'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces or can produce well developed human beings' Mill's four essays ' On Liberty' ' Utilitarianism' ' Considerations on Representative Government' & ' The Subjection of Women' examine the most central issues that face liberal democratic regimes
- whether in the nineteenth century or the twenty-first They have formed the basis for many of the political institutions of the West since the late nineteenth century tackling as they do the appropriate grounds for protecting individual liberty the basic principles of ethics the benefits & the costs of representative institutions & the central importance of gender equality in society These essays are central to the liberal tradition but their interpretation & how we should understand their connection with each other are both contentious In their introduction Mark Philp & Frederick Rosen set the essays in the context of Mill's other works & argue that his conviction in the importance of the development of human character in its full diversity provides the core to his liberalism & to any defensible account of the value of liberalism to the modern world 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
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'any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to themnow that I am at leisure' Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Rome's greatest orator had a career of intense activity in politics the law courts & the administration mostly in Rome His fortunes however followed those of Rome & he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC only to return a year later to a city paralyzed by the domination of Pompey Crassus & Caesar Cicero though a senior statesman struggled to maintain his independence & it was during these years that frustrated in public life he first started to put his excess energy stylistic brilliance & superabundant vocabulary into writing these works of philosophy The three dialogues collected here are the most accessible of Cicero's works written to his friends Atticus & Brutus with the intent of popularizing philosophy in Ancient Rome They deal with the everyday problems of life; ethics in business the experience of grief & the difficulties of old age ...

In the first century BC Marcus Tullius Cicero orator statesman & defender of republican values created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship religion death fate & scientific inquiry A pragmatist at heart Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal & ethical drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation of the world The resulting works remind us of the importance of social ties the questions of free will & the justification of any creative endeavour This lively lucid new translation from Thomas Habinek editor of Classical Antiquity & the Classics & Contemporary Thought book series makes Cicero's influential ideas accessible to every reader ...

In On Love we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love & desire Alternating between the tough & the tender the romantic & the gritty Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here
- its selfishness & its narcissism its randomness its mystery & its misery & ultimately its true joyfulness endurance & redemptive power Whether writing about his daughter his lover or his work Bukowski is fiercely honest & reflective using love as a prism to look at the world & to view his own vulnerable place in it
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Hailed as a feast (Washington Post) & a modern-day bestiary (The New Yorker) Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural & conceptual history of monsters-how they have evolved over time what functions they have served for us & what shapes they are likely to take in the future Beginning at the time of Alexander the Great the monsters come fast & furious-Behemoth & Leviathan Gog & Magog Satan & his demons Grendel & Frankenstein circus freaks & headless children right up to the serial killers & terrorists of today & the post-human cyborgs of tomorrow Monsters embody our deepest anxieties & vulnerabilities Asma argues but they also symbolize the mysterious & incoherent territory beyond the safe enclosures of rational thought Exploring sources as diverse as philosophical treatises scientific notebooks & novels Asma unravels traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of an era's fears & fascinations In doing so he illuminates the many ways monsters have become repositories for those human qualities that must be repudiated externalized & defeated Asma suggests that how we handle monsters reflects how we handle uncertainty ambiguity & insecurity & in a world that is daily becoming less secure & more ambiguous he shows how we might learn to better live with monsters-and thereby avoid becoming one ...

' For if once a man indulges himself in murder very soon he comes to think little of robbing; & from robbing he comes next to drinking & Sabbath-breaking & from that to incivility & procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays ' On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on its head celebrating & coolly dissecting the art of murder & its perfections Ranging from gruesomely vivid reportage & brilliantly funny satiric high jinks to penetrating literary & aesthetic criticism the essays had a remarkable impact on crime terror & detective fiction as well as on the rise of nineteenth-century decadence The volume also contains De Quincey's best-known piece of literary criticism ' On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth' & his finest tale of terror ' The Avenger' a disturbing exploration of violence vigilantism & religious persecution 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 ...

' People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill & be killed
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Track List Disc 1 1 On My One 2 Gimme The Love 3 Love Hope & Misery 4 The Love We&re Hoping For 5 Put Out The Fire 6 Never Wanna Dance 7 Bitter Salt 8 Ain&t No Rhyme 9 Livin& Up Country 10 All That 11 Hold On You ...

Leslie Patricelli's beloved baby is back in this first potty board book When you've got to go you've got to go! But where? There comes a point in every toddler's life when the question must be raised
- should I go in my potty? With pitch-perfect humour & pacing Leslie Patricelli follows one baby's thoughts & hilarious actions as they learn to use the potty for the first time
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