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The Medieval Expansion Of Europe

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 Second revised edition with a new introduction and bibliographical essay surveying recent work and new research in this area. This is a book about Medieval Europe's encounter with the wider world between 1000 and 1500, covering the journeys of Marco Polo, the Crusaders, John of Monte Corvino and others.
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Plural And Conflicting Values

by Michael Stocker

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 Plural values and conflicting values are often held to be conceptually problematic, threatening the very possibility of ethics, or at least of rational ethics. Arguing against this view, this treatise shows that plurality and conflict are commonplace features of everyday choice and action.
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Rejection Of Consequentialism - A Philosophical Investigation Of The Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions

by Samuel Scheffler

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 Scheffler has now taken the opportunity to supplement this edition of his original work with three substantial subsequently published essays in which he responds to criticism of the book and further develops various of its themes and arguments.
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Henry Purcell'S Dido And Aeneas

by Ellen T. Harris

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 In this thirtieth-anniversary new edition of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Ellen Harris provides a detailed consideration of the many theories that have been proposed for the opera's origin and chronology, a detailed reexamination of the musical sources, and a comprehensive performance history.
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Book I

by Margaret Hubbard e R. G. M. Nisbet

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 The present work is written in the belief that the "Odes" are learned poems which demand some knowledge of conventional forms and topics. Each ode is provided with an introduction which sets it against its Greek and Roman literary background.
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Medea

by Séneca

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 This paperback edition of the "Medea" contains introduction, text and apparatus criticus. It aims to elucidate the play and to make it easily accessible to students of English and French literature.
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Plural And Conflicting Values

by Michael Stocker

63,59€ + 10% CARD

 Plural values and conflicting values are often held to be conceptually problematic, threatening the very possibility of ethics, or at least of rational ethics. Arguing against this view, this treatise shows that plurality and conflict are commonplace features of everyday choice and action.
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Making Men Moral - Civil Liberties And Public Morality

by Robert P. George

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 In this text, the author defends the proposition that "moral laws" can play a legitimate - if subsidiary - role in preserving the "moral ecology" of the cultural environment in which people live their lives.
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Making Men Moral - Civil Liberties And Public Morality

by Robert P. George

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 In this text, the author defends the proposition that "moral laws" can play a legitimate - if subsidiary - role in preserving the "moral ecology" of the cultural environment in which people live their lives.
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India In Transition - Freeing The Economy

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 This work offers an overview of the policies that have produced India's sorry economic performance over a third of a century. It also discusses the economic reforms begun in June 1991 by the new government of Prime Minister Rao and sets them into an historical and analytical perspective.
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Human Rights And Humanitarian Norms As Customary Law

by Theodor (Professor Of Law, Professor Of Law, New York University School Of Law) Meron

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 This is the first scholarly book to concentrate on the important contemporary issue of human rights in the discipline of international law. It examines firstly how human rights and humanitarian norms relate to customary law, and then how they relate to the law of state responsibility.
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Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945

by W. G. Beasley

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 A study of the origins and nature of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese War until its collapse following World War II. The author describes how Japan's aims were influenced by growing industrialization and its experience of Western imperialism.
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Coming Of The First World War

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 Based on public lectures given in Oxford, this book contributes to one of the most fundamental debates in modern European history - that concerning the conflict which debilitated and transformed Europe between 1914 and 1918.
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Coming Of The First World War

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 Based on public lectures given in Oxford, this book contributes to one of the most fundamental debates in modern European history - that concerning the conflict which debilitated and transformed Europe between 1914 and 1918.
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Equal Justice

by Eric (Acting Professor Of Law, Acting Professor Of Law, University Of California, Berkeley) Rakowski

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 The core of this book is a novel theory of distributive justice premised on the fundamental moral equality of persons. As well as considering the distribution of resources, property rights and the saving of life and providing challenging and unconventional answers, Radowski develops an alternative account of tort and property law.
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Biology, Ethics, And Animals

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 In the debate about animal rights, biologists may feel threatened by criticism of their use of animals. They may also feel that philosophical discussion of animals is so abstract as to be meaningless. This book brings philosophy and biology together to address these attitudes.
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Perception - An Essay On Classical Indian Theories Of Knowledge

by Bimal Krishna (Late Spalding Professor Of Eastern Religions And Ethics And Fellow, Late Spalding Professor Of Eastern Religions And Ethics And Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford) Matilal

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 Presents the Nyaya view of philosophy and critically examines it against that of its traditional opponent, the Buddhist version of phenomenalism and idealism. The author argues that Nyaya meets not only traditional Buddhist objections, but also those of modern sense-data representationalists.
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The Development Of English Drama In The Late Seventeenth Century

by Robert D. (Professor Of English, Professor Of English, Pennsylvania State University) Hume

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 A full scale account of Restoration drama, following the changing patterns of drama decade by decade from 1660 to 1710. The author explores the diversity of the plays, carrying out a detailed survey of some 500 of them.
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The Ages Of Man - A Study In Medieval Writing And Thought

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 Scholars in Medieval Europe divided human life into three, four, six or seven "ages of man" and so related it to the larger orders of nature and history. Burrows examines the expression and manifestation of these ideas in many medieval sources and considers the ways in which they entered into the medieval writer's assessment of human behaviour.
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Popular Fiction Before Richardson - Narrative Patterns 1700-1739

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 A study of those narratives which, although neglected by historians of the novel, provide us today with examples of highly successful commercial exploitations of enduring stereotypes such as the criminal, the traveller-merchant, the persecuted maiden and the aristocratic seducer.
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Exploding English - Criticism, Theory, Culture

by Bernard (Professor Of English, Professor Of English, University Of Warwick) Bergonzi

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 Utilizing elements of critical theory, intellectual history and the sociology of knowledge, the author of this treatise traces recent developments and resulting controversies involved in the teaching of English.
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Aristotle'S Two Systems

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 This study addresses major problems in interpreting Aristotle, such as whether the reader should reconcile the apparent inconsistencies of the corpus by assuming an underlying unity of doctrine (unitarianism), or by positing a sequence of developing ideas (developmentalism).
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The Consequences Of Determinism - A Theory Of Determinism, Volume 2

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 Posing the question - if determinism is true, and free will an illusion, what are the consequences? - this book attempts to disprove the traditional doctrines about the consequences of determinism, compatibilism and incompatibilism.
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The Metaphysics Of Quantum Theory

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 The interplay between non-relativistic quantum theory and metaphysics has generated radically opposed interpretations for quantum theory. This book outlines the contours of these debates and presents an interpretation of quantum theory which resolves most of the paradoxes.
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