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Minerva's Aviary

Philosophy at Toronto, 1843-2003

By: John G. Slater

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Minerva's Aviary

Philosophy at Toronto, 1843-2003

By: John G. Slater

. In Minerva's Aviary, John G. Slater documents the history of Toronto's Philosophy Department from its founding to contemporary times.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802038700

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9780802038708

The Transformation of a Peasant Economy

Townspeople and Villagers in the Lutterworth Area, 1500–1700

By: John Goodacre

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The Transformation of a Peasant Economy

Townspeople and Villagers in the Lutterworth Area, 1500–1700

By: John Goodacre

The market town has been dismissed as an incompletely formed urban community; in fact it was the primary urban unit in pre-industrial England. This study places the market town at the centre of the transformation of early-modern England, both catalysing changes in agriculture and experiencing, in a distinctive fashion, the urbanisation that was to occur a century or more later in the great industrial and commercial centres of Europe. In the two centuries after 1500 the rural economy changed from a pattern of subsistence to 'improved' farming. The first great enclosures took place during this time, but the economic base for this revolution was the growth of local trading, centred on markets and local communications networks. This redistribution of produce, provisions and information was the motor of specialisation and hence modernisation. The strength of this study is in its detailed research into this process in one representative locality, and the sensitive extrapolation of local experiences on to the national and European scale. By integrating in one book the themes of rural transformation and early urbanisation this account of one typical midland market town demonstrates the continuing vigour of the discipline of local history.

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328

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Routledge

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1351880993

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9781351880992

British Historical Facts: 1688-1760

By: Chris Cook,John Stevenson

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British Historical Facts: 1688-1760

By: Chris Cook,John Stevenson

The latest volume in this series covers the period in British history from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the accession of George III in 1760. Chapters are included on administration, ministerial biographies, Parliament, defence and treaties, and the expansion of the Empire.

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263

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Springer

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1349023698

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Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1832

By: John Stevenson

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Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1832

By: John Stevenson

John Stevenson has revised and expanded his standard but long-unobtainable work on Popular Protest and Public Order 1700-1870 in two self-sufficient volumes. The first (1700-1832) appeared in 1992; this is its keenly-awaited sequel. The greater part of it is entirely new, and brings the analysis of popular disturbance -- and its political and economic roots -- through to modern times. Tracing the theme through from the Chartists of the late 1830s to the British Union of Fascists in the late 1930s, it highlights both the changing agendas and the unchanging tensions that underlie social disorder.

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381

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Routledge

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1317897137

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Systematic Atheology

Atheism’s Reasoning with Theology

By: John R. Shook

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Systematic Atheology

Atheism’s Reasoning with Theology

By: John R. Shook

Atheology is the intellectual effort to understand atheism, defend the reasonableness of unbelief, and support nonbelievers in their encounters with religion. This book presents a historical overview of the development of atheology from ancient thought to the present day. It offers in-depth examinations of four distinctive schools of atheological thought: rationalist atheology, scientific atheology, moral atheology, and civic atheology. John R. Shook shows how a familiarity with atheology’s complex histories, forms, and strategies illuminates the contentious features of today’s atheist and secularist movements, which are just as capable of contesting each other as opposing religion. The result is a book that provides a disciplined and philosophically rigorous examination of atheism’s intellectual strategies for reasoning with theology. Systematic Atheology is an important contribution to the philosophy of religion, religious studies, secular studies, and the sociology and psychology of nonreligion.

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Routledge

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135162637X

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Diet for a New America

How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Your Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

By: John Robbins

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Diet for a New America

How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Your Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

By: John Robbins

An H J Kramer book published in a joint venture with New World Library.

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H J Kramer

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193207354X

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9781932073546

Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001

By: Chris Cook,John Stevenson

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Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001

By: Chris Cook,John Stevenson

This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended to include a fully-revised bibliography (reflecting the wealth of newly published material in recent years), the new statistics on social and economic history and an expanded glossary of terms. The political chronologies have been revised to include the electoral defeat of John Major and the record of New Labour in office. Designed for the student and general reader, this highly-successful handbook provides a wealth of varied data within the confines of a single volume.

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Routledge

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1317875230

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A Metaphysics for the Mob

The Philosophy of George Berkeley

By: John Russell Roberts

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A Metaphysics for the Mob

The Philosophy of George Berkeley

By: John Russell Roberts

George Berkeley notoriously claimed that his immaterialist metaphysics was not only consistent with common sense but that it was also integral to its defense. Roberts argues that understanding the basic connection between Berkeley's philosophy and common sense requires that we develop a better understanding of the four principle components of Berkeley's positive metaphysics: The nature of being, the divine language thesis, the active/passive distinction, and the nature of spirits. Roberts begins by focusing on Berkeley's view of the nature of being. He elucidates Berkeley's view on Locke and the Cartesians and by examining Berkeley's views about related concepts such as unity and simplicity. From there he moves on to Berkeley's philosophy of language arguing that scrutiny of the famous "Introduction" to the Principles of Human Knowledge reveals that Berkeley identified the ideational theory of meaning and understanding as the root cause of some of the worst of man's intellectual errors, not "abstract ideas." Abstract ideas are, rather, the most debilitating symptom of this underlying ailment. In place of the ideational theory, Berkeley defends a rudimentary "use theory" of meaning. This understanding of Berkeley's approach to semantics is then applied to the divine language thesis and is shown to have important consequences for Berkeley's pragmatic approach to the ontology of natural objects and for his approach to our knowledge of, and relation to other minds, including God's. Turning next to Berkeley's much aligned account of spirits, the author defends the coherence of Berkeley's view of spirits by way of providing an interpretation of the active/passive distinction as marking a normative distinction and by focusing on the role that divine language plays in letting Berkeley identify the soul with the will. With these four principles of Berkeley's philosophy in hand, he then returns to the topic of common sense and offers a defense of Berkeley's philosophy as built upon and expressive of the deepest metaphysical commitments of mainstream Christianity. Roberts' reappraisal of this important figure should appeal to all historians of philosophy as well as scholars in metaphysics and philosophy of language.

