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The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000Democracy in Europe has been a recent phenomenon. Only in the wake of World War II were democratic frameworks secured, and, even then, it was decades before democracy truly blanketed the continent.  Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the...

Pavel Gregoric presents a detailed investigation into the Aristotelian concept of the common sense, which explains complex perceptual operations that cannot be explained in terms of the five senses taken individually. Such operations include perceiving that the same object is white and sweet, or knowing that one's senses are inactive....

Can the ethical mission of health care survive among organizations competing for survival in the marketplace? To answer this question a team of authors from Harvard Medical School and the National Institutes of Health blend ethical analysis with real-world example. The outcome is a rich analysis of the ethical challenges facing health care...

A vital tool for any mental health nurse who provides emergency or crisis care, offering easy access to key guidelines and management strategies. The standardised layout, portable format and bullet-point style allows for quick reference....

This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This edition includes passages from Melville's...

In a critique of Max Weber's influential ideas about the Mediterranean region in late antiquity, Jairus Banaji shows that the fourth to seventh centuries were in fact a period of major social and economic change, bound up with an expanding circulation of gold....