LIBROS DEL AUTOR: simon morgan

8 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: simon morgan

simon morgan Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Celebrities, heroes and champions
    Simon James Morgan
    Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act of 1867. Covering movements for parliamentary reform up to and including Chartism, Catholic Emancipation, transatlantic Anti-Slavery and the Anti-Corn Law League, as well as the receptions of international celebrities such ...
    Disponible

    43,96 €

  • A Victorian Woman’s Place
    Simon Morgan
    While the image of bourgeois Victorian women as ’angels in the house’ isolated from the world in private domesticity has long been dismissed as an unrealistic ideal, women have remained marginalised in many recent accounts of the public culture of the middle class. Simon Morgan aims to redress the balance. By drawing on a variety of sources including private documents, he argue...
    Disponible

    57,44 €

  • Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism
    Simon Morgan
    Addressing the critical issues that were to bring Richard Cobden (1804-1865) to the attention of Europe’s political classes, this volume provides a timely reassessment of his influence on the development of nineteenth-century economic thinking. Focusing particularly on Cobden’s advocacy of free trade and opposition to tariffs, the book explores the impact of ’Cobdenism’ on the...
    Disponible

    106,72 €

  • The Poetics of Sleep
    Simon Morgan Wortham
    To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for the philosophical imagination? Why does it recur throughout philosophy? What is at issue in the repeated relegation of sleep to the realm of physiological study (as in Kant, Freud and Bergson), in favour of promoting the critical investigation of dreams and dreaming as a key indicator of modernity? Does philosophy entail a certai...
    Disponible

    67,02 €

  • Derrida
    Simon Morgan Wortham
    Derrida wrote a vast number of texts for particular events across the world, as well as a series of works that portray him as a voyager. As an Algerian émigré, a postcolonial outsider, and an idiomatic writer who felt tied to a language that was not his own, and as a figure obsessed by the singularity of the literary or philosophical event, Derrida emerges as one whose thought ...
    Disponible

    67,20 €

  • The Derrida Dictionary
    Simon Morgan Wortham
    The Derrida Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Jacques Derrida, the founder of deconstruction and one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences and provides a firm grounding in the cen...
    Disponible

    50,96 €

  • Jimmy Perry and David Croft
    Simon Morgan-Russell
    This book explores the collaborative sitcoms of two of British television’s most well-known comedy writers. Written over a period of twenty-five years, the four series ’Dad’s Army’, ’It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum’, ’Hi-de-Hi!’ and ’You Rang M’Lord?’ have endured as much-loved and often-repeated classics.The book explores the themes of Perry and Croft’s writing in terms of their own bi...
    Disponible

    28,71 €

  • Occupational Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation
    Maryanne Morgan / Simon B. N. Thompson
    This book is both an introductory text to the rehabilitation of stroke for student therapists and a reference text for qualified therapists. The layout of the book reflects these needs with Chapters 1-4 assuming a minimal level of understanding of the material. These chapters provide an introduction to the condition of stroke itself, the problern ther...
    Disponible

    134,22 €