Search results for “Mary Midgley”

To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. Midgley...

Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, o...

One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seri...

When Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infusing lif...

Pope to Burney, 1714-1779, Scriblerians to Bluestocking by Moyra Haslett, 113761207X, 9781137612076, Palgr Mac

Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the 'Contexts' series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associat...

This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking. It id...

The Secret Garden is one of the most delightful and enduring classics of children’s literature, which has remained a firm favorite with children th...

Climate change has been fueling migration, and, according to some policy reports, there could more than one billion climate migrants/refugees acros...

Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and “pre-political.” This book criti...

Regarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life, exploring the emotions ...

Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway, marks an important stage in her development as a writer. In this novel she finally departs from the fo...

“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics.”A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett follows the heart warming story...