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Caste Wars
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 155.00The central topic for this book is the ethics of treating individuals as though they are members of groups. The book raises many interesting questions, including: Why do we feel so much more strongly about discrimination on certain grounds ? e.g. of race and sex - than discrimination on other grounds? Are we right to think that discrimination... more...
Contemporary Mexican Politics
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 38.99Now in a thoroughly updated edition, this comprehensive and engaging text explores contemporary Mexico's political development and examines the most important policy issues facing Mexico in the twenty-first century. The first half of the book begins with a broad historical overview leading to the 1910 Revolution, the emergence of the modern Mexican... more...
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 11.99In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men?the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer?met in the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland, held the world spellbound for two months with... more...
Rousseau's Dog
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume?now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language?was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency. And so Rousseau came to England with his beloved dog, Sultan,... more...
Philosophy Bites
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 11.99Philosophy Bites is a selection of the best interviews from the hugely successful podcast of the same name. Leading philosophers discuss a wide range of philosophical issues, from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics, in a lively, informal, personal way. Time, infinity, evil, friendship, animals, wine, sport, tragedy - all human life is here.Philosophy... more...
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 13.11For decades, the USSR had dominated world chess. Evidence, according to Moscow, of the superiority of the Soviet system. But in 1972 along came the American, Bobby Fischer - insolent, arrogant, abusive, vain, greedy, vulgar, bigoted, paranoid and obsessive. And apparently unstoppable . . . 'It was thanks to Fischer's greed and weirdness that the... more...
Philosophy Bites Back
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 15.99Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important thinkers in history. From the ancient classics of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to the groundbreaking... more...
Body Size - The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 68.00An authoritative work written by leading experts unravelling the fundamental role of body size. more...
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