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Volume VII covers a period of major significance in Ireland's history: the division of Ireland and the eventual establishment of the Irish Republic....

From Stage to Cold WarThe story of the most powerful political metaphor of the twentieth century,        shattering the conventional assumption that it was coined by Churchill in the 1940s        and charting its long and influential history prior to the onset of the Cold        War....

Merging survey analyses with over 250 interviews, Forbidden Fruit tells the definitive story of how religion shapes the sexual values and practices of American teenagers. It reveals that religion affects sexual attitudes more than it motivates sexual behavior, and that adolescent sex remains largely "e;traditional,"e; with hints of emerging...

Volume I: Ancient and MedievalHistory of Political Theory: An Introduction is an engaging introduction to the main figures in the history of Western Political Theory and their most important works. The first volume traces the development of political theory "e;from the beginning"e; in ancient Greece through to the Reformation....

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and other philosophical essaysSimon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to        2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of a wide range of topics,        including moral philosophy, the theory of meaning, pragmatism, and the theory of        reason and reasoning....