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  • A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell

    Volume I: Separate Publications, 1896-1990

    Edited by Kenneth Blackwell, Harry Ruja, Sheila Turcon ...
    Series series The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell
    From 1895, the year he published his first signed article, to four days before his death in 1970 when he wrote his last, Bertrand Russell was a powerful force in the world of mathematics, philosophy, human rights and the struggle for peace. During those years he published 70 books, almost as many pamphlets and over 2,000 articles, he also contributed pieces to some 200 books.The availability of ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

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    Have you caught the Sudoku bug yet? Master Sudoku is a collection of over 150 puzzles of varying difficulty that will teach the newcomer the techniques for success and challenge the expert player to their limit. The tips and strategies will help the frustrated solver while the list of websites and computer programs will delight the truly addicted - one of whom is the author himself, the owner of ... Read more

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  • Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition

    by Marjorie G. Jones ...
    This is the first full-length biography of British historian Frances Yates, author of such acclaimed works as Giordano Bruno and The Hermetic Tradition and The Art of Memory, one of the most influential non-fiction books of the twentieth century. Jones’s book explores Yates’ remarkable life and career and her interest in the mysterious figure of Giordano Bruno and the influence of the Hermetic ... Read more

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  • George Orwell's Theory of Language

    by Andrei Reznikov ...
    There is not a single book that gives a systematic description of George Orwells views on language. Andrei Reznikovs work is the first attempt to fill this gap. Reznikov puts together the pieces of Orwells language puzzle, scattered throughout his essays, diaries, letters, radio talks and fiction, and proposes the Newspeak model as Orwells way to formulate his theory. The theory is then tested ... Read more

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  • Handwriting of the Twentieth Century

    by Rosemary Sassoon ...
    The history of formal calligraphy has been thoroughly documented, and the demise of what people see as beautiful handwriting is frequently deplored, but the details of the teaching of this skill during this century have gone almost unrecorded. Everyday handwriting is ephemeral and school books soon disappear. The main purpose of this book is to create a historical record, however, techniques are ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Women in Science

    A Social and Cultural History

    by Ruth Watts ...
    The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science.Women in Science includes a detailed survey of the history behind the popular subject and engages the reader with a theoretical and informed understanding with significant issues like science and race, gender and technology and masculinity.It moves beyond ... Read more

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  • James Joyce

    by Gordon Bowker ...
    "A fascinating and insightful portrait of the artist . . . goes a long way to explaining the Western world's most enigmatic literary giant." —Doug McIntyre, The Los Angeles Daily NewsJames Joyce is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his novels and stories foundational in the history of literary modernism. Yet Joyce's genius was not immediately recognized, nor was his success ... Read more

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  • An Everyday Life of the English Working Class

    Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

    by Carolyn Steedman ...
    This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and ... Read more

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  • Donald Horne

    A Life in the Lucky Country

    by Ryan Cropp ...
    The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could changeIn the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity. His book The Lucky Country was profoundly influential and, without doubt, one of the most ... Read more

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  • Miles Franklin

    A Short Biography

    by Jill Roe ...
    A classic, accessible award-winning biography of Australia's most iconic author, leading feminist and humanitarian.'To meet Miles Franklin was as invigorating as to ride on a spring morning across the Monaro plains she so dearly loved,' wrote Henrietta Drake-Brockman.Author, union organiser, WWI volunteer, women's rights agitator, nationalist, Miles Franklin worked, wrote and talked for many ... Read more

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  • Karl Pearson

    The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age

    by Theodore M. Porter ...
    Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest, reflected also in his socialism and his efforts to find a new basis for relations between men and women. This biography recounts Pearson's extraordinary ... Read more

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  • Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow

    Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward

    by David Goodway ...
    From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a ... Read more

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