Philosophy books

This book analyses the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science and looks at their...  Read More >>

Constructions of Illiteracy in Twentieth Century Ireland: Contesting the Narrative of Full Literacy offers new insights...  Read More >>

Charting the rise of one of the great families of late sixteenth-century France, the Gondi, this book unravels the...  Read More >>

European nobility faced a number of religious, political and military challenges. Many sought to increase their...  Read More >>

Created in the late eighteenth century by the East India Company to manage relations with the princely rulers of...  Read More >>

Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, Sara Atwood examines...  Read More >>

For humanists the perfect language was a revived Classical Latin. For scholastics it was a practical logic adapted...  Read More >>

George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1360-1454) was a remarkable and influential thinker, active at the time of transition...  Read More >>

This book examines how over the last twenty years two basic types of post-communist parliaments have persisted,...  Read More >>

This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment,...  Read More >>

Natasha Gill offers the first comprehensive analysis of French educational thought before Rousseau. She situates...  Read More >>

Based on an in-depth study of clinics offering assisted fertilization, Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences...  Read More >>

Recounting recent encounters between Latin American and Arab countries this unique volume explores how, despite...  Read More >>

The first book-length consideration of one of the major British left-wing writers of the twentieth century, this...  Read More >>

Drawing upon private papers, letters, financial records, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the Monmouth Rebellion...  Read More >>

This volume examines the selection and promotion of bishops within ecclesiastical politics at the Elizabethan court,...  Read More >>

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way...  Read More >>

Most works written about the Jacobites have tended to look at the 1745 Rebellion, rather than the earlier attempt...  Read More >>

This collection, a testament to the work of Hilda L. Smith, confronts orthodoxy in social and cultural, scientific...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive examination of the implications of the messianic turn within contemporary thought....  Read More >>

In 1948, British troops withdrew from the Palestinian lands, ending over 30 years of the British Mandate of Palestine....  Read More >>

Following on from Jeremy Black’s previous studies on eighteenth-century foreign policy, Politics and Foreign Policy...  Read More >>

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophic pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503, was the first extensive...  Read More >>

In the context of global problems such as the economic downturn, escalating inequality, terrorism, resource depletion...  Read More >>

This book traces the evolution and changing course of the relationship between communists and Muslims from the emergence...  Read More >>