The A to X of Alternative Music is a survey of the most influential bands of the last 30 years. It covers those bands and artists who have rejected the mainstream in favour of innovation...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:308
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Thomas Crump
ISBN:9781852855185
At the beginning of the twentieth century China was a weak empire dominated by western countries. By its end it was on its way to becoming one of the greatest powers in the world. The history of the Far East in the twentieth century...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:383
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Kay Janet
ISBN:9780826484697
This informative and user-friendly guide equips early years practitioners with a wide range of strategies for helping young children with behavioural...more details Format:Paperback Pages:148
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Toni Johnson-Woods
ISBN:9780826417312
Now running into its tenth season, South Park has still not jumped the shark. Satirically edgier than The Simpsons, South Park responds immediately to cultural controversies: four days after Saddam Hussein's capture an episode lampooned it...more details Format:Paperback Pages:271
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John Gascoigne
ISBN:9781847250025
Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer, but in many ways was also a representative of English attitudes in the eighteenth century. In his voyages he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:288
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Frederick Copleston
ISBN:9780826471307
Appealing to a very much wider audience than the nine volumes published as A History of Philosophy between 1940 and 1970, this introduction and reference volume should find a ready and lasting market. It amends and updates the early volumes...more details Format:Hardback Pages:540
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Brin Best and Will Thomas
ISBN:9780826485984
Become a more effective teacher through a new teaching and learning framework which centres on the key role of creativity. Learn how to use creativity to reinvigorate teaching across all subject areas...more details Format:Spiralbound Pages:261
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Alistair Wisker
ISBN:9780826415639
Crime Fiction offers students, writers and academics a window into the genre. Designed to be user-friendly, it contains: - A broad...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Wolfreys Julian
ISBN:9780826486011
Jacques Derrida is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings, his lectures and his involvement in a number of political causes have transformed the way in which literature and cultural studies is taught yet his work has often met with incomprehension...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:172
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Robert Emmet Long
ISBN:9780826418098
For more than 30 years, the Wing has produced the Working in the Theatre seminars, a series that features the greatest names in theatre. In book form for the first time...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:200
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David Loades
ISBN:9781852855208
Elizabeth I, who reigned over Shakespeare's England and defeated the Spanish Armada, is familiar both from her portraits and as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen. Yet the reality of her character and her personal attitudes are harder to detect behind the public mask.
Elizabeth I...more details Format:Paperback Pages:410
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Trevor Lloyd
ISBN:9781852855512
For almost two hundred years Britain dominated the world, its naval supremacy enabling it to acquire a vast empire, including India, Canada, Australia...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:245
Paul Ricoeur was a French philosopher of international repute and influence. He became interested in phenomenology and because of the problem of evil became immersed in hermeneutics and symbolism....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:72
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John North
ISBN:9781852855710
Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life. God's Clockmaker is a biography of England's greatest medieval scientist...more details Format:Paperback Pages:441
The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war. Generals...more details Format:Paperback Pages:299
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Bettina Knapp & Alba Amoia
ISBN:9780826418401
Travel is sacred. Travel is a quest. Travel is an escape. Travel is a passion! It is enlightening, a distraction, a novelty, a dream fulfilled. It may inspire joy...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Caroline Coxon
ISBN:9780826495723
Are you the parent or carer of a young child, keen to help with school work at home - but worried that you might not do a good job? Caroline Coxon is here to help with a quick overview on how best to help a child with their reading and writing...more details Format:Paperback Pages:61
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Rosemary Russell
ISBN:9780826495730
Maths is good for you!
Research has shown that: Numeracy exercises are very good for the brain. In the long term, numeracy helps employment prospects...more details Format:Paperback Pages:62
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Barry Teare
ISBN:9781855393516
Able and Talented specialist Barry Teare brings parents and carers right up-to-date with new developments on the thinking and provision for gifted children...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
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Ted Honderich
ISBN:9780826497468
'With large questions of right and wrong, there is a division of labour. So, with the attack on three subway trains and a bus in London on July 7...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:216
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Philip Lambert
ISBN:9780826418777
Tracing a line from Brian Wilson's very first musical loves (George Gershwin and the Four Freshmen) through to the Smile and Pet Sounds tours of recent years...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:404
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Julie MacLusky
ISBN:9780826419118
The lucky students who get into film school (and then get through it without dropping out) have to compete for a small number of prestigious jobs once they graduate. Despite the enormous odds stacked against them...more details Format:Paperback Pages:216
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Irene Collins
ISBN:9781852855628
Jane Austen was a clergyman's daughter, related to other clergy, born and brought up in a parsonage. Many of her attitudes, expressed in her novels...more details Format:Paperback Pages:282
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TK Seung
ISBN:9780826485809
Immanuel Kant's influence and importance are difficult to exaggerate, his Three Critiques - of Pure Reason, of Practical Reason and of Judgment - standing as landmark works in the Western philosophical canon. Anyone interested in or studying philosophy will encounter Kant and hope to reach a detailed understanding of his work. Nevertheless...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:198
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James Luchte
ISBN:9780826493224
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is arguably the most important work of philosophy of the last two centuries. It is a classic text that is encountered by virtually every student of philosophy. As such...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Stephen Howarth
ISBN:9780826480347
Here is a complete account of one of the strangest phenomena of Medieval history: The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ, the Knights of The Temple of Solomon - more popularly known as The Knights Templar.
