Автор: Gray Alasdair Название: Lanark ISBN: 1782117148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782117148 Издательство: Canongate Рейтинг: Цена: 1929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott` ANTHONY BURGESS. The cornerstone epic, introduced by William Boyd
Автор: Fotheringham Alasdair Название: Reckless ISBN: 1408846020 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408846025 Издательство: Bloomsbury Цена: 3008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Luis Oca a seemed doomed to live in the shadow of cycling's greatest ever rider, Eddy Merckx-"The Cannibal." Their rivalry defined Oca a's entire career, yet he was the one rider capable of beating the all-conquering Merckx in his prime. After an impoverished upbringing he flourished at the sport he loved and in 1970 secured his biggest victory on home soil, winning the Vuelta a Espa a, and confirming his status as a Grand Tour challenger. But it was in the 1971 Tour de France that the battle between Merckx and Oca a reached its peak when, at the Orci res-Merlette stage, he inflicted on Merckx the worst defeat he would suffer in a major Tour, with an astonishing 120 kilometre solo breakaway through the Alps.
But then came one of most gut-wrenching crashes in Tour de France history when Oca a fell heavily on a Pyrenean descent, losing his leader's jersey, and with it his best chance of destroying Merckx's reputation of invincibility. In the midst of a torrential downpour, with minimal visibility, rider after rider crashed into the injured rider as he lay prone. The following day Merckx refused to wear the leader's jersey out of respect.
It was only when Merckx was missing from the start-line in 1973 that Oca a became Spain's second ever Tour de France winner. If Merckx had been present, Oca a's chances of success would have been far slimmer. Further triumphs amassed before his swansong in 1976, but Oca a's decline in later life reflects the immense struggle he embraced during the height of his career. An enigmatic outsider to both the Spanish and French throughout his career-never truly accepted in either country-he died in mysterious circumstances aged just 48.
A fascinating, complicated character both on and off his bike, Oca a's fierce determination, impetuosity and-some would say-recklessness created some of the most beautiful and gripping episodes in the history of the sport. This is the first ever biography in English of "the Spanish Merckx" who remains one of the most fascinating Tour de France champions.
Автор: Macintyre, Alasdair Название: After virtue ISBN: 0268035040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268035044 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4631.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. Now, twenty-five years later, the University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to release the third edition of After Virtue, which includes a new prologue “After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century.”
In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery. While the individual chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced together they comprise a penetrating and focused argument about the price of modernity. In the Third Edition prologue, MacIntyre revisits the central theses of the book and concludes that although he has learned a great deal and has supplemented and refined his theses and arguments in other works, he has “as yet found no reason for abandoning the major contentions” of this book. While he recognizes that his conception of human beings as virtuous or vicious needed not only a metaphysical but also a biological grounding, ultimately he remains “committed to the thesis that it is only from the standpoint of a very different tradition, one whose beliefs and presuppositions were articulated in their classical form by Aristotle, that we can understand both the genesis and the predicament of moral modernity.”
Автор: Alasdair Gray Название: Lanark ISBN: 1841951838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841951836 Издательство: Canongate Цена: 1335.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the moment it first appeed, Lanark was hailed as the most remarkable novel of the second half of the 20th century. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying. With its echoes of Dante, Blake, Joyce, Kafka and Lewis Carroll, Lanark has been translated into over a dozen languages to world-wide success. This paperback edition marks the novel's return to its original publisher as the 100th title to appear in the influential Canongate Classics series.
Автор: Alasdair Gray Название: Unlikely Stories, Mostly ISBN: 0862417376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780862417376 Издательство: Canongate Рейтинг: Цена: 1485.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is Alastair Gray's first collection of short stories. This edition includes a new story, "Inches In a Column", that was lost at the time of original publication. He is the author of "Lanark", "Why Scots Should Rule Scotland" and won the Whitbread Prize for "Poor Things".
