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    Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka

    £24.26 £26.95
    The search for durable peace in lands torn by ethno-national conflict is among the most urgent issues shaping our global future. Looking at contemporary peace processes in Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka, Bose addresses questions of how peace can be made, and kept, between warring groups with seemingly incompatible claims.

    Copernican Revolution

    £25.16 £27.95
    For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes.

    Culture Of Education

    £23.36 £25.95
    In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend.

    Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries

    £19.76 £21.95
    Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised the author as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. In this title, she turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. She serves as a guide, considering the stylistic and imaginative features of the poems.

    Ecological thought

    £19.76 £21.95
    Argues that various forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh and this interconnectedness penetrates different dimensions of life. This title investigates the profound philosophical, political, and aesthetic implications of the fact that these life forms are interconnected.

    Ecology Without Nature : Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

    £24.26 £26.95
    Argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ranging widely in 18th-century through contemporary philosophy, culture, and history, this title explores the value of art in imagining environmental projects. It traces the contexts of ecological constructs through the history of capitalism.

    Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter

    £22.46 £24.95
    If existing models of the structure of the universe are correct, then 85 percent of the cosmos comprises a substance called dark matter. Yet no direct evidence of dark matter exists. Award-winning science journalist Govert Schilling details the quest to detect dark matter and how the search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit.

    Empire

    £25.16 £27.95
    This text identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation and people - and links this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society.

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