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  • Narrow Plasmon Resonances in Hybrid Systems

    by Philip A. Thomas ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Advances in understanding the interactions between light and subwavelength materials have enabled the author and his collaborators to tailor unique optical responses at the nanoscale. In particular, metallic nanostructures capable of supporting surface plasmons can be designed to possess spectrally narrow plasmon resonances, which are of particular interest due to their exceptional sensitivity to ... Read more

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  • The Nature and Sources of the Law by John Chipman Gray

    by John Chipman Gray ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1909 and then again in 1997. John Chipman Gray (1839-1915) spent the greater part of his professional life as a professor at Harvard Law School where he taught property, trusts and future interests. The Nature and Sources of the Law was first published in 1909. The book is divided into two parts which respectively look at 'Nature' and 'Sources'. In Part I, Gray warns that the ... Read more

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  • The Province of Jurisprudence Determined by John Austin

    Edited by David Campbell, Philip A. Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1998, this text is the prefatory first part of Austin’s Lectures on Jurisprudence or the Philosophy of Positive Laws and first appeared separately from the Lectures in 1832. This volume reproduces the standard text of The Province from Robert Campbell’s fifth edition, published in 1885, and clarifies the structure and readability of the text, retaining Austin’s ‘Analysis’ as a ... Read more

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  • On Liberty (Mobi Classics)

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state.Perhaps the most memorable point made by Mill in this work, and his basis for liberty, is that "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is ... Read more

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  • The Theory of Moral Sentiments

    by Adam Smith, Ryan Patrick Hanley ...
    The first book from the renowned philosopher investigates the flip side of economic self-interest: the interest of the greater good.Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his classic work The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he advanced ideas about conscience, moral judgment, and virtue that have ... Read more

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  • A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind (Mobi Classics)

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men (Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes) is a book by the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.Rousseau discusses two types of inequality, natural or physical and moral or political. Natural inequality involves differences between one man's strength or intelligence and that of another - it is a product of ... Read more

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  • On Liberty and Other Essays

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of ... Read more

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  • The Social Contract

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    The eighteenth-century philosopher's landmark treatise against monarchy that inspired the French and American Revolutions."Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."With these stirring words, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins The Social Contract—the first shot in a battle of ideas that would set the stage for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In the feverish days of ... Read more

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  • The Politics

    by Aristotle, R. F. Stalley ...
    Translated by the late Sir Ernest Barker ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. The work of one of the world's greatest philosophers, it draws on Aristotle's own great knowledge of the political and constitutional affairs of the Greek cities. By ... Read more

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  • The Social Contract

    by Jean Jacques Rousseau ...
    For the study of the great writers and thinkers of the past, historical imagination is the first necessity. Without mentally referring to the environment in which they lived, we cannot hope to penetrate below the inessential and temporary to the absolute and permanent value of their thought. Theory, no less than action, is subject to these necessities; the form in which men cast their speculations ... Read more

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  • The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill

    On Liberty, The Subjection of Women and Utilitarianism

    by John Stuart Mill, Dale E. Miller ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill’s three seminal and most widely read works: On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism. A brilliant defense of individual rights versus the power of the state, On Liberty is essential reading for anyone interested in political thought and theory. ... Read more

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  • Social Contract

    by Jean Jacques Rousseau ...
    In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourses on the Origin of Inequality, he outlines his own history of the development of human society. He explains in general terms how the differences between social and economic classes arose alongside the formation of modern states. He also explores the means by which these inequalities were actually built into and perpetuated by the foundational notions of modern ... Read more

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