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  • Playing to Win

    Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play

    Edited by Robert Alan Brookey, Thomas P. Oates ...
    Series series Digital Game Studies
    In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of the same fan experience. Editors Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas P. Oates trace this development back to the unexpected success of Atari's Pong in the 1970s, which provoked a flood of sport simulation ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Death of Laurence Vining. Illustrated

    by Alan Thomas ...
    The Death of Laurence Vining is a remarkable entry in the golden age of detective fiction. Written by Alan Thomas, this novel is celebrated for its ingenious locked-room puzzle and its dark, atmospheric tension. With a setting that moves between bustling London streets and the shadowy interiors of private institutions, the book offers both classic detection and psychological depth. The mystery ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies

    Edited by Nick Watson, Alan Roulstone, Carol Thomas ...
    This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting-edge areas ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • The Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams

    by Alan Thomas ...
    Series series Elements in Ethics
    This Element surveys the main claims of Bernard Williams's ethical philosophy. Topics include ethical scepticism, virtue, reasons for action, the critique of the Morality System, moral realism and the nature of theorising in ethics. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Integralism

    by Thomas Crean, Alan Fimister ...
    Integralism is the application to the temporal, political order of the full implications of the revelation of man's supernatural end in Christ and of the divinely established means by which it is to be attained. These implications are identified by means of the philosophia perennis exemplified in the fundamental principles of St Thomas Aquinas. Since the first principle in moral philosophy is the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Dinner Conversation Magazine

    After Dinner Conversation Magazine, #30

    by Veronica L. Asay, Alan Winnikoff, Thomas J. Weiss, Brian Howlett, Megan Neary, Henry McFarland, Julie Sondra Decker ...
    Series Book 30 - After Dinner Conversation Magazine
    Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tackling Mental Illness Together

    A Biblical And Practical Approach

    by Alan Thomas ...
    A biblical framework for understanding mental illness and helping the mentally ill. Synthesises the relevant biblical material with our scientific understanding of mental illness.Equips the reader to deal wisely, intelligently and compassionately with issues of mental health in churches and the community. Helps us discern between bad behaviour which is a result of illness and that which results ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Thomas Nagel

    by Alan Thomas ...
    In the first systematic study of the philosophy of Thomas Nagel, Alan Thomas discusses Nagel's contrast between the "subjective" and the "objective" points of view throughout the various areas of his wide ranging philosophy. Nagel's original and distinctive contrast between the subjective view and our aspiration to a "view from nowhere" within metaphysics structures the chapters of the book. A ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • Value and Context

    The Nature of Moral and Political Knowledge

    by Alan Thomas ...
    Alan Thomas presents an original study of the status of value and its relation to the contexts in which evaluative claims are justified. He articulates and defends the view that human beings do possess moral and political knowledge, but that it is historically and culturally contextual knowledge in ways that, say, mathematical or chemical knowledge is not. His exposition of a 'cognitivist ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Republic of Equals

    Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy

    by Alan Thomas ...
    Series series Oxford Political Philosophy
    The first book length study of property-owning democracy, Republic of Equals argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens is uniquely placed to meet the demands of justice. Arguing from a basis in liberal-republican principles, this expanded conception of the economic structure of society contextualizes the market to make its transactions fair. The author shows ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Extravagance and Misery

    The Emotional Regime of Market Societies

    by Alan Thomas, Alfred Archer, Bart Engelen ...
    Series series Oxford Political Philosophy
    In Extravagance and Misery: The Emotional Regime of Market Societies, Alan Thomas, Alfred Archer, and Bart Engelen investigate the extensive and growing economic inequalities that characterize the affluent market societies of the West. Drawing on insights from political philosophy and the new science of happiness, they show the damaging impact that existing inequalities have on our well-being, and ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • The Expanding Eye

    Photography and the Nineteenth-Century Mind

    by Alan Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Art and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
    First published in 1978. In this title, Alan Thomas examines the invention of photography in the early nineteenth century. How the members of this first "visual" generation used photography and how it changed their perceptions of the world are the subjects of this lavishly illustrated book. As the author convincingly shows, the camera’s presence was felt nearly everywhere during the course of the ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD