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  • MYSTICISM AND LOGIC
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    “To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things – this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship.” —Bertrand Russell Mysticism and Logic is one of Russell's most celebrated collection of essays. They not only set the tone for analytical philosophy in the English-speaking world but are ...

    $500.00

  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF LEIBNIZ
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Bertrand Russell’s study of the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz is one of his earliest books, providing a fascinating glimpse of his philosophical brilliance. It remains one of the most important books on this polymathic seventeenth-century thinker and the only book Russell wrote about a major philosopher. Written when Russell was only in his late twenties, it g...

    $580.00

  • LOGIC AND KNOWLEDGE
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Bertrand Russell's writings on logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language and epistemology are among the most influential of the twentieth century. Logic and Knowledge presents Russell's very best and most important work on these topics in a single volume, which by placing philosophical logic at its core was of monumental importance in shaping the path of analytical philosophy....

    $580.00

  • AN INQUIRY INTO MEANING AND TRUTH
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    In An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Bertrand Russell returns to philosophy after a long period of writing about education, religion and marriage. Investigating how we can be justified in what we know and how we can reconcile knowledge of the physical world with immediate sensory knowledge, Russell sets out to reconcile the various aspects of his thought since his early logici...

    $540.00

  • SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES
    RUSSELL A. JONES
    Originally published in 1977, Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Social, Psychological, and Physiological Effects of Expectancies integrates a wide variety of research and theory dealing with inter- and intrapersonal expectancies, from which the author develops a new theoretical model. The model explores the relationships between a person’s expectation of success and both the objectiv...

    $960.00

  • DIGITAL CURRENCY AND CONSUMPTION
    JASHIM KHAN / RUSSELL BELK
    The digitalization of payment modes, combined with the development of Blockchain technology, is shaping the future of digital currency worldwide. Many financial regulators are experimenting with the feasibility of digital currencies nationally in a variety of forms, such as cryptocurrency, virtual currency and central bank digital currency. These digital currencies are just som...

    $1,240.00

  • NOËL COWARD
    RUSSELL JACKSON
    Noël Coward combines a fresh appraisal of major plays by one of the twentieth century’s most popular dramatists, with an account of critical and theatrical responses to his life and work. For almost the entirety of the twentieth century, Noël Coward was one of the UK’s most popular and celebrated playwrights. Refracting, rather than directly reflecting the social and personal i...

    $1,060.00

  • HUMOUR AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
    RUSSELL, CONSTANCE
    This book illustrates how humour can be a powerful tool for environmental education. Hailing from eight different countries, the authors’ inquiries are grounded in a range of sites of learning and focus on different comedic forms, offering a variety of perspectives on the ways humour features, or could feature, in environmental education. The chapters adopt an array of methodol...

    $1,480.00

  • AMERICAN LITERATURE AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE NATIONAL MIND
    RUSSELL BLANKENSHIP
    American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history and development of literature in the United States, but also the national characteristics that have arisen out of America’s unique background. By linking the two, the author provides great insight into the psychology of America and its great literary heritage. ...

    $860.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
    RUSSELL, ISABEL GALINA
    The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities covers a wide range of issues encountered in the world’s libraries and archives as they continue to expand their support of, and direct engagement in, Digital Humanities (DH) research and teaching. In addition to topics related to the practice of librarianship, and to libraries and archives as DH-friendl...

    $1,280.00

  • DIALOGUES ON RELIGION—AND ITS STUDY
    RUSSELL T. MCCUTCHEON
    Dialogues on Religion—and its Study creatively revives a time-honored genre by offering a series of new speeches on religion (its definition, description, comparison, and explanation) between two old friends who periodically meet throughout the year. Eventually working their way to examining why we tend to call part of our world and our experiences religious, nonspecialist read...

    $1,060.00

  • THE ATOMIC AGE
    M. L. OLIPHANT / P. M. S. BLACKETT / R. F. HARROD / BERTRAND RUSSELL / LIONEL CURTIS / D. W. BROGAN
    Originally published in 1949, this volume The Atomic Age contains six lectures delivered under the auspices of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust in 1948. Following the first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945 the Western world was very concerned about the impact of nuclear war. This book reflects on the consequences at that time from a number of different angles. This book is a re...

    $840.00

  • FACT AND FICTION
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    This collection of Bertrand Russell's essays is available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1961. Its first section deals with the books which influenced Russell in his youth. The works of Shelley, Turgenev, Ibsen and Gibbon are among those selected for discussion. The second part is devoted to essays on politics and education. The third section is one of...

    $640.00

  • THE MONARCHY, THE ESTATES AND THE ARISTOCRACY IN RENAISSANCE FRANCE
    J. RUSSELL MAJOR
    Professor Major's aim in these articles has been to stimulate new assessments of the political, constitutional and social history of France in the 15th - 17th centuries. The first group examines the nature of the Renaissance monarchy, its strengths and its weaknesses and lack of effective controls. The next group explores the issue of why the Estates General, and some of the pr...

