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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “richard hull”
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  • Excellent Intentions

    by Richard Hull ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"This droll and inventive golden age mystery, first published in 1938, from Hull (1896-1973) offers a courtroom-based whodunit with a twist." —Publishers Weekly STARRED review'From the point of view of the nation, it's a good thing that he died.'Great Barwick's least popular man is murdered on a train. Twelve jurors sit in court. Four ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Murder of my Aunt

    by Richard Hull ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"The book fairly races along to its surprising resolution. Fans of vintage crime fiction will hope for more reissues of Hull's work." —Publishers WeeklyEdward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Llwll. His aunt thinks Llwll an idyllic place to live, but Edward loathes the countryside—and thinks the company even worse. In ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Cutting to the Core

    Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries

    by Michael Benatar, Leslie Cannold, Dena Davis, Merle Spriggs, Julian Savulescu, Heather Draper, Neil Evans, Richard Hull, Stephen Wilkinson, David Wasserman, Donna Dickenson, Guy Widdershoven, Françoise Baylis, Stephen Coleman, Rosemarie Tong, Hilde Lindemann, David Neil, Alex John London ...
    Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However, where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested. Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including infant ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Deprivation and Freedom

    A Philosophical Enquiry

    by Richard Hull ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    Deprivation and Freedom investigates the key issue of social deprivation. It looks at how serious that issue is, what we should do about it and how we might motivate people to respond to it. It covers core areas in moral and political philosophy in new and interesting ways, presents the topical example of disability as a form of social deprivation, shows that we are not doing nearly enough for ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Politics of Practical Reasoning

    Integrating Action, Discourse, and Argument

    by Keith Breen, Frank Canavan, Gerard Casey, Heike Felzmann, Thomas Gil, Karsten Harries, Richard Hull, Sebastian Lalla, Elizabeth Langhorne, Felix O'Murchadha, Fran O'Rourke, Terry Eagleton, Thomas Nisters ...
    The capacity for reasonable argument about practical and political matters is important to our daily lives. Yet what does arguing really involve? Often, our very concept of what it is to argue seems systematically distorted. Practical, political arguing is too often stylized as hyper-cognitive, ending by treating people as objects rather than other selves — in ways that are fundamentally ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

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    by Michael Dibdin ...
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    by Maya Dusenbery ...
    Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at the widespread gender bias in healthcare and how sexism in medicine harms women today.In Doing Harm, Dusenbery explores the deep, ... Read more

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  • The Consequences of Modernity

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Modern Death

    How Medicine Changed the End of Life

    by Haider Warraich ...
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    $14.39 USD

  • Foucault, Power, and Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Key Ideas in Education
    Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education, Ball highlights the relationships between Foucault’s concepts and methods, and educational ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of the New Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes

    12 Original Stories

    by Denis O. Smith ...
    Is it really possible, do you suppose,’ said Sherlock Holmes to me one morning, as we took breakfast together, that a healthy and robust man may be so stricken with terror that he drops down dead?’”The much praised Denis O. Smith introduces twelve new Sherlockian stories in this collection, including The Adventure of the XYZ Club,” The Secret of Shoreswood Hall,” and The Adventure of the Brown Box ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Education

    by Nel Noddings ...
    The first edition of Nel Noddings' Philosophy of Education was acclaimed as the 'best overview in the field' by the journal Teaching Philosophy and predicted to 'become the standard textbook in philosophy of education' by Educational Theory. This classic text, originally designed to give the education student a comprehensive look at philosophical thought in relation to teaching, learning, research ... Read more

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