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Fervent Haight

By: Christopher J Proft

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People everywhere search for purpose and fulfillment in their lives; the residents of rural Haight, Nebraska, are no different. While some indulge in pleasures of this world and others seek edification through spirituality, a local man named Jim finds his purpose deep beneath his fieldsand something deep beneath the fields finds in Jim the vessel needed to fulfill its destiny and his. For many years, Jim struggled to find any meaning in his lifeany hint that would allow him a glimpse of his lifes purpose. On his quiet piece of farmland, he has finally found what he seeks. He alone knows the secrets, the power, and the evil that dwells beneath this quiet, bucolic townan evil long forgotten. Yet these are but vague glimpses of the unfathomable terror that lies in wait for a horrific new cycle of birth and rebirth. The fulfillment of Jims life wish comes at a high price for the town. As people mysteriously disappear, it is up to the towns sheriff and a handful of locals to discover what is happening to them. What they find is worse than death and more horrifying than their imaginations can conjurean abomination stuck on the wrong side of hell.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426996667

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The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals)

The Origins of Romanticism

By: Christopher Thacker

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The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals)

The Origins of Romanticism

By: Christopher Thacker

First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, through the ‘codification’ of the Sublime by Burke in the 1750s, to the fascination with mystery, fear and violence which dominated the writing of the late eighteenth century. The origins of the movement are found in the writings of Rousseau and admiration for the ‘noble savage’, the development of the landscape garden, discoveries in the South Seas, new approaches to ‘primitive’ poetry and enthusiasm for gothic art and literature. These attitudes are contrasted with the more classical views of writers like Samuel Johnson.

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Routledge

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1317235827

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The Basics of Electronics

By: Christopher Cooper

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The Basics of Electronics

By: Christopher Cooper

Modern life makes extensive use of electronics. On a daily basis, we use smartphones, computers, and TVs in the home and robots in industry and commerce. This title outlines the development of electronics, from early vacuum tubes to today’s microchips. It explains how semiconductors work at the atomic level and how they are made into solid-state devices essential for the Internet and other applications. A biographical chapter on J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron (the key to electronics), rounds out the text. Science projects readers can try at home illustrate principles of physics.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1477777571

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Corporate Soldiers and International Security

The Rise of Private Military Companies

By: Christopher Kinsey

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Corporate Soldiers and International Security

The Rise of Private Military Companies

By: Christopher Kinsey

This book traces the history of private military companies, with a special focus on UK private forces. Christopher Kinsey examines the mercenary companies that filled the ranks of many European armies right up to the 1850s, the organizations that operated in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s, the rise of legally established private military companies in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and today’s private and important actors in international security and post-conflict reconstruction. He shows how and why the change from the mercenary organizations of the 1960s and 1970s came about, as the increasing newness of private military companies came to be recognised. It then examines how PMCs have been able to impact upon international security. Finally, Kinsey looks at the type of problems and advantages that can arise for organizations that decide to use private military companies and how they can make an unique contribution to international security. Corporate Soldiers and International Security will be of great interest to all students of international politics, security studies and war studies.

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Routledge

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1134214103

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Edwards' Treatment of Drinking Problems

A Guide for the Helping Professions

By: Keith Humphreys,Anne Lingford-Hughes,Griffith Edwards,David M. Ball,Christopher C.H. Cook,E. Jane Marshall

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Edwards' Treatment of Drinking Problems

A Guide for the Helping Professions

By: Keith Humphreys,Anne Lingford-Hughes,Griffith Edwards,David M. Ball,Christopher C.H. Cook,E. Jane Marshall

This book presents state-of-the-art, accessible reviews of the science of alcohol treatment and guidance for the management of clinical situations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107519527

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The Picturesque

Studies in a Point of View

By: Christopher Hussey

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The Picturesque

Studies in a Point of View

By: Christopher Hussey

Published in 1967: When first published forty years ago, this now well-known study was regarded as something of a pioneering venture in the field of visual romanticism. Despite susbsequent works on the various aspects of this subject, The Picturesque has always remained the most informative and illuminating historical introduction to the study of visual values as reflected in English literature, painting and lanscaping at the turn of the eighteeth and nineteenth centuries.

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0429615515

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Imagining the Elephant

A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack

By: Christopher L. Vaughan

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Imagining the Elephant

A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack

By: Christopher L. Vaughan

Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack, a physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for his pioneering contributions to the development of the computer-assisted tomography (CAT) scanner, an honour he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield.

