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Morality - An Introduction to Ethics by Bernard Williams
$10.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Canto Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Bernard Williams's remarkable essay on morality confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy, and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts that seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. Williams explains, analyzes and distinguishes a number ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn by Retha M. Warnicke
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Canto Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The events which led to the execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII?'s second queen, in 1536 have traditionally been explained by historians in terms of a factional conspiracy masterminded by Henry?'s minister Thomas Cromwell. Retha Warnicke?'s fascinating and controversial reinterpretation focuses instead ...Show more
The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War by Gerald Brenan
$14.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Canto Ser. | Reading Level: good
Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War. Written during and immediately after the Civil War, this book has all the vividness of the author's experience. It represents a struggle to see the issues in Spanish politics objectively, whi ...Show more
The Theory of Evolution by John Maynard Smith; Richard Dawkins (Foreword by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Canto Ser. | Reading Level: good
All living plants and animals, including man, are the modified descendants of one or a few simple living things. A hundred years ago Darwin and Wallace in their theory of natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, explained how evolution could have happened, in terms of processes known to take p ...Show more
The Trial of the Templars by Malcolm C Barber
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Canto Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1307, the Templars in France were arrested by King Philip IV's officials in the name of the Inquisition, their property seized and the men charged with serious heresies, including the denial of Christ, homosexuality, and idol worship. Confessions, extracted under torture, were brought before royal an ...Show more
What Little I Remember by Otto Robert Frisch
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Canto Original Ser. | Reading Level: good
Otto Frisch took part in some of the most exciting developments of modern physics, including the discovery of nuclear fission -- he coined that term -- which led to atomic power and atomic weapons. Working on those weapons during World War II he met the scientist and organizer, Robert Oppenheimer, and t ...Show more
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