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  • The Thirty Years War: My Life Reporting on Education

    by Richard Garner ...
    Richard Garner has spent 36 years reporting on education, working for the Times Educational Supplement, The Mirror, and The Independent. In The Thirty Years War, he retraces the steps of his career, examining the policies, personalities, success stories and outright failures of the UK education scene from the 1980s to the present day. Richard gives his verdict on the 16 Education Secretaries he ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Law and Society in Classical Athens (Routledge Revivals)

    by Richard Garner ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Law and Society in Classical Athens, first published in 1987, traces the development of legal thought and its relation to Athenian values. Previously Athens’ courts have been regarded as chaotic, isolated from the rest of society and even bizarre. The importance of rhetoric and the mischief made by Aristophanes have devalued the legal process in the eyes of modern scholars, whilst the analysis of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • From Homer to Tragedy

    The Art of Allusion in Greek Poetry

    by Richard Garner ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Homer
    The role of poetic allusion in classical Greek poetry, to Homer especially, has often largely been neglected or even almost totally ignored. This book, first published in 1990, clarifies the place of Homer in Greek education, as well as adding to the interpretation of many important tragedies.Focussing on the dramatic masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and how these writers ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The End of Morality

    Taking Moral Abolitionism Seriously

    Edited by Richard Joyce, Richard Garner ...
    According to the moral error theorist, all moral judgments are mistaken. The world just doesn’t contain the properties and relations necessary for these judgments to be true. But what should we actually do if we decided that we are in this radical and unsettling predicament—that morality is just a widespread and heartfelt illusion? One suggestion is to eliminate all talk and thought of morality ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

    The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate political insider

    by Ian Dunt ...
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  • The Five Giants [New Edition]

    A Biography of the Welfare State

    by Nicholas Timmins ...
    A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEARA LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning history of the British Welfare State –now fully revised and updated for the 21st Century.‘A masterpiece’ Sunday TimesGiant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. Giant Idleness.These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction... ... Read more

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  • An Obscure Footnote in Trade Union History

    Memoirs of a Trade Union Bully Boy

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    The memoirs of a long serving trade union activist noted as a troublemaker, "bully boy" and obsessive in his interest in the trade union’s rulebook. More amusing than it might sound… ... Read more

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  • Mark Thomas Presents the People's Manifesto

    by Mark Thomas ...
    Mark Thomas has been touring the country for months, getting audiences to come up with policies aimed at sorting out the country's political chaos and taking back the power for the people. Sick to death of bailing out bankers and subsidising MPs homes, the audience vote on the best policy of the night to be included in the brand new People's Manifesto.From the inspiring to the downright hilarious, ... Read more

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    This new book offers a comprehensive and factual view on the Scottish independence debate from some of the UK's leading academics. ... Read more

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  • British Society Since 1945

    The Penguin Social History of Britain

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