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Bestselling author and social media sensation Alice Loxton brings a scintillating new history of Britain, told through 18 figures in British history at the age of 18.

A collection of stories written by kids aged six to ten years old as part of a Little Writer's workshop series. The stories are reflections of the imagination of these kids covering topics of friendship, adventure, family, self discovery with many more elements explored. Stories written by Ivy Loxton, Indie Pay, Juno Walker, Juliet Jones, Simone Jones, Billie Jenkins, Estelle Ball, Imogen Hawcroft, all local to the Sunraysia area in Victori...

A collection of stories written by kids aged six to ten years old as part of a Little Writer's workshop series. The stories are reflections of the imagination of these kids covering topics of friendship, adventure, family, self discovery with many more elements explored. Stories written by Ivy Loxton, Indie Pay, Juno Walker, Juliet Jones, Simone Jones, Billie Jenkins, Estelle Ball, Imogen Hawcroft, all local to the Sunraysia area in Victori...

London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy Schools. Within a few years, James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in Piccadilly, turning satire into an artform, taking on the British establishment, and forever changing the way we view power.Set against a backdrop of royal madness, political intrigue, the birth...

Proper Guardians offers an introduction to the life and thought of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and a commentary and guide to his text of 1859, On Liberty. For a period steeped in waves of political correctness, with varied assaults on the liberty of expression, On Liberty (1859) remains a signal work, championing the vital worth of personal and political liberty. Mill promotes the liberty of thought and expression, affirming 'the inward domai...

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A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians

Proper Guardians offers an introduction to the life and thought of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and a commentary and guide to his text of 1859, On Liberty. For a period steeped in waves of political correctness, with varied assaults on the liberty of expression, On Liberty (1859) remains a signal work, championing the vital worth of personal and political liberty. Mill promotes the liberty of thought and expression, affirming 'the inward domai...

The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor is best known for major studies on Hegel, for Sources of the Self (1989), a study of the development of modern identity, and A Secular Age (2007), based on the 1999 Gifford Lectures. The Ethics of Authenticity was originally given as a series of lectures on Canadian Radio, and entitled 'The Malaise of Modernity', and Taylor's concerns are to make a critique of modernity, highlighting worrying trends in t...

Written for those coming to the study of Nietzsche for the first time, Nietzsche and the Old Flame provides an introduction and guide to Nietzsche's thought as well as a commentary and review of his book of 1887 -On the Genealogy of Morals.Nietzsche is often seen as a critic of modernity as well as the advocate of individualistic values that run up against such notions as compassion, equality and the values that are intrinsic to liberal democr...

Camilla"What beautiful eyes you have, " is all anyone ever says to Camilla. She feels like no one actually notices the real her. After her eighteenth birthday, Camilla seems to be the only one actually noticing anything at all. There is a castle on the lake, there are some strangers in town, and Camilla suddenly has an unintentional, and unfamiliar control over people when they look into her eyes. Camilla's mother seems to know more than she l...

Written for those coming to the study of Nietzsche for the first time, Nietzsche and the Old Flame provides an introduction and guide to Nietzsche's thought as well as a commentary and review of his book of 1887 -On the Genealogy of Morals.Nietzsche is often seen as a critic of modernity as well as the advocate of individualistic values that run up against such notions as compassion, equality and the values that are intrinsic to liberal democr...

Voice and Inequality is about conservative parties in Latin America. James Loxton examines parties formed between 1978 and 2010 and tries to understand why some were more successful than others. The main puzzle is the surprising connection between roots in dictatorship and success under democracy. What allowed "authoritarian successor parties" in countries like Chile and El Salvador to succeed, while those with more democratic origins in count...

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Manchmal bedeutet Liebe, dahin zurückzukehren, woher du kommst. Der Bestseller aus Südafrika!Kapstadt: Nachdem ihr Mann ausgerechnet am Valentinstag beichtet, dass er mit einer Kollegin fremdgegangen ist, flüchtet die 30-jährige Kari zurück in ihr Elternhaus, das sie seit zehn Jahren nicht mehr betreten hat. Sie tauscht ihren Bikini gegen eine Burka, und aus Kari wird wieder Karima, im Kreis ihrer großen, herzlichen muslimischen Familie, der n...

This book offers an introduction to the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Wittgenstein's life in its earlier and later periods is considered in chapters that interleave the reviews of the philosophy of language set out in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and Philosophical Investigations (1953). Later chapters discuss Wittgenstein's approach to philosophy and to thinking about religion and ethics. Along the way key ideas on philo...

Launches a new research agenda on one of the most common but overlooked features of the democratization experience worldwide: authoritarian successor parties.