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This major new study by one of the most penetrating and persistent critics of philosophical and scientific orthodoxy, returns to Aristotle in order to examine the salient categories in terms of which we think about ourselves and our nature, and the distinctive forms of explanation we invoke to render ourselves intelligible to ourselves.

Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world.

What makes news new? This book investigates how news has re-invented itself at different historical moments--from medieval storytellers to 19th century telegraph news agencies to 21st century bloggers. It reaches beyond traditional journalism studies to track the evolution of the news and survey its wider cultural and historical context.

* An engaging and accessible book that integrates research, theory, and real life experiences and practices to provide a closer look at how infancy research is conducted. * Collects and reviews the latest findings in the field, exploring cutting edge research and contemporary theories about infant development.

Recent history has seen profound change in the world's political landscape. With these changes, many formerly secure understandings of political terms have become lost, and the meanings of the words we use to describe our politics have become muddied.

Ethics and International Relations offers a comprehensive introduction to the philosophical issues raised by international politics. Presupposing no prior philosophical knowledge and deliberately avoiding the use of technical language, it is ideally suited for use on political philosophy, applied ethics and international relations courses.

First new edition in over 12 years Updated to cover changes to British Standards, plus new guidelines on ground contamination. This book concentrates on structural foundations - other books deal primarily with soil mechanics or civil engineering foundations (e.g.

This groundbreaking book brings the study of whiteness and postcolonial perspectives to bear on debates about urban change.

Coverage of all fossil groups Boxes showing case studies and topics of special interest Numerous line drawings and photographs of fossils The most up-to-date information on the tools and techniques used by paleobiologists. End of chapter questions.

What would you do if you suddenly became rich? Michael O'Meara had never asked himself this question.

Investigates the origins of professional archaeology in Britain during the inter-war period Brings to life many fascinating and controversial personalities and their creeds, including the archaeologists O.G.S. Crawford, Mortimer Wheeler and Gordon Childe; Grafton Elliot Smith and W.H.R.

Did Plato really write those Socratic Dialogues - or was it Socrates after all? Why is it doubtful that Descartes ever really uttered, "I think, therefore I am"? And what did Sartre ever have against waiters, anyway? The history of philosophy is filled with great tales - many of them fictions, misrepresentations, falsehoods, lies and fibs.

By exploring central issues in the philosophy of literature, illustrated by a wide range of novels, poems, and plays, Philosophy of Literature gets to the heart of why literature matters to us and sheds new light on the nature and interpretation of literary works.

The diverse motives and mysteries of why we read are explored in this groundbreaking new work by Rita Felski. Challenging many time-worn homilies and theories put forth in contemporary literary criticism, Uses of Literature offers refreshing new insights into the purpose and value of reading literature.

Multiculturalism is a theoretical, political, and educational perspective that has had great influence within contemporary psychology but the meaning and implications of which are not yet fully understood.

The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive new textbook providing essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills for literature students at all levels. The Handbook features coverage of all key areas, from sonnets to irony to close textual analysis.

According to media reports, current levels of academic dishonesty (aka cheating) have approached near-epidemic proportions. We witness headlines such as: "High Stakes Testing Results in Widespread Cheating"; "Study Finds Widespread Cheating Among American Teenagers"; and "More Students Cheating with Fewer Regrets.

The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories offers non-specialist readers insights into the causes and consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A general introduction is followed by a detailed historical overview of the issues that have defined more than a century of political tensions and open hostilities.

Mapping the New World Order is a ground-breaking new study mapping the growth and development of the web of intergovernmental organizations. The book systematically traces similarities and differences between the institutional architecture of the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.

Presenting ten diverse and original moral paradoxes, this cutting edge work of philosophical ethics makes a focused, concrete case for the centrality of paradoxes within morality.

"Boeckx has a deep familiarity with all of the (very wide-ranging) material he intends to present, and has done original and important work in several of these areas. He is a lucid and engaging expositor, and is highly qualified in every respect to undertake an enterprise of this nature -- which is, I think, a very valuable one.

The Weight of Things explores the hard questions of our daily lives, examining both classic and contemporary accounts of what it means to lead 'the good life'.

Celebrated as queen, politician, and lover, Cleopatra remains an object of fascination more than 2,000 years after her death. In this beautifully illustrated new study, Sally-Ann Ashton deconstructs the image of Cleopatra to uncover the complex historical figure behind the myth.

Examines the residential, policed, and infrastructural landscapes of New and Old Delhi under British Rule.

People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories. This text develops a conceptual understanding of the state as a continually emerging and contingent territorial organization, which is reproduced, transformed and contested by state personnel.

* Offers a fascinating introduction to the public debate over media violence. * Looks at the chronology of contemporary media violence, and explores reservations over communications medias throughout history. * Examines the forces behind the encouraged anxieties about media violence.

Publics and the City investigates struggles over the making of urban publics, considering how the production, management and regulation of 'public spaces' has emerged as a problem for both urban politics and urban theory.

Spartans: A New History chronicles the rise and fall of ancient Sparta, from its Bronze Age origins to the powerful Greek city-state's demise in Late Antiquity.

This illuminating guide places key issues and debates in the philosophy of religion in their historical contexts, highlighting the conditions that led to the development of the field.

Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moral responsibility, and determinism, this text represents the most up-to-date account of the four major positions in the free will debate.