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Wooden Eyes | |||
| Nine Reflections on Distance | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Carlo Ginzburg | ||||
| Verso 2002 261 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1859846378 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| In nine essays linked by 'distance', both literal and metaphorical, Carlo Ginzburg addresses the question: 'What is the exact distance that permits us to see things as they are?' Opening with a reflection on the sense of feeling astray, of familiarization and defamiliarization, Ginzburg goes on to consider the concepts of perspective, representation, imagery and myth, and he also discusses, on the theme of proximity, the opposition between Jews and Christians. | ||||
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The Clan of the Flapdragon and Other Adventures in Etymology | |||
| by BMW Shrapnel PhD | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Richard McKee | ||||
| Alabama 1997 183 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0817308814 | ||||
| Published Price £16.95 | Sale Price £12.99 | |||
| In his regular columns for the literary magazine Oasis, the pseudonymous Shrapnel satirized topics including murgatroyd and tiddlywinks, the Cajun proctologist Toulouse Mars, and what to give an etymologist for Christmas. Plus letters to the editor. | ||||
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The Semblance of Subjectivity | |||
| Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Tom Huhn; Lambert Zuidervaart (Edited by) | ||||
| MIT 1997 358 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0262082578 | ||||
| Published Price £35.95 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Theodor Adorno's last major work, Asthetische Theorie was published in 1970, a year after his death. Few philosophers have been as well versed in contemporary art, especially music, yet only recently have Adorno's writings on aesthetics begun to receive sustained attention in the English-speaking world. This collection of 12 essays, organized around the twin themes of semblance and subjectivity, offers discussion of topics including mimesis, Adorno's notion of natural beauty, art history, and Adorno, Schoenberg and the 'philosophy of dissonance'. | ||||
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Mind and Mechanism | |||
| Politics, Philosophy & Economics | ||||
| Drew McDermott | ||||
| MIT 2001 262 pages | ||||
| Hardback 026213392X | ||||
| Published Price £23.95 | Sale Price £8.99 | |||
| Drew McDermott takes a computational approach to the mind-body problem (how it is that a purely physical entity, the brain, can have experiences). He begins by demonstrating the falseness of dualist approaches, which separate the physical and mental realms. He then surveys what has been accomplished in artificial intelligence, clearly differentiating what we know how to build from what we can imagine building. McDermott then details a computational theory of consciousness - claiming that the mind can be modeled entirely in terms of computation - and deals with various possible objections. | ||||
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Language Creation and Language Change | |||
| Creolization, Diachrony and Development | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Michel DeGraff (Edited by) | ||||
| MIT 2001 573 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0262541262 252x177mm | ||||
| Published Price £30.95 | Sale Price £18.99 | |||
| The originality of this volume in its comparison of various sorts of language growth from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments providing insights on the basis of language creation. | ||||
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Webster's Concise Edition Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary | |||
| Politics, Philosophy & Economics | ||||
| Geddes & Grosset 2003 384 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1842052527 | ||||
| Published Price | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| A quick, easy and up-to-date reference for students and business people, this concise and clearly laid-out Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionary contains over 36,000 words and translations. | ||||
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Language Awareness | |||
| A History and Implementations | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Lana J White; Bruce Maylath; Anthony Adams (Edited by) | ||||
| Amsterdam University Press 2000 110 pages | ||||
| Paperback 9053564624 | ||||
| Published Price £18.00 | Sale Price £10.99 | |||
| A truly international account of 'critical awareness' as a key concept in language education. | ||||
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Fiction, Literature and Media | |||
| Politics, Philosophy & Economics | ||||
| Mary Kooy; Tanja Janssen; Ken Watson (Edited by) | ||||
| Amsterdam University Press 1999 98 pages | ||||
| Paperback 905356392X | ||||
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| An examination for teachers on mother tongue language education and the texts that characterise it with chapters about literary theory, media texts and crossing borders of fictions, integration and language. | ||||
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Die Creol Taal | |||
| 250 Years of Negerhollands Texts | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Cefas van Rossem; Hein van der Voort (Edited by) | ||||
| Amsterdam University Press 1996 330 pages | ||||
| Paperback 905356134X | ||||
| Published Price £7.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| A study documenting the phases of Negerhollands, the original creole language of the Virgin Islands which emerged around 1700 and died out in the late 20th century, making texts in it accessible to a wider audience, with translations and comments. | ||||
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Dewdroppers, Waldos and Slackers | |||
| A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the 20th Century | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Rosemarie Ostler | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2005 240 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0195182545 | ||||
| Published Price $14.95 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Thousands of words and expressions entered American English during the 20th century, most of them fading away in the face of new trends. This book provides a decade-by-decade guide to these passing vogues, from the first years of the century (with their movie palaces, trackless trolleys and automobubbles) to the nineties (which brought dress-down Friday, the mother of all battles and the millennium bug). | ||||
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Bataille | |||
| Transitions | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Fred Botting; Scott Wilson | ||||
| Palgrave 2001 233 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0333914597 | ||||
| Published Price £49.50 | Sale Price £33.00 | |||
| This volume offers lucid and diverse examples of ways of reading literary and cultural texts in the light of Georges Bataille's work, and explores Bataillian notions of heterology, general economy, transgression and eroticism. Transitions series. Off mint. | ||||
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The Music, or Melody and Rhythmus of Language (1818) | |||
| Politics, Philosophy & Economics | ||||
| James Chapman | ||||
| Georg Olms 1972 253 pages | ||||
| Hardback 3487042622 | ||||
| Published Price €42.80 | Sale Price £13.99 | |||
| This treatise by the Rev Chapman, a teacher of prosody in Edinburgh, expounds for his own pupils the system of Joshua Steele (Prosodia Rationalis, 1779), using musical notation and a selection poetry and prose to illustrate the accent, emphasis, pause, force and quality of speech. Facsimile reprint. No jacket. | ||||
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A Textbook of Christian Ethics | |||
| Second edition | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Robin Gill | ||||
| T&T Clark 1995 600 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0567292800 | ||||
| Published Price £22.50 | Sale Price £9.99 | |||
| Built around a systematic comparison of classical texts from Augustine, Aquinas and Luther with extracts from modern writings, this widely used textbook is arranged in five sections: on methodology; politics economics and justice; war and peace; the environment; and human life and interpersonal relationships. First published in 1985, the book has been extensively revised for this second edition, with additional material on the environment (a whole new section), biblical interpretation and feminist ideology. | ||||
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Retracing Reality | |||
| A Philosophical Itinerary | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Marie-Dominique Philippe | ||||
| T&T Clark 2006 184 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0567087107 | ||||
| Published Price £15.99 | Sale Price £1.99 | |||
| Considering the meaning and inter-relation of the key ideas of Thomist metaphysics and epistemology, this text is a response to Socrates' invitation to know one's self with the human person as the central figure of inquiry. | ||||
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First Things | |||
| The Moral, Social and Religious Challenges of the Day | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Cherie Booth; | ||||
| Burns & Oates 2005 118 pages | ||||
| Paperback 086012388X | ||||
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| Writings on the most important contemporary issues by the annual guests of the Nuns of the Tyburn Convent, with articles on Catholic perspectives on human rights, personal courage in public life, free and virtuous society and reinventing childhood. Contributions from Charles Moore, Gyles Brandreth, Cherie Booth and George Weigel. | ||||
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