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Simon Blackburn
Meaning Reference and Necessity: New Studies in Semantics
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
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521113502 ISBN : 0521113504 9780521113502
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Simon Ditchfield
Liturgy Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular
Paperback / softback. New. This book offers a new interpretation of what the Catholic Reform meant at local diocesan level in the face of attempts by Rome to regularise worship c.1550-1700. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521893206 ISBN : 0521893208 9780521893206
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Simon Keynes
The Diplomas of King Aethlred 'the Unready' 978-1016
Paperback / softback. New. Dr Keynes is concerned to establish what light the royal diplomas issued in King 'thelred's name throw on this unhappy and notorious period. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521023085 ISBN : 0521023084 9780521023085
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Simon Blackburn
Reason and Prediction
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
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521108225 ISBN : 0521108225 9780521108225
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Anthony Simon Laden
Multiculturalism and Political Theory
Hardback. New. A 2007 collection of essays by leading political theorists that together review the debates surrounding cultural diversity. The contributors survey the development of the debate and its major approaches address the critical questions posed and highlight directions in research. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521854504 ISBN : 0521854504 9780521854504
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Simon Critchley
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas
Hardback. New. Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognised alongside Heidegger Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the primacy of the ethical relation to the other person and his central thesis was that ethics is first philosophy. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521662062 ISBN : 0521662060 9780521662062
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Simon Gaunt
The Troubadours: An Introduction
Paperback / softback. New. This book offers a general introduction to the dazzling world of the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned essays discuss the development of troubadour song the main trends in troubadour scholarship and the reception of troubadour poetry. Appendices offer an invaluable guide to troubadours technical vocabulary research tools and surviving manuscripts. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521574730 ISBN : 0521574730 9780521574730
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Simon R Wilkinson
The Child's World of Illness: The Development of Health and Illness Behaviour
Paperback / softback. New. This book discusses the languages of illness which we use to present our discomforts to others through an exploration of the child's world of illness. It looks at how illness concepts are introduced to children how the causes of illness and 'germ' rationales are incorporated into the socialisation of children and how a particular morality about health and illness is expressed. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521029049 ISBN : 052102904x 9780521029049
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Herbert A Simon
An Empirically-Based Microeconomics
Paperback / softback. New. Herbert Simon is one of the most distinguished living economists and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1978 for his work at the intersection of economics and psychology. In his Mattioli Lectures Professor Simon traces the evolution of microeconomics and assesses the possibilities for its future development. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521118361 ISBN : 0521118360 9780521118361
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Simon Goldhill
Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece
Paperback / softback. New. Fifth- and fourth-century Greece has been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed with revolutionary developments in politics art literature philosophy medicine and music. This book asks whether these claims are well based and what is at stake in making them. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521154581 ISBN : 0521154588 9780521154581
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Simon Marginson
The Enterprise University: Power Governance and Reinvention in Australia
Paperback / softback. New. This 2001 book studies the organisational systems and culture of Australia's universities - interviews were conducted with vice-chancellors and other senior academic and administrative staff. The authors argue that the modern university can be understood as an 'enterprise university'. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521794480 ISBN : 052179448x 9780521794480
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Anthony Simon Laden
Multiculturalism and Political Theory
Paperback / softback. New. A 2007 collection of essays by leading political theorists that together review the debates surrounding cultural diversity. The contributors survey the development of the debate and its major approaches address the critical questions posed and highlight directions in research. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521670906 ISBN : 052167090x 9780521670906
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Simon Jarvis
Wordsworth's Philosophic Song
Paperback / softback. New. Simon Jarvis argues that Wordsworth's aspiration to 'philosophic song' is central to his greatness and changed the way English poetry was written. Jarvis reads Wordsworth's writing both critically and philosophically to show how Wordsworth thinks through and in verse. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521123501 ISBN : 052112350x 9780521123501
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Simon Trezise
The Cambridge Companion to French Music
