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Paperback. This book is a critical introduction to code and software that develops an understanding of its social and philosophical implications in the digital age. Written specifically for people interested in the subject from a non-technical background, the book provides a lively and interesting analysis of these new media forms. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; KNTX; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490278
- ISBN
- 9781137490278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardback. Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world. Editor(s): Berry, David M.; Dieter, Michael. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137437198
- ISBN
- 9781137437198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.54
€ 119.54
Paperback. This textbook presents an account of the philosophical position generally indentified as "Postpositivistic" that undergirds much of mainstream research in education and the related social sciences. Series: Philosophy, Theory, and Educational Research Series. Num Pages: 112 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847691227
- ISBN
- 9780847691227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 38.41
€ 40.99
€ 38.41
paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Catholic University America Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780813228242
- ISBN
- 9780813228242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.99€ 42.31
€ 59.99
€ 42.31
Hardcover. Unlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the 'just war' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. It answers the question: 'If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and all the other moral virtues ever choose to fight a war?' Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137263407
- ISBN
- 9781137263407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Paperback. Unlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the 'just war' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. It answers the question: 'If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and all the other moral virtues ever choose to fight a war?' Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: GTJ; HPQ; HPS; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349999866
- ISBN
- 9781349999866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.64
€ 61.64
Paperback. "British Moralists: 1650-1800: 2-Volume Set". Num Pages: 868 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 45. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Hackett Pub Co Inc
- Number of pages
- 852
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872201200
- ISBN
- 9780872201200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.38
€ 43.99
€ 31.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; HRA; HRCM; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349387540
- ISBN
- 9781349387540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Jeffreys explores the spiritual consequences and ethics of modern solitary confinement and emphasizes how solitary confinement damages our spiritual lives. He focuses particularly on how it destroys one's relationship to time and undermines our creativity, and proposes institutional changes in order to mitigate profound damage to prisoners. Series: Content and Context in Theological Ethics. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRA; HRAB; HRAM; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349456086
- ISBN
- 9781349456086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. Clear disparities exist between notions of representative democracy and political practice in Britain. Alternative models of democracy, however, have their own incongruities in trying to marry representation and democracy. This book analyses the mismatches in democratic theories and between theory and practice in British representative democracy. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339693
- ISBN
- 9781349339693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.69
€ 61.69
Paperback. What is it to blame someone, and when are would-be blamers in a position to do so? What function does blame serve in our lives, and is it a valuable way of relating to one another? The essays in this volume explore answers to these and related questions. Editor(s): Coates, D. Justin; Tognazzini, Neal A. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199860845
- ISBN
- 9780199860845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.00
€ 69.00
paperback. Series: Cold War History. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJK; HBL; HPC; JPA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- SKU
- V9781349432219
- ISBN
- 9781349432219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.41
€ 118.41
Paperback. Politics without Reason explores the roots of contemporary hostility toward liberalism. The thesis of the book is that ambivalence about the self and about desire as an expression of the self fosters the intense animosity we observe directed toward the liberal ideal. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349371792
- ISBN
- 9781349371792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPS; HRAB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349466450
- ISBN
- 9781349466450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.31
€ 61.31
Paperback. This book sheds unprecedented light on Wittgenstein's third masterpiece, On Certainty, clarifying his thoughts on basic beliefs and rebuttal of scepticism. As an introduction and commentary on Wittgenstein's final major philosophical work, Moyal-Sharrock's book will prove an indispensable guide to the student, scholar and general reader. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535534
- ISBN
- 9780230535534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.89
€ 118.89
Hardcover. Theory--an embattled discourse for decades--faces a new challenge from those who want to model the methods of all scholarly disciplines on the sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N. Rodowick, is a revitalized concept of theory that can assess the limits of scientific explanation and defend the unique character of humanistic understanding. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416673
- ISBN
- 9780674416673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 44.35
€ 53.99
€ 44.35
Paperback. Rhetorically charged debates over theory have divided humanities scholars for decades. Rodowick steps back from arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a return to the high theory of the 1980s, he calls for dialogue on an ethically inflected philosophy of the humanities." Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; AC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088153
- ISBN
- 9780674088153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.42
€ 36.99
€ 31.42
Paperback. This book offers a challenge to conventional histories of secularisation by focusing upon the importance of central religious narratives. These narratives are changed significantly over time, but also to have been invested with importance and meaning by religious individuals and organisations as well as by secular ones. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB; HPC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349364435
- ISBN
- 9781349364435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardback. This advanced textbook, now in its second edition, provides an overview of some of the main issues in contemporary epistemology. It is ideal as a set text for an advanced undergraduate or postgraduate course in epistemology, and will be of general interest to researchers in philosophy. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137526908
- ISBN
- 9781137526908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.65
€ 80.65
Paperback. Don Ross provides a concise and distinct introduction to the philosophy of economics for students in need of a short but engaging study of the main issues in the subject today. Ross offers his own provocative interpretation of the value of economics in science and public policy giving a unique perspective from a world authority. Series: Palgrave Philosophy Today. Num Pages: 360 pages, 25 figures. BIC Classification: HP; JHBA; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302976
- ISBN
- 9780230302976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.17
€ 40.17