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A Brief History Of Crime
Crime is a political football - both left and right are terrified of seeming "soft" on the issue, but for all their efforts, or apparent efforts, crime rates continue to...
Hitch-22: A Memoir
Over the last thirty years Christopher Hitchens has established himself as one of the world's most influential public intellectuals. His originality, bravery, range and wit made him first a leading...
And Yet...: Essays
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The seminal, uncollected essays--lauded as "dazzling" ( The New York Times Book Review )--by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great...
Arguably
A Sunday Times Bestseller Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a matchless writer, debater and humanist. Throughout his life he shone the light of reason and truth into the eyes of charlatans...
And Yet...: Essays
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God Is Not Great
The bestselling cult classic god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways...
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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Elements of Landscape - John Hitchens: Landscape as an Index of
John Hitchens achieved early acclaim in the 1960s and '70s. A series of successful exhibitions led to acquisitions of his work by numerous public and private collections in the UK...
Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker , a fascinating account of Peter Singer's controversial 'drowning child' thought experiment and how it changed the way people think about charitable giving...
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things that Matter - A Fully
A revised edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, featuring 37 new essays. A fully updated and expanded edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, including 37 new essays. Free speech and...
Tragedy in Hegel's Early Theological Writings
Tragedy plays a central role in Hegel's early writings on theology and politics. Hegel's overarching aim in these texts is to determine the kind of mythology that would best complement...
The Conquest of Bread
A major addition to Penguin Classics - one of the great anarchist texts 'Well-being for all is not a dream.' In this brilliantly enjoyable, challenging rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin...
The Battle For Bermondsey
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Author: Peter TatchellBinding: PaperbackPublished: Heretic Books, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles a pivotal moment in British political...
Practical Ethics
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Lines Of Dissent: Writing From The New Statesman 1913 To 1988
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear, some minor fading. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact, no loose pages. A landmark anthology drawn from seven decades...
Our Man In Havana
Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics list Discover Graham Greene's blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set...
Reading Freud: Explorations & Entertainments
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Author: Peter GayBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press., 1990Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Discoloured DJ from age, minor foxing to page edges.This intellectual history...
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings
An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists and commentators. Confronting social, political and...
Ideas Have Legs
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Edition: First Australian EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: DamagedPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Damage to jacket as shown in photo, binding intact and pages clean. Now in protective sleeve. In...
Writings on an Ethical Life
"Peter Singer is the most influential living philosopher. We need people like him to keep us honest, make us think and help us to be better than we presently are,"...
How Are We To Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest
Is there still anything to live for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love and caring for one's own family? 'Is there still anything to live for? Is anything...
Manual for Creating Atheists
For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others...
Peter Kennedy: The Man Who Threatened Rome
In February 2009 Father Peter Kennedy, of Saint Mary's Catholic Church in South Brisbane, was sacked by his Archbishop for contravening aspects of Catholic doctrine. This book is an assembly...
The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
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Ethics And Action
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew philosophers writing in the analytic tradition have wrestled as seriously with the intersection of morality, meaning, and human conduct as Peter...
Facing Up To Modernity: Excursions In Society, Politics, And Religion
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age defined by relentless transformation, Peter L. Berger's Facing Up to Modernity: Excursions in...
Ethics
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At The Heart of The Universe
At the heart of the Universe opens up God's great purpose for us and our world, focusing on the End towards which God has been working throughout history and is...
Ideas: A history from fire to Freud
In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of...
A Tomb With a View - The Stories & Glories of Graveyards: Scottish
**WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021** **A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'In his absorbing book about the lost and...
Damned if I do
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Back from the Dead: Peter Hughes's Story of Survival and Hope after Bali
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Where I Fell to Earth: A Life in Four Places
The book titled Where I Fell to Earth: A Life in Four Places by the author Peter Conrad. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Absolute Proof: The Thrilling Richard and Judy Book Club Pick
'Sensational - the best what-if thriller since The Da Vinci Code' - Lee Child, author of Killing Floor. From the number one bestselling author, Peter James, comes an explosive standalone...
After Thatcher
This is an examination of the present Conservative government and its apparent unassailability after its success in three general elections and the failure of the opposition parties. Paul Hirst assesses...
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist,...
Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident
'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very...
Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy
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Prominent liberals support a whole litany of policies and principles: progressive taxes, affirmative action, greater regulation of corporations, raising the inheritance tax, strict environmental regulations, children's rights, consumer rights, and...
Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
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The Fat Man In History (SIGNED)
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: SignedCondition remarks: The author's first book. Boards are in good condition. Binding remains tight. Bright and clean copy....
Illywhacker (SIGNED)
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Edition: First Edition. Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean text. A sprawling, exuberant work of Australian literary...