Imprint imprint: 962 books
Church-going, Going, Gone!
A Movement of the Human Spirit Begins
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
In Church-going, Going, Gone! Michael Horan argues that although the Christian church in Britain may be in terminal decline, that is not to be equated with a national decline in spiritual values. Most if not all people have some level of awareness of what he calls the 'Other-than-oneself', even though...
Insides and Outsides
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Animate Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book brings together diverse aspects of animate nature, diverse not only in terms of animate nature itself, but in terms of areas of study. Indeed, the book lives up to the word "interdisciplinary" in its title. It brings together diverse academic perspectives within each chapter and across chapters,...
Distributing Health Care
Principles, Practices and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
How ought a society to distribute its publicly funded healthcare resources? Few questions are in more urgent need of an answer. This multidisciplinary investigation brings together the insights of philosophy, clinical science, health economics, operational research and public policy analysis.
The Great Reading Disaster
Reclaiming Our Educational Birthright
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
By the late 1980s half the nation’s children were receiving eleven years of progressivist schooling that failed to give them even the elementary basis of education that was completed by the age of seven in earlier days. This great reading disaster was caused by the ‘looksay’ method of teaching,...
The Enemies of Progress
The Dangers of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
This polemical book examines the concept of sustainability and presents a critical exploration of its all-pervasive influence on society, arguing that sustainability, manifested in several guises, represents a pernicious and corrosive doctrine that has survived primarily because there seems to be...
by Bruce Charlton
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book argues that contemporary society in Western democracies is generally misunderstood to be a pyramidal hierarchy dominated either by government or the economy. Neither view is correct.We live in a fundamentally pluralistic society divided into numerous ‘modular’ social systems each performing...
The Metaphysics of Self-realisation and Freedom
Part 1 of The Liberal Socialism of Thomas Hill Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This first part of Colin Tyler’s new critical assessment of the social and political thought of T.H. Green (18361882) explores the grounding that Green gives to liberal socialism. Tyler shows how, for Green, ultimately, personal self-realisation and freedom stem from the innate human drive to construct...
The Authentic Tawney
A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of R.H. Tawney
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
R.H. Tawney is an iconic thinker in British left-wing circles, whose writings during the early-mid 20th century helped to forge the direction of democratic socialist thinking and Labour Party policies.This book provides a fresh and accessible guide to the ideas of Tawney for new readers and to set straight...
by Helene Guldberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Today, the belief that human beings are special is distinctly out of fashion. Almost every day we are presented with new revelations about how animals are so much more like us than we ever imagined. The argument is at its most powerful when it comes to our closest living relatives - the great apes....
The Nature and Uses of Lotteries
A Historical and Theological Treatise
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Thomas Gataker was a disputatious Puritan divine. His The Nature and Uses of Lotteries (1627) was the first systematic exposition of a modern view of lotteries, not just as a form of gambling, but as a fair method of division. Gataker approved of these uses, but condemned divination and sorcery using...
Looking In and Speaking Out
Introspection, Consciousness, Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
This book argues that it is essential to examine the linguistic and communicative practices that are used in the production of introspective data, thereby making an important contribution to debates about how we may study experience that are relevant to a wide range of disciplines. There are three objectives....
The Paranormal and the Politics of Truth
A Sociological Account
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This book is based on the author's ten-year research into the politics of belief surrounding paranormal ideas. Through a detailed examination of the participants, issues, strategies and underlying factors that constitute the contemporary paranormal debate, the book explores the struggle surrounding the...
What a Piece of Work
On Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This is a small book on a large subject: What is special about human beings? Hamlet mused, ‘What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how like a god!’ but went on to speak of ‘this quintessence of dust’. Helen Oppenheimer prefers to start with the dust and move to the glory: we really...
The Decision Trap
Genetic Education and Its Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The Decision Trap questions a dogma of our time: the assumption that genetic education empowers citizens and increases their autonomy. It argues that professional instructions about genes, genetic risks, and genetic test options convey a genetic worldview which destroys self-confidence and makes clients...