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Down syndrome is a genetic condition which causes varying degrees of learning        disability as well as other health problems. Nearly one baby in every 1000 born in        the UK has the condition. Parents are often frightened and confused by the birth of        a baby with Down syndrome, and they need reassurance as well as...

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Hume on Personal IdentityThe Evident Connexion presents a bold new reading of David Hume's famous 'bundle'        theory of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it. Galen Strawson        illuminates the 'uniting principle' of Hume's philosophy and argues that the bundle        theory does not, as widely supposed, claim that there are no...

At Home in Revolutionary AmericaGeorge Washington&'s Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington&'s 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since.    Here we meet the planter/patriot who also...

Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of ProgressBringing together original scholarly essays, The Old South's Modern Worlds deprovincializes the antebellum South, revealing a diverse region both shaped by and contributing to the complex modern developments that were transforming the nineteenth-century world....

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