rome
In writing this book on the plays of New Comedy the author’s aim is to fill a gap in the existing literature by concentrating on what one might...
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Callimachus: The Fifth Hymn
Callimachus was one of the most important and influential writers in the ancient world. He was the outstanding poet of the Hellenistic period, and...
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The Modes of Scepticism
The Modes of Scepticism is one of the most important and influential of all ancient philosophical texts. The texts made an enormous impact on Western...
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The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great
In his role of apostle of the English and promoter of Augustine’s mission, Gregory the Great became the subject of what is one of the earliest...
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Two Lives of St. Cuthbert
These two complementary lives of Cuthbert illuminate both the secular history of the golden age of Northumbria and the historic shift from Celtic to...
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Felix’s Life of Saint Guthlac
Written around 730–740 the Life of Guthlac by the monk Felix is an important and colourful source for the obscure early history of East Anglia and...
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The Life of Bishop Wilfrid
The Life of Wilfrid offers us a graphic portrait of one of the most forceful characters in the history of the English Church: a man courageous and...
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A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama
In this, the third and final volume of his critical account of American drama in the twentieth century, Christopher Bigsby turns from the...
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Demosthenes: Selected Private Speeches
The four private speeches contained in this collection were functional artefacts whose object was to persuade a jury numbered in hundreds by...
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The Sacred Game
This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. With careful attention to the historical context, it identifies in...
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Philosophy in History
The sixteen essays in this volume confront the current debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history. On the one hand intellectual...
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In the Age of Prose
The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by...
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Bachelard: Science and Objectivity
This is the first critically evaluative study of Gaston Bachelard’s philosophy of science to be written in English. Bachelard’s professional...
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Metaphysics
This book provides an introduction to metaphysics. At the outset Professor Hamlyn distinguishes two conceptions of metaphysics running through the...
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Callimachus: Hymn to Demeter
Callimachus was one of the most important and influential writers in the ancient world. He was the outstanding poet of the Hellenistic period, and...
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Virgil’s Iliad
This is a book about Virgil’s Aeneid, especially the second half of the poem, are explores in some detail Virgil’s use of Homer’s Iliad. The...
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Decisions and Revisions
This is a collection of Isaac Levi’s philosophical papers. Over the period represented by the work here, Professor Levi has developed an...
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The Cambridge Ancient History
Published in 1928, Volume VII of the Cambridge Ancient History orginally covered both the history of the Hellenistic world from the battle of Ipsus...
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