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World Scientific

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1860949886

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Declarations of Independence

Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution

By: Christopher R. Pearl

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Declarations of Independence

Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution

By: Christopher R. Pearl

How Indigenous Americans and colonial settlers negotiated the meaning of independence in the Revolutionary era On July 4, 1776, two hundred miles northwest of Philadelphia, on Indigenous land along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, a group of colonial squatters declared their independence. They were not alone in their efforts. This bold symbolic gesture was just a small part of a much broader and longer struggle in the Northern Susquehanna River Valley, where diverse peoples, especially Indigenous nations, fought tenaciously to safeguard their lands, sovereignty, and survival. This book immerses readers in that intense, decades-long struggle. By intertwining the experiences of Indigenous Americans, rebellious colonial squatters, opportunistic land speculators, and imperial government agents, Christopher Pearl reveals how conflicts within and between them all set the terms and ultimately shaped the meaning of the American Revolution. In the crucible of this conflict, memories, histories, and animosities collided and converged with tremendous consequences. Declarations of Independence delves into the racial violence over land and sovereignty that suffused the Revolutionary Age and helps restore Indigenous peoples to their central position at the founding of the United States.

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University of Virginia Press

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081395200X

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Keeping to the Marketplace

The Evolution of Canadian Housing Policy

By: John Christopher Bacher

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Keeping to the Marketplace

The Evolution of Canadian Housing Policy

By: John Christopher Bacher

Keeping to the Marketplace is a study of housing problems that emerged in twentieth-century Canada and the various government programs created to deal with them. John Bacher shows why, despite early recognition of the inability of the market to meet the needs of low-income families, the principle of subsidized housing was fiercely fought against by the Canadian Department of Finance, under Deputy Minister W.C. Clark.

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0773509844

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Understanding Philosophy for AS Level

By: Christopher Hamilton

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Understanding Philosophy for AS Level

By: Christopher Hamilton

This text offers a step-by-step approach through all the requirements of the AQA AS level specification. Using examples taken from history, literature and everyday life, the author links philosophical theories and debates with issues that are both relevant and familiar to students.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748765603

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Memories That Matter

How We Remember Important Things

By: Christopher R. Madan

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Memories That Matter

How We Remember Important Things

By: Christopher R. Madan

What makes some experiences more memorable than others? How can you better remember specific information later? Memories That Matter addresses these questions and more. The book is divided into three main parts, with each part focusing on a different aspect of memory. After the introductory first part, Part II discusses everyday uses of memory and why we remember, establishing a foundation for how memory is structured and stored in the brain. Part III dives into what makes us remember. Emotional and rewarding experiences are both more memorable than mundane experiences but are often studied using different approaches. Self-relevance and objects we can interact with are remembered better than less relevant information. The author explores these motivation-related influences on memory and considers whether a common mechanism underlies them all. Part IV changes the focus, discussing how we sometimes want to remember specific information that does not automatically capture our attention. The book considers evidence-based learning strategies and memory strategies, whilst also exploring real-world applications, with discussion of professions that accomplish amazing memory feats daily. The book concludes with a reflection on how the role of memory is changing as our world makes information increasingly accessible, particularly with the ever-expanding influence of the internet. Drawing from a variety of literatures and perspectives, this important book will be relevant for all students of memory from psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and related health backgrounds.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429628188

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An Invisible Spectator

A Biography of Paul Bowles

By: Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno

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An Invisible Spectator

A Biography of Paul Bowles

By: Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno

Filled with insights into an enigma" ("USA Today"), "An Invisible Spectator" chronicles Paul Bowles's life and work--interwoven with vivid depictions of the writer's intimates, including Truman Capote, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs.

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Grove Press

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0802136001

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Romantic Prayer

Reinventing the Poetics of Devotion, 1773-1832

By: Christopher Stokes

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Romantic Prayer

Reinventing the Poetics of Devotion, 1773-1832

By: Christopher Stokes

Whilst religion and the secular have been continually debated contexts for literature of the Romantic era, the dominant scholarly focus has been on doctrines and denominations. In analysing the motif of devotion, Romantic Prayer shifts attention to the quintessential articulation of religion as lived experience, as practice, and as a performative rather than descriptive phenomenon. In an era when the tenability and rationality of prayer was much contested, poetry—a form with its own interlinked history with prayer—was a unique place to register what prayer meant in modernity. This study illustrates how the discourse of prayer continually intervened in the way that poetic practices evolved and responded to the religious and secular questions of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century moment. After laying out the details of prayer's historical position in the Romantic era across a spread of religious traditions, Romantic Prayer turns to a range of writers, from the identifiably religious to the staunchly sceptical. William Cowper and Anna Letitia Barbauld are shown to use poetry to reflect and reinvent the ideals of prayer inherited from their own denominational histories. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's work is analysed as part of a long engagement with the rationality of prayer, culminating in an explicit 'philosophy' of prayer; William Wordsworth—by contrast—keeps prayer at an aesthetic distance, continually alluding to prayerful language but rarely committing to devotional voice itself. John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron are treated in the context of departing from Christianity, under the influence of Enlightenment, materialist, and atheist critiques—what happens to prayer in poetry when prayer as a language traditionally conceived is becoming impossible to maintain?