Hardback. New. This accessible Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of France from the early middle ages to the present day. With chapters on a range of music genres internationally renowned authors provide a chronological history of music-making in France and analyse the key themes and topics. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521877947 ISBN : 0521877946 9780521877947
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Simon Williams
Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 1: 1586-1914
Paperback / softback. New. Professor Williams focuses on the classical period of German literature and theatre when Shakespeare's plays were first staged in Germany in a relatively complete form and when they had a potent influence on the writings of German drama and dramatic criticism. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521611930 ISBN : 0521611938 9780521611930
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Simon Hillson
Teeth
Paperback / softback. New. In this up-dated 2005 edition of Teeth Simon Hillson examines the mass of information on dental studies in archaeology and offers an expanded treatment of mammals giving descriptions and illustrations for 325 mammal genera. The work provides the student with charts tables and details of techniques. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521545495 ISBN : 0521545498 9780521545495
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Simon Price
Religions of the Ancient Greeks
Hardback. New. This 1999 book describes the religious life of the Greeks from archaic times to the fifth century AD looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. It examines local practices and ideas in the light of general Greek ideas. The evidence is literary inscriptional and archaeological. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521382014 ISBN : 0521382017 9780521382014
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Simon Franklin
National Identity in Russian Culture: An Introduction
Paperback / softback. New. The question of national identity has long been a vexed one in Russia and is particularly pertinent in the post-Soviet period. This wide-ranging study designed for students of Russian literature culture and history explores aspects of national identity in Russian culture from medieval times to the present day. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521024297 ISBN : 0521024293 9780521024297
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Simon Gaunt
Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature
Paperback / softback. New. In this wide-ranging study of Old French and Occitan literature Simon Gaunt draws on contemporary feminist theory to examine how masculinity as well as femininity is constructed in these texts and shows the crucial role of gender in the formation of the ideologies that underpin medieval literary genres. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521022606 ISBN : 0521022606 9780521022606
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Anthony Simon Laden
Reasoning: A Social Picture
Paperback / softback. New. Anthony Simon Laden explores the kind of reasoning we engage in when we live together: when we are responsive to others and neither commanding nor deferring to them. He argues for a new social picture of the activity of reasoning in which reasoning is a species of conversation-social ongoing and governed by a set of characteristic norms. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780198706410 ISBN : 0198706413 9780198706410
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Joan Simon
Education and Society in Tudor England
Paperback / softback. New. This book discusses educational developments during a crucial period of English history in their social context revising a long-standing interpretation of the effect of Reformation legislation. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521296793 ISBN : 052129679x 9780521296793
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Simon J Charlesworth
A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience
Paperback / softback. New. This book examines the effects of poverty and class through the personal testimony of the people living in the industrial area of Rotherham in South Yorkshire England. It argues that the themes and problems identified in this book will be familiar to marginalized groups everywhere. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521659154 ISBN : 0521659159 9780521659154
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Simon Hix
Democratic Politics in the European Parliament
Paperback / softback. New. This 2007 book establishes that the parties in the European Parliament are cohesive and that political competition in this chamber is dominated by the left-right dimension just as in other democratic parliaments. The authors argue that this is a positive development for the future of the EU's democratic accountability. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521694605 ISBN : 0521694604 9780521694605
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Simon Halliday
Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices
Paperback / softback. New. This book provides students and scholars with a candid look at how empirical research projects actually happen. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521720427 ISBN : 0521720427 9780521720427
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Simon Kuznets
Economic Development the Family and Income Distribution: Selected Essays
Paperback / softback. New. This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences dealing with 'modern economic growth' and the interrelations between demographic change and income inequality. An introduction by Professor Richard Easterlin discusses the relationship of the essays to the balance of Kuznets's writings. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521521963 ISBN : 0521521963 9780521521963
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Simon Goldhill
Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
Paperback / softback. New. The specially-commissioned essays from leading scholars in this 1999 book discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. Drama rhetoric philosophy literature and art are all discussed in an interdisciplinary frame to explore how the culture of democracy depends on performance. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521604314 ISBN : 0521604311 9780521604314
