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Dickens' final novel, "Our Mutual Friend", is acclaimed as his most sophisticated work, combining deep psychological insight with rich social analysis. The consequences when a young man's inheritance is wrongly bestowed lead to the write...

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"Bleak House" (1853) is one of Dickens' most ambitious works and established his reputation as a mature novelist capable of writing about the most serious issues while maintaining a talent for the blackest humour and comic farce. Narrate...

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Over millions of years, male and female bodies developed crucial physiological differences to improve the chances for human survival. These differences have become culturally obsolete with the overturning of traditional gender roles. But they are ...

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A concise study of utilitarianism.

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MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability, ' so-called, of differing standpoints or conceptual schemes. Mr. MacIntyre claims that different scho...

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Written mainly as a textbook, but also for the general reader, this book covers 12 central political concepts, including power, the state, democracy and freedom. These are analyzed and explained, and problems are discussed. The reader is also intr...

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The philosophy of Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is seen by many as the starting point for the modern analytical movement: Russell, Wittgenstein and Quine were all influenced by Frege, and much of analytical philosophy can be viewed as building on, or ...

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This volume explores the common ground between Marxism and Christianity. It argues that Marxism shares in good measure both the content and functions of Christianity and does so because it inherits it from Christianity. It details the religious at...

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Most philosophical writing in late antiquity took the form of commentaries. This book focuses on the commentators' exposition of Aristotle's treatise De Anima, both because it was so well-documented and because the concept of the soul was so impor...

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In 1918 the "Vigilante" newspaper claimed that the German Secret Service held a book containing the names of 47,000 British establishment members who were sexual perverts. It was claimed Britain was losing the war because the Germans wer...

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This is a biography of the polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, the father of modern polar exploration. The author, Roland Huntford, has also written biographies of Shackleton, and Scott and Amundsen.

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This is an overview of Roman history and civilization, covering such topics as the development of the Principate, Roman cooking, road-making, clothing, domestic architecture, games and circuses, army organization, religion and the Roman literary l...

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This updated version of Astronomy for GCSE incorporates new chapters on cosmology, non-optical observing and spectroscopy, to take account of the latest modifications to the GCSE syllabus.

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This book differs from other introductions to Ancient Greek religion. It looks not at the religious practices of the Greeks, but at their beliefs: in divine retribution, for example, divination, the afterlife and predestination. It examines not on...

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This guide to the philosophy of history discusses important questions in the logic and methodolgy of historical inquiry, and examines 'speculative' philosophy of history - the attempt to discern patterns or rhythms in past events.

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As one of the two Spartan kings, Agesilaos II presided over Sparta's greatest imperial expansion and its collapse as a major power. This book provides an account of this critical period of Greek history, revealing the principal aspects of Spartan ...

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Inessa Armand was a beautiful, vivacious revolutionary and mother of four, who acquired a place in the almost exclusively male history of the Russian Revolution due to her fervent political beliefs and her passionate relationship with Lenin. Marri...

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