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Understanding the Political Philosophers
From Ancient to Modern Times, 2nd Edition
Understanding the Political Philosophers is an absorbing and accessible introduction to the major philosophers and core texts of western political philosophy. Organised historically - beginning with Socrates and Plato, and concluding with post-Rawlsian theory - Alan Haworth presents the key ideas...
Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Men Who Made Labour
Celebrating the centenary of the Parliamentary Labour Party, this fascinating book commemorates the twenty-nine founding Labour MPs elected in 1906, including Labour’s first Prime Minister, first Chancellor of the Exchequer, first Minister of Labour, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. With a foreword...
Published May 17th 2006 by Routledge
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Moonshine Markets
Issues in Unrecorded Alcohol Beverage Production and Consumption
Series: ICAP Series on Alcohol in Society
This text reports on patterns of consumption of non-branded alcohol in seven countries: Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Using local consultants, investigators interviewed families in each country, in both rural and urban areas, on the subject of their drinking habits...
Published November 24th 2003 by Routledge
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Understanding the Political Philosophers
From Ancient to Modern Times
This absorbing study invites you to climb inside the heads of the major political philosophers, as it were, and to see the world through their eyes. Beginning with Socrates and concluding with post-Rawlsian theory, Alan Haworth presents the key ideas and developments with clarity and depth. Each...
Published November 5th 2003 by Routledge
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Upland Habitats
Series: Habitat Guides
Upland Habitats presents a comprehensive illustrated guide to the habits wildlife and conservation of Britains last wilderness areas. These include: heather moors, sheep walk deer forest, blanket bogs, montane and sub-montane forests. The book examines the unique characteristics of uplands and the...
Published June 2nd 1999 by Routledge
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Free Speech
Series: Problems of Philosophy
Free Speech is a philosophical treatment of a topic which is of immense importance to all of us.Writing with great clarity, wit, and genuine concern, Alan Haworth situates the main arguments for free speech by tracing their relationship to contemporary debates in politics and political philosophy,...
Published September 2nd 1998 by Routledge
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Anti-libertarianism
Markets, philosophy and myth
Free marketeers claim that theirs is the only economic mechanism which respects and furthers human freedom. Socialism, they say, has been thoroughly discredited. Most libertarians treat the state in anything other than its minimal, 'nightwatchman' form as a repressive embodiment of evil. Some...
Published June 22nd 1994 by Routledge