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Philosophy

Why It Matters

By: Helen Beebee,Michael Rush

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Philosophy

Why It Matters

By: Helen Beebee,Michael Rush

We constantly disagree with each other on issues of fundamental importance. Does God exist? Should the latest scientific findings be trusted? Are there innate psychological differences between men and women? In four lively chapters, Beebee and Rush explain philosophy’s role in addressing such questions. They consider what it means to be human, how we should engage in public debate, philosophy’s relationship with science and religion, and the nature of our moral choices. Far from being only an abstract endeavour, philosophy engages with issues on a practical level, and philosophers draw inspiration from real-life situations. At its core, philosophy is about how to live and how to make sense of the world we inhabit. It is a set of tools and techniques for clearly and systematically considering our arguments and uncovering our hidden assumptions, which helps us to make more informed choices about what to believe and how to act. Philosophy is everywhere, and open to everyone.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509532188

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9781509532186

Metaphysics: The Key Concepts

By: Nikk Effingham,Helen Beebee,Philip Goff

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Metaphysics: The Key Concepts

By: Nikk Effingham,Helen Beebee,Philip Goff

‘Informative, accessible, and fun to read— this is an excellent reference guide for undergraduates and anyone wanting an introduction to the fundamental issues of metaphysics. I know of no other resource like it.’– Meghan Griffith, Davidson College, USA 'Marvellous! This book provides the very best place to start for students wanting to take the first step into understanding metaphysics.Undergraduates would do well to buy it and consult it regularly. The quality and clarity of the material are consistently high.' – Chris Daly, University of Manchester, UK Ever wondered about Gunk, Brains in a Vat or Frankfurt’s Nefarious Neurosurgeon? With complete explanations of these terms and more, Metaphysics: The Key Concepts is an accessible and engaging introduction to the most widely studied and challenging concepts in metaphysics. The authors clearly and lucidly define and discuss key terms and concepts, under the themes of: time particulars & universals realism & antirealism free will personal identity causation and laws. Arranged in an easy to use A-Z format, each concept is explored and illustrated with engaging and memorable examples, and accompanied by an up-to-date guide to further reading. Fully cross-referenced throughout, this remarkable reference guide is essential reading for students of philosophy and all those interested in the nature of reality.

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358

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Routledge

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1136855173

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9781136855177

Hume on Causation

By: Helen Beebee

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Hume on Causation

By: Helen Beebee

Causation is one of the most important and enduring topics in philosophy, going as far back as Aristotle. In this lucid and enthralling account, Helen Beebee covers all the major debates and issues in the philosophy of causation, making it the ideal starting point for those approaching the subject for the first time. Beginning with an introduction to the concept, the book examines the most significant philosopher of causation – David Hume – and assesses the problems of induction and necessary connection in light of his thought. Helen Beebee then investigates different theories of causation and challenges to the Humean approach. She considers the concepts of regularity, causal experience, necessity and essences. Throughout the book, she also critically discusses other key philosophers on causation, including J.L. Mackie, John Wright and Brian Ellis.

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431

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Routledge

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1134544707

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Animals under logs and stones

By: C. Philip Wheater,Helen J. Read,Charlotte Wheater

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Animals under logs and stones

By: C. Philip Wheater,Helen J. Read,Charlotte Wheater

Logs, stones and the like provide an interesting interface between the damp depths of the soil and the drier open ground surface, offering refuges for a fascinating array of animals. The communities of organisms that live beneath them are little noticed and even less studied, yet the potential for ecological work here is great. Some of the animals are relatively large and frequently not difficult to find. They exhibit a wide range of lifestyles – from slow slugs or snails to very fast centipedes, from generalist to specialist feeders and from herbivores to carnivores. With chapters covering the cryptosphere environment, species groups, identification, guidelines and ideas for further research, this much-expanded and updated new edition also includes extensive, easy-to-use, comprehensively illustrated keys. Ground-surface debris can be found almost anywhere, often presenting highly accessible microhabitats for study and bringing immediate rewards to the curious: here is the ideal tool to unlock these worlds.

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Pelagic Publishing Ltd

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1784274186

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9781784274184

Hume on Causation

By: Helen Beebee

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Hume on Causation

By: Helen Beebee

Causation is one of the most important and enduring topics in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. In this important book, Helen Beebee covers all the major debates and issues in the philosophy of causation.

