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Barclays

The Business of Banking, 1690-1996

By: Margaret Ackrill,Leslie Hannah

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The Business of Banking, 1690-1996

By: Margaret Ackrill,Leslie Hannah

Illustrated history of Barclays Bank from a private Quaker partnership in 1690 to 1996.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521790352

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Classical Philosophy

A Contemporary Introduction

By: Christopher Shields,Tutor and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Professor of Classical Philosophy Christopher Shields

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Classical Philosophy

A Contemporary Introduction

By: Christopher Shields,Tutor and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Professor of Classical Philosophy Christopher Shields

Classical Philosophy is a comprehensive examination of early philosophy from the presocratics through to Aristotle. The aim of the book is to provide an explanation and analysis of the ideas that flourished at this time and considers their relevance both to the historical development of philosophy and to contemporary philosophy today. From these ideas we can see the roots of arguments in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and political philosophy. The book is arranged in four parts by thinker and covers: The Presocratics Socrates Plato Aristotle Christopher Shields' style is inviting, refreshing and ideal for anyone coming to the subject for the first time. He provides a balanced account of the central topics and ideas that emerged from the period and includes helpful further reading and chapter overviews.

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Routledge

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1134567952

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9781134567959

Leibniz' Doctrine of Necessary Truth

By: Margaret Dauler Wilson

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Leibniz' Doctrine of Necessary Truth

By: Margaret Dauler Wilson

Originally published in 1990. This study was first written in 1965 when interest in Leibniz was intensifying. The book looks in detail at the doctrine of necessity – that necessary truths are those derivable from the principle of identity by the substitution of definitions. It first considers views of philosophic predecessors, relating Leibniz’ doctrine to Aristotle and Hobbes among others. The second section examines the conflict between his reductionistic and formalistic views and the opposing intuitionism and anti-reductionism of Descartes and Locke. The author critically examines the theory of necessity, including Leibniz’s arguments against the views of Hobbes and Locke, concluding with distinctions between necessary and contingent truths.

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Routledge

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1000300870

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9781000300871

Plato's Individuals

By: Mary M. McCabe

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Plato's Individuals

By: Mary M. McCabe

Contradicting the long-held belief that Aristotle was the first to discuss individuation systematically, Mary Margaret McCabe argues that Plato was concerned with what makes something a something and that he solved the problem in a radically different way than did Aristotle. McCabe explores the centrality of individuation to Plato's thinking, from the Parmenides to the Politicus, illuminating Plato's later metaphysics in an exciting new way. Tradition associates Plato with the contrast between the particulars of the sensible world and transcendent forms, and supposes that therein lies the center of Plato's metaphysical universe. McCabe rebuts this view, arguing that Plato's thinking about individuals--which informs all his thought--comes to focus on the tension between "generous" or complex individuals and "austere" or simple individuals. In dialogues such as the Theaetetus and the Timaeus Plato repeatedly poses the question of individuation but cannot provide an answer. Later, in the Sophist, the Philebus, and the Politicus, Plato devises what McCabe calls the "mesh of identity," an account of how individuals may be identified relative to each other. The mesh of identity, however, fails to explain satisfactorily how individuals are unified or made coherent. McCabe asserts that individuation may be absolute--and she questions philosophy's longtime reliance on Aristotle's solution.

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Princeton University Press

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0691219443

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9780691219448

Peripheral Wonders

Nature, Knowledge, and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-century Orinoco

By: Margaret R. Ewalt

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Peripheral Wonders

Nature, Knowledge, and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-century Orinoco

By: Margaret R. Ewalt

This work expands traditional conceptions of the Enlightenment by examining the roles of wonder and Jesuit missionary conceptions of the Enlightenment by examining the century in a production of knowledge that serves both intellectual and religious functions.

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Associated University Presse

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0838756891

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9780838756898

Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics

By: Margaret Thomas

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Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics

By: Margaret Thomas

What was the first language, and where did it come from? Do all languages have properties in common? What is the relationship of language to thought? Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics explores how fifty of the most influential figures in the field have asked and have responded to classic questions about language. Each entry includes a discussion of the person’s life, work and ideas as well as the historical context and an analysis of his or her lasting contributions. Thinkers include: Aristotle Samuel Johnson Friedrich Max Müller Ferdinand de Saussure Joseph H. Greenberg Noam Chomsky Fully cross-referenced and with useful guides to further reading, this is an ideal introduction to the thinkers who have had a significant impact on the subject of Language and Linguistics.

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327

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Routledge

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1136707506

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9781136707506

Aristotle

By: Christopher Shields,Tutor and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Professor of Classical Philosophy Christopher Shields

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Aristotle

By: Christopher Shields,Tutor and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Professor of Classical Philosophy Christopher Shields

Beginning with a brief biography and concluding with an appraisal of Aristotelianism today, Shields assesses the whole of Aristotle?s philosophy, revealing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking.

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Routledge

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1134456301

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9781134456307

Foundations of Liberalism

By: Margaret Moore

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Foundations of Liberalism

By: Margaret Moore

This book is an original critique of contemporary liberal theories of justice, focusing on the problem of how to relate the personal point of view of the individual to the impartial perspective of justice. Margaret Moore's examination of prominent contemporary arguments for liberal justice reveals that individualist theories are subject to two serious difficulties: the motivation problem and the integrity problem. Individualists cannot explain why the individual should be motivated to act in accordance with the dictates of liberal justice, and–related to this–offer radically incoherent accounts of the person. Revisionist liberal attempts to ground liberalism in contextual and perfectionist terms offer more defensible foundations, but Dr Moore argues that such theories do not support liberal political principles. She concludes by sketching a historical and concrete approach to political and ethical theorizing which reformulates the relation between self-interest and morality, and is not subject to the problems that beset liberal individualist theories of justice. Her book advances the debate between communitarians and liberals about the kind of moral foundation which a liberal society requires.

