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This book is an engaging presentation of the life and work of the legendary French philosopher, political activist and mystic Simone Weil. Palle Yourgrau assesses Weil's controversial critique of Judaism, and her radical re-imagination of Christianity; and analyses how Weil's personal struggles influenced her mature philosophy.

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In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and terrible lows - and never more so than in the period since 2010. Few are better placed to give an insider's view of the turmoil than the Rt Hon. Dame Andrea Leadsom MP.

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In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and terrible lows - and never more so than in the period since 2010, during which so much has changed. Few are better placed to give an insider's view of the turmoil than the Rt Hon. Dame Andrea Leadsom MP.

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Samuel Shirley's splendid new translation, with critical annotation reflecting research of the last half-century, is the only edition of the complete text of Spinoza's correspondence available in English. An historical-philosophical Introduction, detailed annotation, a chronology, and a bibliography are also included.

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Soren Kierkegaard is a story of a man destined to become a thorn in the side of society.

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The memoirs of one of the House of Lords' most colourful characters, Tom Pendry - former Labour MP for Stalybridge and a lifelong servant of both politics and sport.

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Human rights are not the gift of governments. They are our birthright. They are the bedrock of a democracy based on the rule of law and our common humanity and dignity.

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Christina Asquith presents a moving first-hand account of her year teaching in one of Philadelphia's worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, in desperate need of 1,500 new teachers, instituted a policy of hiring "emergency certified" instructors.

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A revealing story of a broken educational system and all those struggling within and fighting against...

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Covering the work of the British philosopher of logic and metaphysician, P.F. Strawson, this text examines his ideas on metaphysics, the mind-body problem and possibility of objective knowledge. Critical and descriptive essays from leading philosophers are provided as well as Strawson's replies.

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Timothy Leary is the visionary Harvard psychologist who became a guru of the 1960s counterculture, and is remembered as a pioneer of research and experimentation into psychedelic substances. Here, he offers first-hand accounts of his transformation from Bohemian professor to avatar of the New Age.

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Records the author's early years and education, his time at the front in the Second World War and his banishment to a labour camp during which period he began to formulate his theories about early human society.

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In this wry, affectionate, truculent memoir, Sarah Winterton celebrates a brace of MPs renowned for their bloody-minded independence. She goes in to bat, not just for her parents, but for an entire political class. This warts-and-all portrait of an obstreperous English couple also asks challenging political questions.

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This republished edition of Ada Cambridge's Thirty Years, first published over 100 years ago, is an incisive and moving autobiography that paints a picture of life for women in the late 1800's in Australia.

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Situating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of authority in post revolutionary France, this title shows that Tocqueville was an ambivalent promoter of democracy, a man who tried to reconcile himself to the coming wave, but who was also nostalgic for the aristocratic world in which he was rooted.

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The inside story of how Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary launched the psychedelic revolution together.

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Women from diverse backgrounds and Ethnicities answer the question of what it means to be a woman in her sixties at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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A chronicle of the rewards and challenges of building a life on a farm in backwoods Maine

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Now recognised as the nation's leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction international escapades and ingenious escapes - including one from an aeroplane - make CATCH ME IF YOU CAN an irresistable tale of deceit.

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