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The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
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Through a judicious selection of the classic essays from 1787-1788 by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay in defence of the new federal Constitution -- together with key writings by the Anti-Federalists -- Wootton captures the essentials of the 18th-century American debate on federalism in this modernised edition and frames it with a brilliant and engaging ...
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Selected Political Writings
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Here are The Prince and the most important Discourses, newly translated into spare, vivid English by one of the most gifted historians of his generation. Why a new translation? "Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations", says David Wootton in his Introduction. "In the pages that follow ...
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Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche
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David Wootton
This Second Edition offers a new unit on modern constitutionalism with selections from Hume, Montesquieu, the Federalist, and Constant. In addition to a new essay by Wootton, this unit features his new translation of Constant's 1819 essay "On Ancient and Modern Liberty". Other changes include expanded selections from Machiavelli's "Discourses on ...
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Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
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David Wootton
Just how much good has medicine done over the years, and how much harm does it continue to do? The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good. In this fascinating new look at the history of medicine, David ...
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Divine Right and Democracy: 2an Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England
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David Wootton, Various, David Wooton (Editor)
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The Moon in the Gutter
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David Goodis, Adrian Wootton (Introduction by)
In the rough end of Philadelphia, docker William Kerrigan obsesses over the mysterious suicide of his sister. Into a dive bar walks Lorretta Channing the beautiful, enigmatic socialite and sister of Newton the drunk. Loretta's the impossible dream, the escape route from his hellhole existence, but maybe she holds the key to his sister's death.
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Of Tender Sin
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David Goodis, Adrian Wootton (Introduction by)
Alvin Darby, 29-year-old insurance clerk, finds his comfortable middle-class lifestyle in turmoil when he begins to suspect his wife of adultery, and starts to plot the murder of his old friend, Pete Lanson, whom he suspects of being his wife's lover.
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Candide, and Related Writings
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David Wootton Voltaire
This lively new translation of Voltaire's satiric masterpiece is accompanied by a short selection of writings of each of the most prominent optimists to whom Voltaire was responding -- Leibniz, Bolingbroke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Wolff, Rousseau, and Malebranche -- and thus offers a better perspective of the intellectual context in which Candide was ...
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Paolo Sarpi: Between Renaissance and Enlightenment
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David Wootton
Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623) is remembered as the defender of Venice against the Papal Interdict of 1606 and as the first, and greatest, historian of the Counter-Reformation. The sources of his undoubted hostility to clerical authority have always been a matter of controversy; many contemporaries claimed that Sarpi was an 'atheist', while to others his ...
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The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration: 1800-2002
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Red Apple (Photographer), Fiona Pearce (Designer), David Wootton (Text by)
This catalogue contains the wide range of artists and works now expected from the Chris Beetles Gallery and its well-established annual show of illustrators. Familiar and favourite illustrators are included from Lawson Wood to John Everett Millais. The wealth of illustrations are complemented by detailed biographical entries. A special feature of ...
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Black Friday: And Other Stories
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David Goodis, Adrian Wootton (Editor)
It's winter in Philadelphia, January cold coming in off two rivers. Hart is broke, freezing, looking for a place to lay low from the cops. If he can't find somewhere soon he might do something rash - like steal an overcoat and accept a wallet containing $11,000 from a man dying from gunshot wounds in the street. Whoever killed him might have a bed ...
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Insects
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Anthony Wootton, David Hurrell
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Illustrators 1786 - 2003
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David Wootton, Chris Beetles Limited (Creator)
A fascinating catalogue, containing the wide range of artists and works now expected from the Chris Beetles Gallery, and its well-established annual exhibition of the work of some of Britain's best-loved illustrators. Familiar and favourite illustrators are included - from Mabel Lucie Attwell to Arthur Rackham. The wealth of illustrations is ...
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Peter Coker, RA
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David Wootton, John Russell Taylor (Contributions by), Richard Humphreys (Contributions by)
A comprehensive companion to the work of the artist Peter Coker, this volume presents a catalogue raisonne, a list of exhibitions and a list of sketchbooks. The book includes two essays about specific aspects of Coker's life.
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Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England
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David Wootton
An anthology of political thought drawn from England's 'century of revolution' that focuses on the writings of those English theorists, essayists, speech writers, tract writers, and pamphleteers to whom Hobbes and Locke were immediately responding in their respective masterpieces of political theory.
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Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
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Micheal Hunter, Michael Hunter (Editor), David Wootton (Editor)
The rise of atheism and unbelief is a key feature in the development of the modern world, yet it is a topic which has been little explored by historians. This book presents a series of studies of irreligious ideas in various parts of Europe during the two centuries following the Reformation. Atheism was everywhere illegal. The word itself first ...
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Textile reinforcement of elastomers
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William Charles Wake, David B. Wootton
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Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society, 1649-1776
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David Wootton (Editor)
This book examines republicanism in an Anglo-American and European context from the execution of Charles I to the publication of Tom Paine's Common Sense. It gives weight not only to the thought of the leading and secondary theorists of republicanism, but also to the practical experience of republican governments in England, Geneva, the ...
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Florida Continuing Education
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George Gaines, David Coleman, Michelle N Wootton
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Florida Continuing Education for Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons, 2000-2001
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George Gaines, Michelle Wootton, David Coleman
This is the most up-to-date guide that provides licensees with a review and an update of selected laws and professional subjects that affect real estate practitioners in Florida.
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Florida Continuing Education for Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons
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George Gaines, David S Coleman, Linda L Crawford
Authoritative coverage of the latest Florida real estate laws and regulations.
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Image Analysis in Histology
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Richard Wootton (Editor), David Springall (Editor), Julia Polak (Editor)
This volume provides a timely and useful introduction to the theory and practical application of image analysis in histology. This powerful research technique can be used to detect not only stored products in a cell (immunocytochemistry) but the synthetic machinery and the genes that control it (in situ hybridisation), as well as the specific ...
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The illustrators : the British art of illustration, 1780-1996
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Bénédicte Brunori, Teresa Crowley, David Wootton, Chris Beetles Limited
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The art of George and Eileen Soper : George Soper, re 1870-1942, Eileen Soper, 1905-1990
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George Soper, Eileen Soper, David Wootton, Chris Beetles Limited
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John & Isobel Morton-Sale, (1901-1990), (1904-1992)
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John Morton Sale, Isobel Sale, Teresa Crowley, David Wootton, Chris Beetles Limited
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