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  | | Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future(2nd Edition) (Canto original series) by John Dunn Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 1993 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-43755-4, ISBN: 0-521-43755-5 "John Dunn's Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future demonstrates that the major traditions of thought from which the political values of the modern West have emerged are all, in the light of recent world history, in crucial respects incoherent or flawed. This second edition underlines the drastic changes in the challenges which face the world, in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse and the end of the Cold War, stressing t ..." |
 | | Locke(Updated) A Very Short Introduction by John Dunn Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280394-8, ISBN: 0-19-280394-8 "John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but its message has been curiously misunderstood. In this book John Dunn shows how Locke arrived at his theory of knowledge, and how his exposition of the liberal ..." |
 | | The Cunning Of Unreason by John Dunn Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2001 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-01748-5, ISBN: 0-465-01748-7 "An essential guide to political theory by one of the world's eminent theorists.. John Dunn is the founding father of the Cambridge school, which introduced an approach to political theory that emphasizes the importance of historical context in the formation and interpretation of arguments and ideas. The Cunning of Unreason makes a powerful case for the application of the Cambridge school approach to the current political climate. Emphas ..." |
 | | Locke (Past Masters) by John Dunn Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1984 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-287560-0, ISBN: 0-19-287560-4 "John Locke (1632-1704) argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding , that our knowledge is founded on experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but its message has been curiously misunderstood. In this book John Dunn shows how Locke arrived at his theory of knowledge, and how his exposition of the liberal values of toleration and responsible government formed the backjbone of enlightened European t ..." |
 | | Cuthbert's Little Plainsong Psalter by John Dunn Paperback, 329 Pages, Published 2017 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-5213-9152-5, ISBN: 1-5213-9152-1 "This book contains 154 plainsong Psalm passages with antiphons. The solitary monastic, Brother Cuthbert, designed these for use in his personal/private Liturgy of the Hours. For each of the liturgical hours he has chosen Psalm passages around themes and key words. The Psalm passages for Terce, Sext, and None are Laments and Penitentials, Remembrances of the suffering and death of the Lord Jesus. Cuthbert's Psalter honours an ancient ..." |
 | | Loopers(Reprint) A Caddie's Twenty-Year Golf Odyssey by John Dunn Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2014 by Broadway Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7704-3720-6, ISBN: 0-7704-3720-6 "John Dunn never expected that his summer job as a caddie at the local course in Connecticut might turn into something more. The lifers who plied the loops were an ensemble of misfits and degenerates who made the caddie yard look more like a gambling hall than a country club. But Dunn came of age in those yards and on those courses, and the magnetism of the game and the lifestyle proved irresistible. One adventure after another kept him ..." |
 | | The History of Political Theory and Other Essays(Updated) by John Dunn Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 1996 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-49707-7, ISBN: 0-521-49707-8 "In this collection of essays, John Dunn brings his characteristically acute and penetrative insight to a wide range of political issues. In the first essay, 'The history of political theory', Professor Dunn argues for the importance of a historical perspective in the study of political thought. Other pieces engage with central concepts of political philosophy such as obligation, trust, freedom of conscience and property. A group of stud ..." |
 | | Democracy(1st Edition) The Unfinished Journey, 508 BC to AD 1993 by John Dunn, R. A. Maidment Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1994 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-827934-1, ISBN: 0-19-827934-5 "The form of democracy first introduced 2,500 years ago by Kleisthenes--introduced, some scholars say, for his own personal gain--is quite different from what we call democracy today. And yet what was essentially a casual, practical solution to local Greek political difficulties has come to stand virtually unchallenged as the ground for modern political authority, and the questions which the Greeks first raised about the meaning of democ ..." |
 | | Collection of Curious Observations on the Manners, Customs, Usages, Different Languages, Government, Mythology, Chronology, Ancient and Modern Geography, Ceremonies, Religion, Mechanics, Astronomy, Medicine, Physics, Natural History, Commerce, Arts, and S (Paperback) by John Dunn Paperback, 428 Pages, Published 2015 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-330-18743-2, ISBN: 1-330-18743-1 |
 | | Financial Reporting and Analysis(1st Edition) by John Dunn, Roger Dunn Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2010 by Wiley ISBN-13: 978-0-470-69503-6, ISBN: 0-470-69503-X "Financial reporting provides an overview of a business' profitability and financial condition in both short and long term. A hot topic in the current market climate. Financial Reporting and Regulation explains the meaning behind the rules of financial reporting, as opposed to just the implementation of these rules. It contains sufficient detail on the application of standards to enable the reader to appreciate the effects of the ..." |
 | | Democracy(1st Edition) A History by John Dunn Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2006 by Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87113-931-3, ISBN: 0-87113-931-6 "For the last twenty-five years, fostering democracy around the world has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. Why is democracy so important today? Why should it hold such sway over the political speech of the modern world? In Democracy: A History , John Dunn – England's leading political theorist — sets out to explain the extraordinary presence of democracy in today's world. The story begins in Greece, where it began as an improv ..." |