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Clarendon Press

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0191520829

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9780191520822

Organizational Behavior

A Management Challenge

By: Linda K. Stroh,Gregory B. Northcraft,Margaret A. Neale,(Co-author) Mar Kern,(Co-author) Chr Langlands

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Organizational Behavior

A Management Challenge

By: Linda K. Stroh,Gregory B. Northcraft,Margaret A. Neale,(Co-author) Mar Kern,(Co-author) Chr Langlands

This second edition is a revision of a successful reader in organizational behavior, edited by Jerald Greenberg. This volume describes the latest advances in the field of organizational behavior. Each chapter is a description of "what was," "what is," and "what will be" as envisioned by leading researchers and experts. Topics covered include: affect, stress, self-fulfilling prophecies, diversity, justice, reputations, deviant behavior, conflict, construct validity, and cross-cultural behavior. The book concludes with a commentary chapter by Ed Locke--a distinguished senior scholar--who offers directions and guidance on the field's future. This book will appeal to professors and scholars in industrial-organizational psychology, organizational behavior, human resource management, and social psychology. It is an invaluable compendium reporting on the state of the science in a rapidly developing field.

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481

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Psychology Press

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1135641439

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9781135641436

The Novel and the Sea

By: Margaret Cohen

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The Novel and the Sea

By: Margaret Cohen

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, The Novel and the Sea recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the allure of the oceans in the modern cultural imagination. Margaret Cohen moors the novel to overseas exploration and work at sea, framing its emergence as a transatlantic history, steeped in the adventures and risks of the maritime frontier. Cohen explores how Robinson Crusoe competed with the best-selling nautical literature of the time by dramatizing remarkable conditions, from the wonders of unknown lands to storms, shipwrecks, and pirates. She considers James Fenimore Cooper's refashioning of the adventure novel in postcolonial America, and a change in literary poetics toward new frontiers and to the maritime labor and technology of the nineteenth century. Cohen shows how Jules Verne reworked adventures at sea into science fiction; how Melville, Hugo, and Conrad navigated the foggy waters of language and thought; and how detective and spy fiction built on sea fiction's problem-solving devices. She also discusses the transformation of the ocean from a theater of skilled work to an environment of pristine nature and the sublime. A significant literary history, The Novel and the Sea challenges readers to rethink their land-locked assumptions about the novel.

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Princeton University Press

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1400836484

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Margaret Cavendish

Essential Writings

By: Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle

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Margaret Cavendish

Essential Writings

By: Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle

The Seventeenth-Century philosopher, scientist, poet, playwright, and novelist Margaret Cavendish went to battle with the great thinkers of her time, and arguably got the better of them in many cases. She took a creative and systematic stand on the major questions of philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy. She argued that human beings and all other members of the created universe are purely material creatures, and she held that there are many other ways in which creatures are alike as well: for example, human beings, non-human animals, spiders, cells, and all other beings exhibit skill, wisdom, and activity, and so the universe of matter is not the largely dead and unimpressive region that most of her contemporaries thought it to be. Creatures instead are sophisticated and display a wide spectrum of intelligent activity, ranging from the highly conscious mentality that Descartes posited to be part and parcel of human thought, to embodied forms of cognition that is more common in non-human creatures but that guide a significant portion of human behavior as well. Cavendish then used her fictional work to further illustrate her views and arguments, and also to craft alternative fictional worlds in which the climate for women was very different than on Seventeenth-Century earth - a climate in which women could be taken seriously in the role of philosopher, writer, scientist, military general, and other roles. This is the first volume to provide a cross-section of Cavendish's writings, views and arguments, along with introductory material. It excerpts the key portions of all her texts including annotated notes highlighting the interconnections between them. Including a general introduction by Cunning, the book will allow students to work toward a systematic picture of Cavendish's metaphysics, epistemology, and political philosophy (and including some of her non-philosophical work as well) and to see her in dialogue with philosophers who are part of the traditional canon.

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0190664053

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9780190664053

Barclays

The Business of Banking, 1690-1996

By: Margaret Ackrill,Leslie Hannah

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Barclays

The Business of Banking, 1690-1996

By: Margaret Ackrill,Leslie Hannah

Illustrated history of Barclays Bank from a private Quaker partnership in 1690 to 1996.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521790352

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V Volume 22

Kirsteen

By: Gail Marshall

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V Volume 22

Kirsteen

By: Gail Marshall

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.

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318

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Taylor & Francis

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1040249469

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9781040249468

Moments with Margaret

A Collection of Poems

By: Margaret A. Pierson

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Moments with Margaret

A Collection of Poems

By: Margaret A. Pierson

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171

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462804748

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9781462804740

Paper Bodies

A Margaret Cavendish Reader

By: Margaret Cavendish

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Paper Bodies

A Margaret Cavendish Reader

By: Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres, challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as the mores of society. “Paper Bodies” was the wonderful phrase she used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue to make “a great Blazing Light” after her death. There are connections here to Cavendish’s most famous work, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world. In addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish’s brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life (1667), her play The Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps to set her work in context for the modern reader.

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334

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Broadview Press

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1770487883

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9781770487888

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Volume 2

By: Margaret Fuller

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Volume 2

By: Margaret Fuller

Reproduction of the original: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli by Margaret Fuller

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Outlook Verlag

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3752307048

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9783752307047

EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF T

By: Margaret Woods

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EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF T

By: Margaret Woods

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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