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Plato: Complete Works
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£63.99| /Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edi...
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Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£29.95| /The early political culture of the American republic was so deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers that it w...
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Popular Government
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /Sir Henry Sumner Maine was one of the great intellects of the Victorian era. In POPULAR GOVERNMENT he examines the political institutions of men. H...
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Prince of Darkness
Ariadne Press (US)£66.99| /The Prince of Darkness', written by Erika Mitterer (1906-2001) in 1939, is a veiled criticism of the contemporary political system. It was meant to...
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Principles of Ethics
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£24.95| /Though almost forgotten today, Herbert Spencer ranks as one of the foremost individualist philosophers. His influence in the latter half of the nin...
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Protagoras
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature of Sophistic teaching into an idiom remarkable fo...
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Quilt
Sybylla Press (AUS)£9.95| /Finola Moorhead pulls no punches, her voice is extraordinarily fresh, direct and honest, she takes chances, she is often surreal, and always challe...
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Reading Robinson
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /This book brings together essays from leading Australian and international historians, in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasma...
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Return to Palm Island
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£15.99| /In 1976, Bill Rosser visited friends on Palm Island and was shocked at the restrictions the Aboriginal people living there were forced to endure. H...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£48.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£35.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan
Birch Brook Press (US)£15.99| /A classic of Irish literature: a sparkling new verse version of this great sea adventure which originally appeared in Latin prose. The tale centres...
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Seeds of Reconciliation
D & F Scott Publishing, Inc (US)£16.99| /Hargrove, has gathered the most important articles, written by world leaders in Jewish-Christian dialogue, and previously published in the journal ...
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Select Works of Edmund Burke
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£22.95| /A companion volume to the three-book set "Select Works of Edmund Burke", this text includes seven of Burke's major contributions to English politic...
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Select Works of Edmund Burke -- 3-Volume Set
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£32.85| /Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed Payne edition of SELECT WORKS OF BURKE is universally revered by students o...
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Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Part of a three-volume set, this text presents selected work of Edmund Burke on English history and political thought. This first volume contains B...
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Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 2
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£22.95| /Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed Payne edition of Select Works of Burke is universally revered by students o...
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Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 2
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed Payne edition of Select Works of Burke is universally revered by students o...
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Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£22.95| /Part of a three-volume set, this text presents selected work of Edmund Burke on English history and political thought. This third volume presents h...
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Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Part of a three-volume set, this text presents selected work of Edmund Burke on English history and political thought. This third volume presents h...
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Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Volume 1 -- Essays in the History of Liberty
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£23.95| /The unifying theme of these essays is Lord Acton's concept of liberty. Included are his two famous essays on the history of freedom (The History of...
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Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Volume 2 -- Essays in the Study & Writing of History
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£23.95| /Volume 2 brings together Acton's distinguished writings on history. Included is his famous Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge: The Study of History. Wr...
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Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Volume 3 -- Essays in Religion, Politics, & Morality
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£11.95| /Focuses on the intersection of religion with moral and political issues. Also included are three important essays: Human Sacrifice; George Eliot's ...
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Servile State
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£19.95| /THE SERVILE STATE has endured as his most important political work. The effect of socialist doctrine on capitalist society, Belloc wrote, is to pro...
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Servile State
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /THE SERVILE STATE has endured as his most important political work. The effect of socialist doctrine on capitalist society, Belloc wrote, is to pro...
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Shining Land
Massey University Press£34.99| /A UNIQUE STORY BOOK FOR GROWN-UPS. Desolate Star brings together award-winning novelist Paula Morris and distinguished photographer Haru Sameshima....
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Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£15.99| /Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts gathers together translations our four most important sources for the relationship between Socrates and the mos...
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Socrates in the Apology
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"Reeve's book is an excellent companion to Plato's Apology and a valuable discussion of many of the main issues that arise in the early dialogues. ...
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Sophist
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to speak most directly to the interests of contemporar...
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Sophist
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato presenting a new conception of the Theory of Forms. Socrates and others discuss the epistemological and met...
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Spur of Fame
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£17.95| /John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for th...
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Spur of Fame
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£9.95| /John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for th...
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State of the Union
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /This collection is the first chosen from Albert Jay Nock's entire work and the first new collection in nearly thirty-five years. It includes his be...
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Stephanii Notæ Uberiores in Historiam Danicam Saxonis Grammatici
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£35.99| /This facsimile edition of Stephanus Johannis Stephanius' Notæ Uberiores in Historian Danicam Saxons Grammatici, one of the high-water marks the cen...
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Story of Petese Son of Petetum & Seventy Other Good & Bad Stories
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£51.99| /The book presents a complete edition of the three known versions of the ancient Egyptian narrative The Story of Petese son of Petetum and Seventy O...
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Strong Words 2019
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.00| /Judging her first Landfall Essay Competition in 2018, Landfall editor Emma Neale was seriously challenged. The overall high quality of the 90 submi...
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Struggle for Sovereignty, Volumes 1 & 2
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£33.95| /The English Civil War in mid-century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings who were eager...
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Struggle for Sovereignty, Volumes 1 & 2
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£19.95| /The English Civil War in mid-century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings who were eager...
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Symposium
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent print...
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Symposium
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophan...
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The Aerial Letter
Spinifex Press£16.95| /What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of the other, to put o...
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The Braided River
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.00| /This book explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different cou...
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The Citizen
Massey University Press£34.99| /Across the globe citizens are flexing their muscles, but they are also battling oppression and discrimination. What can history tell us about the s...
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The Earth Remembers Everything
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /This is a masterful blend of history, travel and poetic narrative, tracing the author's journeys to some of the most difficult destinations in the ...
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The Essential Augustine
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition. I. THE MAN AND HIS WRITINGS: How Augustine Came to the Episcopacy (Sermon 355, 2); Augustine ...
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2016
Massey University Press£30.99| /From the state of our rivers and our justice system to a new way to fight obesity, and how a farmer discovered an unknown warrior in a field in Fra...
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The Journal of Urgent Writing 2017
Massey University Press£30.99| /The second volume in the annual journal of provocative, passionate and argumentative essays. Featuring: Morgan Godfery on identity; Jess Berentson-...
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The Meditations
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Includes a translator's Introduction, selected bibliography, note on the text, glossary of technical Terms, and a biographical inde.