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Ethics for A-Level

Mark Dimmock and Andrew Fisher

This concise and highly engaging resource is tailored to the Ethics components of AQA Philosophy and OCR Religious Studies, with a clear and practical layout that includes end-of-chapter summaries, key terms, and common mistakes to avoid. It should also be of practical use for those studying Philosophy as part of the International Baccalaureate or an introductory Philosophy course at university.

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Democracy and Power. The Delhi Lectures

Noam Chomsky. Introduction by Jean Drèze

Chomsky’s early insights into the workings of power in the modern world remain timely and compelling. Published for the first time, this series of lectures provides the reader with an invaluable introduction to the essential ideas of one of the leading thinkers of our time.

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Peace and Democratic Society

Amartya Sen (ed.)

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen makes a plea for a global, multilateral debate on the causes of conflict, and an understanding of the multiple identities of the individuals involved.

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Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation

Ruth Finnegan

Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about?

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Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850

Simon Franklin and Katherine Bowers (eds.)

Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a field of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development.

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Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives

Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow (eds.)

This diverse collection of essays introduces new and stimulating approaches to the ongoing debate as to how Russian artistic modernism engaged with questions of spirituality in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. It offers innovative readings of a history only partially explored, revealing uncharted corners and challenging long-held assumptions.

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Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education

Patrick Blessinger and TJ Bliss (eds.)

This insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case studies to relate the application of open technologies and approaches in education settings around the world.

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Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays

Hans Walter Gabler

These essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contain writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual, genetic, and literary criticism. In these stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era and traces the cultural implications discernible in book design, and in the canonisation of works of literature and their authors.

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The Jewish Unions in America: Pages of History and Memories

Bernard Weinstein, translated and annotated by Maurice Wolfthal

Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time.

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Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry: Reinventing the Canon

Katharine Hodgson, Joanne Shelton and Alexandra Smith (eds.)

The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union. A multi-authored study of changing cultural memory and identity, this revisionary work charts Russia’s shifting relationship to its own literature in the face of social upheaval.

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