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A collection of private family letters from the First World War that lay forgotten for almost ninety years; affords a unique, first-hand glimpse into the unfolding experience of the war in the life of one family and their friends- on the Home Front, on the Western Front, and in British India; transports us back to a time that is slipping tantalizingly out of living memory; brings us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people thought, feared, and hoped for in these momentous years. The First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters--which lay untouched for almost ninety years--allows a unique glimpse into the war as experienced by one family at the time, transporting us back to an era which is now slipping tantalizingly out of living memory. The Slaters--the family at the heart of these letters--lived in Oxford. Like most families, they were both typical and unique. Gilbert, the father of the family, had been headof Ruskin College in Oxford, and during the war found work as the first Professor of Indian Economics in Madras. His wife, Violet, grew to detest the war and became an increasingly vocal pacifist as the slaughter continued. Owen, their eldest son, a schoolboy in 1914, was fighting in France by war's end. In the letters they wrote to each other and their friends at this time we see how the war increasingly impacted upon each of their lives and the life of the world around them--rationing, Violet's increasing involvement in radical politics, the deaths of friends, the fear of Zeppelin raids when in London, the endless discussions between Violet and Gilbert about how to keep their son out of the trenches - and the growth of Owen from schoolboy to soldier, serving as a junior officer on the Western Front. Above all, in their privacy and immediacy, their inconsistencies and false hopes, these letters bring us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people tho ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/e6f264e4/full-of-hope-and-fear-margaret-bonfiglioli-9780198707172.jpg|9780198707172|Full of Hope and Fear : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198707172 : 24 Jul 2014 : A collection of First World War letters that lay forgotten for almost ninety years, allowing a unique glimpse into how the war was experienced at the time - and ...|new|1|1|77|25|0|GBP|Margaret Bonfiglioli|Oxford University Press|24 Jul 2014|First World War books 9780198704522|The Cradle of Humanity|19.07|https://wordery.com/the-cradle-of-humanity-mark-maslin-9780198704522|POPULAR SCIENCE. Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particular fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have influenced almost every part of the Earth system and as a consequence are changing the global environmental and evolutionary trajectory of the Earth. So how did we become the worlds apex predator and take over the planet? Fundamental to our success is our intelligence, not only individually but more importantly collectively. But why did evolution favour the brainy ape? Given the calorific cost of running our large brains, not to mention the difficulties posed for childbirth, this bizarre adaptation must have given our ancestors a considerable advantage.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/8eb302ab/the-cradle-of-humanity-mark-maslin-9780198704522.jpg|9780198704522|The Cradle of Humanity : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198704522 : 26 Jan 2017 : What drove the evolution of humans, with our uniquely big brains? The Cradle of Humanity presents fascinating and controversial new research which suggests tha ...|new|1|1|63|20|0|GBP|Mark Maslin|Oxford University Press|26 Jan 2017|Popular science 9780198708292|Charles I and the People of England|20.98|https://wordery.com/charles-i-and-the-people-of-england-david-cressy-9780198708292|The story of the reign of Charles I -- told through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeches, letters, diaries, petitions, proclamations, and the proceedings of secular and ecclesiastical courts, to explore the aspirations and expectations not only of the king and his followers, but also the unruly energies of many of his subjects, showing how royal authority was constituted, in peace and in war -- and how it began to fall apart. A blend of micro-historical analysis and constitutional theory, parish politics and ecclesiology, military, cultural, and social history, Charles I and the People of England is the first major attempt to connect the political, constitutional, and religious history of this crucial period in English history with the experience and aspirations of the rest of the population. From the king and his ministers to the everyday dealings and opinions of parishioners, petitioners, and taxpayers, David Cressy re-creates the broadest possible panorama of early Stuart England, as it slipped from complacency to revolution.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/43e45866/charles-i-and-the-people-of-england-david-cressy-9780198708292.jpg|9780198708292|Charles I and the People of England : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198708292 : 23 Apr 2015 : The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy re-creates the broadest possible panor ...|new|1|1|65|30|0|GBP|David Cressy|Oxford University Press|23 Apr 2015|British & Irish history 9780198704850|The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English|12.99|https://wordery.com/the-oxford-companion-to-modern-poetry-in-english-ian-hamilton-9780198704850|This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in English, in Britain and around the world, this companion helps to illuminate the influences, inspirations, and movements that have shaped the lives and works of our best-loved poets. First published in 1994 as the Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English and compiled by a team of 230 experts, including famous poets such as Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion, this edition also includes new biographical entries on more contemporary poets such as Don Paterson, Anne Carson, John Kinsella, and Leslie Marmon Silko. It also contains insightful entries by well-known peers, such as Seamus Heaney on Robert Lowell and Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath. The A-Z biographies are complemented by a new appendix including coverage of poetry groups and movements and lists of anthologies and important poetry prizes and prize-winners. In addition, many entries include details of in-depth supplementary material available online on the dedicated companion website.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/c0d19e21/the-oxford-companion-to-modern-poetry-in-english-ian-hamilton-9780198704850.jpg|9780198704850|The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198704850 : 20 Feb 2014 : This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including ...