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Oxford University Press

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0192599658

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Creational Theology and the History of Physical Science: The Creationist Tradition from Basil to Bohr

By: Christopher B. Kaiser

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Creational Theology and the History of Physical Science: The Creationist Tradition from Basil to Bohr

By: Christopher B. Kaiser

This volume documents the role of creational theology in discussions of natural philosophy, medicine and technology from the Hellenistic period to the early twentieth century. Four principal themes are the comprehensibility of the world, the unity of heaven and earth, the relative autonomy of nature, and the ministry of healing. Successive chapters focus on Greco-Roman science, medieval Aristotelianism, early modern science, the heritage of Isaac Newton, and post-Newtonian mechanics. The volume will interest historians of science and historians of the idea of creation. It simultaneously details the persistence of tradition and the emergence of modernity and provides the historical background for later discussions of creation and evolution.

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BRILL

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9004474110

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Getting Our Way

500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: the Inside Story of British Diplomacy

By: Christopher Meyer

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Getting Our Way

500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: the Inside Story of British Diplomacy

By: Christopher Meyer

A highly informed insider's account of some of the 'honest men' as they sought, by fair means or foul, to get Britain its way in the world. GETTING OUR WAY recounts nine stories from Britain's diplomatic annals over the last five hundred years, in which the diplomats themselves are at the centre of the narrative. It is an inside account of their extraordinary experiences, sometimes in the face of physical danger, often at history's hinge. Be it Henry Killigrew's mission to Edinburgh in 1572, Castlereagh at the Congress of Vienna, Our Man in Washington and the Nassau Deal, or the handover of Hong Kong to China, we can see how Britain has viewed its interests in the world and sought to advance them. Some of these dramatic episodes record triumph, some failure, but all of them illustrate how the three pillars of the national interest - security, prosperity and values - have been the foundation of British foreign policy for half a century. Each story is illuminated by colourful anecdotes and insights drawn from Christopher Meyer's first-hand experience of international relations. Moreover, the book is a salutary reminder that foreign policy and diplomacy begin and end with the national interest. And far from being the preserve of aloof aristocrats, the pursuit of our national interest is replete with an extraordinary combination of high principle and low cunning, vice and virtue, all with the specific aim of 'getting our way'.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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0297858769

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Blake, Politics, and History

By: George A. Jr. Rosso Jr.,Christopher Z. Hobson

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Blake, Politics, and History

By: George A. Jr. Rosso Jr.,Christopher Z. Hobson

This anthology of essays charts the work of William Blake - combining traditional and current historicist methods with a plurality of other approaches. While many essays here recuperate a radical Blake opposed to imperialism, slavery, and patriarchy, differences emerge over the nature of Blake's radicalism and his stance on revolution, violence, and democratic pluralism. Contributors may champion a Blake critical of patriarchal discourse and practice, but they remain cautious about Blake's "homocentric" solutions. In the "Blake and women" section, authors seek to reorient discussions by connecting Blake to historical issues concerning women, particularly domestic ideology and the idealised female of the conduct books.

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Routledge

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1134820615

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The Story of Canada

By: Janet Lunn,Christopher Moore

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The Story of Canada

By: Janet Lunn,Christopher Moore

Learn the story of Canada in this beautiful new edition, fully updated! Who better than award-winning writer Janet Lunn and historian Christopher Moore to tell our country's story through rich narrative, recreations of daily life, folk tales and intriguing facts. Coupled with Alan Daniel's evocative original paintings, as well as dozens of historical photographs, maps, paintings, documents and cartoons, The Story of Canada is as splendid to look at as it is fascinating to read. Includes new material to bring us to the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

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Scholastic Canada

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1443119547

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Classified

Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain

By: Christopher R. Moran

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Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain

By: Christopher R. Moran

Fascinating account of the British state's post-war obsession with secrecy and the ways it prevented secret activities from becoming public.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107000998

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Defend the Realm

The Authorized History of MI5

By: Christopher Andrew

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Defend the Realm

The Authorized History of MI5

By: Christopher Andrew

For over 100 years, the agents of MI5 have defended Britain against enemy subversion. Their work has remained shrouded in secrecy—until now. This first-ever authorized account reveals the British Security Service as never before: its inner workings, its clandestine operations, its failures and its triumphs.

