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Paperback. Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137564320
- ISBN
- 9781137564320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardback. The Mystery of Moral Authority argues for a sceptical and pragmatic view of morality as an all-too-human institution. Searching, intellectually rigorous, and always fair to rival views, it represents the state of the art in a tradition of moral philosophy that includes Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and J.L. Mackie. Num Pages: 119 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 119
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137562692
- ISBN
- 9781137562692
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.54
€ 71.54
Hardback. Susan Nance investigates modernity for animals through the case of Jumbo the elephant in the 1880s. Jumbo exposed the 'human dilemma' of modern living, wherein people celebrated individual animals to cope or distract themselves from the wholesale slaughter of animals required by modern consumerism. Num Pages: 112 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; HPQ; JFFZ; WNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 297.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137562067
- ISBN
- 9781137562067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardback. Approaching Infinity addresses seventeen paradoxes of the infinite, most of which have no generally accepted solutions. The book addresses these paradoxes using a new theory of infinity, which entails that an infinite series is uncompletable when it requires something to possess an infinite intensive magnitude. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137560858
- ISBN
- 9781137560858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.02
€ 139.02
Hardcover. This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second, that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSK; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137556752
- ISBN
- 9781137556752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardback. Series: The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education. Num Pages: 128 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPN; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 303.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1 st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137556066
- ISBN
- 9781137556066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Hardback. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 188 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137555021
- ISBN
- 9781137555021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.28
€ 116.28
hardcover. Drawing on research in plant science, systems ecology, environmental philosophy, and cultural anthropology, Andrew F. Smith shatters the distinction between vegetarianism and omnivorism. The book outlines the implications that these manufactured distinctions have for how we view food and ourselves as eaters. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFCV; RNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137554888
- ISBN
- 9781137554888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
International Perspectives on Teaching Rival Histories: Pedagogical Re...
. Ed(S): Elmersjo, Henrik; Clark, Anna; Vinte...
hardcover. Editor(s): Elmersjo, Henrik; Clark, Anna; Vinterek, Monika. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JHB; JN; JNF; JNKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137554314
- ISBN
- 9781137554314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.35
€ 150.35
Hardback. Num Pages: 159 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 11 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 159
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137553980
- ISBN
- 9781137553980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.82
€ 82.82
Hardcover. This book explores the metaphysical assumptions that underlie different interpretations of the relationship between religion and the secular, faith and reason, and transcendence and immanence. It explores different answers to the question of how people of diverse religious and cultural identities can live together peacefully. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 figures. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPS; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137553355
- ISBN
- 9781137553355
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. The subject of this book is the relationship and the difference between the temporal everlasting and the atemporal eternal. This book treats the difference between a temporal postmortem life and eternal life. It identifies the conceptual tension in the religious idea of eternal life and offers a resolution of that tension. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAB; HRCM; HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137553294
- ISBN
- 9781137553294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardback. This book examines a number of important debates in the philosophy of medicine, including 'what is disease?', and the roles and viability of concepts of causation, in clinical medicine and epidemiology. Num Pages: 100 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 283 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137552914
- ISBN
- 9781137552914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.38
€ 80.38
Hardback. Editor(s): Zaibert, Leo. Num Pages: 277 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137552778
- ISBN
- 9781137552778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.95
€ 138.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 276 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JPA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137551115
- ISBN
- 9781137551115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. The Intelligent Mind conceives the psychological reality of thought and language, explaining how intelligence develops from intuition to representation and then to linguistic interaction and thinking.Overcoming the prevailing dogmas regarding how discursive reason emerges, this book secures the psychological possibility of the philosophy of mind. Num Pages: 275 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPM; JMRN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137549327
- ISBN
- 9781137549327
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardback. Recently discovered ancient silk and bamboo manuscripts have reformulated our understanding of ancient Chinese thought. They show that ancient Chinese philosophy was and is much richer and more complex than we ever imagined, and they chart the path from belief in powerful spirits and gods to the discovery of universal laws and order. Translator(s): Tadd, Misha. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBD; HPDF; HRKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546968
- ISBN
- 9781137546968
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.58
€ 116.58
Hardback. The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in artisan markets, was born out of the ashes of McDonaldization to become a potent force today, capable of both regulating social identity and sparking social change. Num Pages: 113 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPN; JFCA; JFFT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 297.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 113
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137544278
- ISBN
- 9781137544278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardback. Rightness as Fairness provides a uniquely fruitful method of 'principled fair negotiation' for resolving applied moral and political issues that requires merging principled debate with real-world negotiation. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541802
- ISBN
- 9781137541802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.97
€ 117.97
Hardcover. Marchetti offers a revisionist account of James's contribution to moral thought in the light of his pragmatic conception of philosophical activity. He sketches a composite picture of a Jamesian approach to ethics revolving around the key notion and practice of a therapeutic critique of one's ordinary moral convictions and style of moral reasoning. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541772
- ISBN
- 9781137541772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.80
€ 67.80