Author: Simon Blackburn
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Keywords: philosophy, introduction, compelling, think
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-03-15
List price: $14.12
ISBN-10: 0192854259
ISBN-13: 9780192854254

This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they are and why they are important. Simon Blackburn begins by putting forward a convincing case for the study of philosophy and goes on to give the reader a sense of how the great historical figures such as Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein have approached its central themes. Each chapter explains a major issue, and gives the reader a self-con

Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Keywords: opus, philosophy, problems
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2001-03-15
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0192854232
ISBN-13: 9780192854230

’Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?’ Philosophy is the attempt to answer such ultimate questions, not carelessly and dogmatically, as we might deal with them in ordinary life, but critically, after analysing how and why the questions arise and clarifying the assumptions and concepts on which they are based. This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell’s views on such subjects as the distinction between ap

Author: Rocky: Kolb
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks.
Keywords: shaped, view, universe, ideas, people, watchers, sky, blind
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0192862030
ISBN-13: 9780192862037

Author: Peter Salway
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Keywords: britain, roman, history
Number of Pages: 606
Published: 2001-05-31
List price: $16.56
ISBN-10: 0192801384
ISBN-13: 9780192801388

’One could not ask for a more meticulous or scholarly assessment of what Britain meant to the Romans, or Rome to Britons, than Peter Salway’s Monumental Study’ Frederick Raphael, Sunday Times From the invasions of Julius Caesar to the unexpected end of Roman rule in the early fifth century AD and the subsequent collapse of society in Britain, this book is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of Roman Britain ever published for the general reader. Peter Salway’s narrative takes into account the latest research including exciting discoveries of recent years, a

Author: Michio Kaku
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Keywords: century, revolutionize, science, visions
Number of Pages: 415
Published: 1999-03-04
List price: $24.80
ISBN-10: 0192880187
ISBN-13: 9780192880185

New in paperback, from the bestselling author of Hyperspace, this spellbinding book brings together the cutting-edge research of today’s foremost scientists to explore the science of tomorrow. Michio Kaku describes the development of computers and artificial intelligence, reveals how the decoding of the genetic structure of DNA will allow us to alter and reshape our genetic inheritance, and observes how quantum physicists are perfecting new ways of harnessing the matter and energy of the Universe. Visions is an exhilarating adventure into the future of our planet and ourselves.

Authors:William Godwin, David McCracken,
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, williams, caleb
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 1998-07-16
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0192835998
ISBN-13: 9780192835994

Deals with the misdeeds of Tyrrel, a tyrannical country squire, who comes into conflict with Falkland, a neighbouring squire of a seemingly more benevolent disposition. When Tyrrel knocks Falkland down in public and Tyrrel is later found murdered, suspicion falls on Falkland.

Author: Andrea Kay
Publisher: STC Paperbacks
Keywords: funk, future, steps, careers, bitch, change, life
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1584794879
ISBN-13: 9781584794875