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Product Description: This volume is one in a series that aims to bring together important writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry. ALAN RYAN, editor, offers 12 essays on social science.
By Alan Ryan (compiler)

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9780198750253 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 25, 1973, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This volume is one in a series that aims to bring together important writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry.

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Product Description: Jack Quinlan, an American writer, travels to a small village in the remote western part of Ireland to research a book on the Irish Famine. The quiet, picturesque village seems just the place to spend a few months writing, but beneath its placid exterior lurk dark secrets...read more

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9780913165034 | Dark Harvest Books, May 1, 1984, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Jack Quinlan, an American writer, travels to a small village in the remote western part of Ireland to research a book on the Irish Famine.

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Product Description: From the review by Choice: The brevity and clarity of the book make it an eminently suitable introductory guide to the political theory of property (not only justifications and critiques but also the political consequences of ownership) ...read more

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9780631150626 | Reprint edition (Blackwell Pub, March 1, 1986), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From the review by Choice: The brevity and clarity of the book make it an eminently suitable introductory guide to the political theory of property (not only justifications and critiques but also the political consequences of ownership) .

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Product Description: Near Fine in VG dj. Remainder spray at bottom of pages. Dj rubbed at the spine tips. 1st edition.

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9780385198394 | Doubleday, March 1, 1986, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Near Fine in VG dj.

This collection of thirteen tales of horror highlights the customs and traditions of the celebrated Halloween night of gouls and goblins and features contributions by such best-selling authors as Whitley Streiber, Robert Bloch, and Frank Belknap Long
By Alan Ryan (editor)

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9780385195584 | Doubleday, September 1, 1986, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This collection of thirteen tales of horror highlights the customs and traditions of the celebrated Halloween night of gouls and goblins and features contributions by such best-selling authors as Whitley Streiber, Robert Bloch, and Frank Belknap Long

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A collection of thirty vampire stories by such authors as Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee, and Ramsey Campbell

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9780385185622 | Doubleday, June 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of thirty vampire stories by such authors as Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles L.

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9780140432725 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, August 1, 1987), cover price $11.95

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This collection of thirteen tales of horror highlights the customs and traditions of the celebrated Halloween night of gouls and goblins and features contributions by such best-selling authors as Whitley Streiber, Robert Bloch, and Frank Belknap Long
By Alan Ryan (editor)

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9780441316076 | Reprint edition (Ace Books, September 1, 1987), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: This collection of thirteen tales of horror highlights the customs and traditions of the celebrated Halloween night of gouls and goblins and features contributions by such best-selling authors as Whitley Streiber, Robert Bloch, and Frank Belknap Long

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Twelve stories deal with an obsessed musician, a determined mother, a witch, bleeding sand, a religious vampire, a bored clerk, and an eternity of waiting (view table of contents)

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9780385242233 | Broadway Books, January 1, 1988, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Twelve stories deal with an obsessed musician, a determined mother, a witch, bleeding sand, a religious vampire, a bored clerk, and an eternity of waiting

Product Description: The Kill is Alan Peter Ryan's second novel and first horror novel, published in 1982. It is the story of Megan Todd and Jack Casey, a young couple who flee the pressures of the city to rural Deacons Kill in the Catskills. Their home becomes the target of an ancient and invisible evil that hides in the nearby deep wood...read more

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9780812525472 | Reissue edition (Tor Books, January 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The Kill is Alan Peter Ryan's second novel and first horror novel, published in 1982.

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A collection of eighteen horror tales by three noted writers includes 'Friends in Dark Places,' 'Poor Thing,' 'Dark Shapes in the Road,' and 'The Vampire Lover'

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9780425107539 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, March 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A collection of eighteen horror tales by three noted writers includes 'Friends in Dark Places,' 'Poor Thing,' 'Dark Shapes in the Road,' and 'The Vampire Lover'

Book by Ryan, Alan

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9780816616695 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $39.95

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9780816616701 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: Book by Ryan, Alan

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Explores Russell's activities as a polemicist, agitator, educator, and popularizer and discusses the evolution of his moral philosophy and its application, including his final battle against American intervention in Vietnam

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9780809028979 | Hill & Wang Pub, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Explores Russell's activities as a polemicist, agitator, educator, and popularizer and discusses the evolution of his moral philosophy and its application, including his final battle against American intervention in Vietnam

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9780195086348 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $12.95
9780374528201 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 1988, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years.

