Continuum imprint: 595 books
I Drink Therefore I Am
A Philosopher's Guide to Wine
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. Whether or not good for the body, Scruton argues, wine, drunk in the right frame of mind, is definitely good for...
Sexual Desire
A Philosophical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
A dazzling treatise, as erudite and eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and considerably more sound in its conclusion - TLS
"He is an eloquent and practised writer" - The Independent (UK)
When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want?...
Understanding Music
Philosophy and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Roger Scruton first addressed this topic in his celebrated book The Aesthetics of Music (OUP) and in this new book he applies the theory to the practice and examines a number of composers and musical forms. His continued fascination with Wagner provides much interesting content but he also deals near-death...
A Political Philosophy
Arguments for Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2007
Over the past twenty years, Roger Scruton has been developing a conservative view of human beings, society and culture. The tone of this book is positive and the arguments are recommendations with the aim of convincing the reader that rumours of the death of Western civilisation are greatly exaggerated....
The Primary Curriculum Design Handbook
Preparing our Children for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Schools across the world are struggling to balance the statutory requirements of a National Curriculum with their desire to provide the wide, engaging and exciting curriculum that they know children need. Concerns about standards often lead to a narrowing of the curriculum and many schools lack the...
A Hermit's Cookbook
Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey. Was it really possible to sustain life on so little food? The history of monasticism is defined by the fierce and passionate abandonment...
Dethroning Mammon: Making Money Serve Grace
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In his first full-length book Justin Welby looks at the subject of money and materialism. Designed for study in the weeks of Lent leading up to Easter, Dethroning Mammon reflects on the impact of our own attitudes, and of the pressures that surround us, on how we handle the power of money, called...
Institutional Theory in Political Science
The New Institutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Institutional Theory in Political Science provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary institutional theory, an essential tool to understand the world of politics and government.
Written by B. Guy Peters, a prominent expert in the field, the book argues that the new institutionalism comprises...
Reverberations
The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution.
This wide-ranging book examines the concept and...
Politics in a Religious World
Building a Religiously Informed U.S. Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Politics in a Religious World examines why US diplomacy often misunderstands, if not ignores, the role of religion in international conflicts.
After the Cold War, it became evident that religion was a key factor in many conflicts, including Bosnia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. However, the US failed...
Postsecular Cities
Space, Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the public and cultural significance...
by Dr Sarah Graham
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is the definitive coming-of-age novel and Holden Caulfield remains one of the most famous characters in modern literature. This jargon-free guide to the text sets The Catcher in the Rye in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, offering...
Evolution and Conversion
Dialogues on the Origins of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
Presented as a series of conversations, Evolution and Conversion is a thorough discussion of the major tenets of Girard's thought.
René Girard is one of the most brilliant and striking intellectuals of the 20th century. His theory on the imitative nature of desire and on the violent origin...
Looking Through the Cross
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Everything looks different in this world through the lens of the Cross. This book deals with reconciliation, humility, identity, power, suffering, life and atonement. These are familar themes for a Lent book but in Dr Tomlin's hands they are given exciting new meaning which will touch the hearts and...