A Tale of a Tub is the masterpiece of Swift's earlier years. It is presented here with The Battle of the Books, The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, and the Additions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
This book contains work created by Angus Ross Baird of Melbourne Australia. His practice begins with photographic material collected in Australia, Spain, Berlin and Poland. The images are put through a process of damage and reductive measures to dissolve the narrative to arrive at final compositions that reveal formal relationships and materiality. A departure from inherent representation in photography onto the canon of abstraction.
This book offers a stimulating new approach to studying social and political theory. It combines specially selected extracts from the political classics with original and insightful essays offering a commentary upon them. The reader is drawn into a dialogue with the Western political tradition’s principal thinkers, whose ideas provide a common currency in which to debate the problems facing modern societies. Each of the twelve chapters combines extracts from two (or in one case three) political philosophers on a key political concept with a commentary essay. Each chapter does more than just introduce the reader to the classics; it also explains, via the commentary essay, the key concepts of political debate, and the historical contexts which led the thinkers to their different understandings of the nature of society.
Dr John Arbuthnot (1667–1735) influenced the social, literary, political, medical and scientific communities of eighteenth-century Britain. He was born into the ferocious religious and political struggles of late-seventeenth-century Scotland. After the death of his father Arbuthnot moved to England, where as early as 1703 he was following a career as one of the royal physicians at the court of Queen Anne. Outside of this role he became known in London as a wit, a mathematician and a writer. It is the few, but brilliant, political writings of his English career – including the collection of five pamphlets featuring the character, John Bull – that form the crux of this biography.
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