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Simon Gaunt
Troubadours and Irony
Paperback / softback. New. Troubadours and Irony re-examines the work of five early troubadours namely Marcabru Bernart Marti Peire d'Alvernha Raimbaut d'Aurenga and Giraut de Borneil to argue that the courtly poetry of southern France in the twelfth century was permeated with irony and that many troubadour songs were playful laced with humorous sexual innuendo and far from serious. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521058483 ISBN : 0521058481 9780521058483
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Simon Goldhill
Who Needs Greek: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism
Paperback / softback. New. Does Greek matter To whom and why This lively illustrated interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greek-ness have erupted in the modern and ancient worlds ranging from ancient Greece through the Renaissance to modernist opera. It takes reception studies in an exciting alternative direction. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521011761 ISBN : 0521011760 9780521011761
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Simon Barton
The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Leon and Castile
Paperback / softback. New. Drawing on an extensive range of original sources this study examines the nature and role of the aristocracy in twelfth-century Spain. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521894067 ISBN : 0521894069 9780521894067
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Simon Collier
Chile: The Making of a Republic 1830-1865: Politics and Ideas
Paperback / softback. New. This book examines the formative period of Chile's history and combines an analysis of the ideas and assumptions of the Chilean political class with a narrative of the political process from the consolidation of the Conservative regime in the 1830s to the beginnings of liberalization in the early 1860s. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521033121 ISBN : 0521033128 9780521033121
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Simon Gikandi
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Paperback / softback. New. Simon Gikandi's study first published in 2000 offers a comprehensive analysis of all the works of the influential Kenyan dramatist novelist and critic Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Gikandi provides fresh insight into the historical and cultural context of Ngugi's work tracing his literary career through to his imprisonment and exile in the 1980s. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521119016 ISBN : 0521119014 9780521119016
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Simon MacLean
Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire
Paperback / softback. New. This major study deals with the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire in 888 as seen through the reign of its last ruler Charles the Fat. It argues against traditionally pessimistic views of this important period offering alternative interpretations of early medieval kingship. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521044455 ISBN : 0521044456 9780521044455
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Simon J Harrison
Stealing People's Names: History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology
Paperback / softback. New. Among the people of Avatip a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual cosmology and concepts of the person. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521026475 ISBN : 0521026474 9780521026475
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Simon Esmonde Cleary
The City in the Roman West c.250 BC-c.AD 250
Paperback / softback. New. A well-illustrated synthesis of what we know about the development of cities in the Western Roman provinces. Focuses on numerous examples for which there are archaeological remains some like Pompeii well known and others less familiar such as Bavay in France. Suitable for students and specialists. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521701402 ISBN : 0521701406 9780521701402
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Simon I Singer
Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform
Paperback / softback. New. Recriminalizing Delinquency presents a case study of legislation that redefines previous acts of delinquency as crimes and delinquents as juvenile offenders. It examines one state's use of waiver legislation that transfers jurisdiction over juveniles accused of violent crime to criminal court. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521629201 ISBN : 0521629209 9780521629201
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Simon Caney
Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory
Paperback / softback. New. Which political principles should govern global politics Simon Caney engages with the work of philosophers political theorists and international relations scholars to examine some of the most pressing global issues of our time. Are there universal civil political and economic human rights Can humanitarian intervention be justified paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780199297962 ISBN : 0199297967 9780199297962
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Professor Simon Dixon
The Modernisation of Russia 1676-1825
Paperback / softback. New. Analytical and thematic account of a colourful period in Russian history accessible to undergraduates of European and Russian history as well as to the non-specialist reader. Covers Russia's political social cultural and intellectual life during its emergence as a great power. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521379618 ISBN : 052137961x 9780521379618
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Professor Simon Dentith
Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Paperback / softback. New. Epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the British national identity in the works of Scott Arnold Elizabeth Barrett Browning Morris and Kipling. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521123570 ISBN : 0521123577 9780521123570
