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A radical new look at the literary and political climate of England during the reign of Queen Anne, as revealed in the work…

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A revised edition of the last major work of the Oxford philosopher R.G. Collingwood. For this edition David Boucher has…

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The scientific study of the human body has burgeoned in recent years, and scholars from wide-ranging disciplines are now…

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In 1931, Princeton mathematician Kurt Godel startled the scientific world with his 'Theorem of Undecidability', which showed…

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The Council of Europe plays a pivotal role in the promotion and protection of human rights in Europe, yet its work is often…

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Leading scholars from all over the world reassess the operation of the laws and rules in Indo-European which constrain the…

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An interpretation of Plato's earlier dialogues which argues that the few cases of self-predication contained therein are…

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