    $4,500.00

  • SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT IN COLONIAL BRAZIL, 1500–1822
    A.J.R. RUSSELL-WOOD
    Professor Russell-Wood’s detailed studies of Brazilian social history in the colonial era have long been recognised as model contributions to the history of class, race, gender and religion. This collection combines work on particular persons and groupings with survey articles on the role of the port and the frontier in colonial Brazil and on its historiography. The author desc...

    $1,480.00

  • MAD STUDIES READER
    BRADLEY LEWIS, ALISHA ALI AND JAZMINE RUSSELL
    The last few years have brought increased writings from activists, artists, scholars, and concerned clinicians that cast a critical and constructive eye on psychiatry, mental health care, and the cultural relations of mental difference. With particular focus on accounts of lived experience and readings that cover issues of epistemic and social injustice in mental health discour...

    $1,840.00

  • OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE BIOLOGY
    P. A. TODD, B.D. RUSSELL
    Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarising and synthesising the...

    $5,200.00

  • STOLEN PRIDE
    ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD
    In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance. A 2024 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Pick A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year One of Barack...

    $550.00

  • REMEDIATION MANUAL FOR CONTAMINATED SITES
    DAVID L. RUSSELL
    Based on the author’s more than 40 years of experience working on environmental projects, Remediation Manual for Contaminated Sites provides a practical guide to environmental remediation and cleanups. It presents a broad overview of the environmental remediation process, distilled into what one needs to know to evaluate a specific challenge or solve a remediation problem. The ...

    $2,800.00

  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 7
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    This volume provides a historical introduction in the writing of the manuscript. Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript is the only book-length work on epistemology that Russell left unpublished in its original form, and its publication here is an important addition to knowledge of Russell's thought. ...

    $7,900.00

  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 8
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    This volume collects together all of Russell's philosophical papers inspired by his work with Whitehead on 'Principia Mathematica'. ...

    $7,900.00

  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 14
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    During the First World War, Bertrand Russell was political commentator for The Tribunal, the official weekly publication of the No-Conscription Fellowship, of which Russell was Action Chairman.This volume contains many short papers from that period, which reflect Russell's immediate reponses to developments in the conflict. These documents bear witness to Russell's growing comm...

    $7,900.00

  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 15
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 15 assembles Russell's writings on his experiences of visiting and reflecting on Russia and China.Having emerged from the Great War determined to prevent another armed conflict, Russell became a champion of international socialism as the antidote to the destructive forces of nationalism and capitalism. His quest for international...

    $7,500.00

  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 12
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Contemplation and Action 1902-14 is the first volume devoted exclusively to Russell's non-technical writings. It follows chronologically Volume 1, Cambridge Essays: 1888-99 which presented his earliest papers. ...

    $7,500.00

  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL VOLUME 21
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    In Collected Papers 21 Bertrand Russell grapples with the dilemma that confronted all opponents of militarism and war in the 1930s—namely, what was the most politically and morally appropriate response to international aggression. How to Keep the Peace contains some of Russell’s best-known essays, such as the famous Auto-obituary and his treatment of The Superior Virtue of the ...

    $9,000.00

  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 13
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Bertrand Russell's shorter writings against British participation in the First World War from its outbreak until the formation of Lloyd George's coalition. It includes the fullest documentation yet of the continuing government attempts to stifle Russell, then regarded as Britain's most dangerous pacifist. ...

    $7,900.00

  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 6
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive, philosophically speaking, of Russell's entire career. In addition to the papers reprinted here, he bought Principia Mathematica to its finished form and wrote The Problems of Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge and Knowledge of the External World. In October 1910 he began te...

    $7,900.00

  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 11
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    This volume collects together Russell's philosophical writings during the period from 1947-68. For about half of this period Russell worked steadily at philosophy but after the publication of My Philosophical Development in 1959 he retired from academic philosophy for the second time. After that date, only the occasional philosophical piece appeared, as he was preoccupied with ...

    $10,000.00

  • FROM ATOMS TO MOLECULES
    COLIN A. RUSSELL
    The focus of this volume by Professor Russell is the history of organic chemistry, which arose improbably out of early speculations about the construction of chemical compounds, and in particular their electrochemical nature. The rise of electrochemistry and the work of Berzelius were critical in this regard, and receive much attention in the first few chapters in this book. As...

    $4,500.00

  • A TIMELINE OF ORIGINS
    MICHAEL D. RUSSELL
    Particularly since the nineteenth century and Charles Darwin, those with a high view of Scripture have struggled to integrate the Bible's teachings on human origins with the mainstream scientific consensus. By positing a fundamental physical divide between the "once-cursed world" of Adam and Eve and the "twice-cursed world" of Cain's banishment, the book opens the door to a ree...

    $391.00