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By: Professor Richard Vernon

ISBN: 9781441121318
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Provides an introduction to philosophical implications of the surge of political and ethical interest in historical redress. This book addresses main issues and arguments relating to justice, memory, apology and citizenship, and concludes by arguing for a forward-looking approach that focuses on the right of future generations to live just lives.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Richard Vernon

ISBN: 9781441166517
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Provides an introduction to philosophical implications of the surge of political and ethical interest in historical redress. This book addresses main issues and arguments relating to justice, memory, apology and citizenship, and concludes by arguing for a forward-looking approach that focuses on the right of future generations to live just lives.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Eileen Ka-May Cheng

ISBN: 9781441109668
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A primer on the complexities of history writing, and writing history. It challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, focusing primarily on the US and Europe.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Ian Inkster

ISBN: 9780826456168
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2003
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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By: Professor Ian Inkster

ISBN: 9781441136114
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Offers a fresh way of looking at Chinese history through their technological advances. This collection of essays concers with the technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them.


(Hardback)

By: David Schroeder

ISBN: 9781441114587
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. This title also focuses on how an expanded definition of music influences Hitchcock's conception of cinema.


(Paperback)

By: David Schroeder

ISBN: 9781441182166
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Focuses on the way that music has infiltrated Hitchcock's thinking as a director, from his earliest silent films to his last works. This title also focuses on how an expanded definition of music influences Hitchcock's conception of cinema.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Rainer Bucher

ISBN: 9781441196798
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Investigates the use of theological motifs in Adolf Hitler's public speeches and writings, and offers an answer to the question of why Hitler and his theo-political ideology were so successful presenting an alternative to the discontents of modernity. This title offers a systematic reconstruction of Hitler's use of theological concepts.


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By: Professor Rainer Bucher

ISBN: 9781441141798
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A reconstruction and critique of Adolf Hitler's use and abuse of theological concepts, and demonstration of their fundamental importance for the rise of National Socialism. It gives a systematic reconstruction of Hitler's use of theological concepts like providence, belief or the almighty God.


(Paperback)

By: PhD Robert Toft

ISBN: 9780826432162
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A popular music scholarship, analyzing the creative processes behind some very familiar hit singles from the 1960s. It examines a selection of songs and recordings through the lens of textual criticism and delineates the creative process as it unfolds from the initial conception of a song to the final mix presented on disc.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Gordon Hull

ISBN: 9781441140029
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A monograph that examines Hobbes' political writings in the context of the rest of his corpus and the work of his contemporaries. It considers what it is that makes the study of Hobbes so compelling. It shows the relevance of Hobbes to contemporary debates around the radically democratic potential of the 'multitude'.


(Paperback, NIPPOD)

By: Professor Gordon Hull

ISBN: 9781441157744
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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An important new monograph that re-examines Hobbes's political writings in the context of the rest of his corpus and the work of his contemporaries.


(Hardback)

By: J. Arthur Baird

ISBN: 9780826460257
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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In his final work Baird offers a critical introduction to the historical paradigm, pointing out its limitations in terms of tracing the paradigm of New Testament formation. Beginning at the start of the Holy Word, he notes its development through context, theological interpretation and application.


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By: Professor Ahuvia Kahane

ISBN: 9781441100108
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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An overview of Homer and Homeric poetry, discussing his reception and the influence of Homer, especially on contemporary thought.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Ahuvia Kahane

ISBN: 9781441179463
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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An overview of Homer and Homeric poetry, discussing his reception and the influence of Homer, especially on contemporary thought.


(Paperback)

By: Professor William Lad Sessions

ISBN: 9781441146380
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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An original philosophical analysis and defense of the concept of honor that considers honor's normative promise for us today.


(Hardback)

By: Professor William Lad Sessions

ISBN: 9781441188342
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Presents a philosophical analysis and defense of the concept of honor that considers honor's normative promise for us. This book contends that the concept of honor is poorly understood, standing sorely in need of clarification. It argues that the notion of honor remains viable in the face of powerful criticism.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Brian Willems

ISBN: 9781441169563
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Offers an analysis of the philosophical connection between Hopkins and Heidegger. This monograph argues that the work of Hopkins does no less than propose solutions to a number of hitherto unresolved questions regarding Heidegger's later writings, vitalizing the concepts of both writers beyond their local contexts.


(Paperback, NIPPOD)

By: Dr Brian Willems

ISBN: 9781441123107
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A monograph offering new analysis of the philosophical connection between Hopkins and Heidegger which has been repeatedly mentioned but not fleshed out in the literature of either literary criticism or philosophy.


(Paperback)

By: Professor Richard Kearney

ISBN: 9781441158086
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. This volume offers five different hermeneutic readings that each wrestle with what interreligious hospitality means and what it demands. It remind us of the urgent need for interreligious hospitality.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Richard Kearney

ISBN: 9780826427373
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Barbara Green

ISBN: 9780826462213
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2003
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A reflection on kings and leadership, this text proposes that Saul is authored in such a way that the narrative of 1 Samuel may be read as a riddle propounding the complex story of Israel/Judah's experience with kings as an instruction for those pondering leadership choices in the 6th century.


(Paperback)

By: Professor Daniel N. Robinson

ISBN: 9781441148513
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Kant's central task in the "First Critique" is to tie his metaphysical analysis to the very possibility of nature itself. This title presents a commentary on Kant's aims and arguments in his celebrated "First Critique", within the context of the dominant schools of philosophy of his time.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Daniel N. Robinson

ISBN: 9781441176226
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Kant's central task in the "First Critique" is to tie his metaphysical analysis to the very possibility of nature itself. This title presents a commentary on Kant's aims and arguments in his celebrated "First Critique", within the context of the dominant schools of philosophy of his time.

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