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An accessible introduction to the most influential philosophical movement of the early centuries of our era. The book provides a comprehensive account of the philosophical views of 'Middle' Platonism, and source-texts in English translation represent the full range of thinkers involved and the subjects they tackled. It also includes sections of further reading.

This book seeks to explain why, among the innumerable problems faced by societies, some problems in some places become viewed as critical public issues that shape health policy.

The literary trope of the grateful slave was used to justify colonial practices of white supremacy in the eighteenth century. Taking in literary sources as well as texts on colonialism and slavery, in this book Boulukos offers a fresh account of the development of racial difference in the eighteenth-century English-speaking world.

Explains Mandelbrot's fractal geometry, and describes some of its applications in the natural world. Fractal geometry exploits a characteristic property of the real world - self-similarity - to find simple rules for the assembly of complex natural objects.

Law and Society Redefined is a rigorous introduction to the sociology of law. Drawing on the foundational contributions of such prominent social theorists as Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Michel Foucault, this text uses social theory to explore the relationship between law and society.