Demographic Change and Long-Run Development
Uwe Sunde and Matteo Cervellati
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Over the last two hundred years, mortality and fertility levels in the Western world have dropped to...
Yorkshire Dales
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A definitive natural history of the Yorkshire Dales, covering the range of wildlife habitats, rich...
Cathars in Question
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Cathars have long been regarded as posing the most organised challenge to orthodox Catholicism in...
Conceptual Metaphor in Social Psychology: The Poetics of Everyday Life
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We learn in grade school that metaphor is an ornamental figure of speech reserved for poets. But we...
Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I
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This book examines the representation of death and dying in mainstream cinema. Death and the Moving...
Dignaga's Investigation of the Percept: A Philosophical Legacy in India and Tibet
Douglas Duckworth, Malcolm David Eckel, Jay L Garfield and John Powers
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Investigation of the Percept is a short (eight verses and a three page autocommentary) work that...
Fantasies of the Library
Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin
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Fantasies of the Library lets readers experience the library anew. The book imagines, and enacts,...
Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers
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Philosophy, and in particular continental philosophy, has provided a conceptual underpinning for...
Human-Animal Studies
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Human-Animal Studies is a burgeoning multidisciplinary enterprise. Human-Animal Studies places the...
Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience
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In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing...