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Our perceptions of dementia and what dementia care should constitute have changed dramatically over the past 20 years. Research has uncovered a mass o…

This is the first English-language introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, the distinguished German philosopher and controversial public intellectual. Slote…

A bold and insightful departure from related texts, Descartes goes beyond the categorical associations placed on the philosopher’s ideas, and explores…

This much-awaited textbook makes accessible the ideas of one of the most important thinkers of our time, as well as indicating how Freud’s theories ar…

The Performance of Reading argues that there are distinct analogies between «silent» reading and artistic performance, and so fashions the new role of…

Use the therapeutic potential of art to make progress in your practice Artful Therapy shows you how to use art to make a difference in therapy. Using …

This lucid survey takes readers on a thought-provoking tour through the life and work of Augustine. Explores new insights into one of antiquity’s most…

This revised edition of Sir Anthony Kenny’s classic work on Wittgenstein contains a new introduction which covers developments in Wittgenstein scholar…

The Emotionally Intelligent Nurse Leader offers nurse managers, health care leaders, and emerging leaders a useful guide for identifying, using, and r…

What would you do if you suddenly became rich? Michael O’Meara had never asked himself this question. A high school history teacher in Maryland, Micha…

There are unique challenges in the formulation, manufacture, analytical chemistry, and regulatory requirements of low-dose drugs. This book provides a…

Socrates presents a compelling case for some life-changing conclusions that follow from a close reading of Socrates' arguments. Offers a highly origin…

The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time. The optimism of a dec…

This updated second edition of At Risk in America provides a detailed analysis of those key population groups most vulnerable to disease and injury in…

What would you do if you suddenly became rich? Michael O’Meara had never asked himself this question. A high school history teacher in Maryland, Micha…

The latest edition of this highly acclaimed textbook, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the science and medical applications of biop…

What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal 'know-how' or 'objective facts'? Can science claim special authority based on the obje…

Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the…

In The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change, Molly Anne Rothenberg uncovers an innovative theory of social change implicit in the writings…

Focusing on contemporary debates in moral and political theory, Situating the Self argues that a non-relative ethics, binding on us in virtue of out h…

Describes the latest advances in psychopharmacology – one of the most rapidly developing fields in modern science. This latest edition has been update…

This new book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Frege's remarkable philosophical work, examining the main areas of his writings an…

Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international pressu…

In this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth-century thought. The book displays onc…

This collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in conte…

Statistics show that out of five thousand compounds with initial promise, five will go into human clinical trials, and only one will become an approve…

Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fac…

The ideas of Hans Morgenthau dominated the study of international politics in the United States for many decades. He was the leading representative of…

What objects exist in the social world and how should we understand them? Is a specific Pizza Hut restaurant as real as the employees, tables, napkins…

As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of e…

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, widely recognized as one of the most important yet difficult …

This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics …

'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface mani…

It is often argued that contemporary media homogenize our thoughts and actions, without us being fully aware of the restrictions they impose. But what…

A Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, profiling the most recent research and tren…

This book is an unusually readable and lucid account of the development of Derrida's work, from his early writings on phenomenology and structuralism …

This innovative volume presents an insightful philosophical portrait of the life and work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Focuses on the concept of the sublim…

Siblings and all the lateral relationships that follow from them are clearly important and their interaction is widely observed, particularly in creat…

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony…

Biochemical analysis is a rapidly expanding field and is a key component of modern drug discovery and research. Methods of Biochemical Analysis provid…

Over the last decade, Axel Honneth has established himself as one of the leading social and political philosophers in the world today. Rooted in the t…

In this important study, Michael Luntley offers a compelling reading of Wittgenstein’s account of meaning and intentionality, based upon a unifying th…

With contributions from leading European and American psychoanalysts, this innovative text systematically investigates and analyses the relationship b…

On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are w…

This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere – that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in whi…