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The films of Pedro Almodóvar teem with characters who at once are and are not alter egos of the director. In film after film, the Spanish auteur mi...

Spanning the centuries and crossing the globe, this engaging introduction covers everything Daoist, from the religion of the ancients to 21st centu...

Beautifully illustrated throughout, this distinctive collection will give an insight into the work of an English, twentieth century, master goldsmi...

‘The interpretours of Plato,’ wrote Sir Thomas Elyot in The Governour (1531), ‘do think that the wonderful and incomprehensible order of the celest...

On June 12, 1962, sixty young student activists drafted a manifesto for their generation—The Port Huron Statement—that ignited a decade of dissent....

From the Introduction:The present essay provides an introduction to the treatment of human existence and individuality in Marxist thought. The work...

  Before the good life was reduced to a bottle of Prozac, it was philosophers who offered answers to the most fundamental questions about who we a...

Democracy today is widely regarded as an ideal form of government. Yet in practice it sometimes seems a sham, a political puppet show in which hidd...

Who are we? How should we live? Professor James Miller introduces twelve great philosophers who dedicated their lives to answering these questions....