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The kibbutzim are collective settlements in Israel which have been written about extensively over the years, and are praised as the only example in world history of entire communities attempting, voluntarily, to live in total equality. Conceived a...

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The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new meth...

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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 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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Plato's best-known cosmological dialogues are almost always discussed in a topical manner. The "Timaeus" is reduced to its theological and scientific doctrines; the Atlantis story of the "Critias", ostensibly incomplete, remain...

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Parmenides, the ancient Greek poet, is also known as the father of logical thought. Recently unearthed inscriptions have thrown a totally new light on the nature and purpose of his philosophy. This text uses this evidence to present a new picture ...

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Peter Jones demystifies the Classics in this personal introduction to a subject often feared by those who do not understand Greek or Latin.

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