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Buddha, Jesus And Muhammad: A Comparative Study
Paul Gwynne
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• Author(s): Paul Gwynne • Publisher: Wiley • BISAC: EasternThis cool, clear-sighted comparative study has no theological axe to grind. It offers a trusty thematic guide to the figureheads of three of the largest religions in the world. The comp...
View full detailsThe Idea Of A Social Science And Its Relation To Philosophy
Peter Winch
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• Author(s): Peter Winch • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralIn the fiftieth anniversary of this book’s first release, Winch’s argument remains as crucial as...
View full detailsAuthority And The Individual
Bertrand Russell
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• Author(s): Bertrand Russell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyFrom Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority and the Ind...
View full detailsThe Challenge Of Islamic Renaissance
Syed Abdul Quddus
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• Author(s): Syed Abdul Quddus • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThis book is a definite contribution towards understanding the challenge of Islamic renaissance by an international readership al...
View full detailsKhalil Gibran (Vol. 3)
Dr. Narendra Choudhry
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• Author(s): Dr. Narendra Choudhry • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Hindi Literatureकवि, ज्ञानी और चित्रकार खलील जिब्रान ने लेबनान में जन्म लिया, जहां की धरती ने अनेक पैगम्बर उत्पन्न किये हैं। अरबी भाषा के ही नहीं अपि...
View full detailsIndian Women Across Generations
Uma Narula
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• Author(s): Uma Narula • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyThe book Indian Women Across Generations brings forth the life and predicament of women, including in its narration the discriminatio...
View full detailsThe School For Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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• Author(s): Richard Brinsley Sheridan • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe School for Scandal is a comedy of manners, a play satirizing the behavior and customs of upper classes through witty dialog...
View full detailsKing Lear
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureKing Lear is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and was believed to have been written be-tween 1605-1606, and was based on a ...
View full detailsA Handbook of Translation Studies
Bijay Kumar Das
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• Author(s): Bijay Kumar Das • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureLike criticism, translation is always a text about a text and hence it is a metatext. We translate by intuition. There is no ‘science of...
View full detailsThe Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Great Gatsby is generally considered to be the finest novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in an easy style, without com...
View full detailsThe Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Comedy of Errors, in five-acts, is one of the shortest and most lively of Shakespeare’s comedies. It was written during 1589—94 a...
View full detailsThe Language Of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel
David Lodge
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• Author(s): David Lodge • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLanguage of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist ...
View full detailsPostmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction
Niall Lucy
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• Author(s): Niall Lucy • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley India • Subject: English Literature
A Theory Of Literary Production
Pierre Macherey
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• Author(s): Pierre Macherey • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshWho is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in...
View full detailsOxford Lectures On Poetry
A.C. Bradley
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• Author(s): A.C. Bradley • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureOne of the best-known works of Bradley, the present volume consists of lectures delivered during the author’s tenure of the Chair of Poetry...
View full detailsCritical Theories: Indian And Western
M.P. Sinha, Neeraj Agnihotri
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• Author(s): M.P. Sinha | Neeraj Agnihotri • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureCritical Theories: Indian and Western presents a reasonably comprehensive account of the basic concepts in Indian and West...
View full detailsIndian Archaeology After Independence: Amalananda Ghosh and His Legacy
Himanshu Prabha Ray
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• Author(s): Himanshu Prabha Ray • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: ArchaeologyThe book presents the challenges faced by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in the first two and a half decades a...
View full detailsAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
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• Author(s): David Hume • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man." An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume is a sem...
View full detailsThe Trial
Franz Kafka
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• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.” The Trial by Franz Kafka, first published posthumously ...
View full detailsPRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR
Thomson, A.v. Martinet
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• Author(s): Thomson | A.v. Martinet • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature
The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.
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• Author(s): William Strunk Jr. • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., a seminal guide to the art of writing, distils the essential rules of grammar, usa...
View full detailsSecularism: The Basics
Berlinerblau, Jacques
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• Author(s): Berlinerblau | Jacques • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: AtheismSecularism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to confusing and contradictory p...
View full detailsBukhari
Ghassan Abdul-Jabbar
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• Author(s): Ghassan Abdul-Jabbar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English LiteratureAbout the Book Bukhari (d.256/870) is famed throughout the Islamic world as the greatest practitioner in the field of hadith - te...
View full detailsPublic Health (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Virginia Berridge
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• Author(s): Virginia Berridge • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Public HealthPublic health is a term much used in the media, by health professionals, and by activists. At the nat...
View full detailsClassical Mythology (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Helen Morales
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• Author(s): Helen Morales • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyFrom Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exer...
View full detailsHappiness (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Daniel M. Haybron
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• Author(s): Daniel M. Haybron • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralHappiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be d...
View full detailsNothing (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Frank Close
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• Author(s): Frank Close • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Movements - ExistentialismWhat is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exi...
View full detailsSocial & Cultural Anthropology (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Monaghan John, Peter Just
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• Author(s): Monaghan John | Peter Just • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialSocial & Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction is a book that helps its readers in understan...
View full detailsWorld Philosophies: An Historical Introduction
David E. Copper
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• Author(s): David E. Copper • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThis popular text has now been revised to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the ...
View full detailsWhy I Am Not A Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Bertrand Russell
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• Author(s): Bertrand Russell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyWhy I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell, 1138301450, 9781138301450, Routledge Classics
Power: A New Social Analysis
Bertrand Russell
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• Author(s): Bertrand Russell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyIn this remarkable book, regarded by Russell as one of the most important of his career, he argues that powe...