|new|1|1|244|12.99|0|GBP|Ian Hamilton|Oxford University Press|20 Feb 2014|Poetry 9780198706151|Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction|7.45|https://wordery.com/alexander-the-great-a-very-short-introduction-hugh-bowden-9780198706151|Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest empire that had ever existed, leading his army from Greece to Pakistan, and from the Libyan desert to the steppes of Central Asia. His meteoric career, as leader of an alliance of Greek cities, Pharaoh of Egypt, and King of Persia, had a profound effect on the world he moved through. Even in his lifetime his achievements became legendary and in the centuries that following his story was told and retold throughout Europe and the East. Greek became the language of power in the Eastern Mediterranean and much of the Near East, as powerful Macedonian dynasts carved up Alexander's empire into kingdoms of their own, underlaying the flourishing Hellenistic civilization that emerged after his death. But what do we really know about Alexander? In this Very Short Introduction, Hugh Bowden goes behind the usual historical accounts of Alexander's life and career. Instead, he focuses on the evidence from Alexander's own time -- letters from officials in Afghanistan, Babylonian diaries, records from Egyptian temples -- to try and understand how Alexander appeared to those who encountered him. In doing so he also demonstrates the profound influence the legends of his life have had on our historical understanding and the controversy they continue to generate worldwide. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/2ea95a7e/alexander-the-great-a-very-short-introduction-hugh-bowden-9780198706151.jpg|9780198706151|Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198706151 : 24 Jul 2014 : In 336 BC Alexander the Great became king of Macedon. During his twelve-year reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the lar ...|new|1|1|3|8.99|0|GBP|Hugh Bowden|Oxford University Press|24 Jul 2014|Biography: historical, political & military 9780198708490|Near and Distant Neighbours|20.00|https://wordery.com/near-and-distant-neighbours-jonathan-haslam-9780198708490|Near and Distant Neighbours is the first ever substantiated and complete history of Soviet intelligence. Based on a mass of newly declassified Russian secret intelligence documentation, it reveals the true story of Soviet intelligence from its very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War. Covering both main branches of Soviet espionage - civilian and military - Jonathan Haslam charts the full range of the Soviet intelligence effort and the story of its development: in cryptography, disinformation, special forces, and counter-intelligence. In a tragic irony, an organization that so casually disposed of others critically depended upon the human factor. Due to their lack of expertise and technological know-how, from early on the Soviets were forced to rely heavily on secret agents instead of the more sophisticated code-breaking techniques of other intelligence agencies. But in this they were highly successful, recruiting spy rings such as the infamous 'Cambridge Five' in the 1930s. Had it not been for Soviet espionage against Britain's code-breaking effort during the Second World War, Stalin might never have won the victory that later enabled him to dominate half of Europe. Similarly, espionage directed at his allies enabled the Soviets to build an atomic bomb earlier than expected and to take calculated risks in post-war diplomacy, such as his audacious blockade of Berlin which led to the Berlin Airlift. Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 alienated many of the foreign 'friends' so valued by the Soviet intelligence services. It also made new recruitment of foreign agents much more difficult, as the USSR rapidly lost its glamour and ideological appeal to potential supporters in the West during the 1950s. However, the gap was finally bridged through exploiting greedy and disloyal Western intelligence officers, using blackmail and bribery - and with great success. In fact, it was the ultimate irony that the KGB and GRU had never been mor ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/415c2680/near-and-distant-neighbours-jonathan-haslam-9780198708490.jpg|9780198708490|Near and Distant Neighbours : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198708490 : 24 Sep 2015 : The true story of Soviet intelligence, from the very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War - now told in full for the first time|new|1|1|1|20|0|GBP|Jonathan Haslam|Oxford University Press|24 Sep 2015|Espionage & secret services 9780198706434|The Foundations of Mathematics|16.99|https://wordery.com/the-foundations-of-mathematics-ian-stewart-9780198706434|The transition from school mathematics to university mathematics is seldom straightforward. Students are faced with a disconnect between the algorithmic and informal attitude to mathematics at school, versus a new emphasis on proof, based on logic, and a more abstract development of general concepts, based on set theory. The authors have many years' experience of the potential difficulties involved, through teaching first-year undergraduates and researching the ways in which students and mathematicians think. The book explains the motivation behind abstract foundational material based on students' experiences of school mathematics, and explicitly suggests ways students can make sense of formal ideas. This second edition takes a significant step forward by not only making the transition from intuitive to formal methods, but also by reversing the process- using structure theorems to prove that formal systems have visual and symbolic interpretations that enhance mathematical thinking. This is exemplified by a new chapter on the theory of groups. While the first edition extended counting to infinite cardinal numbers, the second also extends the real numbers rigorously to larger ordered fields. This links intuitive ideas in calculus to the formal epsilon-delta methods of analysis. The approach here is not the conventional one of 'nonstandard analysis', but a simpler, graphically based treatment which makes the notion of an infinitesimal natural and straightforward. This allows a further vision of the wider world of mathematical thinking in which formal definitions and proof lead to amazing new ways of defining, proving, visualising and symbolising mathematics beyond previous expectations.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/3f60c60c/the-foundations-of-mathematics-ian-stewart-9780198706434.jpg|9780198706434|The Foundations of Mathematics : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198706434 : 12 Mar 2, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

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A collection of private family letters from the First World War that lay forgotten for almost ninety years; affords a unique, first-hand glimpse into the unfolding experience of the war i… Más…

