Imprint Academic imprint: 246 books
The Last Prime Minister
Being Honest About the UK Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Echoing Mahatma Gandhi's comment on Western civilization, Graham Allen thinks the British constitution would be a very good idea—a clear constitution providing real power to the British people and their elected representatives. In The Last Prime Minister he showed the British people how they had...
Tell My Mother I'm Not Dead
A Case Study in Mediumship Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
This book divides into two parts. The first is a personal narrative of the impact of the death of the author’s son Ralph on him and his family and his efforts to see if there was any evidence for his continued existence (generated largely through visits to mediums) that a thinking person could take...
From Plato to Wittgenstein
Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
In 2005 St Andrews Studies published a volume of essays by Anscombe entitled Human Life, Action and Ethics, followed in 2008 by a second with the title Faith in a Hard Ground. Both books were highly praised. This third volume brings essays on the thought of historical philosophers in which Anscombe engages...
Jesus and the Trojan War
Myth and Meaning for Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Jesus and the Trojan War looks at ways in which stories are presented and understood; and how story-tellers - and their listeners - may wittingly or unwittingly confuse fact with fiction. This book explores the parallels between four stories (the Trojan war, Moses, King Arthur, and Jesus), and the way their sources relate to their histories and contemporary relevance.
Faith in a Hard Ground
Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Elizabeth Anscombe’s forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues of current concern.This collection of her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed Human Life, Action and Ethics, published in 2005.
Being Cultured
in defence of discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all....
Natural Law, Economics and the Common Good
Perspectives from Natural Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and ongoing debt-related troubles there have been widespread calls to put banking and economic activity on a secure ethical foundation, either by regulation or through voluntary reform. In this volume a distinguished set of authors explore various economic,...
Profit, Prudence and Virtue
Essays in Ethics, Business and Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Essays on the ethics of business and management.
by Ivo Mosley
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Democracy is not a universal good, it is a political system, and like all political systems it is open to corruption. The word 'democracy' means 'rule by the people', not rule by a simple majority. To achieve rule by all the people, it used to be accepted that as much of civil life should be kept out...
by Craig Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Democracy is killing the West. That is the stunning conclusion of this book that tears apart the consensus underpinning modern political assumptions.Democracy is held to solve one of the oldest puzzles of human social life: how do we ensure that our rulers have a legitimate mandate and rule in the interests...
Earthy Realism
The Meaning of Gaia
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments...
In Defence of Modernity
Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Although Oakeshott's philosophy has received considerable attention, the vision which underlies it has been almost completely ignored. This vision, which is rooted in the intellectual debates of his epoch, cements his ideas into a coherent whole and provides a compelling defence of modernity.The main...
Britain in a Global World
Options for a New Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
This edited collection explores the future options for the UK regarding its relationship with the European Union (EU). Since Britain applied for membership in 1961, the nature of the relationship between the UK and the EU has been central to economic and political debate, being widely perceived as ‘inevitable’,...
Moored to the Continent
Future Options for Britain and the EU
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Is there an alternative to EU membership? What if Britain left the EU? Would it be a disastrous or liberating experience? What trade relationships could the UK forge outside the EU? How would economic and social policy be different? What are the implications for sovereignty and democracy?This text seeks...