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Simon Bricker
Short Answer Questions in Anaesthesia
Paperback / softback. New. Vastly expanded and completely re-written this is the definitive companion and revision aid for the short answer paper which forms part of the Final FRCA examination. It contains 180 sample questions which cover the breadth of the specialty and which are divided into subspecialty areas. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521681001 ISBN : 0521681006 9780521681001
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Simon Goldhill
Being Greek under Rome: Cultural Identity the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire
Paperback / softback. New. Simon Goldhill explores the cultural conflicts of the second-century CE Roman Empire through the perspective of Greek writings. The specially commissioned essays investigate the intellectual and social tensions in the era which gave rise to Christianity. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521030878 ISBN : 0521030870 9780521030878
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Simon Bainbridge
Napoleon and English Romanticism
Paperback / softback. New. In this first full-length study of Romantic writers' obsession with Napoleon Bonaparte Simon Bainbridge shows how major poets and essayists constructed appropriated and contested different Napoleons as part of their sustained and partisan engagement in political and cultural debate. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521024129 ISBN : 0521024129 9780521024129
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Simon Collier
Ideas and Politics of Chilean Independence 1808-1833
Paperback / softback. New. This book covers the years from the breakdown of the Spanish Empire in America to the stabilisation of the new republic of Chile. Whilst examining the influences making for change in late colonial Chile and the implications of political experiment and instability much of the text is devoted to a description of the common ideology of the revolution. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521101691 ISBN : 0521101697 9780521101691
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Simon Keller
The Limits of Loyalty
Paperback / softback. New. In this 2007 book Simon Keller explores the varieties of loyalty and their psychological and ethical differences and concludes that loyalty is an essential but fallible part of human life. His book will interest a wide range of readers in ethics and political philosophy. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521152877 ISBN : 0521152879 9780521152877
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Simon Williams
Wagner and the Romantic Hero
Paperback / softback. New. Simon Williams explores the image of the hero in Wagner's work and examines this heroism as a function of Wagner's theatre and music. The book analyses all thirteen stage works by Wagner and his adaptation of the figure of the Romantic hero. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521153447 ISBN : 0521153441 9780521153447
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Simon Karlinsky
Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman her World and her Poetry
Paperback / softback. New. This book is a major critical biography of the poet Maria Tsvetaeva by one of the foremost authorities on her work. It draws on a profusion of recent documentation and research some of it hitherto unpublished and encompasses the whole course of her life. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521275743 ISBN : 0521275741 9780521275743
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Simon Collier
Chile: The Making of a Republic 1830-1865: Politics and Ideas
Hardback. New. This book examines the formative period of Chile's history and combines an analysis of the ideas and assumptions of the Chilean political class with a narrative of the political process from the consolidation of the Conservative regime in the 1830s to the beginnings of liberalization in the early 1860s. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521826105 ISBN : 0521826101 9780521826105
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Simon Boniface
Plasticity in the Human Nervous System: Investigations with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Paperback / softback. New. Transcranial magnetic stimulation TMS has opened up new and fascinating avenues to study neural plasticity. This book written by the world's leading experts in the field is an essential compendium on plasticity of the human brain in health and disease for clinical neurophysiologists neurologists psychiatrists and neuroscientists. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521114462 ISBN : 0521114462 9780521114462
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Simon Conway Morris
Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
Paperback / softback. New. The eminent evolutionary palaeobiologist Simon Conway Morris challenges the accepted view that if the tape of life were wound back the replay would be very different. He also asks: are we alone paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521603256 ISBN : 0521603250 9780521603256
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Simon Goldhill
Language Sexuality Narrative: The Oresteia
Paperback / softback. New. Dr Goldhill's close reading of the text of Oresteia concentrates on the developing meanings of words within the structuring of the play. In particular he focuses on the text's interests in language and its control in sexuality and sexual difference and in the progression and description of events. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521604307 ISBN : 0521604303 9780521604307
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Simon Chesterman
Secretary or General: The UN Secretary-General in World Politics
Paperback / softback. New. The Secretary-General of the United Nations is a unique figure in world politics. Bringing together the insights of senior UN staff diplomats and scholars Simon Chesterman examines the factors that shape this role and the ambiguities and tensions that surround it. paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : B9780521699587 ISBN : 0521699584 9780521699587
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