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Ferdinand, Peter,
ISBN: 9780198787983

With an unrivalled combination of exceptional clarity and intelligent analysis, Politics is the perfect introduction to political studies...  Read more

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Focused on the period 200 BCE to 200 CE, this contributed volume provides a thematic introduction to the social aspects of ancient Rome - its composition, institutions, structures, and cultural products - and challenges students to consider Roman society as more than a series of chronological events...  Read more

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Singer, Maxine F.,
ISBN: 9780198811138

How do plants, even if still buried underground, know that it's their time to bloom? What signals them to begin the challenging task of making flowers, and how do they make the variety of flower shapes, colours, and scents? What kind of instructions does the plant carry? Flowers enrich the beauty of meadows and gardens, but of course, they are not there simply to please us...  Read more

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Mepham, B.
ISBN: 9780199214303

Bioethical issues remain front-page news, with debate continuing to rage over issues including genetic modification, animal cloning, and 'designer babies'...  Read more

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Robert C. Baldwin
ISBN: 9780199671632

Depression affects between 10-15% of older people, making it the most frequently encountered mental health condition in later life...  Read more

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The 40% drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 largely remains an unsolved mystery...  Read more

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Shany, Yuval
ISBN: 9780199643295

Are international courts effective tools for international governance? Do they fulfill the expectations that led to their creation and empowerment? Why do some courts appear to be more effective than others, and do so such appearances reflect reality? Could their results have been produced by other mechanisms? This book evaluates the effectiveness of international courts and tribunals by comparing their stated goals to the actual outcomes they achieve...  Read more

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Israel
ISBN: 9780199541522

Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment , and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought...  Read more

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The past few years have seen a remarkable ferment in the theory of democracy. Deliberative Democracy and Beyond is a critical tour through recent democratic theory by one of the leading political theorist in the field...  Read more

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Bernecker, Sven Dretske, Fred
ISBN: 9780198752615

Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, is concerned with how we know what we do and what justifies us in believing what we do...  Read more

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In Sacred High City, Sacred Low City, Steven Heine argues that lived religion in Japan functions as an integral part of daily life; any apparent lack of interest masks a fundamental commitment to participating regularly in diverse, though diffused, religious practices...  Read more

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Kenneth A. (Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College) Gould,
ISBN: 9780199325924

Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology introduces undergraduates to the topic in an innovative way...  Read more

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Building upon the wide-ranging success of the first edition, Parallel Scientific Computation presents a single unified approach to using a range of parallel computers, from a small desktop computer to a massively parallel computer...  Read more

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Horsey, Kirsty Rackley, Erika
ISBN: 9780198867760

This best-selling undergraduate textbook from renowned authors Kirsty Horsey & Erika Rackley offers a lively, accessible and thoughtful treatment of all key topics taught on tort law courses, and includes carefully chosen learning features to help students become engaged and critical thinkers...  Read more

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Knott, Kim,
ISBN: 9780198745549

Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India...  Read more

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Riley, Richard D. Windt, Danielle van der Croft, Peter Moons, Karel G.M.
ISBN: 9780198796619

"What is going to happen to me?" Most patients ask this question during a clinical encounter with a health professional...  Read more

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Janis, Mark W. Kay, Richard S. Bradley, Anthony W.
ISBN: 9780199277469

The third edition of European Human Rights Law: Text and Materials has been substantially expanded to provide a complete review of the wide range of rights the Convention protects, with new chapters on the right to life, property, discrimination, religious freedom, and education...  Read more

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Firestein, s.
ISBN: 9780199828074

Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance-not knowledge-that is the true engine of science...  Read more

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For many, markets are the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy...  Read more

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Haslanger, Sally
ISBN: 9780199892624

Contemporary theorists use the term social construction with the aim of exposing how whats purportedly natural is often at least partly social and, more specifically, how this masking of the social is politically significant...  Read more

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