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		Wooden Eyes
		Nine Reflections on Distance		Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		Carlo Ginzburg
		Verso 2002 261 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1859846378
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	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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		Volatility and Growth
				Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		Philippe Aghion; Abhijit Banerjee
		Oxford University Press 2005 148 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199248613
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	Using both simple theoretical models and empirical analysis, Aghion and Banerjee show that by looking at the economy through the lens of private entrepreneurs, who invest under credit constraints, one can go a long way towards explaining persistent macroeconomic volatility and the effects of volatility on growth. At the same time, they propose a new approach to analyse the impact of macroeconomic policies on long run growth and the design of stabilization programmes. Off-mint.
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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		Qty
		Hardback 0817308814
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	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 French Party System
				Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		Jocelyn AJ Evans (Edited by)
		Manchester University Press 2003 218 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0719061202
		Published Price £14.99		Sale Price £2.99
	The French party system seems to be demonstrating fluidity, if not instability, and this book addresses the question: to what extent does this represent outright change and to what extent shifts within a stable structure? The essays provide a complete overview of political parties in France, with analyses of the social and ideological profiles of all the major parties and discussion of bloc and system features, including the pluralist left and Europe.
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		Men that God Made Mad
		A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland		Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		Derek Lundy
		Jonathan Cape 2006 351 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0224078623
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	A Canadian writer, born in Belfast, Derek Lundy examines the lives of three of his Irish ancestors from very different periods in order to understand how inherited memory and the selective plundering of history have affected the perception of truth in Northern Ireland since the 17th century. He ably demonstrates how partisan perspectives have contributed to perpetuation of the sectarian divide from which the community has suffered for so long.
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		Wasn't That a Time?
		Growing Up Radical and Red in America		Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		Robert Schrank
		MIT 1998 452 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0262193892
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	The autobiography of Robert Schrank who went from Young Communist League member and union activist to management consultant for global corporations telling of his childhood in the Bronx German immigrant working-class culture of the 1920s and 1930s and of a community of political and intellectual passion being torn apart as it struggles to deal with the rise of Nazism and the decline of the old radical movement.
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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		Qty
		Hardback 0262082578
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	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		Qty
		Hardback 026213392X
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	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		Qty
		Paperback 0262541262 252x177mm
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	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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		Nigeria
		Moving to Independence, 1953-1960		Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		Martin Lynn (Edited by)
		Stationery Office 2001 801 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0112905986
		Published Price £150.00		Sale Price £24.00
	This is Part II of the 2 volume work which presents documents covering the period from wartime Colonial Office debates over indirect rule leading to the 1947 Richards Constitution, through the 1954 Lyttelton Constitution to independence in 1960.
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		Nigeria
		Managing Political Reform, 1943-1953		Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		Martin Lynn (Edited by)
		Stationery Office 2001 643 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0112905978
		Published Price £150.00		Sale Price £24.00
	This is Part I of the 2 volume work which presents documents covering the period from wartime Colonial Office debates over indirect rule leading to the 1947 Richards Constitution, through the 1954 Lyttelton Constitution to independence in 1960.
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		Understanding Environmental Policy Processes
		Cases from Africa		Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		James Keeley; Ian Scoones
		Earthscan 2003 224 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1853839809
		Published Price £65.00		Sale Price £24.00
	Subtitled Cases from Africa this is a critical analysis of the post-Rio consensus on environment and development which investigates the role of particular forms of internationalized elite scientific expertise, questioning why certain understandings of environmental change stick with such tenacity.
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		Neoconomy
		George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future		Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		Daniel Altman
		PublicAffairs 2004 291 pages		Qty
		Paperback 158648351X
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	A study of Bush's introduction of the neoconomy, in which tax exists only on labour, explaining its origins, how the White House began dismantling the tax system, and how Bush has incurred huge debts for America, thereby locking the nation on his chosen path.
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		Scandal
		The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution		Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		Anna Clark
		Princeton University Press 2004 314 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 069111501X
		Published Price £29.95		Sale Price £9.99
	Looking at six major British scandals from between 1763 and 1820, involving figures such as John Wilkes, the Duchess of Devonshire and Charles James Fox, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More, Mary Anne Clarke and Queen Caroline, Anna Clark argues that scandals brought people into politics because they evoked familiar stories of sex and betrayal. She explains how activists used these stories to illustrate constitutional issues concerning the Crown, Parliament and public opinion.
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		Liberals and Cannibals
		The Implications of Diversity		Politics, Philosophy & Economics
		Steven Lukes
		Verso 2003 182 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1859845959
		Published Price £16.00		Sale Price £4.99
	Taking as his starting point Robert Frost's accusation that a liberal is someone who can't take his own side in an argument, Steven Lukes confronts liberal thought with its own limitations. The essays in this collection focus on the perennial questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics can be resolved within the framework of liberalism. Among the essay topics are the thought of Isaiah Berlin, Hayek and social justice, the politics of identity, and human rights.
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