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Defends an idea that the age-old theological and philosophical problems of original sin and evil have already been solved. The author explains the workings of modern evolutionary theory, Darwinian natural selection, and how this has brought forth life and the human mind. He counters objections to Darwinism that are raised by some believers.

ETA Hoffmann is widely known as the author of fantastic tales. This book examines Hoffmann's aesthetic thought within the context of the history of ideas of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, and explores the relationship between his musical aesthetics and compositional practice.

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Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham was one of Britain's great sailors, a worthy successor to Nelson, whom he admired and many of whose qualities he displayed. This second volume of Cunningham's papers covers the period of his life. It includes official documents, but also many letters to his family and brother-officers that exhibit his feelings.

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Explains how to manage privacy and data protection issues throughout the customer cycle, from making contact to seeking additional business from customers. This book looks at the precise role of the Financial Services Authority and its response to compliance or non-compliance, and explains each of the Eight Principles of the Data Protection Act.

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Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producing country. Oil generates enormous wealth but also extensive and devastating conflict in the country. High Stakes and Stakeholders critically explores the oil conflict in Nigeria, its evolution, dynamics and most significantly, the interplay and consequences of high stake politics for the reproduction and persistence of the conflict.

Comparative research has shown that an increasing number of electoral campaigns are resembling those of the United States. This book examines the nature of electoral campaigns in East and Southeast Asia and examines whether there is an 'Asian style' of election campaigning.

Punishment is a phenomenon which occurs in many contexts. Discussions of punishment assume punishment is criminal punishment carried out by the State. This book contains an account of punishment which overcomes the difficulties of competing accounts and treats punishment comprehensibly to better understand how it differs from similar phenomena, discussing its justification fruitfully.

Motivated by the reentry of tyranny into political discourse and political action, this new work compares ancient and contemporary accounts of tyranny in an effort to find responses to current political dilemmas and enduring truths. In our globally interconnected world, tyrants are no longer dangerous solely to their subjects and neighbors, but to all. This is where the debate begins as the lessons of classical political philosophy are thrown ...