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This anthology, selected and edited by Brain Fagan, encompasses tales that fall into a little known literary genre, wherein authors seek to capture the romance and sense of wonder they experienced while gazing upon the monumental architecture of ancient civilisations. Num Pages: 320 pages, Numerous halftones, maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 1KB; HDDA; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 177 x 28. Weight in Grams: 707.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195160918
- ISBN
- 9780195160918
Condition: New
€ 35.06
€ 35.06
A stunningly original and inspiring illustrated history of America's founding ideals and how they have been understood from colonial times to the present, by one of America's most gifted historians. Series: America: a Cultural History. Num Pages: 864 pages, numerous colour and halftone illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 182 x 48. Weight in Grams: 2268.
- Number of pages
- 860
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195162530
- ISBN
- 9780195162530
Condition: New
€ 83.89
€ 83.89
This edition is the first full scale study of John Cannon and his chronicles. Known to some as 'the poor man's Pepys', Cannon wrote a remarkably candid autobiography, during a crucial period of change in British history. Part 1 includes Cannon's account of his service in the Country Excise. Editor(s): Money, John. Series: Records of Social & Economic History. Num Pages: 420 pages, Colour plate section, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGHA; BJ; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 28. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197264546
- ISBN
- 9780197264546
Condition: New
€ 115.76
€ 115.76
Made famous through Evans-Pritchard's ethnography, the Nuer are the second largest ethnic group in South Sudan. They were the object of Britain's last pacification campaign in Africa. The contemporary administrative reports and more recent interviews with Nuer and Dinka participants collected here cover significant events from 1898 to 1930. Editor(s): Johnson, Douglas H. Series: Fontes Historiae Africanae. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 including 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197265888
- ISBN
- 9780197265888
Condition: New
€ 101.69
€ 101.69
Before his death in 1989, Sir Ronald Syme approved the publication of these 59 papers on Roman history which complete this distinguished collection of his life's work. Editor(s): Birley, Anthony R. Num Pages: 486 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 244 x 33. Weight in Grams: 888.
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198144946
- ISBN
- 9780198144946
Condition: New
€ 204.86
€ 204.86
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199206179
- ISBN
- 9780199206179
Condition: New
€ 65.70
€ 65.70
Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives-our past, present, and future-in narrative terms. He draws on work in philosophy, psychology, history, and literature, and argues that although there may not be such a thing as a narrative self, having a narrative sense of self is at the heart of what it is to understand ourselves. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HPK; HPM; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199230730
- ISBN
- 9780199230730
Condition: New
€ 111.47
€ 111.47
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199244584
- ISBN
- 9780199244584
Condition: New
€ 100.77
€ 100.77
Philosophy written in English is overwhelmingly analytic philosophy, and the techniques and predilections of analytic philosophy are not only unhistorical but anti-historical, and hostile to textual commentary. Here, ten philosophers explore the tensions between, and the possibilities of reconciling, analytic philosophy and history of philosophy. Editor(s): Sorell, Professor Tom; Rogers, G. A. J. Series: Mind Association Occasional Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199278992
- ISBN
- 9780199278992
Condition: New
€ 197.05
€ 197.05
Big Dreams is the first full-scale cognitive scientific analysis of highly memorable dreams, with an original theory about their formation, function, and meaning. The book draws on evidence from religious studies, psychology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience to explore how big dreams are a wellspring of religious experience. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM3; JMTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199351534
- ISBN
- 9780199351534
Condition: New
€ 80.72
€ 80.72
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199532063
- ISBN
- 9780199532063
Condition: New
€ 29.42
€ 29.42
This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, represents H.L.A. Hart's landmark contribution to the philosophy of criminal responsibility and punishment. Unavailable for ten years, this new edition reproduces the original text, adding a new critical introduction by John Gardner, a leading contemporary criminal law theorist. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; LAB; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 543.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199534777
- ISBN
- 9780199534777
Condition: New
€ 193.71
€ 193.71
This is a much-needed interdisciplinary investigation of empathy. Leading researchers from philosophy and psychology explore the role of empathy in our capacity to understand other people and predict what they think, feel, and do; the part it plays in our ethical responses to others; and its importance to our appreciation of art and fiction. Editor(s): Coplan, Amy; Goldie, Peter. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; HPN; HPQ; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539956
- ISBN
- 9780199539956
Condition: New
€ 153.60
€ 153.60
Antiquity on Display offers an insight into the history of the imaginative reproductions of architecture housed in Berlin's Pergamon Museum and the shifting regimes of the authentic in museum displays from the nineteenth century to the present. Series: Classical Presences. Num Pages: 304 pages, 99 in text illustrations and 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; ACG; AMX; HBLA1; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199570553
- ISBN
- 9780199570553
Condition: New
€ 136.88
€ 136.88
Emotion and Cognitive Life in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
. Ed(S): Pickave, Martin; Shapiro, Lisa
This volume explores emotion in medieval and early modern thought, and opens a contemporary debate on the way emotions figure in our cognitive lives. Thirteen original essays explore the key themes of emotion within the mind; the intentionality of emotions; emotions and action; and the role of emotion in self-understanding and social situations. Editor(s): Pickave, Martin; Shapiro, Lisa. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; HPQ; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199579914
- ISBN
- 9780199579914
Condition: New
€ 131.67
€ 131.67
This volume explores the ways in which the English settlers in Louth maintained their English identity in the face of plague and warfare, through the turbulent decades between 1330 and 1450. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199594757
- ISBN
- 9780199594757
Condition: New
€ 187.02
€ 187.02
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199606214
- ISBN
- 9780199606214
Condition: New
€ 140.22
€ 140.22
This volume presents twelve original papers on the idea that moral objectivity is to be understood in terms of a suitably constructed social point of view that all can accept. The contributors offer new perspectives, some sympathetic and some critical, on constructivist understandings - Kantian or otherwise - of morality and reason. Editor(s): Lenman, James; Shemmer, Yonatan. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199609833
- ISBN
- 9780199609833
Condition: New
€ 146.92
€ 146.92
This study explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. It discusses major Victorian poets - Tennyson, the Brownings, Rossetti, Hopkins, Hardy - and also argues that their work was influenced by a host of minor and less studied writers. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; HRCL; HRCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199644506
- ISBN
- 9780199644506
Condition: New
€ 187.02
€ 187.02
Unfit for the Future argues that the future of our species depends on radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our nature. Population growth and technological advances are threatening to undermine the conditions of worthwhile life on earth forever. We need to modify the biological bases of human motivation to deal with this challenge. Series: Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; MBDC; PSAD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199653645
- ISBN
- 9780199653645
Condition: New
€ 76.71
€ 76.71