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The fox called again. Its eerie cry echoed into the night. The sound wove in and out of the night garden, and into Tilly's dreams. One night, awoken by a strange noise, Tilly looks out of her bedroom window and sees a wild fox watching her from the lawn. Tilly follows it through a hidden gate and is amazed to discover a secret, moonlit garden. She...

Jonathan Dancy presents a long-awaited exposition and defence of particularism in ethics, a theory which he, perhaps more than anyone else, has developed and championed in recent years. Dancy's controversial claim, powerfully argued, is that the traditional link between morality and principles, or between being moral and having principles, is...

A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch        a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and        put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the        corpse of a suicide DS for that is what it isDS have earned this unusual...

New statistical tools are changing the way in which scientists analyze and interpret data and models. Hierarchical Bayes and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for analysis provide a consistent framework for inference and prediction where information is heterogeneous and uncertain, processes are complicated, and responses depend on scale. Nowhere are...

The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New TestamentIn a study that explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, Ehrman traces how early struggles between "e;heresy"e; and "e;orthodoxy"e; affected the...

This book tells the largely unknown history of the Hancock family of Marlborough. It shows how members of one unique family were responsible for creating the earliest form of mechanized transport in the world, the foundation of the UK rubber industry, and the beginnings of the global information highway....