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Renowned for his masterful storytelling, Alan J. Pakula (1928-1998) left an indelible mark on cinema history. Alan J. Pakula: Interviews offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the director's illustrious…
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John Stuart Mill
Presents two works by the political and social radical English-speaking philosopher. One is regarded as a sacred text of liberalism. The other stresses the importance of equality for the sexes…
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Two works in one volume
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first, and the most eloquent and versatile, of that extraordinary line of radical modern thinkers who aimed their disenchantment at the…
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Alan Ryan
This uniquely literate guide to the land and people of Eire features choice travel writing by Jan Morris, Richard Condon, Paul Theroux, Michael Crichton, and many others, dating from 1896…
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A gathering of some of the best travel writing ever about the most intriguing hot spot in the Caribbean, this book includes work by Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Thomas Merton, Anais…
In the concluding chapters the role of the social sciences as ideologies is discussed, first in the context of social theorists’ ambitions for a science which offers long-range predictions of…
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The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awe-struck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glimpses Glacier Bay; Jon Krakauer marvels at…
Alan Ryan demonstrates that John Stuart Mill both saw his views as part of a systematic defence of empiricist epistemology and utilitarian ethics, and was to a large extent successful…
Fearing for their lives, Jim and Kelly, flee into the hostile interior of Australia. Along the way the young couple find a beautiful but damaged country. There is the possibility…
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First published in 1974. As logician, economist, political theorist, practical politician and active champion of social freedom, John Stuart Mill is a figure of continuing importance. In this book the…
Deals with the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question: how should human beings best govern themselves?
A study of Russell’s life within the framework of how he lived out the prescriptions contained in his writings on ethics, politics, the family, sex, religion, education and the human…
Tracing the emergence of liberalism as articulated by some of its greatest proponents, including Locke, Tocqueville, Mill, Dewey, Russell, Popper, Berlin, and Rawls, this book explores key themes such as…
A collection of essays by philosophers, political theorists, and social critics on the nature of justice, its importance in human life, and its place among the other virtues. The essays…
The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century…
Alan Ryan demonstrates that Mill both saw his views as part of a systematic defence of empiricist epistemology and utilitarian ethics, and was to a large extent successful in offering…
Alan Ryan (Princeton University)
Finally in a one-volume paperback edition, On Politics is one of the most ambitious and hugely readable histories of political philosophy in nearly a century.
No philosopher speaks more immediately to the excesses of our twenty-first-century world and the limits of human reason than Augustine.
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Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy.
Distilling his magisterial (The New Yorker) On Politics into twelve individual hardbacks.
Based on On Politics, Alan Ryan’s monumental new history of political philosophy (The Economist).
Tocqueville’s gifts as an observer and commentator on American life and democracy are brought to vivid life in this splendid volume.
Both a lucid introduction and a subtle demolition of the philosopher whose theories were treated as near-divine by those who followed him.
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Machiavelli.
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Aristotle.
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This collection of stories brings together the great vampires of literature: male and female, invisible and metamorphic, doomed and daring. It includes works by Bram Stoker, Fritz Lieber, Richard Matheson…
Professor of Politics Alan Ryan
First paperback edition published by Tor in 1984–Verso.
Michael Evans,Alan Ryan,Michael Evans,Alan Ryan
Analyses the role of modern soldiers in the new age of technological warfare, and the stresses they encounter.
Bertrand Russell
The author is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a brilliant writer and commentator on social and political affairs. What I Believe offers…
An examination of John Dewey’s ideas and influence, aiming to offer new insight into Dewey’s character and achievements.
Alan S. Ryan
A reference for students contemplating a career in physical anthropology, this text describes several rewarding career paths that physical anthropologists have chosen. Students will understand how anthropological theory, methods and…
Alan Rust-Ryan
As finite-life organisations, Housing Action Trusts (HATs) offer a unique opportunity for the analysis of Conservative urban policy. They were established in 1988 by the Conservative government as the ‘cutting…
Ryan Nagelhout
This book explores the life of Alan Turing, the man regarded as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. Readers will discover the fascinating facts of Turing’s exciting code…
A collection of papers by scholars marking the fourth centenary of the birth of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). This volume is part of a series which provides views on central aspects…
Michael Evans,Alan Ryan,Russell Parkin
A book of writings by international military experts on the changing nature and the future of land warfare.
Elaine Malloy,Daniel Malloy,Alan J. Ryan,Daniel Malloy,Alan J Ryan
It began quietly in 1842 as a utopian community known as the Dale of Hope on farmland that was then part of Milford. The followers of Rev. Adin Ballou settled…
The textual introduction, by John M. Robson, examines the treatise in context of Mill’s life in the 1860s, outlines its composition, and discusses, among other matters, the importance of the…
Jeremy Bentham,John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for ‘the greatest happiness…
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REV Dr Alan D Ryan
God Is Real...Meet God at Church! All human beings depend so heavily on our senses of sight, touch, and smell that we struggle with accepting that God is real. Add…
Isaiah Berlin
Tells the biography of Karl Marx who has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin’s…
Full coverage of all aspects of western political thought and its history. This is an excellent reference tool for student use, with bibliographies highlighting further reading.