A collection of private family letters from the First World War that lay forgotten for almost ninety years; affords a unique, first-hand glimpse into the unfolding experience of the war in the life of one family and their friends- on the Home Front, on the Western Front, and in British India; transports us back to a time that is slipping tantalizingly out of living memory; brings us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people thought, feared, and hoped for in these momentous years. The First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters--which lay untouched for almost ninety years--allows a unique glimpse into the war as experienced by one family at the time, transporting us back to an era which is now slipping tantalizingly out of living memory. The Slaters--the family at the heart of these letters--lived in Oxford. Like most families, they were both typical and unique. Gilbert, the father of the family, had been headof Ruskin College in Oxford, and during the war found work as the first Professor of Indian Economics in Madras. His wife, Violet, grew to detest the war and became an increasingly vocal pacifist as the slaughter continued. Owen, their eldest son, a schoolboy in 1914, was fighting in France by war's end. In the letters they wrote to each other and their friends at this time we see how the war increasingly impacted upon each of their lives and the life of the world around them--rationing, Violet's increasing involvement in radical politics, the deaths of friends, the fear of Zeppelin raids when in London, the endless discussions between Violet and Gilbert about how to keep their son out of the trenches - and the growth of Owen from schoolboy to soldier, serving as a junior officer on the Western Front. Above all, in their privacy and immediacy, their inconsistencies and false hopes, these letters bring us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people tho ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/e6f264e4/full-of-hope-and-fear-margaret-bonfiglioli-9780198707172.jpg|9780198707172|Full of Hope and Fear : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198707172 : 01 Dec 2014 : A collection of First World War letters that lay forgotten for almost ninety years, allowing a unique glimpse into how the war was experienced at the time - and ...|new|1|1|1|25|0|GBP|Margaret Bonfiglioli|Oxford University Press|01 Dec 2014|First World War books 9780198707929|Unfit for the Future|20.49|https://wordery.com/unfit-for-the-future-ingmar-persson-9780198707929|Unfit for the Future argues that the future of our species depends on our urgently finding ways to bring about radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our own human nature. We have rewritten our own moral agenda by the drastic changes we have made to the conditions of life on earth. Advances in technology enable us to exercise an influence that extends all over the world and far into the future. But our moral psychology lags behind and leaves us ill equipped to deal with the challenges we now face. We need to change human moral motivation so that we pay more heed not merely to the global community, but to the interests of future generations. It is unlikely that traditional methods such as moral education or social reform alone can bring this about swiftly enough to avert looming disaster, which would undermine the conditions for worthwhile life on earth forever. Persson and Savulescu maintain that it is likely that we need to explore the use of new technologies of biomedicine to change the bases of human moral motivation. They argue that there are in principle no philosophical or moral objections to such moral bioenhancement. Unfit for the Future challenges us to rethink our attitudes to our own human nature, before it is too late.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/0021a529/unfit-for-the-future-ingmar-persson-9780198707929.jpg|9780198707929|Unfit for the Future : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198707929 : 13 Jul 2014 : Unfit for the Future argues that the future of our species depends on radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our nature. Population growth and technologica ...|new|1|1|48|20.49|0|GBP|Ingmar Persson|Oxford University Press|13 Jul 2014|Bio-ethics 9780198704522|The Cradle of Humanity|20.00|https://wordery.com/the-cradle-of-humanity-mark-maslin-9780198704522|POPULAR SCIENCE. Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particular fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have influenced almost every part of the Earth system and as a consequence are changing the global environmental and evolutionary trajectory of the Earth. So how did we become the worlds apex predator and take over the planet? Fundamental to our success is our intelligence, not only individually but more importantly collectively. But why did evolution favour the brainy ape? Given the calorific cost of running our large brains, not to mention the difficulties posed for childbirth, this bizarre adaptation must have given our ancestors a considerable advantage.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/8eb302ab/the-cradle-of-humanity-mark-maslin-9780198704522.jpg|9780198704522|The Cradle of Humanity : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198704522 : 26 Jan 2017 : What drove the evolution of humans, with our uniquely big brains? The Cradle of Humanity presents fascinating and controversial new research which suggests tha ...|new|1|1|1|20|0|GBP|Mark Maslin|Oxford University Press|26 Jan 2017|Popular science 9780198704850|The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English|10.64|https://wordery.com/the-oxford-companion-to-modern-poetry-in-english-ian-hamilton-9780198704850|This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in English, in Britain and around the world, this companion helps to illuminate the influences, inspirations, and movements that have shaped the lives and works of our best-loved poets. First published in 1994 as the Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English and compiled by a team of 230 experts, including famous poets such as Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion, this edition also includes new biographical entries on more contemporary poets such as Don Paterson, Anne Carson, John Kinsella, and Leslie Marmon Silko. It also contains insightful entries by well-known peers, such as Seamus Heaney on Robert Lowell and Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath. The A-Z biographies are complemented by a new appendix including coverage of poetry groups and movements and lists of anthologies and important poetry prizes and prize-winners. In addition, many entries include details of in-depth supplementary material available online on the dedicated companion website.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/c0d19e21/the-oxford-companion-to-modern-poetry-in-english-ian-hamilton-9780198704850.jpg|9780198704850|The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198704850 : 01 Dec 2014 : This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including ...|new|1|1|2|12.99|0|GBP|Ian Hamilton|Oxford University Press|01 Dec 2014|Poetry 9780198706151|Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction|8.99|https://wordery.com/alexander-the-great-a-very-short-introduction-hugh-bowden-9780198706151|Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest empire that had ever existed, leading his army from Greece to Pakistan, and from the Libyan desert to the steppes of Central Asia. His meteoric career, as leader of an alliance of Greek cities, Pharaoh of Egypt, and King of Persia, had a profound effect on the world he moved through. Even in his lifetime his achievements became legendary and in the centuries that following his story was told and retold throughout Europe and the East. Greek became the language of power in the Eastern Mediterranean and much of the Near East, as powerful Macedonian dynasts carved up Alexander's empire into kingdoms of their own, underlaying the flourishing Hellenistic civilization that emerged after his death. But what do we really know about Alexander? In this Very Short Introduction, Hugh Bowden goes behind the usual historical accounts of Alexander's life and career. Instead, he focuses on the evidence from Alexander's own time -- letters from officials in Afghanistan, Babylonian diaries, records from Egyptian temples -- to try and understand how Alexander appeared to those who encountered him. In doing so he also demonstrates the profound influence the legends of his life have had on our historical understanding and the controversy they continue to generate worldwide. