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Data-Centric Biology A Philosophical Study
ISBN: PB: 9780226416472, ISBN: HB: 9780226416335, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and understand scientific data. Digital access to data has revolutionized ways of doing science in the biological and biomedical fields, leading to a data-intensive approa...
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£26,50
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£84,00
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Consolations of Mortality Making Sense of Death
ISBN: HB: 9780300219258, Yale University Press, October 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm
A penetrating and provocative exploration of human mortality, from Epicurus to Joan Didion For those who don't believe in an afterlife, the wisdom of the ages offers four great consolations for mortality: that death is benign and good; that mortal li...
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£25,00
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Timeliness of George Herbert Mead
ISBN: HB: 9780226376943, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
George Herbert Mead is widely considered one of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work remains vibrant and relevant to many areas of scholarly inquiry today".The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead" brings tog...
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£52,00
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Distressed Body Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing
ISBN: PB: 9780226396101, ISBN: HB: 9780226396071, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and depersonalized, and much worse are conditi...
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£24,00
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£67,50
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Powers of Pure Reason Kant and the Idea of Cosmic Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780226419381, ISBN: HB: 9780226243153, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Critique of Pure Reason" – Kant's First Critique – is one of the most studied texts in intellectual history, but as Alfredo Ferrarin points out in this radically original book, most of that study has focused only on very select parts. Likewise,...
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£28,00
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£44,00
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One World Now The Ethics of Globalization
ISBN: PB: 9780300196054, Yale University Press, September 2016
280 pp., 21x14 cm
"One World Now" seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential...
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£12,99
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Philosophy Scare The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780226396385, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From the rise of formalist novels that championed the heroism of the individual to the proliferation of abstract art as a counter to socialist realism, the years of the Cold War had a profound impact on American intellectual life. As John McCumber sh...
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£36,00
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Nietzsche's Earth Great Events, Great Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780226394459, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We have Nietzsche to thank for some of the most important accomplishments in intellectual history, but as Gary Shapiro shows in this unique look at Nietzsche's thought, the nineteenth-century philosopher actually anticipated some of the most pressing...
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£36,00
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50 Drawings to Murder Magic
ISBN: PB: 9780857423504, Seagull Books, September 2016
96 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 50 halftones
A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor, and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the French avant-garde. A key text for understanding his thought and his appeal, "50 Drawings to Murder Magi...
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Philosophy Book: From the Rigveda to the New Atheism 250 Milestones in the History of Philosophy
ISBN: HB: 9781454918479, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2016
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.
Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality – and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 of the most important theories, events, and seminal publications in the field. Brief, enaging and beautifully illust...
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£25,00
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