A detailed historical account of the emergence of economic history as an academic discipline in England told through a combination of biography, institutional change and the history of scientific thought and methodology.

In fifty brilliant short essays one of the UK's liveliest young writers on religion introduces the key themes, movements and thinkers in theology. George Pattison, Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford says: 'Hugh Rayment-Pickard is one...

Almost forty years on from its original publication, Kennys account of action and emotion is still essential reading. One of the first books to provoke serious interest in the emotions and philosophy of human action.

This book presents fresh and fascinating insights into our interpretation of the environment.

The African Philosophy Reader, Second Edition, brings together thirty-seven philosophers, thirty-three of whom are black Africans, representing the most current philosophical discussions on the African continent.

This is a major contribution to contemporarary social and political thought written by one of the worlds leading critical historians. Gabriel Kolko asks the difficult questions about where the left can go in a post-Cold War world where neoliberal...

A radical questioning of what the author sees as the dangerously anthropomorphic views of Singer or Regan. Using philosophical theories such as Wittgensteins views on language, Leahy shows that we are wrong to credit animals with consciousness.