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Hardcover. In the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The outcome was momentous: the demise of British Idealism and the rise of analytic philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines afresh this formative period in twentieth-cenutry thought and comes to some surprising conclusions. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506855
- ISBN
- 9780230506855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Hardcover. This book explores how deconstruction addresses the issue of futurity in the act of writing and translation. It focuses on three French expressions - venue, survenue, and voir-venir - taken from the work of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Catherine Malabou, and offers fresh insights, proposing the possibility of a multiplicity of structures. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506848
- ISBN
- 9780230506848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This book argues that it is not obvious what we means by saying our beliefs and assertions are 'truth-directed'. Do we weaken our notion of a belief if we deal with radical scepticism without surrendering to idealism? This book defends a radically new 'ecological' model of knowledge, examining what might happen if we abandoned genuine belief. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506831
- ISBN
- 9780230506831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book is a Wittgensteinian study of concept possession and conceptual investigation in philosophy. It offers advanced introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy and original treatment of its most crucial regions. Written as a Socratic dialogue, with a glance to Plato, it makes a bold claim about Wittgenstein's place in Western philosophy. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506824
- ISBN
- 9780230506824
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This book is the first comprehensive study of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria. It argues that the medicalization was a priority for colonial regimes, but this goal was thwarted by ineffectual French medicine, institutional rivalries, and the manner in which medicine became a focus for the resistance of French domination and rule. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBA; 3JH; HBTB; HBTQ; MBP; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500433
- ISBN
- 9780230500433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HRLP7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230393578
- ISBN
- 9780230393578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.35
€ 67.35
Hardcover. Is nature creation or merely the product of non-intentional, natural processes? The author aims to recover the Christian sense that it is obvious that nature is creation and argues that biological nature has expressive properties similar in kind to human behaviour and art. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230393134
- ISBN
- 9780230393134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. An examination of fifteenth-century British queens through literature and history. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; 3J; HBAH; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230392984
- ISBN
- 9780230392984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This project examines the development of forced labor in colonial Kenya from 1912 to 1930 and the parallel normalization of communal forced labor during this time period. Num Pages: 186 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJH; HBLW; HBTB; HBTQ; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230392953
- ISBN
- 9780230392953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardcover. Moving away from orthodox narratives of the Raj and British presence in India, this book examines the significance of the networks and connections that South Asians established on British soil. Looking at the period 1858-1950, it presents readings of cultural history and points to the urgent need to open up the parameters of this field of study. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230392717
- ISBN
- 9780230392717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book asks how, in a time of crisis, medieval citizens developed an independent sense of ethics. Witness testimonies from Marseille's court records offer a small window into the neighborhoods of Marseille and reveal how humble people, often women, used the role of witness to become the arbiters of their communities. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; HBTB; JF; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391994
- ISBN
- 9780230391994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical misrepresentations and helps us to rediscover the complex world of Tudor society. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; BGR; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 557.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391925
- ISBN
- 9780230391925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.64
€ 67.64
Hardcover. Market Power explores society and economy in medieval Iberia, examining the intersection of regional commercial interests, lordship, and royal authority as part of the evolution of a small village into a rural market town. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 259 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; HBLC1; KCCD; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391703
- ISBN
- 9780230391703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Heimat, Region, and Empire: Spatial Identities under National Socialis...
Szejnmann, Claus-Christian W., Umbach, Maiken
Hardcover. This collection brings together international scholars pursuing cutting-edge research on spatial identities under National Socialism. They demonstrate that the spatial identities of the Third Reich can be approached as a history of interrelated dimensions; Heimat, region and Empire were constantly reconstructed through this interrelationship. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391093
- ISBN
- 9780230391093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Paperback. This book, now in paperback with a striking new preface, presents one of the first systematic assessments of aesthetic insights into world politics. It examines the nature of aesthetic approaches and outlines how they differ from traditional analysis of politics using a series of case studies on language and poetics. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN; HPS; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390638
- ISBN
- 9780230390638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.18
€ 127.18
Hardcover. Pornography is seen as morally problematic for a variety of reasons: coercion, exploitation, harm and the promulgation of inequality. The book looks at various ethical and political discussions concerning the production, exchange and consumption of pornography to propose a radical new approach centering on the concept of objectification. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230371118
- ISBN
- 9780230371118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This reconstruction of the work of 'dialectical memory' in Hegel raises the fundamental question of the principle that presides on the articulation of history and indicates in Hegel's philosophy two alternative models of conceiving history: one that grounds history on 'ethical memory,' the other that sees justice as the moving principle of history. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230371040
- ISBN
- 9780230371040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Eighteenth-century philosophy owes much to the early novel. Using the figure of the romance reader this book tells a new story of eighteenth-century reading. The impressionable mind and mutable identity of the romance reader haunt eighteenth-century definitions of the self, and the seductions of fiction insist on making an appearance in philosophy. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369375
- ISBN
- 9780230369375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
Hardcover. Some scientific categories seem to correspond to genuine features of the world and are indispensable for successful science in some domain; in short, they are natural kinds. This book gives a general account of what it is to be a natural kind and puts the account to work illuminating numerous specific examples. Series: New Directions in the Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369177
- ISBN
- 9780230369177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-48: Beyond Idealisation and Condemn...
Lánícek, Jan, Lã¡Niä?Ek, Jan
Hardcover. Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war years, and of the implementation of the plans in liberated Czechoslovakia after 1945. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230368743
- ISBN
- 9780230368743
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25