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From Plato, through Descartes to W V Quine and Edmund Gettier, this guide explores the history of thinking about 'knowledge'. Explaining what great philosophers have written about the nature of knowledge and about how we know what we know, it offers an introduction to the field of epistemology.

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From Plato, through Descartes to WV Quine and Edmund Gettier, this guide explores the history of thinking about 'knowledge'. Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of knowledge and about how we know what we know, it gives an introduction to the field of epistemology.

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Addresses the importance of going beyond equal opportunities. In this book, the contributors provide a compelling argument for promoting equality in primary schools. It covers issues such as: social class; 'race'; gender; sexual orientation; disability and special educational needs with reference to all subjects taught at primary school level.

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Explores the ways in which error can serve as a critical lens for understanding the principles of informatic control that govern our contemporary network society.

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Salomon Maimon was one of the most important and influential Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. This translation of his principal work, "Essay on Transcendental Philosophy", expresses Maimon's response to the revolution in philosophy wrought by Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason".

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Salomon Maimon was one of the most important and influential Jewish intellectuals of the Enlightenment. This translation of his principal work, "Essay on Transcendental Philosophy", expresses Maimon's response to the revolution in philosophy wrought by Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason".

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Introducing the work of 6 contemporary satiric novelists through contemporary theory, this book explores the possibility of reading and criticism after postmodernism. It delivers a series of interventions into six key areas of contemporary debate: fear, nihilism, revolution, ethics, enjoyment and feminism.

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Provides an introduction to ethics. This title provides a historical overview of the subject and a comprehensive introduction to the main branches of ethics: meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics.

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Offers an introduction to the main branches of ethics: meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. This book provides students with a comprehensive and philosophically introduction to the major thinkers, issues and debates. It includes coverage of key aspects of value-theory and key issues concerning agency and moral responsibility.

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Explores the continuity of ethnic and national politics during the Cold War. This book questions the prevalent assumption that ethnicity and nationalist politics had nothing to do with the Cold War and that, far from being 'frozen' until the fall of communism, they remained central to the conflict in Europe.

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What is ethnicity How does ethnicity impact on the school experience and academic achievement of individuals Can education challenge ethnic differences and inequalities This title introduces the key issues underlying contemporary work, thinking and practice around ethnicity, inclusion, 'race' and education in relation to curriculum.

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Seeks out answers to core questions of their discipline: who God is and how we become the people we are, how to conceptualize moral agency in relation to God and the world, and how to flesh out the content of conceptual categories such as justice that help direct us in our daily decisions and guiding institutions.

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A pioneering work in comparative European literature by a leading American scholar. >

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The So-called Local Color Literature emerged in the mid nineteenth century, both in the US and Europe. This book, on the European tradition covers the German ("Dorfgeschichten" - more or less "village histories"), French ("Contes" or "stories"), Irish, and Scottish traditions in detail, with a chapter devoted to each.

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An assessment of the influence and impact of the Islamic scholar and activist Fethullah Gulen, and those who are inspired by him, on contemporary Islam. It deals with the challenges and opportunities faced by Muslims and the wider society in Europe following the Madrid train bombings of 2003 and the London Transport attacks of 2007.

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Deals with the challenges and opportunities faced by Muslims and the wider society in Europe following the Madrid train bombings of 2003 and the London Transport attacks of 2007. This title offers an assessment of the influence and impact of the Islamic scholar and activist Fethullah Gulen, and those who are inspired by him, on contemporary Islam.

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Explores the afterlives of Jane Austen's work in literature, film and popular culture. This study investigates the popular appropriations of Austen in England and America.

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Explores the afterlives of Jane Austen's work in literature, film and popular culture. This study investigates the popular appropriations of Austen in England and America.

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Research monograph exploring the importance of evidence-based practice and the thinking skills of critical analysis, reflection and reflexivity for evidence-informed leadership in education.

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Explores central challenges to religious belief raised by evil and suffering in the world as well as significant responses to them from both theistic and non-theistic perspectives.

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Explores central challenges to religious belief raised by evil and suffering in the world as well as significant responses to them from both theistic and non-theistic perspectives.

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Presents the history of exile and restoration, ideas originating at the intersection of Judaic piety and the social history of the Jews.

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An exploration of the paradigm of alienation in post-war literature through close readings of nine novels. It details how nine different 'outsider' authors treat the theme of alienation in one of their major works. It reviews the novels that were written in a limited time span (1942 to 1987, approximately 50 years).