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Folk Music of China - Living Instrumental Traditions Text and CD by Stephen Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This book opens the door on the magnificent living traditions of folk music in rural China. Stephen Jones's book illustrates the beauty and variety of these folk traditions, from the plangent shawm bands of the rugged north to the more mellifluous string ensembles of the southeastern coast. Working clos ...Show more
Laws and Symmetry by Bas C. van Fraassen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Metaphysicians speak of laws of nature in terms of necessity and universality; scientists, in terms of symmetry and invariance. In this book van Fraassen argues that no metaphysical account of laws can succeed. He analyzes and rejects the arguments that there are laws of nature, or that we must believe ...Show more
Miasma - Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion by Robert Parker
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Most of the commonly read Greek texts address "pollution." The pollution theme appears in tragedies, historical texts, and political oratory. Purity is a constant concern in ritual texts, and Greeks underwent many small purifications in their everyday lives. Certain archaic religious movements even made ...Show more
Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement by Nancy Cartwright
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This book argues for the place of capacities within an grounds of meaning, not method. Yet it is questions of method that should concern the modern empiricist: can capacities be measured? Cartwright argues that they are measured if anything is. Stanford University's Gravity-Probe-B will measure capaciti ...Show more
Philosophy, Psychiatry and Neuroscience--Three Approaches to the Mind - A Synthetic Analysis of the Varieties of Human Experience by Edward M. Hundert
$20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this book Hundert proposes a new, unified view of the mind, one that integrates the insights of philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Through a detailed discussion of major theories from these and related disciplines, he gradually reveals links between what were previously unconnected app ...Show more
Real People - Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments by Kathleen V. Wilkes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of a person. Questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, Wilkes argues that such experimentation engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is anyway stranger than fiction. She then examines an assortment of real-lif ...Show more
The Modernist Shakespeare - Critical Texts in a Material World by Hugh Grady
$14.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Every epoch recreates its classical icons--and for literary culture no icon is more central or more protean than Shakespeare. Even though finding the authentic Shakespeare has been a goal of scholarship since the eighteenth century, he has always been constructed as a contemporary author. Inthis critica ...Show more
The Secret Connexion - Causation, Realism, and David Hume by Galen Strawson
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Clarendon Paperbacks Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this revised and updated edition of The Secret Connexion, Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in all philosophy: David Hume's work on causation. Strawson challenges the standard view of Hume, according to which he thinks that there is no such thing as causal influence, and that ...Show more
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