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Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9781404103917
ISBN
9781404103917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.75

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262036283
ISBN
9780262036283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 42.35

Paperback. Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of Havana among practitioners of Ifa, a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination, this book reevaluates Western ideas about truth in light of the practices and ideas of a wildly different, and highly respected, model. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 halftones, 6 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HRKT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226349213
ISBN
9780226349213
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.59

paperback. This text examines what the concept of truth has come to mean in the philosophical tradition, what is wrong with many of the ways of conceiving truth and why philosophers refuse to confront squarely the question of the value of truth. Coverage spans from the pre-Socratics to the 1990s. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674910911
ISBN
9780674910911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.68

Paperback. This volume considers the question of whether there is any truth at all in photography, with reference to the works of Walter Benjamin, Helene Cixous, and Jacques Derrida, among others. Editor(s): Naas, Michael. Series: Oxford Literary Review Special Issues. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AJC; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 213 x 153 x 8. Weight in Grams: 198. Series: Oxford Literary Review Special Issues. 128 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Naas, Michael. This volume considers the question of whether there is any truth at all in photography, with reference to the works of Walter Benjamin, Helene Cixous, and Jacques Derrida, among others. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: AJC; HPN. Dimension: 213 x 153 x 8. Weight: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748642526
ISBN
9780748642526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DNF; HRG; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 44. Weight in Grams: 766.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser United States
Edition
illustrated edition
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578631759
ISBN
9781578631759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.19

Paperback. Drawing upon the richness and breadth of Jacques Maritain's thought, the contributors to this volume engage readers with philosophical essays about the search for truth in human life and civic engagement. Editor(s): Trapani, G. John (Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Human Division, Walsh University, North Canton, Ohio, USA). Num Pages: 210 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780966922660
ISBN
9780966922660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.31

Paperback. Truth Matters is the first full-length introduction to the philosophical issue of response-dependence. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748615988
ISBN
9780748615988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.92

Paperback. Can three sisters---a blogger, a cab driver, and a stay-at-home mom---with only a little courage and no experience, moonlight as private investigators to save their brother from a murder rap? Find out in Truth-Stained Lies---the first book in New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock's new Moonlighter Series. Series: Moonlighter Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Zondervan United States
Edition
Moonlighters Series
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780310283133
ISBN
9780310283133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Eleven lectures and sermons in memory of the Baptist New Testament scholar George R. Beasley-Murray, addressing a wide variety of issues important to evangelical thought and ministry. Editor(s): Wright, Nigel G.; Faris, Robert. Num Pages: 234 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HRCC92; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780227174753
ISBN
9780227174753
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.39

Hardcover. An analysis of Britain's New Labour years. This book dissects scandals from Bernie Ecclestone to David Blunkett; explores Labour's contempt for democracy, electoral reform and cash-for-peerages; attacks the illegal and utterly disastrous decision to go to war in Iraq, and questions the deployment in Afghanistan. Num Pages: 304 pages, colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLW3; JPFF; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Edition
1st
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840468229
ISBN
9781840468229
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.26

Paperback. The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying degrees of support and success. This title examines the use of reparations as social policy and the granting of amnesty in exchange for testimony. Editor(s): Rotberg, Robert I.; Thompson, Dennis. Series: The University Center for Human Values Series. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HPQ; JPA; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
318
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691050720
ISBN
9780691050720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.61
€ 43.11

Hardback. Translator(s): Brand, William R. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; KCL; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 760.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231150682
ISBN
9780231150682
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 32.36

Paperback. This book uses the concept of universal human rights to explore the relationship between the individual, society, and truth. To answer the question of how we say something universally true about human beings while lacking the philosophical means to do so, the author explores the changing relationship between truth and politics from Plato to Locke. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349536931
ISBN
9781349536931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.22

Paperback. The finding of two dead babies within the space of a fortnight in County Kerry in 1984 is an extraordinary story that rocked Catholic Ireland. The Kerry Babies Case is still unresolved, with many unanswered questions. Here, Tom Inglis provides a detailed analysis of the case. Num Pages: 304 pages, 9 photographs, 1 map, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBTB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 174 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904558026
ISBN
9781904558026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 20.51

Hardback. Constructive mathematics is based on the thesis that the meaning of a mathematical formula is given, not by its truth-conditions, but in terms of what constructions count as a proof of it. This monograph offers definitions of construction and proof, and describes the algorithmic substructure underlying intuitionistic logic. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 470 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 835.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
470
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792352624
ISBN
9780792352624
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 212.00

paperback. Investigates trust and honesty in medicine and the doctor-patient relationship, raising questions of patients' autonomy and self-determination. Of interest to those working in medical ethics and applied philosophy, and for medical practitioners. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415185486
ISBN
9780415185486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.58

paperback. Tells about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them. This guide looks at relativism and absolutism, toleration and belief, objectivity and knowledge, science and pseudo-science, and the moral and political implications, as well as the nuances, of all these. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Penguin United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141014258
ISBN
9780141014258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Setting the stage with a selection of readings from important 19th century philosophers, this title on truth puts in conversation some of the main philosophical figures from the 20th century in pragmatist traditions. It focuses on the value or normativity of truth through exposing the dialogues between different schools of thought. Editor(s): Medina, Jose; Wood, David. Series: Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 392 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 29. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405115506
ISBN
9781405115506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.33

Paperback. The world's leading thinker on truth explains what it is and why it matters in every important aspect of life Series: Ideas in Profile. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HPQ; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 199 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781257227
ISBN
9781781257227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.32