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Introducing Foucault

By Chris Horrocks

Man and Nature in the Renaissance

By Allen George Debus

Modern Social Work Theory: A Critical Introduction

By Malcolm Payne

Anti-racist Social Work: A Challenge for White Practitioners and Educators

By Lena Dominelli, J. Small

Care and Education in Early Childhood: A Student's Guide to Theory and Practice

By Audrey Curtis (Former President of the World Organisation for Early Childhood Education (OMEP), UK), Maureen O'Hagan (Director of Quality Assurance at the Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education (CACHE)

How Might We Live? Global Ethics in the New Century

By Ken Booth (University College of Wales, Aberystwyth), Tim Dunne (University College of Wales, Michael Cox (University College of Wales

Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

By Roger C. Riddell (Non-Executive Director, Oxford Policy Management, and Principal, The Policy Practice)

Truth and Other Enigmas

By Sir Michael Dummett

The Conflict of Interpretations

By Paul Ricoeur

Saussure: Signs, System and Arbitrariness

By David Holdcroft

Ethics and Business: An Introduction

By Kevin Gibson (Marquette University, Wisconsin)

The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics

By Gilbert Meilaender (Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor in Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University), William Werpehowski (Professor of Christian Ethics, Villanova University)

Farewell to Reason

By Paul Feyerabend

Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture

By Alan Sokal (Professor of Physics at New York University and Professor of Mathematics at University College, London)

The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950

By Avner Offer (, Chichele Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy)

Knowledge and Social Imagery

By David Bloor

The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts

By G. S. Kirk (University of Cambridge), J. E. Raven (King's College, Cambridge), M. Schofield (St John's College

Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies

By Sandra Harding

Philosophy Before Socrates: An Introduction with Texts and Commentary

By Richard D. McKirahan

A Companion to Museum Studies

By Sharon Macdonald (University of Manchester)

Choose Life: A Dialogue

By arnold toynbee, Daisaku Ikeda, Richard L. Gage

State of Exception

By Giorgio Agamben, Kevin Attell

Identity and Difference

By Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh

The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger

By Charles Guignon (University of Vermont)

An Essay on Philosophical Method

By R. G. Collingwood ((1889-1943) formerly Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of Oxford), James Connelly (Sothampton Solent University), Giuseppina D'Oro (Keele University)

Rethinking History

Social Capital Versus Social Theory

By Ben Fine (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK)

Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy

By Thomas L. Pangle (John E. Long Chair in Democratic Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism

By Steven B. Smith

Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars

By Ziauddin Sardar