Автор: Alasdair B.R. Stewart, Jenny McNeill, Katy Jones, Lisa Scullion, Peter Dwyer Название: Impacts of Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change ISBN: 1447343727 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447343721 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Should a citizen’s right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour? Welfare conditionality, linking citizens’ eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory responsibilities or behaviours, has become a key component of welfare reform in many nations. This book uses qualitative longitudinal data, from repeat interviews with people subject to compulsion and sanction in their everyday lives, to analyse the effectiveness and ethicality of welfare conditionality in promoting and sustaining behaviour change in the UK. Given the negative outcomes that welfare conditionality routinely triggers, this book calls for the abandonment of these sanctions and reiterates the importance of genuinely supportive policies that promote social security and wider equality.
Автор: Alasdair B.R. Stewart, Jenny McNeill, Katy Jones, Lisa Scullion, Peter Dwyer Название: Impacts of Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change ISBN: 1447343735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447343738 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5938.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book uses qualitative longitudinal data, from repeat interviews with people subject to compulsion and sanction in their everyday lives, to analyse the effectiveness and ethicality of welfare conditionality in promoting and sustaining behaviour change in the UK.
Автор: Alasdair B.R. Stewart, Jenny McNeill, Katy Jones, Lisa Scullion, Peter Dwyer Название: Impacts of Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change ISBN: 1447343743 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447343745 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Should a citizen’s right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour? Welfare conditionality, linking citizens’ eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory responsibilities or behaviours, has become a key component of welfare reform in many nations. This book uses qualitative longitudinal data, from repeat interviews with people subject to compulsion and sanction in their everyday lives, to analyse the effectiveness and ethicality of welfare conditionality in promoting and sustaining behaviour change in the UK. Given the negative outcomes that welfare conditionality routinely triggers, this book calls for the abandonment of these sanctions and reiterates the importance of genuinely supportive policies that promote social security and wider equality.
Автор: Alasdair Gray Название: The Book of Prefaces ISBN: 0747559120 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747559122 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A great, fascinating work from award winning novelist Alasdair Gray chronicling the history of how literature spread and developed through three British nations and most North American states.
Автор: Roberts, Alasdair Название: Strategies for governing ISBN: 1501714406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501714405 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16302.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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With the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of their shortfalls. The two fields, he finds, no longer address urgent questions of governance in a turbulent and dangerous world. Strategies for Governing offers a new path forward for research, teaching, and practice. Leaders of states, Roberts writes, are constantly reinventing strategies for governing. Experts in public administration must give advice on the design as well as execution of strategies that effective, robust, and principled. Strategies for Governing challenges us to reinvigorate public administration and public management, preparing the fields for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Автор: Gray Alasdair Название: Lanark: A Life in Four Books ISBN: 1838852905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838852900 Издательство: Canongate Рейтинг: Цена: 2970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 40th anniversary commemorative hardback edition of the modern classic
Автор: Perreau-saussine, Emile Название: Alasdair macintyre ISBN: 0268203253 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268203252 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 12540.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinking in the intellectual milieu of twentieth-century philosophy.
Winner of the prestigious 2005 Philippe Habert Prize, the late ?mile Perreau-Saussine’s Alasdair MacIntyre: Une biographie intellectuelle stands as a definitive introduction to the life and work of one of today’s leading moral philosophers. With Nathan J. Pinkoski’s translation, this long-awaited, critical examination of MacIntyre’s thought is now available to English readers for the first time, including a foreword by renowned philosopher Pierre Manent.
Amid the confusions and contradictions of our present philosophical landscape, few have provided the clarity of thought and shrewdness of diagnosis like Alasdair MacIntyre. In this study, Perreau-Saussine guides his readers through MacIntyre’s lifelong project by tracking his responses to liberalism’s limitations in light of the human search for what is good and true in politics, philosophy, and theology. The portrait that emerges is one of an intellectual giant who comes to oppose modern liberal individualism’s arguably singular focus on averting evil at the expense of a concerted pursuit of human goods founded upon moral and practical reasoning. Although throughout his career MacIntyre would engage with a number of theoretical and practical standpoints in service of his critique of liberalism, not the least of which was his early and later abandoned dalliance with Marxism, Perreau-Saussine convincingly shows how the Scottish philosopher came to hold that Aristotelian Thomism provides the best resources to counter what he perceives as the failure of the liberal project. Readers of MacIntyre’s works, as well as scholars and students of moral philosophy, the history of philosophy, and theology, will find this translation to be an essential addition to their collection.
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