Provides practical language instruction that focuses on everyday usage, slang, and colloquial expressions from various French-speaking countries.

Brief text commenting on ethical dilemmas prevalent in today's world accompanies cartoon-type illustrations recounting philosophical arguments from ancient to postmodern philosophers.

Product Description: What is modernism? Why did it begin and how long did it last? How does it relate to postmodernism? Replies to these questions have often been vague or confusing, but in this brilliant new book Chris Rodriques provides an accessible introduction to this crucial and perplexing formation of 20th-century culture...read more

Product Description: Ethics has become the burning issue of current moral philosophical thought, raising the spectre of responsibility at a time when responsibility seems entirely replaced by uncertainty and relativism. What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is 'identity' now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define 'rights', self-interest and civic duties? What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience? This book confronts these dilemmas, tracing the arguments of the great moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics...read more

Product Description: ¿Qué es el modernismo? ¿Cómo se originó y cuánto tiempo duró? ¿De qué manera se conecta con el posmodernismo? Las respuestas a estos interrogantes han sido con frecuencia vagos o confusos. Chris Rodrigues brinda una introducción accesible a esta enigmática y fundamental creación cultural del siglo XX...read more

Confronts many ethical dilemmas prevalent in today's world, and looks at the philosophical arguments from ancient to postmodern philosophers

Product Description: John Maynard Keynes was the most brilliant and infuential economist of the 20th century. His revolutionary treatise written during the Great Depression of the 1930s, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", overturned the conventional free market vision of the time and proposed that a healthy economy and full employment depended on the total spending of consumers, business investors "and" governments...read more

Outlines the processes of government and politics in the United States from the Declaration of Independence to the presidential election of 2000

Product Description: John Maynard Keynes is among the most brilliant and influential economists of the 20th century. His revolutionary treatise written during the Great Depression of the 1930s, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", overturned the conventional free market wisdom of the time and proposed that a radical new way of creating a healthy economy and full employment depended on the total spending of consumers, business investors and governments...read more