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Rodney Barnes, Xzibit
Down on his luck, Malik--an intelligent, young Black man with an engineering degree--delivers fast food just to make ends meet. His girlfriend left him, his grandmother thinks he's a disappointment…
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Jonathan Barnes
Collects works that form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build.
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Alexander's essay on the conversion of predicative propositions contains otherwise unknown information about the early history of Aristotle's logic. The essay survives only in a mutilated Arabic translation. This volume…
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Aristotle
Addresses the question of how to live well, and originates the concept of cultivating a virtuous character as the basis of his ethical system. In this title, the author sets…
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This book provides histories of company law, uniting a variety of approaches from law, business and management, economics, and history.
What were the origins of company law? How did it…
Down on his luck, Malik, an intelligent, young black man with an engineering degree--delivers fast food just to make ends meet. His girlfriend left him, his grandmother thinks he's a…
Michael Frede
This volume presents stimulating and provocative work on how the history of philosophy is done and how it should be done, by Michael Frede, a pre-eminent figure in ancient philosophy…
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Everything you need to know about independent schools and colleges in London and the South-East. Now in its 33rd edition.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Official Guide to Schools Offering the International Baccalaureate Primary Years, Middle Years, Diploma and Career-related Programmes.
Everything you need to know about independent schools and colleges in London and the South-East. Now in its 32nd edition.
Presents a study of the expression of contrast in the world’s vowel systems, examining phonetic and phonological differences between strong and weak positions, bringing the range of data from positional…
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The main argument of this book, is that the study of logic was a vital - and a popular - part of stoic philosophy in the early imperial period. The…
A guide to more than 1,500 independent preparatory and junior schools in the UK providing education for 2 to 13-year-olds, John Catt’s Preparatory Schools 2022 is the one-stop resource for…
First published in 1924, Which School? brings together in one volume a wealth of essential information aimed at guiding parents through the process of choosing the right independent school.
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John Catt’s Guide to International Schools is the leading guidebook to international education, now in its 19th edition. The 2021/22 edition has been updated to include more than 5,000 international…
Explores the key practical and theoretical issues underpinning cross-curricular teaching and learning across the early years, primary education and lower secondary school.
The Presocratics were the founders of the Western philosophical tradition and the first masters of rational thought. Provided in this volume is a precise examination of their arguments and an…
Applying Cross-Curricular Approaches Creatively explores the relevance and effectiveness of cross-disciplinary and project-based teaching. With a focus on personal reflection and discussion, it offers educators inspiration, guidance and resources to…
An ordinary office-working Brit discovers that he may be destined to wipe out the wicked House of Windsor.
Demonstrates the continuing importance of the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition - discusses all the main thinkers from Thales to the Sophists.
John Catt’s Guide to International Schools is the leading guidebook to international education, now in its 19th edition. The 2022/23 edition has been updated to include more than 5,000 international…
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The IB offers four high quality and challenging educational programmes for a worldwide community of schools, aiming to develop internationally minded people who, recognising their common humanity and shared guardianship…
Aristotle is one of the very greatest thinkers in the Western tradition, but also one of the most difficult. The contributors to this volume do not attempt to disguise the…
The Introduction to philosophy written by Porphyry at the end of the second century AD is the most successful work. Porphyry’s aim was modest, but he gave highly influential treatments…
Presents a study of ancient logic based upon the John Locke lectures given by the eminent philosopher Jonathan Barnes in Oxford. This book discusses: certain ancient ideas about truth; the…
The Introduction to Philosophy written by Porphyry at the end of the second century AD gave highly influential treatments of a number of perennial philosophical questions. Presenting an English translation…
A book for primary teachers and those training to teach in primary schools on how to develop positive socially-aware teaching that offers deep learning across different curriculum subjects.
Flamboyant Matthew Cannonbridge was touched by genius, the most influential mind of the 19th century, a novelist, playwright, the poet of his generation. The only problem is, he should never…
Sixteen authors, including some of the most distinguished scholars of our time, present essays which together reflect the impressive scope of Jonathan Barnes’s contributions to philosophy, and in particular to…
Jonathan Barnes (University of Oxford)
The topic of this book is the major argument-forms of the Greek sceptic, Sextus Empiricus, who lived and wrote in the second century AD. The author gives a lucid explanation…
Provides a standard English version of Aristotle. This work contains the substance of the original translation.
Presents the works of Aristotle accessible to English speaking readers.
The Posterior Analytics contains some of Aristotle’s thoughts in logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of science. The first book expounds the notions of an argument and of a formal…
Jonathan Barnes (Universite de Paris-Sorbonne)
Truth, etc. is a wide-ranging study of ancient logic based on the John Locke lectures given by eminent philosopher Jonathan Barnes in Oxford. The book presupposes no knowledge of logic…
This book is concerned with the transmission of Greek ideas in the East (in Armenia and in Syria), and more particularly with the Armenian translations of the Greek commentaries on…
G. Patzig
Since the second edition of the German text appeared in 1963 some further reviews have been published, or come to my notice, which I have 2 been able to make…
