The snow is thick the phone line is down & no one is getting in or out of Warbeck Hall With friends & family gathered round the fire all should be set for a perfect Christmas but as the bells chime midnight a mysterious murder takes place Who can be responsible? The scorned young lover? The lord's passed-over cousin? The social climbing politician's wife? The Czech history professor? The obsequious butler? & perhaps the real question is can any of them survive long enough to tell the tale? ...

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Anthony Whitelands an English art historian is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke At a welcome lunch ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play English mapmaker Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant) manages to offend an entire Welsh town when he rules that their prized landmark is not a mountain but a hill Anson is soon to find however that the locals will stop at nothing to defend their honour & spearheading their efforts with young barmaid Betty (Tara Fitzgerald) who tries to seduce Anson & thus convince him to change his ruling as regards the &mountain& ...

' Commit it then to the flames for it can contain nothing but sophistry & illusion' Thus ends David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language His arguments in support of reasoning from experience & against the 'sophistry & illusion' of religiously inspired philosophical fantasies caused controversy in the eighteenth century & are strikingly relevant today when faith & science continue to clash The Enquiry considers the origin & processes of human thought reaching the stark conclusion that we can have no ultimate understanding of the physical world or indeed our own minds In either sphere we must depend on instinctive learning from experience recognizing our animal nature & the limits of reason Hume's calm & open-minded scepticism thus aims to provide a new basis for science liberating us from the 'superstition' of false metaphysics & religion His Enquiry remains one of the best introductions to the study of philosophy & this edition places it in its historical & philosophical context ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

A powerful love story from the author of the international bestseller A SUITABLE BOYA chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music AN EQUAL MUSIC is a book about love about the love of a woman lost & found & lost again; it is a book about music & how the love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life It is the story of Michael of Julia & of the love that binds them'A novel that can stand being reread & reread but the first time round is an emotional cliffhanger secure a copy for yourself settle down & prepare for the unforgettable' Sunday Times ...

Notes & Introduction by Mark G Spencer Brock University Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) & Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth century & Locke's works are often rightly presented as foundations of the Age of Enlightenment Both the Essay & the Second Treatise (by far the more influential of the Two Treatises) were widely read by Locke's contemporaries & near contemporaries His eighteenth-century readers included philosophers historians & political theorists but also community & political leaders engaged laypersons & others eager to participate in the expanding print culture of the era His epistemological message that the mind at birth was a blank slate waiting to be filled complemented his political message that human beings were free & equal & had the right to create & direct the governments under which they lived Today Locke continues to be an accessible author He provides food for thought to university professors & their students but has no less to offer the general reader who is eager to enjoy the classics of world literature ...

Malthus' life's work on human population & its dependency on food production & the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798 He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe in which humans would disregard the limits of natural resources & the world would be plagued by famine & disease He significantly influenced the thinking of Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace & his theories continue to raise important questions today in the fields of social theory economics & the environment With an introduction by Robert Mayhew ...

Malthus&s Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources reproduction always exceeds food production Today Malthus remains a byword for concern about man&s demographic & ecological prospects ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World&s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford&s commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

Eric Gill&s opinionated manifesto on typography argues that &a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture& This essay explores the place of typography in culture & is also a moral treatise celebrating the role of craftsmanship in an industrial age Gill a sculptor engraver printmaker & creator of many classic typefaces that can be seen around us today fused art history & polemic in a visionary work which has been hugely influential on modern graphic design& Written with clarity humility & a touch of humour timeless & absorbing& Paul Rand The New York Times& His lettering was clear confident & hugely influential on the development of modern type design The world has now caught up with Gill& Guardian How do we see the world around us? This is one of a number of pivotal works by creative thinkers like John Berger & Susan Sontag whose writings on art design & the media have changed our vision for ever ...