Marvel Comics 2000. 2000. Hardcover. The Art of Marvel Comics <br/><br/>The Art of Marvel Comics SIMON BISLEY; TIM BRADSTREET; JOE CHIODO; GABRIELE DELL OTTO; JOHN ESTES; VINCE EVANS; GLENN FABRY; SCOTT HAMPTON; TONY HARRIS; CHRISTOPHER HAWKES; GREG & TIM HILDEBRANDT; ALEX HORLEY; DAN HORNE; J.G. JONES; JOE JUSKO. Marvel Comics hardcover
Hardback. New. <i>Working for Debt</i> explores how the fight against wage loans divided the American credit market along class race and gender lines. Simon Bittmann argues that the moral and political crusades of Progressive Era reformers helped create the exclusionary credit markets that favored white male breadwinners. hardcover
Oxford University Press 2001. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Simon Blackburn</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Oxford University Press</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780195217681</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2001</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Writing with wit and elegance Simon Blackburn tackles the basic questions of ethics in this lively book highlighting the complications and troubling issues that spring from the very simple question of how we ought to live. Blackburn dissects the many common reasons for why we are skeptical about ethics. Drawing on examples from history politics religion and everyday personal experience he shows how cynicism and self-consciousness can paralyze us into considering ethics a hopeless pursuit. He assures us that ethics is neither futile nor irrelevant but an intimate part of the most important issues of living--of birth death happiness desire freedom pleasure and justice. Indeed from moral dilemmas about abortion and euthanasia to our obsession with personal rights to our longing for a sense of meaning in life our everyday struggles are rife with ethical issues. Blackburn distills the arguments of Hume Kant and Aristotle down to their essences to underscore the timeless relevance of our voice of conscience the pitfalls of complacency and our concerns about truth knowledge and human progress.Blackburn's rare combination of depth rigor and sparkling prose along with his distinguished ranking among contemporary philosophers mark Being Good as an important statement on our current disenchantment with ethics. It challenges us to take a more thoughtful reading of our ethical climate and to ponder more carefully our own standards of behavior.</p> Oxford University Press hardcover
Oxford University Press 2001. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Simon Blackburn</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Oxford University Press</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780195217681</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2001</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Writing with wit and elegance Simon Blackburn tackles the basic questions of ethics in this lively book highlighting the complications and troubling issues that spring from the very simple question of how we ought to live. Blackburn dissects the many common reasons for why we are skeptical about ethics. Drawing on examples from history politics religion and everyday personal experience he shows how cynicism and self-consciousness can paralyze us into considering ethics a hopeless pursuit. He assures us that ethics is neither futile nor irrelevant but an intimate part of the most important issues of living--of birth death happiness desire freedom pleasure and justice. Indeed from moral dilemmas about abortion and euthanasia to our obsession with personal rights to our longing for a sense of meaning in life our everyday struggles are rife with ethical issues. Blackburn distills the arguments of Hume Kant and Aristotle down to their essences to underscore the timeless relevance of our voice of conscience the pitfalls of complacency and our concerns about truth knowledge and human progress.Blackburn's rare combination of depth rigor and sparkling prose along with his distinguished ranking among contemporary philosophers mark Being Good as an important statement on our current disenchantment with ethics. It challenges us to take a more thoughtful reading of our ethical climate and to ponder more carefully our own standards of behavior.</p> Oxford University Press hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. <p>This book is an important guide for individuals seeking to develop and grow their leadership skills in the wildlife conservation sector.</p> paperback
Hardback. New. <p>This book is an important guide for individuals seeking to develop and grow their leadership skills in the wildlife conservation sector.</p> hardcover
Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book is an important guide for individuals seeking to develop and grow their leadership skills in the wildlife conservation sector. paperback
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Lemniscaat Uitgeverij 2000. 2000. Denk!: filosofie en de grote vragen van het leven Niederländisch <br/><br/>Denk!: filosofie en de grote vragen van het leven Niederländisch Simon Blackburn Lemniscaat, Uitgeverij unknown
Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This volume collects together Simon Blackburn's influential essays on `quasi-realism' a position he first introduced in 1980 and which has become a distinctive and much discussed option in metaphysics and ethics. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. This volume collects together Simon Blackburn's influential essays on `quasi-realism' a position he first introduced in 1980 and which has become a distinctive and much discussed option in metaphysics and ethics. paperback
Hardback. New. This volume collects together Simon Blackburn's influential essays on `quasi-realism' a position he first introduced in 1980 and which has become a distinctive and much discussed option in metaphysics and ethics. hardcover
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Paperback / softback. New. A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers logicians and theoretical linguists and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects. paperback
Paperback / softback. New. A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers logicians and theoretical linguists and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects. paperback
Hardback. New. Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of a wide range of topics including moral philosophy the theory of meaning pragmatism and the theory of reason and reasoning. hardcover
New York: Oxford University Press 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Faint foxing on front panel. Oxford University Press hardcover
Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as representation truth reason and asserti hardcover
Hardback. New. Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of a wide range of topics including moral philosophy the theory of meaning pragmatism and the theory of reason and reasoning. hardcover
Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; In the end Dr Blackburn produces a rationale for belief in certain short-term predictions based on his reinterpretation of the classical principle of indifference. He claims that a justification for induction can be found along the line paperback
Paperback / softback. New. In the end Dr Blackburn produces a rationale for belief in certain short-term predictions based on his reinterpretation of the classical principle of indifference. He claims that a justification for induction can be found along the lines he has suggested and must indeed be found there if anywhere. paperback
Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The author posits a philosophy of human motivation and morality in which he maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. He seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt shame and other moral em paperback
Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Simon Blackburn puts forward a philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. He addresses questions such as: Why do we behave as we do Can we impr hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. The author posits a philosophy of human motivation and morality in which he maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. He seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt shame and other moral emotions and draws on game theory and cognitive science paperback
Hardback. New. Simon Blackburn puts forward a philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. He addresses questions such as: Why do we behave as we do Can we improve And is our ethics at war with our passions hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. Social Reproduction and the City tells this story linking welfare reform to feminist research and activism around the "crisis of care" social reproduction and the neoliberal city. paperback