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/2ea95a7e/alexander-the-great-a-very-short-introduction-hugh-bowden-9780198706151.jpg|9780198706151|Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198706151 : 24 Jul 2014 : In 336 BC Alexander the Great became king of Macedon. During his twelve-year reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the lar ...|new|1|1|1|8.99|0|GBP|Hugh Bowden|Oxford University Press|24 Jul 2014|Biography: historical, political & military 9780198708292|Charles I and the People of England|20.98|https://wordery.com/charles-i-and-the-people-of-england-david-cressy-9780198708292|The story of the reign of Charles I -- told through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeches, letters, diaries, petitions, proclamations, and the proceedings of secular and ecclesiastical courts, to explore the aspirations and expectations not only of the king and his followers, but also the unruly energies of many of his subjects, showing how royal authority was constituted, in peace and in war -- and how it began to fall apart. A blend of micro-historical analysis and constitutional theory, parish politics and ecclesiology, military, cultural, and social history, Charles I and the People of England is the first major attempt to connect the political, constitutional, and religious history of this crucial period in English history with the experience and aspirations of the rest of the population. From the king and his ministers to the everyday dealings and opinions of parishioners, petitioners, and taxpayers, David Cressy re-creates the broadest possible panorama of early Stuart England, as it slipped from complacency to revolution.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/43e45866/charles-i-and-the-people-of-england-david-cressy-9780198708292.jpg|9780198708292|Charles I and the People of England : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198708292 : 23 Apr 2015 : The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy re-creates the broadest possible panor ...|new|1|1|65|30|0|GBP|David Cressy|Oxford University Press|23 Apr 2015|British & Irish history 9780198706434|The Foundations of Mathematics|16.99|https://wordery.com/the-foundations-of-mathematics-ian-stewart-9780198706434|The transition from school mathematics to university mathematics is seldom straightforward. Students are faced with a disconnect between the algorithmic and informal attitude to mathematics at school, versus a new emphasis on proof, based on logic, and a more abstract development of general concepts, based on set theory. The authors have many years' experience of the potential difficulties involved, through teaching first-year undergraduates and researching the ways in which students and mathematicians think. The book explains the motivation behind abstract foundational material based on students' experiences of school mathematics, and explicitly suggests ways students can make sense of formal ideas. This second edition takes a significant step forward by not only making the transition from intuitive to formal methods, but also by reversing the process- using structure theorems to prove that formal systems have visual and symbolic interpretations that enhance mathematical thinking. This is exemplified by a new chapter on the theory of groups. While the first edition extended counting to infinite cardinal numbers, the second also extends the real numbers rigorously to larger ordered fields. This links intuitive ideas in calculus to the formal epsilon-delta methods of analysis. The approach here is not the conventional one of 'nonstandard analysis', but a simpler, graphically based treatment which makes the notion of an infinitesimal natural and straightforward. This allows a further vision of the wider world of mathematical thinking in which formal definitions and proof lead to amazing new ways of defining, proving, visualising and symbolising mathematics beyond previous expectations.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/3f60c60c/the-foundations-of-mathematics-ian-stewart-9780198706434.jpg|9780198706434|The Foundations of Mathematics : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198706434 : 12 Mar 2015 : The transition from school to university mathematics is seldom straightforward. Students are faced with a disconnect between the algorithmic and infor ...|new|1|1|1|16.99|0|GBP|Ian Stewart|Oxford University Press|12 Mar 2015|Number systems 9780198708490|Near and Distant Neighbours|17.58|https://wordery.com/near-and-distant-neighbours-jonathan-haslam-9780198708490|Near and Distant Neighbours is the first ever substantiated and complete history of Soviet intelligence. Based on a mass of newly declassified Russian secret intelligence documentation, it reveals the true story of Soviet intelligence from its very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War. Covering both main branches of Soviet espionage - civilian and military - Jonathan Haslam charts, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

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A collection of private family letters from the First World War that lay forgotten for almost ninety years; affords a unique, first-hand glimpse into the unfolding experience of the war i… Más…

A collection of private family letters from the First World War that lay forgotten for almost ninety years; affords a unique, first-hand glimpse into the unfolding experience of the war in the life of one family and their friends- on the Home Front, on the Western Front, and in British India; transports us back to a time that is slipping tantalizingly out of living memory; brings us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people thought, feared, and hoped for in these momentous years. The First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters--which lay untouched for almost ninety years--allows a unique glimpse into the war as experienced by one family at the time, transporting us back to an era which is now slipping tantalizingly out of living memory. The Slaters--the family at the heart of these letters--lived in Oxford. Like most families, they were both typical and unique. Gilbert, the father of the family, had been headof Ruskin College in Oxford, and during the war found work as the first Professor of Indian Economics in Madras. His wife, Violet, grew to detest the war and became an increasingly vocal pacifist as the slaughter continued. Owen, their eldest son, a schoolboy in 1914, was fighting in France by war's end. In the letters they wrote to each other and their friends at this time we see how the war increasingly impacted upon each of their lives and the life of the world around them--rationing, Violet's increasing involvement in radical politics, the deaths of friends, the fear of Zeppelin raids when in London, the endless discussions between Violet and Gilbert about how to keep their son out of the trenches - and the growth of Owen from schoolboy to soldier, serving as a junior officer on the Western Front. Above all, in their privacy and immediacy, their inconsistencies and false hopes, these letters bring us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people tho ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/e6f264e4/full-of-hope-and-fear-margaret-bonfiglioli-9780198707172.jpg|9780198707172|Full of Hope and Fear : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198707172 : 24 Jul 2014 : A collection of First World War letters that lay forgotten for almost ninety years, allowing a unique glimpse into how the war was experienced at the time - and ...