"...a full-scale study of the political and social history of Ireland from 1850 to the 1970s. The political evolution of the Irish nation forms the basis of the book: the state of the Union, the demands for Home Rule, the violence and the compromises ending in a divided Ireland, and the separate evolutions of Eire and Ulster."

Ireland Since the Famine

History

Lyons, Francis

World

Fontana Press Harpercollins

Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper's importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction to the main themes of philosophy itself.

Popper

Magee, Bryan

Biographies & Memoirs

The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, providing the student with detailed critical guidance on the intellectual context of the work and the structure and philosophical importance of the main arguments. Endnotes are supplied which provide further commentary on the arguments and explain unfamiliar references and terminology, and a full bibliography and index are also included. The series aims to build up a definitive corpus of key texts in the Western philosophical tradition, which will form a reliable and enduring resource for students and teachers alike. John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism is one of the most important, controversial, and suggestive works of moral philosophy ever written. Mill defends the view that all human action should produce the greatest happiness overall, and that happiness itself is to be understood as consisting in higher and lower pleasures. This volume uses the 1871 edition of the text, the last to be published in Mill's lifetime. The text is preceded by a comprehensive introduction assessing Mill's philosophy and the alternatives to utilitarianism, and discussing some of the specific issues Mill raises in Utilitarianism. This volume also includes an analysis of the text, substantial endnotes, suggestions for further reading, and a full bibliography.

Utilitarianism / On Liberty / Essay on Bentham

Politics & Social Sciences

Jeremy, Bentham

John, Austin

Philosophy

This work provides a clear exposition of Jung's theories showing his ideas to be relevant to the times in which we live. His emphasis on the spiritual aspect to existence contrasts with Freud's insistence on the physical.

Jung

Science & Math

Storr,Anthony

Behavioral Sciences

Privilege and Protest 1730-1789 (Fontana History of Europe)

Hufton, Olwen

These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included.

Image-Music-Text

Reference

ROLAND BARTHES

Foreign Language Study & Reference

This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the conventions of social or cultural history, Simon Schama investigates the astonishing case of a people's self-invention. He shows how, in the 17th-century, a modest assortment of farming, fishing and shipping communities, without a shared language, religion or government, transformed themselves into a formidable world empire -- the Dutch republic.

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

Simon. Schama

Europe

One of England's grand masters of history provides a clear and persuasive interpretation of the creation of "respectable society" in Victorian Britain. Integrating a vast amount of research previously hidden in obscure or academic journals, he covers not only the economy, social structure, and patterns of authority, but also marriage and the family, childhood, homes and houses, work and play.   By 1900 the structure of British society had become more orderly and well-defined than it had been in the 1830s and 1840s, but the result, Thompson shows, was fragmentation into a multiplicity of sections or classes with differing standards and notions of respectability. Each group operated its own social controls, based on what it considered acceptable or unacceptable conduct. This "internalized and diversified" respectability was not the cohesive force its middle-class and evangelical proponents had envisioned. The Victorian experience thus bequeathed structural problems, identity problems, and authority problems to the twentieth century, with which Britain is grappling.

The Rise of Respectable Society : Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900

F M L Thompson

Although the goal of immortality was never achieved by the medieval alchemists, history itself can act as a philosopher's stone, extending our lives by enabling us to absorb the experiences and ideas of those who lived before us, and providing a better public understanding of chemistry and the chemical industry. This book draws on the author's own research as well as that of other historians of chemistry.

The Fontana History of Chemistry

W H Brock

This is an introduction to the life and work of the linguist, Avram Noam Chomsky. The author examines Chomsky's influence, his search for the universal in language and the relationship between language and mind. This third edition includes updated bibliographic and biographical notes.

Chomsky

Lyons, John

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