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by Simon Lemieux
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Exam board: AQA
Level: A level
Subject: Government and Politics
First teaching: September 2017
First exams: Summer 2019
Written by experienced teacher Simon Lemieux, this Student Guide for Politics:
-Identifies the key content you need to know with a concise summary of topics examined in the...
Exit Capitalism
Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which there is no imaginable exit.
by Simon Blackburn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Truth is not just a recent topic of contention. Arguments about it have gone on for centuries. Why is the truth important? Who decides what the truth is? Is there such a thing as objective, eternal truth, or is truth simply a matter of perspective, of linguistic or cultural vantage point? In this...
Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics
A Short Introduction to Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in...
Rapid Eye 3
From Wasteland To Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
RAPID EYE was the seminal British counter-culture journal founded in 1979 by journalist Simon Dwyer. Dwyer’s classic RAPID EYE articles are now issued in three special ebook editions. Volume 3 includes in-depth feature interviews with the leading British artists Gilbert & George, and visionary...
Truth
A Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2005
The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to explain philosophy to the general...
by Dr. Simon Longstaff
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Do I buy eggs laid by free-range chooks or the cheaper ones from caged birds? Do I tell my best friend I saw her boyfriend kissing another girl? Do I lie to my mum by telling her I will wear the jumper she bought me, even though it’s the ugliest jumper in the world?
Every day our lives are...
Myths That Shaped Our History
From Magna Carta to the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
All nations and peoples have a body of legendary tales and semi-historical episodes which explain who they are and help to define their place in the world. The British are no exception and in this book Simon Webb explores some of the most well-known episodes from British history; stories which tell...
The Unbroken Chains of Apartheid
South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Before 1652 there were no labourers, no workers, no servants and no servitude. All that was, was labour of love. Black people worked their own farms. They were Masters on their own right. The African land and its wealth gave our great grand parents the right to be Masters. Black children are the children...
Sport Italia
The Italian Love Affair with Sport
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
The Italian love affair with sport is passionate, voracious, all-consuming. It provides a backdrop and a narrative to almost every aspect of daily life in Italy and the distinctively pink-coloured newspaper 'La Gazzetta dello Sport' is devoured by over three million hungry readers every day.
Narrating...
Presumed Guilty
A teacher's solitary battle to clear his name
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
On 18 December 2012, Simon Warr's life was changed irrevocably.
A respected boarding school teacher, described by his peers as 'one of the outstanding schoolmasters of his generation', Warr was arrested following an allegation of historical child abuse. The complainant was a former pupil at...
Lansdowne
The Last Great Whig
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
A remarkable figure of British politics between the late Victorian and interwar years, Lord Lansdowne was among the last hereditary aristocrats to wield power by birth. Over the course of a distinguished fifty year career he served as Governor-General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State...
by Simon Calder, Mick Webb
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
High in the Pyrenees, a full day's hike from any trappings of civilisation, is no place for a human to be - unless you are searching for the time of your life.
This is the roof of a mountain range that stretches from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean coasts, and provides some of the most breathtakingly...
The Psilocybin Solution
The Role of Sacred Mushrooms in the Quest for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
How psilocybin mushrooms facilitate a direct link to the wisdom of Nature and the meaning of life
• Examines the neurochemistry underlying the visionary psilocybin experience
• Explains how sacred mushrooms help restore our connection to the natural intelligence of Nature
•...