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Routledge

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1134544715

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9781134544714

Eye of the Shoal

A Fishwatcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything

By: Helen Scales

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A Fishwatcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything

By: Helen Scales

Scales's genuine appreciation and awe for fish are contagious.'- Science 'Delightful' - New Scientist Seventy per cent of the earth's surface is covered by water. This vast aquatic realm is inhabited by a multitude of strange creatures and reigning supreme among them are the fish. There are giants that live for centuries and thumb-sized tiddlers that survive only weeks; they can be pancake-flat or inflatable balloons; they can shout with colours or hide in plain sight, cheat and dance, remember and say sorry; some rarely budge while others travel the globe restlessly. And yet the mesmerising and complex lives of fish remain largely underrated and unseen, living hidden beneath the waterline, out of sight and out of mind. Helen Scales is our guide on an underwater journey, as we fathom the depths and watch these animals going about the glorious business of being fish. As well as the fish, we meet devoted fishwatchers past and present, from voodoo zombie potion hunters and scientists who taught fish how to walk to nonagenarian explorers of the deep sea. Woven throughout are vignettes of Helen's own aquatic explorations, from eerie nighttime dives with glowing fish and up-close encounters with giant manta rays, to floating in the middle of a swirling shoal being watched by thousands of inquisitive eyes. As well as being a rich and entertaining read, this book will inspire readers to think again about these animals and the seas they inhabit, and to go out and appreciate the wonders of fish, whether through the glass walls of an aquarium or, better still, by gazing into the fishes' wild world and swimming through it. 'Engaging and informative' The Economist

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472936833

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9781472936837

Text, Cases and Materials on Public Law and Human Rights

By: Helen Fenwick,Gavin Phillipson,Alexander Williams

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Text, Cases and Materials on Public Law and Human Rights

By: Helen Fenwick,Gavin Phillipson,Alexander Williams

This book interweaves an authoritative authorial commentary – significantly expanded from the last edition - with extracts from a diverse and contemporary collection of cases and materials from three leading academics in the field. It provides an all-encompassing student guide to constitutional, administrative and UK human rights law. This fourth edition provides comprehensive coverage of all recent developments, including the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, restrictions on judicial review (Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015), changes to judicial appointments (Crime and Courts Act 2013), the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, Scotland Act 2016 and draft Wales Bill 2016. Recent devolution cases in the Supreme Court, including Imperial Tobacco (2012) and Asbestos Diseases (2015) are fully analysed, as is the 2015 introduction of English Votes for English Laws. The remarkable Evans (2015) ‘Black Spider memos’ case is considered in a number of chapters. The common law rights resurgence seen in Osborn (2013), BBC (2014) and Kennedy (2014) is analysed in several places, along with other key developments in judicial review such as Keyu (2015) and Pham (2015). Ongoing parliamentary reform in both Lords and Commons, including major advances in controlling prerogative powers, are fully explained, as is the adaptation of the core Executive to Coalition Government (2010-2015). There is comprehensive coverage of key Strasbourg and HRA cases (Horncastle (2010), Nicklinson (2014), Moohan (2014), Carlile (2014)), and those in core areas of freedom of expression, police powers and public order (Animal Defenders (2013), Beghal (2015), Roberts (2015), Miranda (2016)) and the prisoners’ voting rights saga, up to Chester (2015).

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Routledge

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1135071330

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Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvère Song

By: Helen Dell

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Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvère Song

By: Helen Dell

This study brings the songs of the trouvères to an encounter with Lacanian psychoanalytic theories of signification, sexual difference and unconscious desire. In trouvère song desire functions as a means of generic and genderic differentiation. The trouvères distinguished between sexual need or lust and desire, the latter usually confined to the masculine voice in high style. Less exalted persons, in whose company women were alreadyimplicitly included, appear as incapable of desire in the fin'amors register. Critics have treated the issue of desire as represented in the courtly chanson but, because criticism has followed the trouvères' distinction between desire and need, discussion of desire has been limited to songs in the courtly register rather than across the system of genres. Desire in Lacan's sense, that is unconscious desire, is present in all genres and voices and this book unearths the unspoken desires of trouvère song by an attention to the characteristic means by which subjects subvert their demands in different genres. HELEN DELL is a research fellowin English Literary Studies in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843841649

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The Spread of Novels

Translation and Prose Fiction in the Eighteenth Century

By: Mary Helen McMurran

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The Spread of Novels

Translation and Prose Fiction in the Eighteenth Century

By: Mary Helen McMurran

Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? The Spread of Novels explores the active movements of English and French fiction in the eighteenth century and argues that the new literary form of the novel was the result of a shift in translation. Demonstrating that translation was both the cause and means by which the novel attained success, Mary Helen McMurran shows how this period was a watershed in translation history, signaling the end of a premodern system of translation and the advent of modern literary exchange. McMurran illuminates aspects of prose fiction translation history, including the radical revision of fiction's origins from that of cross-cultural transfer to one rooted by nation; the contradictory pressures of the book trade, which relied on translators to energize the market, despite the increasing devaluation of their labor; and the dynamic role played by prose fiction translation in Anglo-French relations across the Channel and in the New World. McMurran examines French and British novels, as well as fiction that circulated in colonial North America, and she considers primary source materials by writers as varied as Frances Brooke, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Françoise Graffigny. The Spread of Novels reassesses the novel's embodiment of modernity and individualism, discloses the novel's surprisingly unmodern characteristics, and recasts the genre's rise as part of a burgeoning vernacular cosmopolitanism.

