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A BiographyThis full-length life of G. K. Chesterton is the first comprehensive biography of        both the man and the writer. It draws on many unpublished letters and papers to        evoke Chesterton's joyful humour, his humility and affinity to the common man, and        his love of the ordinary things of life....

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The Second World War and the Civil Rights MovementThis collection is a timely reconsideration of the intersection between two of the        dominant events of twentieth-century American history, the upheaval wrought by the        Second World War and the social revolution brought about by the African American        struggle for equality. Exploring...

Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines are here presented in more accessible, self-contained form than in his larger work, and in a new translation, introduced by Christopher Janaway, that preserves Schopenhauer's style in modern English....

The new edition of   The Structure of German has been fully revised to take account of developments in the subject. The author describes German phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. He introduces linguistic theory in order to throw light on every aspect of the language, providing students with a linguistically informed and...