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Vintage

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0307272915

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Stem Cell Now

A Brief Introduction to the Coming of Medical Revolution

By: Christopher Thomas Scott

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Stem Cell Now

A Brief Introduction to the Coming of Medical Revolution

By: Christopher Thomas Scott

THE STEM CELL IS SET TO DOMINATE POPULAR AWARENESS OF SCIENCE LIKE THE ATOM BOMB DID A GENERATION AGO. No area of science holds such immediate promise for treating disease and improving human lives as stem cell research. But no area of science also causes such fundamental ethical concern and such ferocious political conflict.

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Penguin

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1101213345

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Evolution

Beyond the Realm of Real Science

By: Christopher H. K. Persaud

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Evolution

Beyond the Realm of Real Science

By: Christopher H. K. Persaud

Darwinian evolution is taught unreservedly to students of science around the world as incontrovertible truth even though many aspects of the theory have been thoroughly discredited while others are woefully lacking in corroboration from a standpoint of proper scientific precept and practice. Practical and honest scientists increasingly are acknowledging that evolutionism is biologically and mathematically impossible. The outlandish premise is at odds with the laws of physics and manifestly incompatible with genuine geological and paleontological criteria for aging and classifying rocks, strata and fossils. Evolutionary theory's ostracism of God as a supreme designer and creator of the universe and of life has emboldened many of history's most ruthless dictators who have embraced its disturbing message to commit crimes of unspeakable evil. Many millions of people have lost their lives as demagogues, fueled by evolutionist inclinations, have sought to legitimize sinister proclivities such as racism, bigotry, eugenics and ethnic cleansing, among other perpetrations of antipathy and wickedness. It is not unreasonable to assume that many of today's social and behavioral thinkers, as well as misguided scientists who support evolutionary theory, also nurture predilections that are far removed from wholesome deportment and espouse leanings that show scant respect for the sanctity of human life. Evolutionary thought falls outside the precincts of essential moral contemplation.and is beyond the realm of real science!

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Xulon Press

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160266630X

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What is this thing called Ethics?

By: Christopher Bennett

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What is this thing called Ethics?

By: Christopher Bennett

This is an excellent introduction to ethics, and will be of great help and interest to undergraduate students, their tutors, and their lecturers ... It presents a very fair and balanced – not to mention comprehensive and subtle – examination of the subject ... The chapters are full of interesting and thought-provoking examples, and the writing is clear and engaging.' – Michael Brady, University of Glasgow, UK What is morality? How do we define what is right and wrong? How does moral theory help us deal with ethical issues in the world around us? This engaging introduction explores these central questions and more in a highly readable manner. Christopher Bennett eases the reader in with examples of contemporary and relevant ethical problems, before looking at the main theoretical approaches and key philosophers associated with them. Topics covered include: life and death issues such as abortion and global poverty the meaning of life major moral theories such as Utilitarianism, Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics critiques of morality from Marx and Nietzsche. What is this thing called Ethics? contains many helpful student-friendly features. Each chapter concludes with a useful summary of the main ideas discussed, study questions, and annotated further reading. This is an ideal introduction to ethics not only for philosophy students but for anyone coming to the subject for the first time.

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Routledge

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1136963510

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London Eh to Zed

101 Discoveries for Canadian Visitors to London

By: Christopher Walters

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London Eh to Zed

101 Discoveries for Canadian Visitors to London

By: Christopher Walters

Discover London — and Canada — in one guidebook! Thousands of Canadians visit London, England, every year. But what their popular guidebooks always fail to mention are the over one hundred objects, monuments, and locations in the city associated with their own home and native land. Take for example the statue of half-mad General Charles Gordon standing beside the River Thames. His capture by rebels set in motion a dramatic rescue attempt that became Canada's first overseas military mission. Then there's the world's most famous suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Do Canadians know she marched on syphilis in Canada after winning the vote for women in Britain? Or that a cross-eyed doctor from McGill University in Montreal became London's most notorious serial killer after Jack the Ripper? London Eh to Zed is a light-hearted and entertaining walking guide especially for Canadians. Exploring seven neighbourhoods in London, it uncovers 101 fun discoveries about our history, character, passions, and foibles. Along streets in St. James's, Greenwich, and elsewhere, readers will meet men and women like the doomed adventurer Sir John Franklin, the un-amused Queen Victoria, and the tennis-loving but luckless Prince Rupert, first governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, who never collected any HBC Rewards.

