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Michael J. Almeida presents a bold new defence of the existence of God. He argues that entrenched principles in philosophical theology which have served as basic assumptions in apriori, atheological arguments are in fact philosophical dogmas. Almeida argues that not only are such principles false: they are necessarily false....

Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854Now, in the first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South's road        to disunion, historian William Freehling offers a sweeping political and social        history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic events leading        to secession are here: the Missouri...

This book represents one of the first comparative studies of international treaty ratification processes in multiple issue areas. It employs the comparative case study method, drawing on original research, elite interviews, and discursive analyses of government documents in Europe, Australia, and North America....

Japan in World History addresses the entire scope of Japanese history, beginning with Japan's prehistoric culture and ending with a look at Japan in the world today. The majority of large-scale history books on Japan, by contrast, focus on the modern era, and those that cover the entire scope of its history are not written for general readers and...

This volume presents twelve original papers on the idea that moral objectivity is        to be understood in terms of a suitably constructed social point of view that all        can accept. The contributors offer new perspectives, some sympathetic and some        critical, on constructivist understandings - Kantian or otherwise - of morality...