|new|1|1|1|25|0|GBP|Margaret Bonfiglioli|Oxford University Press|24 Jul 2014|First World War books 9780198704522|The Cradle of Humanity|20.00|https://wordery.com/the-cradle-of-humanity-mark-maslin-9780198704522|POPULAR SCIENCE. Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particular fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have influenced almost every part of the Earth system and as a consequence are changing the global environmental and evolutionary trajectory of the Earth. So how did we become the worlds apex predator and take over the planet? Fundamental to our success is our intelligence, not only individually but more importantly collectively. But why did evolution favour the brainy ape? Given the calorific cost of running our large brains, not to mention the difficulties posed for childbirth, this bizarre adaptation must have given our ancestors a considerable advantage.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/8eb302ab/the-cradle-of-humanity-mark-maslin-9780198704522.jpg|9780198704522|The Cradle of Humanity : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198704522 : 26 Jan 2017 : What drove the evolution of humans, with our uniquely big brains? The Cradle of Humanity presents fascinating and controversial new research which suggests tha ...|new|1|1|1|20|0|GBP|Mark Maslin|Oxford University Press|26 Jan 2017|Popular science 9780198708490|Near and Distant Neighbours|14.69|https://wordery.com/near-and-distant-neighbours-jonathan-haslam-9780198708490|Near and Distant Neighbours is the first ever substantiated and complete history of Soviet intelligence. Based on a mass of newly declassified Russian secret intelligence documentation, it reveals the true story of Soviet intelligence from its very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War. Covering both main branches of Soviet espionage - civilian and military - Jonathan Haslam charts the full range of the Soviet intelligence effort and the story of its development: in cryptography, disinformation, special forces, and counter-intelligence. In a tragic irony, an organization that so casually disposed of others critically depended upon the human factor. Due to their lack of expertise and technological know-how, from early on the Soviets were forced to rely heavily on secret agents instead of the more sophisticated code-breaking techniques of other intelligence agencies. But in this they were highly successful, recruiting spy rings such as the infamous 'Cambridge Five' in the 1930s. Had it not been for Soviet espionage against Britain's code-breaking effort during the Second World War, Stalin might never have won the victory that later enabled him to dominate half of Europe. Similarly, espionage directed at his allies enabled the Soviets to build an atomic bomb earlier than expected and to take calculated risks in post-war diplomacy, such as his audacious blockade of Berlin which led to the Berlin Airlift. Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956 alienated many of the foreign 'friends' so valued by the Soviet intelligence services. It also made new recruitment of foreign agents much more difficult, as the USSR rapidly lost its glamour and ideological appeal to potential supporters in the West during the 1950s. However, the gap was finally bridged through exploiting greedy and disloyal Western intelligence officers, using blackmail and bribery - and with great success. In fact, it was the ultimate irony that the KGB and GRU had never been mor ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/415c2680/near-and-distant-neighbours-jonathan-haslam-9780198708490.jpg|9780198708490|Near and Distant Neighbours : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198708490 : 24 Sep 2015 : The true story of Soviet intelligence, from the very beginnings in 1917 right through to the end of the Cold War - now told in full for the first time|new|1|1|115|20|0|GBP|Jonathan Haslam|Oxford University Press|24 Sep 2015|Espionage & secret services 9780198704850|The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English|11.10|https://wordery.com/the-oxford-companion-to-modern-poetry-in-english-ian-hamilton-9780198704850|This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in English, in Britain and around the world, this companion helps to illuminate the influences, inspirations, and movements that have shaped the lives and works of our best-loved poets. First published in 1994 as the Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English and compiled by a team of 230 experts, including famous poets such as Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion, this edition also includes new biographical entries on more contemporary poets such as Don Paterson, Anne Carson, John Kinsella, and Leslie Marmon Silko. It also contains insightful entries by well-known peers, such as Seamus Heaney on Robert Lowell and Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath. The A-Z biographies are complemented by a new appendix including coverage of poetry groups and movements and lists of anthologies and important poetry prizes and prize-winners. In addition, many entries include details of in-depth supplementary material available online on the dedicated companion website.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/c0d19e21/the-oxford-companion-to-modern-poetry-in-english-ian-hamilton-9780198704850.jpg|9780198704850|The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198704850 : 01 Dec 2014 : This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including ...|new|1|1|2|12.99|0|GBP|Ian Hamilton|Oxford University Press|01 Dec 2014|Poetry 9780198706151|Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction|7.45|https://wordery.com/alexander-the-great-a-very-short-introduction-hugh-bowden-9780198706151|Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest empire that had ever existed, leading his army from Greece to Pakistan, and from the Libyan desert to the steppes of Central Asia. His meteoric career, as leader of an alliance of Greek cities, Pharaoh of Egypt, and King of Persia, had a profound effect on the world he moved through. Even in his lifetime his achievements became legendary and in the centuries that following his story was told and retold throughout Europe and the East. Greek became the language of power in the Eastern Mediterranean and much of the Near East, as powerful Macedonian dynasts carved up Alexander's empire into kingdoms of their own, underlaying the flourishing Hellenistic civilization that emerged after his death. But what do we really know about Alexander? In this Very Short Introduction, Hugh Bowden goes behind the usual historical accounts of Alexander's life and career. Instead, he focuses on the evidence from Alexander's own time -- letters from officials in Afghanistan, Babylonian diaries, records from Egyptian temples -- to try and understand how Alexander appeared to those who encountered him. In doing so he also demonstrates the profound influence the legends of his life have had on our historical understanding and the controversy they continue to generate worldwide. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/2ea95a7e/alexander-the-great-a-very-short-introduction-hugh-bowden-9780198706151.jpg|9780198706151|Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198706151 : 24 Jul 2014 : In 336 BC Alexander the Great became king of Macedon. During his twelve-year reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the lar ...|new|1|1|4|8.99|0|GBP|Hugh Bowden|Oxford University Press|24 Jul 2014|Biography: historical, political & military 9780198708551|Trust in a Complex World|29.67|https://wordery.com/trust-in-a-complex-world-charles-heckscher-9780198708551|Can we rebuild trust in a time of increasing conflict and paralysis? Or rather, can we build trust, for the first time, wide and strong enough to bring us together to work on the complex problems of our age? Relations of trust have been weakened over the past century by a historic expansion of communication and cross-cultural interaction, and the advance of complex, fluid relationships. Now the rapid rise of the internet has accelerated the disruption. Many long for the comfort and security of relations in which one knew whom to trust and what to expect; yet at the same time they may embrace the dynamism and creativity that comes from mixing of cultures and perspectives. This book explores current conflicts and confusions of relations and identities, using both general theory and specific cases. It argues that we are at a catalyzing moment in a long transition from a community in which the prime rule was tolerance, to one with a commitment to understanding; from one where it was considered wrong to argue about cultural differences, to one where such arguments are essential. The development of this rich community is essential as well as difficult. Complex societies produce complex challenges, from climate change to inequality to the risk-laden opportunities of bioengineering, that demand collaboration among people with widely varying views. Such brewing crises cannot be worked through without far more deliberate discussion and cooperation, and higher levels of trust, than we have today. This book explores many challenges ahead and suggests some practical directions for resolving them.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/15dab989/trust-in-a-complex-world-charles-heckscher-9780198708551.jpg|9780198708551|Trust in a Complex World : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198708551 : 01 Dec 2015 : This book explores how trust and community are affected by the rapid increase in the scope of communication. Uncertainty of relations generates many destruct ...|new|1|1|145|30.99|0|GBP|Charles Heckscher|Oxford University Press|01 Dec 2015|Sociology 9780198706434|The Foundations of Mathematics|16.99|https://wordery.com/the-foundations-of-mathematics-ian-stewart-9780198706434|The transition from school mathematics to university mathematics is seldom straightforward. Students are faced with a disconnect between the algorithmic and informal attitude to mathematics at school, versus a new emphasis on proof, based on logic, and a more abstract development of general concepts, based on set theory. The authors have many years' experience of the potential difficulties involved, through teaching first-year undergraduates and researching the ways in which students and mathematicians think. The book explains the motivation behind abstract foundational material based on students' experiences of school mathematics, and explicitly suggests ways students can make sense of formal ideas. This second edition takes a significant step forward by not only making the transition from intuitive to formal methods, but also by reversing the process- using structure theorems to prove that formal systems have visual and symbolic interpretations that enhance mathematical thinking. This is exemplified by a new chapter on the theory of groups. While the first edition extended counting to infinite cardinal numbers, the second also extends the real numbers rigorously to larger ordered fields. This links intuitive ideas in calculus to the formal epsilon-delta methods of analysis. The approach here is not the conventional one of 'nonstandard analysis', but a simpler, graphically based treatment which makes the notion of an infinitesimal natural and straightforward. This allows a further, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

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A collection of private family letters from the First World War that lay forgotten for almost ninety years; affords a unique, first-hand glimpse into the unfolding experience of the war in the life of one family and their friends- on the Home Front, on the Western Front, and in British India; transports us back to a time that is slipping tantalizingly out of living memory; brings us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people thought, feared, and hoped for in these momentous years. The First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters--which lay untouched for almost ninety years--allows a unique glimpse into the war as experienced by one family at the time, transporting us back to an era which is now slipping tantalizingly out of living memory. The Slaters--the family at the heart of these letters--lived in Oxford. Like most families, they were both typical and unique. Gilbert, the father of the family, had been headof Ruskin College in Oxford, and during the war found work as the first Professor of Indian Economics in Madras. His wife, Violet, grew to detest the war and became an increasingly vocal pacifist as the slaughter continued. Owen, their eldest son, a schoolboy in 1914, was fighting in France by war's end. In the letters they wrote to each other and their friends at this time we see how the war increasingly impacted upon each of their lives and the life of the world around them--rationing, Violet's increasing involvement in radical politics, the deaths of friends, the fear of Zeppelin raids when in London, the endless discussions between Violet and Gilbert about how to keep their son out of the trenches - and the growth of Owen from schoolboy to soldier, serving as a junior officer on the Western Front. Above all, in their privacy and immediacy, their inconsistencies and false hopes, these letters bring us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people tho ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/e6f264e4/full-of-hope-and-fear-margaret-bonfiglioli-9780198707172.jpg|9780198707172|Full of Hope and Fear : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198707172 : 24 Jul 2014 : A collection of First World War letters that lay forgotten for almost ninety years, allowing a unique glimpse into how the war was experienced at the time - and ...|new|1|1|132|25|0|GBP|Margaret Bonfiglioli|Oxford University Press|24 Jul 2014|First World War books 9780198709336|Knowledge on Trust|38.72|https://wordery.com/knowledge-on-trust-paul-faulkner-9780198709336|We know a lot about the world and our place in it. We have come to this knowledge in a variety of ways. And one central way that we, both as individuals and as a society, have come to know what we do is through communication with others. Much of what we know, we know on the basis of testimony. In Knowledge on Trust, Paul Faulkner presents an epistemological theory of testimony, or a theory that explains how it is that we acquire knowledge and warranted belief from testimony. The key questions addressed in this book are: what makes it reasonable to accept a piece of testimony? And what warrants belief formed on this testimonial basis? Faulkner argues that existing theories of testimony largely fail because they do not recognise how issues of practical rationality motivate the first question, and this is what makes testimony distinctive as a source of knowledge. At the heart of the theory this book presents is the idea that trust is central to answering these two questions. An attitude of trust can make it reasonable to depend on another's testimony, but what warrants testimonial belief is not trust but the body of evidence the testimony originates from. Testimonial knowledge and testimonially warranted belief are formed on trust. Faulkner goes on to argue that our having a way of life wherein testimony can provide such a source of knowledge and warrant is dependent upon a society in which a certain kind of trust is possible.