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Princeton University Press

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1400831377

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Victoria

The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen

By: Helen Rappaport

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Victoria

The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen

By: Helen Rappaport

Foreword by Daisy Goodwin The official companion to ITV’s hotly anticipated new drama, Victoria delves into the private writings of the young Queen Victoria, painting a vivid picture of the personal life of one of England’s greatest monarchs. From the producers of Poldark and Endeavour, ITV’s Victoria follows the early years of the young queen’s reign, based closely on Victoria’s own letters and journals. Now explore this extensive collection in greater depth, and discover who Victoria really was behind her upright public persona. At only eighteen years old, Victoria ascended the throne as a rebellious teenager and gradually grew to become one of the most memorable, unshakeable and powerful women in history. The extensive writings she left behind document this personal journey and show how she triumphed over scandal and corruption. Written by author and Victoria historical consultant, Helen Rappaport, and including a foreword by Daisy Goodwin—acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter of the series—Victoria details the history behind the show. Revealing Victoria’s own thoughts about the love interests, family dramas and court scandals during her early reign, it also delves into the running of the royal household, the upstairs-downstairs relationships, and what it was like to live in Victorian England. Full of beautiful photography from the series and genuine imagery from the era, Victoria takes you behind the palace doors and discover the girl behind the queen.

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HarperCollins

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0062568906

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9780062568908

Naming Your Pet

By: Mary Helen Detrick,Nancy Butler White

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Naming Your Pet

By: Mary Helen Detrick,Nancy Butler White

Here are thousands of name suggestions for that new pet.

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New York : Arco Publishing Company

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0668044012

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9780668044011

Blue Scarlet

By: Bonnie H. Peter,Bonnie Helen Simmons,Sister Alice Julia Kiesel (O.S.B.)

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Blue Scarlet

By: Bonnie H. Peter,Bonnie Helen Simmons,Sister Alice Julia Kiesel (O.S.B.)

This book contains VISIONS AND DREAMS, REVELATIONS, INTERPRETATINS AND FULFILLMENTS, AND EXHORTATIONS, all from the Spirit of the Lord which is ushering us into the beginning of a NEW DAY."--M.d. of p. [5]

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0806223456

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Philosophy

Why It Matters

By: Helen Beebee,Michael Rush

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Why It Matters

By: Helen Beebee,Michael Rush

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Reading Metaphysics

Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary

By: Helen Beebee,Julian Dodd

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Reading Metaphysics

Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary

By: Helen Beebee,Julian Dodd

This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary which helps readers engage the texts critically and to use them to develop their own views. Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, to think of objections, and to formulate his or her own views Aims to improve the reader’s ability to engage critically with philosophical texts, and to use them as a springboard for philosophical thought and writing Introduces readers to the perennial problems of metaphysics and the ways that different analytic philosophers have approached them

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Wiley-Blackwell

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1405123664

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HELEN POTTERS IMPERSONATIONS

By: Helen Potter

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HELEN POTTERS IMPERSONATIONS

By: Helen Potter

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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1362872822

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9781362872825

Hetty's Strange History

By: Helen Jackson

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Hetty's Strange History

By: Helen Jackson

A classic novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, which was first published anonymously in 1877 in the "No Name Series.

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1483958604

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Philosophy

Philosophy

Metaphysics: The Key Concepts

Metaphysics: The Key Concepts

Hume on Causation

Hume on Causation

Animals under logs and stones

Animals under logs and stones

Hume on Causation

Hume on Causation

Eye of the Shoal

Eye of the Shoal

Text, Cases and Materials on Public Law and Human Rights

Text, Cases and Materials on Public Law and Human Rights

Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvère Song

Desire by Gender and Genre in Trouvère Song

The Spread of Novels

The Spread of Novels

Victoria

Victoria

Naming Your Pet

Naming Your Pet

Blue Scarlet

Blue Scarlet

Philosophy

Philosophy

Reading Metaphysics

Reading Metaphysics

HELEN POTTERS IMPERSONATIONS

HELEN POTTERS IMPERSONATIONS

Hetty's Strange History

Hetty's Strange History

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