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Philosophy
Paperback. This anthology aims to offer incisive analysis of the plethora of issues raised by advances in reproductive medicine, including abortion, contraception, cryopreservation of gametes and embryos, surrogate motherhood and psychosocial issues of in-vitro fertilisation. Num Pages: 468 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JH; MBDC; MFKC; TCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814735169
- ISBN
- 9780814735169
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. Offers discussion on legal ethics by introducing the historical and theoretical background and then connecting it to real world issues while addressing lawyers' ethical obligations to work for social justice. This book features differing critical approaches and opens up fresh avenues of ethical debate. Editor(s): Carle, Susan D. Series: Critical America Series. Num Pages: 425 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 425
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780814716403
- ISBN
- 9780814716403
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Paperback. In the United States, there exists increasing uneasiness about the predominance of self-interest in both public and private life, growing fear about the fragmentation and privatization of American society. This title examines what is meant by virtue, analyzing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue, and notions of liberal virtue. Editor(s): Chapman, John W.; Galston, William A. Series: NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780814714997
- ISBN
- 9780814714997
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Hardback. Explores the use of allegory in the writing of the renowned eleventh-century Muslim philosopher known in the West as Avicenna, paying special attention to the ways he influenced theological, mystical, and literary thought in subsequent Islamic-and Western-intellectual and religious history. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CS; HPD; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812231519
- ISBN
- 9780812231519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.22
€ 71.22
Paperback. Pigeon Trouble chronicles a foreign-born anthropologist's venture into a miners' occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222708
- ISBN
- 9780812222708
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Condition: New
€ 34.03
€ 34.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812212631
- ISBN
- 9780812212631
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.46
€ 41.99
€ 37.46
Paperback. Kant replies to the claim that there is conflict between what moral theory demands and what we can do in practice. Translator(s): Ashton, E. B. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 118.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812210583
- ISBN
- 9780812210583
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.87
€ 20.99
€ 20.87
Paperback. The book offers the first systematic analysis of Kafka's only work of nonfiction, the so-called Zurau fragments, and develops his proposals there for a controversial solution to human suffering and the drive toward moral betterment. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804796590
- ISBN
- 9780804796590
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.69
€ 33.99
€ 30.69
hardcover. The book shows how pictorial art conveys aesthetic transcendence--a felt, though symbolic experience of going beyond our finite limitations that sometimes involves a sense of communing with God Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804795739
- ISBN
- 9780804795739
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Condition: New
€ 108.12
€ 108.12
Hardback. The book evaluates Michel Foucault's thought on the state and how it has shaped the widespread and dogmatic anti-statist thinking in the humanities, social sciences, public policy and governance. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804789493
- ISBN
- 9780804789493
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Condition: New
€ 111.75
€ 111.75
Paperback. The attack on psychoanalysis launched by Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein converged on Freud's construction of the modernist ego, thereby providing the competing notions of subjectivity and agency that characterize postmodernism. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HPD; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804788298
- ISBN
- 9780804788298
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Condition: New
€ 33.73
€ 33.73
paperback. This book combines a detailed and documented appraisal of the present state of pragmatism as a viable philosophy and a bold conception of how it may be most effectively strengthened and enlarged in a manner capable of reconciling the best forces of the whole of Western philosophy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804782289
- ISBN
- 9780804782289
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
€ 32.99
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Hardback. This book combines a detailed and documented appraisal of the present state of pragmatism as a viable philosophy and a bold conception of how it may be most effectively strengthened and enlarged in a manner capable of reconciling the best forces of the whole of Western philosophy. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804782272
- ISBN
- 9780804782272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.57
€ 128.57
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 916. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804781442
- ISBN
- 9780804781442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.37
€ 113.37
Paperback. The author, an experienced psychiatrist and professor, examines the feeling of guilt in different times, places, cultures, religions, and contexts. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 551.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804778718
- ISBN
- 9780804778718
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.75
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Paperback. This book explores how theories of experience reflect the tension between our understanding of ourselves as language-users who produce culture and our understanding of ourselves as information-processing animals who respond to stimuli. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804776158
- ISBN
- 9780804776158
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.43
€ 27.99
€ 26.43
Paperback. An impassioned plea for democratic societies to take the future seriously at a time when all our energies seem focused on the present. Translator(s): Kingery, Sandra. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804775571
- ISBN
- 9780804775571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Hardback. An impassioned plea for democratic societies to take the future seriously at a time when all our energies seem focused on the present. Translator(s): Kingery, Sandra. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804775564
- ISBN
- 9780804775564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.31
€ 108.31
Hardback. The first comparative study of two of the most influential political philosophers and theorists of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, this book reconstructs affinities and tensions between the two thinkers and shows their relevance for political theory and philosophy in our time. Editor(s): Rensmann, Lars; Gandesha, Samir. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804775397
- ISBN
- 9780804775397
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.45
€ 128.45
Paperback. "Originally published in French under the title Hypotheses sur l'Europe: Un essai de philosophie." Translator(s): Irizarry, Christine. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804773867
- ISBN
- 9780804773867
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.22
€ 40.99
€ 36.22
Hardback. Through three different versions of phenomenological discourse (Derrida, Henry, and Levinas), this book explores the notions of excess and the excess of excess relative to conceptions of the self. Translator(s): Barker, Stephen. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804772747
- ISBN
- 9780804772747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.38
€ 170.38
Paperback. A study of Giorgio Agamben's philosophy of life within the field of political theory and beyond. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804772303
- ISBN
- 9780804772303
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.10
€ 25.99
€ 24.10
Paperback. A history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation between 1870 and 1930, this book looks at how speculation was represented in popular discourse and analyzes the discursive struggles turning it into a legitimate economic practice. Translator(s): Savoth, Eric. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPX; JHB; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804771320
- ISBN
- 9780804771320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.03
€ 34.03
Paperback. A critical evaluation of Rawlsian and Habermasian paradigms of political philosophy that offers an interpretation and defense of Habermas's theory of law and democracy as a superior alternative to Rawls's political liberalism. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804770774
- ISBN
- 9780804770774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58