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The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A...
Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Bioethics: The Basics
Series: The Basics
Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today....
Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue
Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
The publication in 1632 of Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the ‘scientific revolution’ and helped Galileo become the ‘father of modern science’. The Dialogue contains Galileo’s mature synthesis of astronomy, physics, and...
Published July 22nd 2013 by Routledge
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Doing Film Studies
Series: Doing... Series
Doing Film Studies examines what it really means to study film, encouraging the reader to question the dominant theories as well as understanding the key approaches to cinema. This book provides an overview of the construction of film studies - including its history and evolution - and examines the...
Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Ancient Near East: The Basics
Series: The Basics
Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great’s conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, the struggles of state-building and empire construction, and the dissent...
Published June 16th 2013 by Routledge
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Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers
Series: Routledge Key Guides
Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern Thinkers critically examines the work of fifty of the most important theorists within the...
Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
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Fifty Major Economists
3rd Edition
Series: Routledge Key Guides
An introduction to the life, work and ideas of the people who have shaped the economic landscape from the sixteenth century to the present day. Now in a third edition, it considers how major economists might have viewed challenges such as the continuing economic slump, high unemployment and the...
Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge