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A Very Short IntroductionThe Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. With a population of sixty million people, it encircled the Mediterranean and stretched from northern England to North Africa and Syria. This    Very Short Introduction covers the history of the empire at its height, looking at its people, religions and social structures. It...

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A Very Short IntroductionAmong the many laws of science, there are four laws that direct and constrain everything that happens in the Universe. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas to the unfurling of a leaf they help us understand the course of life itself. In this   Very Short Introduction Peter Atkins' explains what the four laws are and...

Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly FalseThe modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such        central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality,        meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as        mind,...

Frisbee Sheffield argues that the   Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic -   eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted....