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Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches by Sir Winston S. Churchill
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
A great statesmen, a masterful historian whose writings won him the Nobel Prize for literature and a war-time leader with few peers, Sir Winston Churchill is remembered perhaps most clearly today for the sheer power of his oratory: the speeches that rallied a nation in its darkest hour and steeled that ...Show more
Origins of Analytical Philosophy by Michael Dummett
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The twentieth century was marked by the triumph of the 'analytic' tradition of philosophy, which remains to this day the dominant mainstream of philosophical thought and teaching. In his landmark reflection and exploration of the origins of analytic philosophy, Michael Dummett vividly explores the roots ...Show more
Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
With the publication of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire established himself as one of the most important and radical educational thinkers of his time. In Pedagogy of Hope, Freire revisits the themes of his masterpiece, the real world contexts that inspired them and their impact in that very worl ...Show more
Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life.With dazzling skil ...Show more
Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century. A forceful statement of liberal principles - championing the legal, moral and political right ...Show more
The Boer War: London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March by Sir Winston S. Churchill
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
On October 11th, 1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally erupted into the conflict that would become known as the Second Boer War. Two days after the first shots were fired, a young writer by the name of Winston Chu ...Show more
The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus by Martin Heidegger
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Martin Heidegger is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th Century. A major figure in the development of phenomenology, his work also profoundly influenced many of the intellectual movements that followed in his wake, from Sartre's Existentialism to Derrida's deconstructionis ...Show more
The Intelligence of Evil: or, The Lucidity Pact by Jean Baudrillard
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and at the height of the "War on Terror", the controversial postmodernist thinker Jean Baudrillard wrote The Intelligence of Evil. In tackling the rhetoric of the so-called "clash of civilizations" between a capitalist West and ...Show more
The Odyssey by Homer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
'Muse, tell me of a man: a man of much resource, who was made to wander far and long, after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy. Many were the men whose lands he saw and came to know their thinking: many too the miseries at sea which he suffered in his heart, as he sought to win his own life and the s ...Show more
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides by Aeschylus
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of Ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the House of Atreus, Aeschylus's tragedy stages an eternal debate about justice and revenge that remains relevant more ...Show more
The Politics of Aesthetics by Jacques Rancière
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, t ...Show more
The Second World War by Sir Winston S. Churchill
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Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
"I am perhaps the only man who has passed through the two supreme cataclysms of recorded history in high executive office...I was in this second struggle with Germany for more than five years the head of His Majesty's Government. I write therefore from a different standpoint and with more authority than ...Show more