The Complete Detective Collection of Anthony Lang is an engaging illustrated anthology of classic mystery and detective fiction by Anthony Lang, bringing together Fly Country, The Crime, The Case with Three Threads, The Daring Diana, and Evidence in one compelling volume. Combining suspense, clever deduction, intrigue, and psychological tension, these stories capture the atmosphere of traditional detective fiction while offering readers a variety of mysteries filled with unexpected twists ...

The Classic Collection of John Haslette Vahey is an extensive illustrated anthology of classic mystery, detective, and adventure fiction featuring fifteen captivating works . Blending traditional detective fiction with elements of psychological drama, espionage, and adventurous intrigue, these novels capture the atmosphere of early twentieth-century mystery literature. Each story presents a carefully constructed puzzle filled with unexpected twists, suspicious characters, concealed motives...

This edited volume seeks to contest prevailing assumptions about torture and to consider why, despite its illegality, torture continues to be widely employed and misrepresented.The resurgence of torture and public justifications of it led to the central questions that this inter-disciplinary volume seeks to address: How is it possible for torture to be practiced when it is legally prohibited? What kinds of moves do agents make that render torture palatable? Why do so many ignore th...

Set in a futuristic community where poverty is the norm and immense privilege is the stark exception, Chase Applegate’s golden upbringing was not enough to persuade him to uphold the injustice, greed and power wielded by the 16 Families. His struggle to help the less fortunate, including Maggie, the maid with whom he falls in love, while battling the very powers who raised him brings readers on a journey at once terrifying and liberating. Chase’s quest for justice, kindness and human decen...

Hannah Arendt’s 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the kind of lives we should lead and the political engagement we should strive for, Arendt’s interpretative skills come to the fore, in a brilliant display of what high-level interpretation can achieve for critical thinking. Good interpretative thinkers are characterised by their ability to clarify meanings, question accepted definitions and...

Set in a futuristic community where poverty is the norm and immense privilege is the stark exception, Chase Applegate’s golden upbringing was not enough to persuade him to uphold the injustice, greed and power wielded by the 16 Families. His struggle to help the less fortunate, including Maggie, the maid with whom he falls in love, while battling the very powers who raised him brings readers on a journey at once terrifying and liberating. Chase’s quest for justice, kindness and human decen...

Critical Theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose-and, if at all possible, cure-the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading representatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukács and Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical...

Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores the changing understandings of ideology as a concept, and the arguments of the main ideologies....

In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help the left attain its social and political goals.Singer explains why the left originally rejected Darwinian thought and why these reasons are no longer viable. He discusses how twentieth-century thinking has transformed our understandi...

Ernest Gellner was a multilingual polymath who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam for an entire generation of academics and students. This definitive biography follows his trajectory from his early years in Prague, Paris and England to international success as a philosopher and public intellectual. Known both for his highly integrated philosophy of modernity and for combining a respect for nationalism with an appreciation for science, Gellner was passiona...

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of ‘superior races’ to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial possessions, and the fascist ideologies of post-Great War Europe. These claims have rarely ...

Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsIn a world that is constantly changing, understanding the world has never been more important. But by thinking in neat segments, we miss the big picture. When economists think about globalisation, they often see trade; politicians see institutions and power; artists see a new global aesthetic. Social theory is what sees them all together.Renowned theorist William Outhwaite takes us on a journey through the ...