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This title takes the form of a mixture of aphorisms and maxims, or brief discursive observations on a variety of subjects of interest or concern to the author, coupled to numbered sequences of systematically-structured conclusions about salient as...

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This dictionary is the very first to cover the whole span of geopolitics from 1870 to the present. The editor and the contributors, noted specialists, clarify what lies behind the theories and the widespread use and misuse of geopolitical doctrine...

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This comprehensive volume observes how, after 25 years of transition and uncertainty in the countries that constituted the former Soviet Union, their political geographies remain in a state of flux. The authors explore the fluid relationship betwe...

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This comprehensive volume observes how, after 25 years of transition and uncertainty in the countries that constituted the former Soviet Union, their political geographies remain in a state of flux. The authors explore the fluid relationship betwe...

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This comprehensive volume observes how, after 25 years of transition and uncertainty in the countries that constituted the former Soviet Union, their political geographies remain in a state of flux. The authors explore the fluid relationship betwe...

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This comprehensive volume observes how, after 25 years of transition and uncertainty in the countries that constituted the former Soviet Union, their political geographies remain in a state of flux. The authors explore the fluid relationship betwe...

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An aphoristic philosophy project which becomes more intensely philosophic - and quasi-musical - as it progresses through some eight parts, gradually homing-in on the focus of the title, which is an investigation of the subatomic components of each...

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An intensely metaphysical work of aphoristic philosophy with a fresh take on atoms and what the author has called 'pseudo-atoms'in relation to axial polarity coupled to gender and class differentiation. This title marks a radical step beyond his p...

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Although all three titles that make up this volume are also available separately, they gain more from being together, as in the case of 'The Father Omega Sextet' (where they share chronological space with three other - and prior - texts). One coul...

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Written on and off during the winter of 1980-81, this collection of short prose starts in a relatively literary fashion, with the account of a clandestine visit of a masseuse to a priest who can no longer cope with his celibacy, and ends in a prof...

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With an opening chapter that highlights the duplicity of a husband towards his wife, this tragicomic novel builds on the marital dissatisfactions and grudges of its principal heroine, Julie Foster, and couples them to the literary and social dissa...

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Written in the late-Spring of 1982, this novel has something of a Spring-like ebullience about it which takes us to the Norfolk countryside in the East of England and to the stratagems of a radical writer-turned-artist by name of Jason Crilly (who...

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This project, combining essays and dialogues with aphorisms, goes way beyond the scope of John O'Loughlin's earlier philosophical works in outlining what he contends to be the logical stages of evolution beyond man which will have to be passed thr...

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Divided into two parts, the first of which is autobiographical and the second biographical, this compilation of literary sketches strives to outline John O'Loughlin's development as a writer and the influences, both fictional and philosophical, wh...

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Comprised of some thirty-four for the most part quite lengthy poems, this collection of free verse is slightly freer, overall, than the previous such collection 'Stressing the Essential' (1982) by John O'Loughlin, and ranges across a wide variety ...

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John O'Loughlin's main philosophical project of 1983 combines dialogues and essays with aphorisms and maxims in a kind of multigenre project in which essays form by far the greater proportion. However, nine dialogues is no mean undertaking, and th...

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Another of those volumes of short prose in which a number of the author's principal philosophical themes are recycled in literary guise for the benefit of a wider understanding, 'A Selfish Man' begins with the title piece, a first-person narrative...

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This little novella, based around an autobiographical fantasy, relates the nocturnal visit of an old acquaintance to the flat of a former admirer who, being something of a philosopher, had optimistically written to her in the hope of receiving a p...

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The essayistic introduction to this little collection of abstract poems attempts to point up a distinction between poetry and antipoetry, and then to contrast both of these with what has been termed superpoems - the abstract poetry of a transcende...

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A six-chapter novella with first-person narrative and a loosely autobiographical tendency, 'The Politics of Sexuality', originally dating from 1984, explores the concept of sexual politics, or the notion that every mode of politics has a sexual co...

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Originally dating from 1984, this collection of forty-four poems continues in the free-verse style of 'Spiritual Intimations' (1983), albeit the verse is at all times prevented from degenerating into prose through the application of a methodologic...

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Comprised of autobiographical sketches, this unusual literary work is divided into four sections, the first dating from 1983, the second from 1985, the third from 1993, and the fourth from 1996. These sketches, which are by definition approximatio...

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This collection of short prose puts John O'Loughlin's ideological philosophy of Social Transcendentalism (as explained in the book by the same title) through a literary prism, as we explore a variety of interrelated themes from a loosely fictional...

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The sixteen prose poems in this modest collection should ideally be suited to those who prefer their poetry prosy and mainly concerned with philosophical issues or, at any rate, with a philosophical treatment of issues and subjects which could be ...

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It would seem that John O'Loughlin adds ten poems to each new volume of poetry; for this collection has some fifty-four poems, dating from 1985, which carry on, both stylistically and thematically, from approximately where those in 'The Modern Dea...

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Comprising thirty-three biographical sketches of some of the twentieth-century's most influential and powerful people in both politics and the arts, including Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, de Valera, Mussolini, de Gaulle, Ben-Gurian, Andr Malraux, Bertra...

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