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Hardback. Editor(s): Lewis, J.; Bogdan, Henrik. Series: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 445.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137409621
- ISBN
- 9781137409621
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Condition: New
€ 128.47
€ 128.47
Hardcover. The End of Russian Philosophy describes and evaluates the troubled state of Russian philosophical thought in the post-Soviet decades. The book suggests that in order to revive philosophy as a universal, professional discipline in Russia, it may be necessary for Russian philosophy to first do away with the messianic traditions of the 19th century. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JM; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137409898
- ISBN
- 9781137409898
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137411532
- ISBN
- 9781137411532
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This volume assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on whether or how racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender differences are validated by churches (and especially black churches) torn between competing inclusive and exclusive tendencies. Editor(s): Smith, R. Drew; Ackah, William; Reddie, Anthony G. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 303 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137411655
- ISBN
- 9781137411655
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality or relegating non-human beings and their habitats to instrumentalism. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412102
- ISBN
- 9781137412102
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.76
€ 67.76
Hardcover. Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering explores how the works of both philosophers revolve around an entwinement of pessimism and optimism, which links statements regarding the wrongness of the world to analyses of the human capability to experience compassion with bodily suffering and to the redeeming qualities of the arts. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412164
- ISBN
- 9781137412164
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This is a book about evolution - from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical philosophies of the 1960s, and explores the confluences of these ideas with those of complexity theory in environmental biology. Num Pages: 252 pages, 3 black & white tables, 1 black & white halftones, 1 figures. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412195
- ISBN
- 9781137412195
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Condition: New
€ 44.75
€ 44.75
Hardcover. While moral philosophy has traditionally been understood as an examination of the good life, this book argues that ethical inquiry should, rather, begin from an examination of evil and other 'negative' moral concepts, such as guilt and suffering. Num Pages: 147 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 221 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412652
- ISBN
- 9781137412652
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Paperback. In this groundbreaking book, Calum Neill explores the ideas of Jacques Lacan to present a powerful argument for an approach to ethics which is neither rooted in a traditional morality nor reduced to a relativism, an ethics, that is, which is without ground. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMA; JMRN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412713
- ISBN
- 9781137412713
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. A Theory of the Absolute develops a worldview that is opposed to the dominant paradigm of physicalism and atheism. It provides powerful arguments for the existence of the soul and the existence of the Absolute. It shows that faith is not in contradiction to reason. Editor(s): Nagasawa, Yujin; Wielenberg, Erik J. Series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412812
- ISBN
- 9781137412812
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. The Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century. Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GTR; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137412843
- ISBN
- 9781137412843
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.94
€ 117.94
Hardcover. Interweaving phenomenological, hermeneutical, and sociopolitical analyses, this book considers the ways in which feminists conceptualize and produce the temporalities of feminism, including the time of the trace, narrative time, calendar time, and generational time. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413154
- ISBN
- 9781137413154
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. This book argues that the overlooked ideas of Jose Marti and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara explain recent politics in Latin America and the Caribbean but also, even more significantly, offer a defensible alternative direction for global development ethics. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413222
- ISBN
- 9781137413222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. The letters of Heloise and Abelard remain one of the great romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization, while they themselves are second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers. Here, collected for the first time, is their correspondence with accessible commentary from two of our foremost medieval scholars. Editor(s): McLaughlin, Mary Martin; Wheeler, Bonnie. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 582.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413642
- ISBN
- 9781137413642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.60
€ 129.60
Paperback. Examines Frantz Fanon's relevance to contemporary South African politics and by extension research on postcolonial Africa and the tragic development of postcolonies. Scholar Nigel C. Gibson offers theoretically informed historical analysis, providing insights into the circumstances that led to the current hegemony of neoliberalism in South Africa. Num Pages: 334 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFM; 3JJ; HBJH; HBTQ; JFSL3; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414779
- ISBN
- 9781137414779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.49
€ 73.49
Hardback. This introduction to religion and the science of origins focuses on Christianity and modern Western sciences of origins with chapters on evolution in Islam and Judaism. The issues discussed are the origin of science, human origins, the origin of the cosmos, the nature of humanity, the origin of religious belief and ethic. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAM3; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414830
- ISBN
- 9781137414830
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.35
€ 68.35
Hardcover. What entitles you to claims about your perceivable environment? Matthiessen suggests that it is neither your experience, nor the reliability of your cognitive processes, but rather your being in the right kind of perceptual situation. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414977
- ISBN
- 9781137414977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. We are understandably reluctant to "rank" moral atrocities. What is worse, genocide or terrorism? In this book, Thomas W. Simon argues that politicians use this to manipulate our sense of injustice by exaggerating terrorism and minimizing torture. He advocates for an international criminal code that encourages humanitarian intervention. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTV; JPB; JPVH; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415103
- ISBN
- 9781137415103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZB; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415134
- ISBN
- 9781137415134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. This is an environmental history of humans and wildfire on the Cape Peninsula, from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The book examines how the region's unique, famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since European colonial settlement, through urbanisation and biological modifications. Series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11 graphs, 12 black & white halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; HBTB; HBTP; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415431
- ISBN
- 9781137415431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.85
€ 67.85