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Oxford University Press

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0198042833

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9780198042839

From Whitney to Chomsky

Essays in the history of American linguistics

By: John E. Joseph

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From Whitney to Chomsky

Essays in the history of American linguistics

By: John E. Joseph

What is ‘American’ about American linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent half his life in America, part of it? What became of Whitney’s genuinely American conception of language as a democracy? And how did developments in 20th-century American linguistics relate to broader cultural trends?This book brings together 15 years of research by John E. Joseph, including his discovery of the meeting between Whitney and Saussure, his ground-breaking work on the origins of the ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’ and of American sociolinguistics, and his seminal examination of Bloomfield and Chomsky as readers of Saussure. Among the original findings and arguments contained herein: • why ‘American structuralism’ does not end with Chomsky, but begins with him; • how Bloomfield managed to read Saussure as a behaviourist avant la lettre; • why in the long run Skinner has emerged victorious over Chomsky; • how Whorf was directly influenced by the mystical writings of Madame Blavatsky; • how the Whitney–Max Müller debates in the 19th century connect to the intellectual disparity between Chomsky’s linguistic and political writings.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027275378

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Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy

By: Rosalind Carey,John Ongley

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Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy

By: Rosalind Carey,John Ongley

Academic philosopher, logician, public intellectual, educator, political activist, and freethinker, Bertrand Russell was and remains a colossus. No other single philosopher in the last 200 years can be said to have created so much and influenced so many. His Principia Mathematica, written with A. N. Whitehead, ranks as one of the greatest books on logic since Aristotle. His philosophical work on language, meaning, logic, mind, and metaphysics formed the basis of 20th-century philosophy. Russell was active in numerous political movements of liberation and peace, and his popular writings, including the best-selling History of Western Philosophy, won the Nobel prize in literature in 1950. Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy offers a comprehensive, current guide to the many facets of Russell's work. Through its chronology, introductory essay, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on concepts, people, works, and technical terms, Russell's impact on philosophy and related fields is made accessible to the reader in this must-have reference.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810862921

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9780810862920

The Genetics and Molecular Biology of Neural Tumors

By: Avery A. Sandberg,John F. Stone

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The Genetics and Molecular Biology of Neural Tumors

By: Avery A. Sandberg,John F. Stone

Collecting an extensive amount of information from thousands of publications by leading investigators in this rapidly developing field, this book provides a convenient and up-to-date one volume source for research in neural tumors of various cellular origins. With over 3,500 references, 110 figures and 120 tables, this volume gathers an astonishing body of knowledge regarding human neural tumors. This book is the first of its kind, encyclopedic and wide-ranging.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1597455105

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The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918

A Cartographic Analysis and Electronic Catalogue

By: Roger J. P. Kain,John Chapman,Richard R. Oliver

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The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918

A Cartographic Analysis and Electronic Catalogue

By: Roger J. P. Kain,John Chapman,Richard R. Oliver

This book offers the first comprehensive study of the enclosure mapping of England and Wales. Enclosure maps are fundamental sources of evidence in many types of historical inquiries. Although modern historians tend to view these large-scale maps essentially as sources of data on past economies and societies, this book argues that enclosure maps had a much more active role at the time they were compiled. Seen from this perspective of their contemporary society, enclosure maps are not simply antiquarian curiosities, cultural artefacts, or useful sources for historians but instruments of land reorganisation and control which both reflected and consolidated the power of those who commissioned them. The book is accompanied by a fully searchable, descriptive and analytical web catalogue of all parliamentary and non-parliamentary enclosure maps extant in public archives and libraries and offers an essential research tool for economic, social and local historians and for geographers, lawyers and planners.

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Cambridge University Press

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052182771X

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9780521827713

Steroids in the Laboratory and Clinical Practice

By: John William Honour

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Steroids in the Laboratory and Clinical Practice

By: John William Honour

Steroids in the Laboratory and Clinical Practice covers both basic chemistry and therapeutic application of steroids in a single source. The comprehensive reference addresses the specificity of steroid determinations to clarify confusion arising from the laboratory results. The book covers important advancements in the field and is a valuable addition in the literature addressing all existing knowledge gaps. This is a must have reference for pathologists, laboratorians, endocrinologists, analytical/clinical chemists and biochemists. - Addresses the normal production of steroids and concentrations found in biological fluids and tissues - Presents the changes in steroid concentrations at life events as reference points for clinical investigations - Reviews the genetic disorders of steroids in relation to specific enzyme changes and clinical presentation

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0128181257

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Minerva's Aviary

Minerva's Aviary

The Transformation of a Peasant Economy

The Transformation of a Peasant Economy

British Historical Facts: 1688-1760

British Historical Facts: 1688-1760

Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1832

Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1832

Systematic Atheology

Systematic Atheology

Diet for a New America

Diet for a New America

Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001

Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001

A Metaphysics for the Mob

A Metaphysics for the Mob

From Whitney to Chomsky

From Whitney to Chomsky

Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy

Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy

The Genetics and Molecular Biology of Neural Tumors

The Genetics and Molecular Biology of Neural Tumors

The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918

The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918

Steroids in the Laboratory and Clinical Practice

Steroids in the Laboratory and Clinical Practice

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