View full detailsSamajshastra Ke Siddhant
Ram Nath Sharma, R.K. Sharma
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• Author(s): Ram Nath Sharma | R.K. Sharma • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Sociology and Anthropologyसमाजशास्त्र के सिद्धान्तों पर यह पुस्तक समस्त भारतीय विश्वविद्यालयों में समाजशास्त्र विषय में Principles of Sociol...
View full detailsPramukh Smajshastriya Vicharak
Ram Nath Sharma, R.K. Sharma
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• Author(s): Ram Nath Sharma | R.K. Sharma • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Sociology and Anthropologyयह पुस्तक मध्य प्रदेश वेफ समस्त विश्वविद्यालयों में बी.ए. समाजशास्त्रा ;तृतीय वर्षद्ध तथा समस्त भारतीय विश्वविद्या...
View full detailsKhalil Gibran (Vol. 2)
Dr. Narendra Choudhry
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• Author(s): Dr. Narendra Choudhry • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Hindi Literatureकवि, ज्ञानी और चित्राकार खलील जिब्रान ने लेबनान में जन्म लिया, जहां की धरती ने अनेक पैगम्बर उत्पन्न किये हैं। अरबी भाषा के ही नहीं अप...
View full detailsVolpone
Ben Jonson
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• Author(s): Ben Jonson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureVolpone (or The Fox) is a comedy in five acts, performed about 1605–1606 and published in 1607, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast f...
View full detailsThe Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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• Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Secret Garden is one of the most delightful and enduring classics of children’s literature, which has remained a firm favorit...
View full detailsNineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
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• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureNineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian fiction portraying a society ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship. The Oceanian province of Airstrip O...
View full detailsA New Approach to Literary Theory and Criticism
R.S. Malik, Jagdish Batra
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• Author(s): R.S. Malik | Jagdish Batra • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureLiterary theory is a systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. Literary theor...
View full detailsSense And Sensibility
Jane Austen
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• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSense and Sensibility, the first of Austen’s novels to be published, remains as fresh as ever it was. The basic theme of the novel is concern...
View full detailsParadise Lost
John Milton
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• Author(s): John Milton • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMilton’s magnum opus, Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, was composed during the period 1658 to 1664. The first version, published i...
View full detailsAs You Like It
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAs You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Fol...
View full detailsWholeness And The Implicate Order
David Bohm
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• Author(s): David Bohm • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: English LiteratureDavid Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Eins...
View full detailsThomas Hardy'S Poetry And Existentialism
Mallikarjun Patil
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• Author(s): Mallikarjun Patil • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe book is a scholarly work which throws ample light on Hardy, a poet-thinker so far a neglected genius. The author penetrates deep i...
View full detailsThe Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894 by Arthur Conan Doyle. In ...
View full detailsThe Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza
George Bernard Shaw
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• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, a wry political satire, was completed in December 1928 and first performed in Warsaw (in Po...
View full detailsThe Adventures Of Tom Sawyer And The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
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• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paints an unforgettable pict...
View full detailsGUIDE TO PATTERNS AND USAGE
Hornby
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• Author(s): Hornby • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
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• Author(s): Bram Stoker • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureDracula, published in 1897, is the most famous of all tales of vampirism. Presented in diaries, letters and news items, this story of the blo...
View full detailsSikhism
Hew Mcleod
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• Author(s): Hew Mcleod • Publisher: Yoda Press • Publisher Imprint: Yoda Press • Subject: Religion and Philosophy‘McLeod has done more for Sikh history than anyone now alive. In fact, if there is a Father of Sikh History, it is Hew Mcleod.’ Ruku...
View full detailsJewish Literature (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Ilan Stavans
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• Author(s): Ilan Stavans • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: General Books • BISAC: JewishAbout the Book In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian...
View full detailsHeterogeneities Identity Formations In Modern India
Pradip Kumar Datta
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• Author(s): Pradip Kumar Datta • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralAbout the Book Taking the instability of all identities as its point of depar...
View full detailsDialogues and Natural History of Religion: (Oxford World's Classics)
David Hume
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• Author(s): David Hume • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: ReligiousDavid Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English languag...
View full detailsVisions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture
Eviatar Shulman
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• Author(s): Eviatar Shulman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyVisions of the Buddha offers a ground-breaking approach to the nature of the early discourses of the Buddha, the most foundationa...
View full detailsDangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Sumanta Banerjee
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• Author(s): Sumanta Banerjee • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)Dangerous outcast traces prostitution in Bengal from p...
View full detailsLanguages (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Stephen Anderson
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• Author(s): Stephen Anderson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralHow many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still b...
View full detailsContinental Philosophy (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Simon Critchley
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• Author(s): Simon Critchley • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernSimon Critchley's Very Short Introduction shows that Continental philosophy encompasses a...
View full detailsSchopenhauer (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Christopher Janaway
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• Author(s): Christopher Janaway • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernSchopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book ...
View full detailsRussian Literature (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Catriona Kelly
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• Author(s): Catriona Kelly • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Russian & SovietThis book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literat...
View full detailsConcise Oxford Dictionary English Etymol
T.F.Hoad(Ed)
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• Author(s): T.F.Hoad(Ed) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyWhere did the words bungalow and assassin derive? What did nice mean in the Middle Ages? How were adder,...
View full detailsConjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
Karl Popper
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• Author(s): Karl Popper • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyConjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its...
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