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/d0dd5627/knowledge-on-trust-paul-faulkner-9780198709336.jpg|9780198709336|Knowledge on Trust : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198709336 : 15 Dec 2014 : Paul Faulkner presents a new theory of testimony-the basis of much of what we know. He addresses the questions of what makes it reasonable to accept a piece of te ...|new|1|1|15|25.99|0|GBP|Paul Faulkner|Oxford University Press|15 Dec 2014|Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge 9780198706151|Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction|7.71|https://wordery.com/alexander-the-great-a-very-short-introduction-hugh-bowden-9780198706151|Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest empire that had ever existed, leading his army from Greece to Pakistan, and from the Libyan desert to the steppes of Central Asia. His meteoric career, as leader of an alliance of Greek cities, Pharaoh of Egypt, and King of Persia, had a profound effect on the world he moved through. Even in his lifetime his achievements became legendary and in the centuries that following his story was told and retold throughout Europe and the East. Greek became the language of power in the Eastern Mediterranean and much of the Near East, as powerful Macedonian dynasts carved up Alexander's empire into kingdoms of their own, underlaying the flourishing Hellenistic civilization that emerged after his death. But what do we really know about Alexander? In this Very Short Introduction, Hugh Bowden goes behind the usual historical accounts of Alexander's life and career. Instead, he focuses on the evidence from Alexander's own time -- letters from officials in Afghanistan, Babylonian diaries, records from Egyptian temples -- to try and understand how Alexander appeared to those who encountered him. In doing so he also demonstrates the profound influence the legends of his life have had on our historical understanding and the controversy they continue to generate worldwide. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/2ea95a7e/alexander-the-great-a-very-short-introduction-hugh-bowden-9780198706151.jpg|9780198706151|Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198706151 : 01 Dec 2014 : In 336 BC Alexander the Great became king of Macedon. During his twelve-year reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the lar ...|new|1|1|19|7.99|0|GBP|Hugh Bowden|Oxford University Press|01 Dec 2014|Biography: historical, political & military 9780198706434|The Foundations of Mathematics|14.70|https://wordery.com/the-foundations-of-mathematics-ian-stewart-9780198706434|The transition from school mathematics to university mathematics is seldom straightforward. Students are faced with a disconnect between the algorithmic and informal attitude to mathematics at school, versus a new emphasis on proof, based on logic, and a more abstract development of general concepts, based on set theory. The authors have many years' experience of the potential difficulties involved, through teaching first-year undergraduates and researching the ways in which students and mathematicians think. The book explains the motivation behind abstract foundational material based on students' experiences of school mathematics, and explicitly suggests ways students can make sense of formal ideas. This second edition takes a significant step forward by not only making the transition from intuitive to formal methods, but also by reversing the process- using structure theorems to prove that formal systems have visual and symbolic interpretations that enhance mathematical thinking. This is exemplified by a new chapter on the theory of groups. While the first edition extended counting to infinite cardinal numbers, the second also extends the real numbers rigorously to larger ordered fields. This links intuitive ideas in calculus to the formal epsilon-delta methods of analysis. The approach here is not the conventional one of 'nonstandard analysis', but a simpler, graphically based treatment which makes the notion of an infinitesimal natural and straightforward. This allows a further vision of the wider world of mathematical thinking in which formal definitions and proof lead to amazing new ways of defining, proving, visualising and symbolising mathematics beyond previous expectations.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/3f60c60c/the-foundations-of-mathematics-ian-stewart-9780198706434.jpg|9780198706434|The Foundations of Mathematics : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198706434 : 19 Mar 2015 : The transition from school to university mathematics is seldom straightforward. Students are faced with a disconnect between the algorithmic and infor ...|new|1|1|1|15.99|0|GBP|Ian Stewart|Oxford University Press|19 Mar 2015|Number systems 9780198705611|Granites|53.09|https://wordery.com/granites-anne-nedelec-9780198705611|Granites are emblematic rocks developed from a magma that crystallized in the Earth's crust. They ultimately outcrop at the surface of every continent. This book - translated, edited, and updated from the original French edition Petrologie des Granites published by Vuibert in 2011 - gives a modern presentation of granitic rocks, or granites, from magma genesis to their emplacement into the crust and their crystallization. Mineralogical, petrological, physical, and economical aspects are developed in a succession of 14 chapters. Special 'info boxes' discuss topics for those wishing to deepen their knowledge of the subject. Also included is a glossary, a comprehensive bibliography, as well as descriptions of modern techniques. Granites are considered in their geological spatial and temporal frame, in relation with Plate Tectonics and Earth History, and assisted by a large number of high quality illustrations.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/5d0cbb9c/granites-anne-nedelec-9780198705611.jpg|9780198705611|Granites : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198705611 : 22 Jan 2015 : A modern presentation of granitic rocks, translated into English and updated from the original French edition. Mineralogical, petrological, structural, and economical aspect ...