Oxford University Press

'An ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you do not see is wholly altered.'Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1867) is the best account of the history and working of the British political system ever...

Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its        remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four        volumes in which he unfolds a magisterial new history of Western philosophy.          Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough...

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This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum, an        acclaimed philosopher who is also a professor of law and a public intellectual. Her        academic work focuses on questions of moral and political philosophy and on the        nature of the emotions. But over the past 25 years she has also written many...

The Real Story behind America&'s Obesity EpidemicOur government is telling us that obesity is a major health crisis, that sixty percent of Americans are "e;overweight,"e; and that one in four is obese. But how true are these claims?    In Fat Politics, Eric Oliver unearths the real story behind America&'s "e;obesity...

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