Everyone has an opinion about the core issues of medical law; from clinical negligence and organ transplantation to…

Produkt Poetry Chest - Foster, John zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Oxford University Press.…

• Rok vydání 1755

In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the…

Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the…

\nThis new scholarly edition of von Arnim\'s popular novel will tease out the interplay between seriousness and comedy as a…

• Rok vydání 2009

Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Nietzsche passes under review all his previous books and reaches a final…

The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. A singular…

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• Rok vydání 2010

Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their…

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious,…

Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, inciting both revulsion and inspiration. This…

Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist. This…

Produkt American Politics - Valelly, Richard M. (Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science, Claude C. Smith '14…

This book provides a clear and readable overview of the works of today's most influential German philosopher. It analyses…

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• Rok vydání 2011

This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide…

In this Very Short Introduction, David Ford provides a balanced survey, for both believers and non-believers, to the central…

• Počet stran 160
• Rok vydání 2015

In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape as philosophy in the…

• Rok vydání 2020

Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture and the other visual arts. Here,…

In this Very Short Introduction Bernard O'Donoghue explores the many different forms of writing which have been called…

Korea, long in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, is now the object of considerable interest. This book focuses…

• Rok vydání 2025

This Very Short Introduction explores the history of the 18th-century Enlightenment movement. Considering its intellectual…

What is humanism? Can there be morality without God? Without religion, are our lives left without meaning? Stephen Law…

There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? The idea of utopia has…

Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in…

• Rok vydání 2011

Horace exposes the vices and follies of his Roman contemporaries in his Satires, and the Epistles include the famous Art of…

David Seed examines how science fiction has emerged as a popular genre of literature in the 20th century, and discusses it…

Produkt Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck - Buchner, Georg zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Oxford University…

Martyrdom is a controversial topic, with a long history of provoking fierce debate. In this Very Short Introduction Jolyon…

\nExplores the promise and limitations of competitive market dynamics, looking at the threats to competition-cartels,…

• Rok vydání 2021

In this book, Peter Adamson introduces the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina. After describing the…

Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the…

Against Nature is Huysmans's great fin-de-siecle novel anticipating many of the strains of modernism in its appreciation of…

In this Very Short Introduction, Christopher Hall shows how material science combines physics, chemistry, and biology with…

This Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language, presenting a succinct account of the most important…

Produkt Aztecs - Carrasco, David (Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of Latin America, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of Latin…

John C. Maher explains why societies everywhere have become more multilingual, despite the disappearance of hundreds of the…

Produkt Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od…

Without cause and effect, there would be no science or technology, no moral responsibility, and no system of law. Causation…