|new|1|1|14|59|0|GBP|Anne Nedelec|Oxford University Press|22 Jan 2015|Geochemistry 9780198707660|The Mess Inside|23.48|https://wordery.com/the-mess-inside-peter-goldie-9780198707660|Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives--our past, present, and future--in narrative terms. The notion of narrative is highly topical, and highly contentious, in a wide range of fields including philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis, historical studies, and literature. The Mess Inside engages with all of these areas of discourse, and steers a path between the sceptics who are dismissive of the idea of narrative as having any worthwhile use at all, and those who argue that our very selfhood is somehow constituted by a narrative. After introducing the notion of narrative, Goldie discusses the way we engage with the past in narrative terms. This involves an exploration of the essentially perspectival nature of narrative thinking, which gains support from much recent empirical work on memory. Drawing on literary examples and on work in psychology, Goldie considers grief as a case study of this kind of narrative thinking, extending to a discussion of the crucial notion of closure." Turning to narrative thinking about our future, Goldie discusses the many structural parallels between our imaginings of the future and our memories of the past, and the role of our emotions in response to what we imagine in thinking about our future in the light of our past. This is followed by a second case study--an exploration of self-forgiveness. In this ground-breaking book, Goldie supports scepticism about the idea that there is such a thing as a narrative self, but argues that having a narrative sense of self, quite distinct from any metaphysical notion of selfhood, is at the heart of what it is to think of ourselves, and others, as having a narratable past, present, and future. Books, [PU: Oxford University Press]<

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A collection of private family letters from the First World War that lay forgotten for almost ninety years; affords a unique, first-hand glimpse into the unfolding experience of the war i… Más…

A collection of private family letters from the First World War that lay forgotten for almost ninety years; affords a unique, first-hand glimpse into the unfolding experience of the war in the life of one family and their friends- on the Home Front, on the Western Front, and in British India; transports us back to a time that is slipping tantalizingly out of living memory; brings us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people thought, feared, and hoped for in these momentous years. The First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters--which lay untouched for almost ninety years--allows a unique glimpse into the war as experienced by one family at the time, transporting us back to an era which is now slipping tantalizingly out of living memory. The Slaters--the family at the heart of these letters--lived in Oxford. Like most families, they were both typical and unique. Gilbert, the father of the family, had been headof Ruskin College in Oxford, and during the war found work as the first Professor of Indian Economics in Madras. His wife, Violet, grew to detest the war and became an increasingly vocal pacifist as the slaughter continued. Owen, their eldest son, a schoolboy in 1914, was fighting in France by war's end. In the letters they wrote to each other and their friends at this time we see how the war increasingly impacted upon each of their lives and the life of the world around them--rationing, Violet's increasing involvement in radical politics, the deaths of friends, the fear of Zeppelin raids when in London, the endless discussions between Violet and Gilbert about how to keep their son out of the trenches - and the growth of Owen from schoolboy to soldier, serving as a junior officer on the Western Front. Above all, in their privacy and immediacy, their inconsistencies and false hopes, these letters bring us as near as we can ever be to understanding what people tho ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/e6f264e4/full-of-hope-and-fear-margaret-bonfiglioli-9780198707172.jpg|9780198707172|Full of Hope and Fear : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198707172 : 24 Jul 2014 : A collection of First World War letters that lay forgotten for almost ninety years, allowing a unique glimpse into how the war was experienced at the time - and ...|new|1|1|132|25|0|GBP|Margaret Bonfiglioli|Oxford University Press|24 Jul 2014|First World War books 9780198709626|Getting Causes from Powers|25.99|https://wordery.com/getting-causes-from-powers-stephen-mumford-9780198709626|Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how much do we truly understand it? Do we know what it means to say that one thing is a cause of another and do we understand what in the world drives causation? Getting Causes from Powers develops a new and original theory of causation based on an ontology of real powers or dispositions. Others have already suggested that this ought to be possible, but no one has yet performed the detailed work. Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum argue here that the completed theory will not look exactly as anyone has yet anticipated, and that a thoroughly dispositional theory of causation has some surprising features, for instance with respect to modality. The book is not restricted to the metaphysics of causation, but treats a variety of topics such as explanation, perception, modelling, the logic of causal claims, transitivity, and nonlinearity, and the empirical credentials of the theory are tested with reference to biology.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/5f3e3fb3/getting-causes-from-powers-stephen-mumford-9780198709626.jpg|9780198709626|Getting Causes from Powers : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780198709626 : 15 Dec 2014 : Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how much do we understand it? Mumford and Anjum develop a new theor ...|new|1|1|1|25.99|0|GBP|Stephen Mumford|Oxford University Press|15 Dec 2014|Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge 9780198707660|The Mess Inside|31.99|https://wordery.com/the-mess-inside-peter-goldie-9780198707660|Peter Goldie explores the ways in which we think about our lives--our past, present, and future--in narrative terms. The notion of narrative is highly topical, and highly contentious, in a wide range of fields including philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis, historical studies, and literature. The Mess Inside engages with all of these areas of discourse, and steers a path between the sceptics who are dismissive of the idea of narrative as having any worthwhile use at all, and those who argue that our very selfhood is somehow constituted by a narrative. After introducing the notion of narrative, Goldie discusses the way we engage with the past in narrative terms. This involves an exploration of the essentially perspectival nature of narrative thinking, which gains support from much recent empirical work on memory. Drawing on literary examples and on work in psychology, Goldie considers grief as a case study of this kind of narrative thinking, extending to a discussion of the crucial notion of closure." Turning to narrative thinking about our future, Goldie discusses the many structural parallels between our imaginings of the future and our memories of the past, and the role of our emotions in response to what we imagine in thinking about our future in the light of our past. This is followed by a second case study--an exploration of self-forgiveness. In this ground-breaking book, Goldie supports scepticism about the idea that there is such a thing as a narrative self, but argues that having a narrative sense of self, quite distinct from any metaphysical notion of selfhood, is at the heart of what it is to think of ourselves, and others, as having a narratable past, present, and future. Books, [PU: Oxford University Press]<