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paperback. A few of us may be natural geniuses; others are blessed with reserves of willpower. Then there's the rest of us: not prodigies and short on time, but still aspiring to understand the world. What can we do? This guide enables you to tackle life's questions - evolution, meaning, consciousness and free will. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241954621
- ISBN
- 9780241954621
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€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. One of the world's leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments. Includes 77 of Dennett's most successful "imagination-extenders and focus-holders.O Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 61. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393348781
- ISBN
- 9780393348781
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€ 23.99€ 20.92
€ 23.99
€ 20.92
Paperback. Elucidates a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought - the relationship of the mind and body. This work develops a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on the advances in the field that came to be known as cognitive science. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415567862
- ISBN
- 9780415567862
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.03
€ 23.99
€ 22.03
Paperback. What is religion and how did it evolve? Is it the product of blind evolutionary instinct or of rational choice? Is the only way to live a good life through religion? In this title, the author explores how the great ideas of religion have enthralled us for thousands of years - and whether we could (or should) break free. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141017778
- ISBN
- 9780141017778
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. Is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws? In this title, the author provides a defense of free will. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140283891
- ISBN
- 9780140283891
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.84
€ 15.99
€ 11.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- new edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262527798
- ISBN
- 9780262527798
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.56
€ 32.99
€ 24.56
Paperback. Explores how consciousness has evolved, and how a modern understanding of the human mind is radically different from conventional explanations of consciousness. This title explains how science has exploded the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; JMR; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140128673
- ISBN
- 9780140128673
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. An enlightening discussion that will motivate students to think critically, the book opens with Plantinga's assertion that Christianity is compatible with evolutionary theory because Christians believe that God created the living world, and it is entirely possible that God did so by using a process of evolution. Series: Point/Counterpoint. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAM3; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 142 x 8. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199738427
- ISBN
- 9780199738427
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Condition: New
€ 35.86
€ 35.86
Hardback. This text examines religious conflict in the parish communities of early modern England using an interdisciplinary approach that includes a number of perspectives. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 476 pages, 1 map, 16 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWG; 3JB; 3JD; HBG; HBJD1; HBLH; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 476
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674758452
- ISBN
- 9780674758452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.44€ 82.58
€ 91.44
€ 82.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 204 x 24. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062511638
- ISBN
- 9780062511638
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.27
€ 18.99
€ 16.27
Paperback. A sharp and concise overview of Al Qaeda, from its humble origins in the mountains of Afghanistan to the present, explaining its perseverance and adaptation since 9/11 and the limits of U.S. and allied counterterrorism efforts Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBWS; JPS; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190217266
- ISBN
- 9780190217266
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.75
€ 17.99
€ 17.75
Hardback. This book tells the story of more than 150,000 Canadians who were subjected to conscription during the Second World War, and how their experiences shaped and were shaped by the decisions of the generals and politicians who guided the country's war effort. Series: Studies in Canadian Military History. Num Pages: 688 pages, 22 b&w photographs, 10 tables, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJH; HBJK; HBWQ; JWL; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 688
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774830515
- ISBN
- 9780774830515
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Condition: New
€ 106.50
€ 106.50
Paperback. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving members of the George Jackson Brigade, this book provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970s. It is also a compelling exploration of the true nature of crime and a provocative meditation on the tension between self-restraint and anger in the process of social change. Num Pages: 358 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520264298
- ISBN
- 9780520264298
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Hardback. The extraordinary life story of an ambitious, thirteenth-century adventurer. Series: Irish Historical Monographs. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3H; BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 27. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783271344
- ISBN
- 9781783271344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.41
€ 115.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US) United States
- Edition
- 7th Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780136052012
- ISBN
- 9780136052012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 205.18
€ 205.18
Paperback. Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization. Series: African Studies. 278 pages, 10 b/w illus. This 2009 book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during the 1950s and its legacies for the post-colonial state. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJPG; HBJH; HBLW; HBW. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 15. Weight: 442.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521130905
- ISBN
- 9780521130905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.36
€ 32.36
Hardback. This volume maps the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. It explores the modern Jewish and homosexual identities which emerged as traces of each. Editor(s): Boyarin, Daniel; Itzkovitz, Daniel; Pellegrini, Ann. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113748
- ISBN
- 9780231113748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.84€ 89.47
€ 118.84
€ 89.47
"Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism.. In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece."-Jack Miles, Commonweal Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237641
- ISBN
- 9780812237641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.21
€ 119.21
Hardback. Scholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736176
- ISBN
- 9780804736176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Paperback. What kind of literature is the Talmud? This title suggests that both the Platonic and the Talmudic dialogues are not dialogic at all. It singles out Menippean satire as the most important genre through which to understand both the Talmud and Plato, emphasizing their seriocomic peculiarity. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: HPCA; HRJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226069173
- ISBN
- 9780226069173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52