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1459729889

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A Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware (Routledge Revivals)

By: Christopher Chant

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A Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware (Routledge Revivals)

By: Christopher Chant

First published in 1987, The Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware provides, within a single volume, the salient technical and operational details of the most important weapons. The complete range of hardware used in land, sea and air forces throughout the world at the time of publication is covered, from tanks to rocket systems, helicopters to cruise missiles, alongside full details of size, weight and operational range. The book’s main strength lies in the detail it gives of armament and associated ammunition capabilities, and of the sensors and other electronics required for the weapons to be used effectively. A key title amongst Routledge reference reissues, Christopher Chant’s important work will be of great value to students and professionals requiring a comprehensive and accessible reference guide, as well as to weapons ‘buffs’.

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1134646682

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Supreme Court Cases on Political Representation, 1787-2001

By: Christopher A. Anzalone

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Supreme Court Cases on Political Representation, 1787-2001

By: Christopher A. Anzalone

This book includes every Supreme Court case relevant to elections and political representation from the Court's beginnings to 2001, including the 2001 decision in Cook v. Gralike that limited citizens' rights to instruct Federal representatives. It is a primary document reference book organized topically in sixteen chapters. Every case is included either as a full (edited) opinion, extensive excerpts of the opinion, or a detailed description of the case. As with the companion volume on gender and sexual equality, using this single volume a researcher can see how American legal history on the topic played out in its entirety. A Table of Cases, relevant Federal statutes, and an extensive bibliography further enhance the volume's usefulness.

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1315499568

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The Ethics of Abortion

Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice

By: Christopher Kaczor

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The Ethics of Abortion

Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice

By: Christopher Kaczor

The overturning of Roe v Wade makes the ethical consideration of abortion more important than ever. Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. This third edition of The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the major grounds for denying basic rights to fetal human beings, including the views of those who defend not only abortion but also post-birth abortion. It also provides several (non-theological) justifications for the conclusion that all human beings, including those in utero, should be respected as persons. This book also critiques the view that abortion is not wrong even if the human fetus is a person. The Ethics of Abortion examines hard cases for those who are prolife, such as abortion in cases of rape or in order to save the woman's life, as well as hard cases for defenders of abortion, such as sex selection abortion and the rationale for being "personally opposed" but publicly supportive of abortion. It concludes with a discussion of whether artificial wombs might end the abortion debate. Answering the arguments of defenders of abortion, this book provides reasoned justification for the view that all intentional abortions are ethically wrong and that doctors and nurses who object to abortion should not be forced to act against their consciences. Updates and Revisions to the Third Edition Include: Discusses Achas Burin’s 2014 essay, "Beyond Pragmatism: Defending the ‘Bright Line’ of Birth" in chapter 3 Incorporates into chapter 8 David Boonin’s cogently argued 2019 book, Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal – Even if the Fetus is a Person Expands chapter 9 to examine tragic cases in which prenatal diagnosis determines with certainty that a fetus will die shortly after birth Includes an updated and expanded section in chapter 11 on recent debates about conscience protections Considers in chapter 12 recent arguments that parents have a right to kill if the product of conception is in an artificial womb Updates statistics on numbers of abortions in the United States, including corrections to statistics that were once thought true but are now known as erroneous Updated bibliography

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1000655571

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From Literacy to Literature

England, 1300-1400

By: Christopher Cannon

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From Literacy to Literature

England, 1300-1400

By: Christopher Cannon

The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it was everywhere shaped by it. This book characterizes this close connection between literacy training and literature, as it is manifest in the fine and ambitious poetry by Gower, Langland and Chaucer, at this transitional moment. This is also a book about the way medieval training in grammar (or grammatica) shaped the poetic arts in the Middle Ages fully as much as rhetorical training. It answers the curious question of what language was used to teach Latin grammar to the illiterate. It reveals, for the first time, what the surviving schoolbooks from the period actually contain. It describes what form a 'grammar school' took in a period from which no school buildings or detailed descriptions survive. And it scrutinizes the processes of elementary learning with sufficient care to show that, for the grown medieval schoolboy, well-learned books functioned, not only as a touchstone for wisdom, but as a knowledge so personal and familiar that it was equivalent to what we would now call 'experience'.

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0191084832

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