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Malden MA & Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 2007. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. An excellent copy. 144 pages. Presenting ten diverse and original moral paradoxes, this cutting edge work of philosophical ethics makes a focused, concrete case for the centrality of paradoxes within morality. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Like New. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover.

London: Granta. 2015. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. Black & white map. 329 pages. Mixes biography, medicine, natural history, science and etymology, and politics. The author clebrates the generous, rational intelligence of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) by thinking with him and walking with him through the moral and intellectual mazes of modern life. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 2010. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 220 pages. Once the battlefield smoke clears away, what are the moral requirements of the "victor"? . 1st Edition. Softcover.

London: Virago Press. 1996. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 203 pages. Ten prominent writers and thinkers take a long hard look at this modern malaise. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press. 1991. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owners small, neat signature to title page. 394 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Aldershot, UK: Avebury, Gower Publishing Company. 1991. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good+ condition in pictorial laminated boards. Most likely inscribed by author - 'For Murray with thanks Joseph'. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 341 pages. Both a systematic exploration of the ethics and politics of AIDS and a plea of rationality, dignity and social justice for the sufferers. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Adam and Charles Black. 1949. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 346 pages.. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 3rd Edition. Hardback.

Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1999. Very Good condition. xxiv, 185 pages. Examining Levinas's texts while in dialogue with readings by Derrida, Blanchot, and Bataille, this text shows how the thread of the literary leads directly to the internal tensions of Levinas's ethical discourse. Jill Robbins provides a comprehensive critical account of Levinas's early and mature philosophy as well as later key transitional essays. In an appendix, she includes her own translation of an essay by Bataille on Levinas. [Book blurb]. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback.

London: Profile Books. 2010. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 275 pages. Our lives will be infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in politics and law, religion and philosophy and education, and to learn how people really lived in Athens, Rome, Sparta and Alexandria. . 1st thus. Hardback.

Boulder, Colorado: Westfield Press. 1997. Near Fine condition. An excellent copy. xii, 228 pages. Sheds light on the developments in philosophy of language, science and ethics and also shows how theology might illuminate the social sciencees. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.

New York: Free Press. 1997. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 272 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Hamish Hamilton an imprint of Penguin Books. 2006. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 280 pages. A beguiling tour through the philosophy and psychology of architecture. The inspiration for the TV series The Perfect Home. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Constable. 1996. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 69 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 2000. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 322pages. . Reprint. Hardback.

London: Hodder. 2001. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. x, 322 pages. His Holiness The Dalai Lama teams up with a psychiatrist to help readers with the difficulties common to all humans. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.

London: Thorsons. 2001. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Colour photographs by Ian Cummings. Translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 176 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 2002. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. An excellent copy. x, 230 pages. A deeply informed reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Softcover.

New York: New York University Press. 2021. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 167 pages. Explores how governments ought to make decisions in times of imminenet disaster. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Granta Books. 1997. Very Good+ condition. Introduction by Michael Wood. 416 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Havard University Press. 1997. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 221 pages. . 1st thus. Trade Paperback.