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European Aesthetics
A Critical Introduction from Kant to Derrida
- Oneworld, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,70 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-819-7
EAN 9781851688197
In this seminal study, Robert Wicks provides a sweeping survey of European Aesthetics over the last two hundred years. Presenting the theories of sixteen important continental thinkers including Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, and Derrida, this the only comprehensive study of the evolution of continental thought in this key area of philosophy. With colour photographs and written ...
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- Oneworld, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-973-6
EAN 9781851689736
From Plato to Wittgenstein and religions from Judaism to the Hindu tradition, interspersed with divine influences from Classical Greece, Romantic poetry, and the occasional scene from 'Alien', 'God: A Guide for the Perplexed' charts the path of humanity's great spiritual odyssey: the search for God. Leading the way through this minefield is acclaimed philosopher-theologian Keith ...
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The Great Tax Robbery
How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business
- Oneworld, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-935-4
EAN 9781851689354
Investigative journalist and former tax-inspector Richard Brooks makes a mockery of government promises to "crack" the problem of tax avoidance. Discover why thousands of British state schools and NHS hospitals are owned by shell companies based in offshore tax havens; how "British" companies like Vodafone are designing their own tax laws; and how the taxman ...
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About Time
From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes Our Lives
- Oneworld, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-964-4
EAN 9781851689644
Weaving cosmology with everyday, down-to-earth examples, Frank presents dazzling, provocative insights into how time passes through our lives - and what cutting-edge physics has in store for us next. A Palaeolithic farmer moved through the sun-fuelled day in a radically different way to a modern office worker bound into 15-minute Outlook increments - but both ...
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- Oneworld, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-982-8
EAN 9781851689828
In this charming anthology, Suheil Bushrui, renowned literature professor, presents an unusually varied collection of the world's favourite love poetry from around the globe and down through the ages. The first compilation to have such wide international coverage, this unique volume contains nearly 200 works from some of the foremost writers in history, including Goethe, ...
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- Oneworld, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-963-7
EAN 9781851689637
Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian narrates how esteemed theologian, Paul F. Knitter, overcame a crisis of faith by looking to Buddhism for inspiration. From prayer to how Christianity views life after death, Knitter argues that a Buddhist standpoint can encourage a more person-centred conception of Christianity where individual religious experience comes first, ...
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- Oneworld, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-821-0
EAN 9781851688210
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- Oneworld, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,85 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-956-9
EAN 9781851689569
We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes for a life worth livingIn The Philosophical Life, James Miller returns to this vibrant ...
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It was the universes most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how stuff works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN's Large Hadron Collider don't happen without dealing and conniving, incredible risks and occasional skullduggery.Award-winning physicist and science popularizer Sean Carroll reveals the history-making forces of ...
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How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt
A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer
- Oneworld, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-961-3
EAN 9781851689613
Discover who dressed up as a Tibetan peasant to explore Asia and Why you shouldn't let a gorilla near your bedroom. Pairing amazing stories of famous female explorers with hilarious tips on being an adventurer, this book is inspiring and entertaining in equal measure.
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Confessions from Correspondentland
The Dangers and Delight of Life as a Foreign Correspondent
- Oneworld, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-933-0
EAN 9781851689330
In this irreverent and witty book BBC foreign correspondent Nick Bryant casts a scathingly honest eye on this hugely influential profession, from the heart of Washington, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, India, and Australia - revealing the fascinating and sometimes shocking behaviour of media hounds desperate for a scoop. Since making his journalistic debut breaking into ...
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Guitar Zero
The New Musician and the Science of Learning
- Oneworld, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-932-3
EAN 9781851689323
On the eve of his fortieth birthday, scientist Gary Marcus decided to fulfil a lifelong dream and learn to play the guitar, investigating how humans 'make' music and how anyone of any age might master a new skill. In a quest that takes him from Suzuki classes to guitar gods, Marcus discovers the best ways ...
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Inside Job
The Rogues who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century
- Oneworld, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-915-6
EAN 9781851689156
Charles Ferguson was only able to show 2% of the material he gathered while making his sensational documentary Inside Job. Now, in this must-read 'sequel', he delivers the rest. Based on explosive interviews conducted by Ferguson, as well as documents buried in court records and archives, Inside Job the book traces how the financial industry ...
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The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking
How Irrationality Makes us Happy, Healthy and Sane
- Oneworld, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-934-7
EAN 9781851689347
Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, Matthew Hutson takes us on this fascinating tour of magical thinking in everyday life. So-called cognitive biases are crucial to our survival, Hutson shows, whether we're deciding where to invest our money or avoiding awareness of our own mortality. Everyone - even the most rational, jaded, and sceptical ...
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My Beautiful Genome
Exposing our Genetic Future One quirk at a Time
- Oneworld, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,30 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-914-9
EAN 9781851689149
Internationally acclaimed science writer Lone Frank swabs up her DNA to provide the first truly intimate account of the new science of consumer-led genomics. She challenges the scientists and business mavericks intent on mapping every baby's genome, ponders the consequences of biological fortune-telling, and prods the psychologists who hope to uncover just how important our ...
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St Augustine, the fifth century theologian and Church father, famously discussed the nature of time in Book XI of his Confessions: What is by now evident and clear is that neither future nor past exists, and it is inexact language to speak of three times past, present, and future. Perhaps it would be exact to ...
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- Oneworld, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,55 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-840-1
EAN 9781851688401
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- Oneworld, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 354 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-893-7
EAN 9781851688937
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- Oneworld, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 268 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-838-8
EAN 9781851688388
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2011 For fourteen years Jinx has been haunted by the brutal murder of her mother. Crushed by the weight of loss and guilt, she is unable to move on from the memories of her childhood that are poisoning her life and all her relationships. The sudden arrival of Lemon, ...
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The Oil Kings
. How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
- Oneworld, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-860-9
EAN 9781851688609
The Oil Kings offers the first inside look at how an oil crisis was manipulated by Alan Greenspan, Donald Rumsfeld, and (hoping to ensure his reelection) President Ford, a scheme that helped precipitate the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979. Intrepid investigative reporter Andrew Scott Cooper reveals the fatal struggle between the powerful ...
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