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  • From Economics to Political Economy

    The problems, promises and solutions of pluralist economics

    by Tim B. Thornton ...
    Series series New Political Economy
    The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticized for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guidance for the major economic and social challenges of our time.A central problem in contemporary economics, and a problem from which many of its other failings flow, is its lack of plurality. By a lack of plurality it is meant that ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Essentials of Economics in Context

    by Neva Goodwin, Jonathan M. Harris, Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar, Brian Roach, Tim B. Thornton ...
    Essentials of Economics in Context is specifically designed to meet the requirements of a one-semester introductory economics course that provides coverage of both microeconomic and macroeconomic foundations. It addresses current economic challenges, paying specific attention to issues of inequality, globalization, unpaid work, technology, financialization, and the environment, making the text a ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Death of an Unsigned Band

    by Tim Thornton ...
    Being an unsigned band isn't a situation - it's a mental illness. Few people realise they're suffering from this affliction. Russell Groom knows, and he wants to change things fast. But Russell doesn't fit the traditional rock-star mould, and his woefully unexceptional band are headed nowhere, inhabiting a world of cramped and sweaty rehearsal rooms, crap day jobs, empty gigs and interminable ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Alternative Hero

    by Tim Thornton ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    In this comic, wildly energetic first novel, Clive Beresford is a failed music fanzine writer in his early thirties who fears that his best days are behind him. The turning point came when Lance Webster, the lead singer of Thieving Magpies, the band that Clive is obsessed with, self-destructed on stage right before his eyes. Years later, Clive has discovered that Lance has moved in down the block. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Tacit Knowledge

    by Neil Gascoigne, Tim Thornton ...
    Tacit knowledge is the form of implicit knowledge that we rely on for learning. It is invoked in a wide range of intellectual inquiries, from traditional academic subjects to more pragmatically orientated investigations into the nature and transmission of skills and expertise. Notwithstanding its apparent pervasiveness, the notion of tacit knowledge is a complex and puzzling one. What is its ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • John McDowell

    by Tim Thornton ...
    John McDowell is one of the most widely read philosophers in recent years. His engagement with a philosophy of language, mind and ethics and with philosophers ranging from Aristotle and Wittgenstein to Hegel and Gadamer make him one of the most original and outstanding philosophical thinkers of the post-war period.In this clear and engaging book, Tim Thornton introduces and examines the full range ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry

    Edited by KWM Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini, Tim Thornton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. This has become only more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, accompanied by developments in the neurosciences. However, too few practising psychiatrists are familiar with the literature in this area. The ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Mental Illness

    by Tim Thornton ...
    Series series Elements in Philosophy of Mind
    The very idea of mental illness is contested. Given its differences from physical illnesses, is it right to count it, and particular mental illnesses, as genuinely medical as opposed to moral matters? One debate concerns its value-ladenness, which has been used by anti-psychiatrists to argue that it does not exist. Recent attempts to define mental illness divide both on the presence of values and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The gentleman's mistress

    Illegitimate relationships and children, 1450–1640

    by Tim Thornton, Katharine Carlton ...
    This study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450 to 1640: the keeping of mistresses, the taking of lovers, the birth of illegitimate children and the fate of those children. It challenges assumptions about the extent to which such activities declined in the period, and hence about the impact of Protestantism and other changes ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Asanas for Autism and Special Needs

    Yoga to Help Children with their Emotions, Self-Regulation and Body Awareness

    by Shawnee Thornton Thornton Hardy ...
    Teaching yoga to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other special needs is easy using this visual how-to handbook.Breaking down yoga instruction pose by pose, body part by body part, breath by breath, this book uses easy-to-understand language and clear photographs to show parents, teachers, yoga instructors, and other professionals how to introduce the life-long benefits of yoga to a ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Dimensions of Counter-insurgency

    Applying Experience to Practice

    Edited by Tim Benbow, Rod Thornton ...
    The once-neglected study of counter-insurgency operations has recently emerged as an area of central concern for Western governments and their military organizations. While counter-insurgency represents a hugely challenging form of contemporary warfare, there exists a considerable body of experience that offers assistance in the form of examples of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Social Attitudes and Political Structures in the Fifteenth Century

    Edited by Tim Thornton ...
    This volume includes papers on political, religious, social and economic history and the history of ideas during the 15th century. The papers challenge existing conceptions and open new avenues of discussion on longstanding debates. Themes covered include parliaments and their relationships with the monarchs of the period, both in Scotland and in England; queens and their role in the 15th century ... Read more

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