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Hume is still the most widely discussed philosopher in the English speaking world. Important studies have been brought together here, providing an essential reference for any serious Hume scholar. Of particular importance are the volumes by Keynes...

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Within a relatively short period, Scotland produced a wide range of thinkers whose contributions to philosophy, economics, history and sociology had substantial theoretical and practical consequences for the modern world. David Hume was the key fi...

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Although J S Mill and Jeremy Bentham, the two giants of 19th century British thought, have been studied extensively, many other British philosophers of the same period have been neglected, overshadowed no doubt by the 18th century figures and the ...

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The aim of these selections is to pay tribute to the variety and originality of philosophical thought of 19th century thinkers by reprinting studies which may aid the re-discovery of some of these long-neglected traditions.

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British philosophical thought in the 18th century is dominated by the Scottish Enlightenment. This collection pays tribute to some of the lesser known English philosophers of that period to show that there was also a flourishing philosophical trad...

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Collected here are the significant philosophical works of Leslie Stephen, respected as an authority on the history of British philosophy, together with the standard biography of Maitland which has long been out of print.

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During the 18th century there was an explosion of female writing as well as a demand from women for fiction. This was predominently met by the growing number of circulating libraries and together with the rapid and rather inferior methods of produ...

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Not only do these volumes offer some of the most important collections in the history of utalitarianism, they also give a cohesive overview of Mill's views on political thought, psychology, economics, education and philosophy. Bain's biography of ...

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Like two great fellow-Scotsmen before him, David Hume and Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch was a man who came to excel in many fields. More of a philosopher and less of a theoretician than the other two, he made up for this with great practical a...

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First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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This set gathers together books, pamphlets and articles on all forms of collecting. The volumes have been carefully chosen to illustrate the principle intellectual and political motives which have fed into collecting during its formative 'enlighte...

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This set reprints eight rare volumes, covering the origins of neurology from 1803, the time when the brain was first identified as being the centre of the mind, to 1906. It includes a new introduction and the essential works of Bell, Gall, Mueller...

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This volume discusses the factors at work in the frequencies of certain diseases and how they effect different ethnic groups. It is believed that the factors involved are both genetic and non-genetic and have both geographic and cultural component...

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Safety Culture in the Nuclear Industry represents a cross-disciplinary state-of-the-art look at the latest human factor developments in this industry, with wider applications for the entire industrial sector.

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A low-level textbook that looks at the basics of this area of study. Stephen Wise takes the reader through the field in short, bite-sized pieces, enabling them to understand more clearly.

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The extraction of thematic information from remotely sensed images is a key area of research into applications of remote sensing data. This book provides a survey of the various methods available, together with a guide to essential preliminaries.

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This book demonstrates the versatility of the increasingly multi-disciplinary field of mathematical modelling. This insightful book will be of interest to specialists, teachers and students of areas from mechanics to social science

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Ironically, the organ with the greatest reason to differ between the sexes, the brain, is often viewed as the most androgynous of all. This title examines the evidence for structural and functional differences between the male and female brain in ...

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This text provides an easy and rewarding route into special relativity for first and second year university students studying physics. The subjects that cause students difficulty, such as time-dilation, are delayed to allow the establishment of co...

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Celestial mechanics has achieved spectacular results on the structure and evolution of our Solar System in the 1980s and 1990s. This book describes recent results on Solar System dynamics, with a solid theoretical basis and is strongly focused on ...

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Explains the biochemical functions of the essential nutrients and the physiological consequences of deficient and excessive intakes. They are described within the context of normal human diets and the requirements for health.

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Aimed at professionals working with Environmental Impact Assessment, GIS and expert-systems professionals and students in these areas, this text provides an introduction to each area and discusses the various ways in which GIS and Expert Systems c...

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A compilation of articles on protozoological biochemistry which reviews the subject area and offers information on current research. Included in the topics covered are energy metabolism of anaerobic parasitic protists, proteinases of African tryph...

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A compilation of articles on protozoological biochemistry which reviews the subject area and offers information on current research. Included in the Topics Covered Are Energy Metabolism Of Anaerobic Parasitic Protists, proteinases of African

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Following a workshop on environmental applications of GIS technology, this book contains a variety of papers on the conceptual frameworks behind spatial analysis in ecology, information handling techniques and applied studies in plant and animal e...

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This work focuses on the role of human factors in the design and use of automobiles. It reviews current knowledge of human characteristics as related to passenger car design and is organized in sections on human capabilities, the physical aspects ...

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This work on a systems approach to ergonomic design-manufacturing includes information on ease of manual/automatic assembly, biomechanical, cognitive and perceptual workload, task allocation, job satisfaction, socio-technical systems design,

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A summary of work on mode competition and a survey of novel methods, not limited to gyrotrons, for transmission of high-power microwaves.

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This work dealing with percolation theory (clustering, criticallity, diffusion, fractals and phase transitions) takes a broad approach to the subject, covering basic theory and also specialized fields like disordered systems and renormalization gr...

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A reference on the variety of problems that industrial and office workers face, which also offers solutions. It is based on the 1992 Annual International Industrial Ergonomics and Safety Conference held in Denver, Colorado in June which brought

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