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  • The Future of Illusion

    Political Theology and Early Modern Texts

    by Victoria Kahn ...
    In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological underpinnings of modern politics, Victoria Kahn proposes a return to secularism—whose origins she locates in the art, literature, and political theory of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Trouble with Literature

    by Victoria Kahn ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures in English for 2017, argues that the literature of the English Reformation marks a turning point in Western thinking about literature and literariness. But instead of arguing that the Reformation fostered English literature, as scholars have often done, Victoria Kahn claims that literature helped undo the Reformation, with implications for both poetry and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Wayward Contracts

    The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674

    by Victoria Kahn ...
    Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England? In Wayward Contracts, Victoria Kahn takes issue with the usual explanation for the emergence of contract theory in terms of the origins of liberalism, with its notions of autonomy, liberty, and equality before the law.Drawing on literature as well as ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Machiavellian Rhetoric

    From the Counter-Reformation to Milton

    by Victoria Kahn ...
    Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virtù. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance readers were right to see Machiavelli as a Machiavel, a figure of force and fraud, rhetorical cunning and deception. Taking the rhetorical Machiavel as a point of departure, Victoria Kahn argues that this figure is ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850

    Edited by Victoria Kahn, Neil Saccamano, Daniela Coli ...
    Focusing on the new theories of human motivation that emerged during the transition from feudalism to the modern period, this is the first book of new essays on the relationship between politics and the passions from Machiavelli to Bentham. Contributors address the crisis of moral and philosophical discourse in the early modern period; the necessity of inventing a new way of describing the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Radiographic Atlas of Skeletal Maturation

    by S. Lowell Kahn, Christopher M. Gaskin, Victoria L. Sharp, Theodore E. Keats, Bing Li ...
    Nearly 2,300 images provide the reference standard for normal skeletal maturation at every developmental stageWhen dealing with the maturing skeleton and its many complex growth alterations, physicians are constantly faced with the question: "Is this image normal?" The Radiographic Atlas of Skeletal Maturation succinctly answers that question by providing a comprehensive set of male and female ... Read more

    $270.99 CAD

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  • Against the Current

    Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Evil in Modern Thought

    An Alternative History of Philosophy

    by Susan Neiman, Susan Neiman ...
    A compelling look at the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorismEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • The Art of Conversation

    by Peter Burke ...
    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Read more

    $31.00 CAD

  • ECG 2011 - Pocket Brain (Expanded Version)

    by Ken Grauer ...
    Now in its 5th Edition - the ECG-2011 Pocket Brain has been expanded and greatly enhanced from its previous edition. Aimed for beginning novice AND experienced interpreters (acclaimed by students nurses physician assistants EMS personnel residents and clinicians in practice of all specialties). Clear concise format includes numerous memory aids that summarize and facilitate learning. Practice ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics

    Revised Edition

    by Mark Lilla ...
    “A skilled exploration” of why 6 notable 20th-century philosophers—from Martin Heidegger to Michel Foucault—succumbed to “a narcissistic embrace of totalitarian politics” (The Washington Post).European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the age. How was this possible? How could intellectuals whose ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings

    by Cesare Beccaria, Aaron Thomas ...
    Translated by Jeremy Parzen ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the day. The equality of every citizen before the law, the right to a fair trial, the abolition of the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD