2694 books (135 pages) in this category
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
by Antony Loewenstein
Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies such as G4S, ...
ISBN: 9781784781156
Binding: Hardback
Disciplining the Savages Savaging the Disciplines
by Martin Nakata
An exploration of the way knowledge is produced within academic disciplines and then reproduced as public knowledge and used by governments. Nakata, a Torres Strait Islander academic, casts a critical gaze on the 1890s Cambridge Expedition ...
ISBN: 9780855755485
Binding: Paperback
Discourse on Metaphysics and The Monadology
by G. W. LEIBNIZ
One of the 17th century's most important thinkers, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz exercised enormous influence on the philosophy of Herder, Feuerbach, and Hegel as well as on the writings of Schiller and Goethe. Two of Leibniz's most studied and ...
ISBN: 9780486443102
Binding: Paperback
Discourse on Method and Meditations
by RENE DESCARTES
Is it possible to be certain of anything? If so, how? The father of modern philosophy and the founder of rational method in philosophical thought, Rene Descartes (1596-1650) sought the answers to these questions and in doing so, addressed the ...
ISBN: 9780486432526
Binding: Paperback
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
by JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
A powerful, passionate explanation of the roots of social inequality, Rousseau's Discourse influenced virtually every major philosopher of the Enlightenment. It remains among the 18th-century's most provocative and frequently studied works. If ...
ISBN: 9780486434148
Binding: Paperback
by EPICTETUS
The ne plus ultra of Stoicism, Discourses outline clear-cut principles of right conduct and true thinking, offering secular thinkers a mode of reasoning that dismisses the strictures of absolutism and emotionalism in exchange for a more peaceful
ISBN: 9780486434421
Binding: Paperback
by EPICTETUS
In this compilation of Books 3 and 4 of Epictetus' Discourses the second of a two-volume set the philosopher discusses the quest for freedom, the nature of solitude, cynicism, fear, discretion, the avoidance of quarrels, and other subjects ...
ISBN: 9780486434438
Binding: Paperback
Chinese Motifs of Good Fortune
by Zhu Wen
An examination of traditional auspicious patterns from China in China, decorating with auspicious patterns dates back thousands of years and remains popular today. It has strong ties with tradition, and provides insight into Chinese philosophies
ISBN: 9781602201194
Binding: Hardback
Discovery of Australia's Fishes
A History of Australian Ichthyology to 1930
by Brian Saunders
This book traces the discovery of Australia?s fishes from the earliest days of taxonomy to the first part of the 20th century. It provides a unique insight into the diverse pathways by which Australia?s fish were discovered and outlines the ...
ISBN: 9780643106703
Binding: Hardback
by Mark Gevisser
This is a story of dispossession, a meditation on place, home and identity, as well as a deeply personal account of the social ills of South Africa and the triumph of its people. ...
ISBN: 9781847088581
Binding: Hardback
The Performative in the Political
by Judith Butler
Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional ...
ISBN: 9780745653815
Binding: Paperback
by MAGGIE JACKSON
In the first edition of this groundbreaking book, Maggie Jackson sounded a prescient warning of a looming crisis- the fragmentation of attention that is eroding our abilities to problem-solve, innovate, and care for one another. Now in this ...
ISBN: 9781633884625
Binding: Paperback
by June Sarpong
‘A handbook for these troubled times' Psychologies Magazine'Engaging and informative … highlights our common humanity' Kofi Annan‘A passionately written polemic' You MagazineCould inclusivity be the key to success? The truth ...
ISBN: 9780008242084
Binding: Paperback
by June Sarpong
‘A handbook for these troubled times' Psychologies Magazine'Engaging and informative … highlights our common humanity' Kofi Annan‘A passionately written polemic' You MagazineCould inclusivity be the key to success? The truth ...
ISBN: 9780008259853
Binding: Paperback
Diversity in the Power Elite: Ironies and Unfulfilled Promises 3ed
by Richard L. Zweigenhaft
ISBN: 9781538103364
Binding: Hardback
Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies
by Sean McCloud
ISBN: 9780807858493
Binding: Paperback
... and Change the World
by Caroline Criado-Perez
Gathering together stories from all corners of the world, this is an inspiring celebration of private heroisms and public triumphs, and a brilliant, necessary manifesto for women everywhere ...
ISBN: 9781846275814
Binding: Paperback
by Susan McHugh
Dogs are perhaps our most popular pets, and certainly one of the best-loved of all animals. This book unravels the debate about whether dogs are descended from wolves, and moves on to deal with canines in mythology, religion and health, dog ...
ISBN: 9781861892034
Binding: Paperback
Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues
by Lewis Vaughn
ISBN: 9780393265415
Binding: Paperback