 | | Setting the People Free by John Dunn Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2006 by Atlantic Books Import ISBN-13: 978-1-84354-213-1, ISBN: 1-84354-213-7 "Why does democracy, both as a word and an idea, linger so large in the political imagination today? John Dunn charts its slow but insistent metamorphosis from its roots in Ancient Greece to its overwhelming triumph in the years since 1945. Setting the People Free is an account of this extraordinary idea and its evolution." |
 | | Setting the People Free The Story of Democracy by John Dunn Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2005 by Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84354-211-7, ISBN: 1-84354-211-0 "Why does democracy, as a word and as an idea, loom so large in the political imagination today? it holds sway over the political rhetoric of the modern world and has come to define a system of government that marks a huge moral and political advance from any structure before it. Democracy has become the political core of the civilisation that the West offers to the rest of the world. Setting the People Free traces the roots of democracy ..." |
 | | The Cunning of Unreason(Updated) Making Sense of Politics by John Dunn Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2000 by Harpercollins Import ISBN-13: 978-0-00-686358-8, ISBN: 0-00-686358-2 "Why politics? A disingenuous question, perhaps, but John Dunn, Professor of Political Theory at King's College, Cambridge, succeeds in spinning the conceit over more than three hundred pages of closely reasoned, stimulating supposition in The Cunning of Unreason. Matching a stridently jaunty tone to typically Oxbridge dissembling, he disarms potential cynics with his admission that politics can be a "vaguely degrading" profession that c ..." |
 | | Gandhi(Updated) 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) by Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, John Dunn, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Anthony J. Parel Paperback, 286 Pages, Published 1997 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-57431-0, ISBN: 0-521-57431-5 "Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work. It is a key to understanding not only his life and thought but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. For the first time this volume presents the 1910 text of Hind Swaraj and includes Gandhi's own Preface and Foreword (not found in other editions) and annotations by the editor. In his Introduction, Anthony Parel sets the work in its historical and pol ..." |
 | | The British Empiricists(Reprint) Locke, Berkeley, Hume (Past Masters) by John Dunn, Alfred Jules Ayer, J. O. Urmson, J. C. Urmson Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1992 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283068-5, ISBN: 0-19-283068-6 "The British Empiricists offers concise, accessible introductions to the life and work of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. John Dunn shows how Locke arrived at the theory of knowledge which he puts forward in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding. J.O. Urmson assesses Berkeley's philosophy in its relation to the thought of Newton and his predecessors, while A.J. Ayer, an esteemed philosopher in his own right, offers insight into Hume's theo ..." |
 | | Modern Revolutions(2nd Edition) An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political Phenomenon by John Dunn Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1989 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-37814-7, ISBN: 0-521-37814-1 "Modern Revolutions has been the standard single-volume interpretation of its subject since its publication in 1972. Successive generations of students have welcomed Professor Dunn's lucid attempt to distinguish between ideological assessments of the desirability of eight contemporary revolutions and specific explanations of why they occurred. In this updated edition, Dunn assesses the major advances in the interpretation of revolutiona ..." |
 | | Rethinking Modern Political Theory(1st Edition) Essays 1979-1983 (Cambridge Paperback Library) by John Dunn Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 1985 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-31695-8, ISBN: 0-521-31695-2 "Why is modern political theory philosophically so feeble and politically so unconvincing? This volume of essays discusses the historical sources of these weaknesses and suggests how they might begin to be remedied. The essays treat in relation to one another the history of modern philosophy and the practical relations between states, societies and economies in the modern world. The different approaches required to understand each of the ..." |
 | | Democracy(1st Edition) The Unfinished Journey, 508 BC to AD 1993 by John Dunn Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1992 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-827378-3, ISBN: 0-19-827378-9 "The form of democracy first introduced 2,500 years ago by Kleisthenes--introduced, some scholars say, for his own personal gain--is quite different from what we call democracy today. And yet what was essentially a casual, practical solution to local Greek political difficulties has come to stand virtually unchallenged as the ground for modern political authority, and the questions which the Greeks first raised about the meaning of demo ..." |
 | | Advanced Financial Reporting and Analysis(1st Edition) by John Dunn, Margaret Stewart Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2014 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-470-97360-8, ISBN: 0-470-97360-9 "This new text is intended as a companion volume to the existing Wiley title Financial Reporting and Analysis by John Dunn, published in Jan 2010. Advanced Financial Reporting and Analysis will complement the existing book by offering the opportunity to continue into the third year with a similar approach, but will also stand alone as a book that could be adopted without having used the earlier volume." |
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