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  • DANGERS OF DETERRENCE
    KAY POLE / NIGEL BLAKE
    Europe has everything to lose from nuclear war, and nothing to gain from it. Yet it is nuclear deterrence that we are relying on to shield us from war. More and more people are coming to believe that security under a nuclear shield is an illusion, and that nuclear deterrence embodies a dangerous paradox. It is too close to provocation, it cannot prevent nuclear blackmail, and i...

    $899.00

  • OBJECTIONS TO NUCLEAR DEFENCE
    KAY POLE / NIGEL BLAKE
    Moral and political questions are vitally relevant to the issue of survival in the nuclear age. Ethics has much to teach us about the meaning of national defence and civic responsibility in the nuclear state. For instance, those in NATO who argue for increased spending on such weapons do so with the intention of defending the values of the West. They must therefore be absolutel...

    $899.00

  • THE UNIVERSITIES WE NEED
    NIGEL BLAKE / RICHARD SMITH / PAUL STANDISH
    This work challenges some of the assumptions behind recent thinking on lifelong learning and discusses the idea of the learning society through a reappraisal of the relationship between the university and the community. It reconsiders the demand for efficiency, effectiveness and accountability. ...

    $659.00

  • EDUCATION IN AN AGE OF NIHILISM
    NIGEL BLAKE / PAUL SMEYERS / RICHARD SMITH / PAUL STANDISH
    This book addresses concerns about educational and moral standards in a world increasingly characterised by nihilism. On the one hand there is widespread anxiety that standards are falling; on the other, new machinery of accountability and inspection to show that they are not. The authors in this book state that we cannot avoid nihilism if we are simply laissez-faire about valu...

    $1,259.00