In their brotherhood...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:321
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826494443
What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book...more details Format:Paperback Pages:173
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Leigh Wilson
ISBN:9780826485618
This accessible introduction to Modernism and its contexts from 1890-1939 includes: - an overview of the historical, cultural and intellectual background including arts...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
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Alyn Shipton
ISBN:9780826417893
In this major update of the acclaimed and award-winning jazz history, Alyn Shipton challenges many of the assumptions that surround the birth and growth of jazz music.
How was it that jazz took off allover the United States early in the 20th century...more details Format:Hardback Pages:964
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Dryden Gordon: Vos Jeannette
ISBN:9781855391833
This is the definitive book about the biggest changes in education, schooling and teaching since the school classroom was invented almost 300 years ago. The vision and power of the original "Learning Revolution" remains...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:544
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Daniel Conway
ISBN:9780826478177
Nietzsche is one of the most important and widely read philosophers of all time and his On the Genealogy of Morals is one of the most accessible and frequently studied of all his works - a key text in the study of moral philosophy. This is a hugely important and exciting...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:184
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Gregg Lambert
ISBN:9780826459565
'The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze' takes up Deleuze's most powerful argument on the task of contemporary philosophy in the West. Deleuze argues that it is only through a creative engagement with the forms of non-philosophy - notably modern art...more details Format:Paperback Pages:198
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Roger Scruton
ISBN:9780826494450
This is a personal view of philosophy from a renowned critic and thinker. In it, Roger Scruton focuses on the ideas and arguments which have attracted him to the subject and which have engaged his attention. He attempts to show how philosophy is relevant not just to intellectual questions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:168
What principles should govern our relations to the nation-state, to the environment, to other species, to other cultures and to other ways of life? How should we approach marriage...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:214
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Jerry Wellington and Dr Szczerbinski
ISBN:9780826485670
Research provides a straightforward but not simplistic guide to research in the social and behavioural sciences. It discusses its value...more details Format:Paperback Pages:234
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Christopher Booker & Richard North
ISBN:9780826486141
This book provides the first proper analysis of what in the past two decades has become an astronomic hidden drain on the economies of the western world: the 'scare'. From salmonella and BSE to asbestos...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:494
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Christopher Booker
ISBN:9780826480378
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples...more details Format:Paperback Pages:728
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Sister Wendy Beckett
ISBN:9780826491244
Sister Wendy, who has been dedicated to a life of prayer for more than half a century, has always resisted writing a book on the subject. Her reasons mix humility with a conviction that prayer is simple: books about prayer can be a dangerous distraction. Yet...more details Format:Hardback Pages:144
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Matthew Stearns
ISBN:9780826417404
Daydream Nation is the kind of gorgeous monstrosity (born of extremes, rife with difficulties, and mythic in proportion) that can crush the will of the most resilient...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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J Thomas Cook
ISBN:9780826489166
Ethics is one of the undisputed masterworks of early modern philosophy. In this single volume Spinoza offers the reader an unorthodox account of God...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:174
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Richard Koch & Chris Smith
ISBN:9780826497611
Western civilization has thrived more than any other civilization in the past or present - it has been much more successful in economic, military and political terms...more details Format:Paperback Pages:198
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David L Ulin
ISBN:9780826416780
London Calling is the great album to emerge from the 1970s British punk scene, a record that transcends its place and time to become a universal expression of both rage and hope. A deeply political record (Kick over the wall / cause governments to fall)...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Barbara Baker
ISBN:9780826495051
This book is a unique collection of new interviews with award-winning writers - novelists, poets, playwrights, screenplay writers and children's writers. Each writer discusses their process...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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ACGrayling
ISBN:9780826497482
This book focuses on a series of central philosophical concerns, contributing to the contemporary debates on these matters. The book constitutes an argument for an anti-realist view of truth and knowledge...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:173
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Slavoj Zizek edited by Rex Butler and Scott Stephens
ISBN:9780826495303
The Universal Exception is the second volume of the collected key writings of Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and inspiring writers on culture at work today. Collecting together a broad selection of Zizek 's major writings on politics...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:387
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Julian Baggini & Jeremy Stangroom
ISBN:9780826493002
Following on from the success of What Philosophers Think, this second volume brings together a collection of interviews with some of the world's most important and influential philosophers and intellectuals and leading figures in the arts and politics...more details Format:Paperback Pages:197
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Jeremy Stangroom and Ophelia Benson
ISBN:9780826495280
Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in all its forms and traditions. However, in the late twentieth century truth became suddenly rather unfashionable. The precedence given to assorted political and ideological agendas...more details Format:Paperback Pages:202
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Robert Emmet Long
ISBN:9780826418074
For more than 30 years, the Wing has produced the Working in the Theatre seminars, a series that features the greatest names in theatre. In book form for the first time...more details Format:Paperback Pages:148