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In his fascinating, new piece of political anthropology, Rod Rhodes uncovers        exactly how the British political elite thinks and acts....

A Very Short IntroductionIn its essence, Critical Theory is Western Marxist thought with the emphasis moved from the liberation of the working class to broader issues of individual agency. Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, who sought to diagnose and cure the ills of society. Bronner provides sketches of...

Possibility is a philosophical treatise on the metaphysical concepts of possibility and necessity. Jubien rejects the idea of possible worlds, and starts instead the notion of a physical object and the positing of properties and relations. He has new things to say about such topics as essentialism, natural kinds, and proper names....

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This book is a survival guide for all nurses who provide emergency care to        children and young people. It helps those nurses who are at the front-line of care        to quickly assess the level of emergency and plan the initial management. The        consistent layout and the note-style format allows them to find and take...

George Molnar came to see that the solution to a number of the problems of contemporary philosophy lay in the development of an alternative to Hume's metaphysics. In this work, which was almost completed when its author died, he developed a thorough account of causal powers and succeeded in producing something both highly focused and at the same...