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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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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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Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined

Ingrid Robeyns

How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? This book provides an original and comprehensive account that will appeal to scholars of the capability approach and those interested in theories of justice, human rights, basic needs, and the human development approach.

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