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Fourteen tales of horror written by women such as Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, Ruth Rendell, Shirley Jackson, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman present the terrifying world of the supernatural from a female perspective

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9780380898817 | Avon Books, October 1, 1988, cover price $3.95 | also contains 100+ Winning Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions | About this edition: Fourteen tales of horror written by women such as Jean Rhys, Muriel Spark, Ruth Rendell, Shirley Jackson, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman present the terrifying world of the supernatural from a female perspective

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Product Description: Mill is usually thought of as an eclectic and unsystematic writer, whose views on freedom contradict his views on moral right and wrong, whose views on causation contradict his views on syllogistic inference and so on. Alan Ryan, however, demonstrates that Mill both saw his views as part of a systematic defence of empiricist epistemology and utilitarian ethics, and was to a large extent successful in offering a coherent and connected defence of this system...read more

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9780391036345 | 2 sub edition (Prometheus Books, June 1, 1990), cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Mill is usually thought of as an eclectic and unsystematic writer, whose views on freedom contradict his views on moral right and wrong, whose views on causation contradict his views on syllogistic inference and so on.
9781573924047 | 2 edition (Humanity Books, June 1, 1990), cover price $28.99

By Alan Ryan (editor)

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9780140124453 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, September 1, 1990), cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Including contributions from such notable scholars as David Gauthier, Noel Malcolm, D.D. Raphael, and Richard Tuck, this volume offers a variety of views on central aspects of Hobbes's life and work, including the importance of his political theory and the wider context of that theory...read more
By G. A. J. Rogers and Alan Ryan (editor)

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9780198239147 | Clarendon Pr, February 21, 1991, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: Including contributions from such notable scholars as David Gauthier, Noel Malcolm, D.

Product Description: This collection of essays by philosophers, political theorists and social critics ranges over two millennia, from the ideas of Plato and Aristotle to those of contemporary thinks such as John Rawls and Robert Noziak, and examines the nature of justice, its importance in human life and its place among the other virtues...read more
By Alan Ryan (editor)

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9780198780373 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 8, 1993, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays by philosophers, political theorists and social critics ranges over two millennia, from the ideas of Plato and Aristotle to those of contemporary thinks such as John Rawls and Robert Noziak, and examines the nature of justice, its importance in human life and its place among the other virtues.

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9780198780380 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 8, 1993, cover price $50.00

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9780393037739, titled "John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism" | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1995, cover price $30.00

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9780393315509 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1997), cover price $40.00

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A collection of eyewitness accounts offers a descriptive tour of Mexico from Cabo San Lucas to Mexico City to Yucatan, and features the observations of such writers as D. H. Lawrence, Paul Theroux, Langston Hughes, and John Steinbeck. Original.
By Alan Ryan (editor)

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9780156760218 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, June 1, 1995), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Gathers selections from travel writing about Mexico by such writers as Katherine Anne Porter, Langston Hughes, Paul Bowles, D.

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Product Description: This long-anticipated Norton Critical Edition represents an extensive revision of its predecessor, On Liberty, edited by the late David Spitz. Alan Ryan's provocative introduction lays out the central issues debated by John Stuart Mill's many interpreters; in addition, it assesses Mill's historical significance and provides a brief account of his life...read more
By John Stuart Mill (editor) and Alan Ryan (editor)

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9780393970098 | Subsequent edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1996), cover price $21.30 | About this edition: This long-anticipated Norton Critical Edition represents an extensive revision of its predecessor, On Liberty, edited by the late David Spitz.

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An anthology of travel writing about Cuba offers twenty-three accounts dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and includes writings by Anthony Trollope, John Muir, Anais Nin, Langston Hughes, Graham Greene, Tommy Lasorda, and Amiri Baraka
By Alan Ryan (editor)

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9780156003674 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, February 1, 1997), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An anthology of travel writing about Cuba offers twenty-three accounts dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and includes writings by Anthony Trollope, John Muir, Anais Nin, Langston Hughes, Graham Greene, Tommy Lasorda, and Amiri Baraka

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An anthology of travel writing about Alaska offers twenty-eight accounts dating from 1879 to the present, and includes writings by John Muir, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Kuralt, Ernie Pyle, and John McPhee
By Alan Ryan (editor)

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9780156003681 | Mariner Books, April 15, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An anthology of travel writing about Alaska offers twenty-eight accounts dating from 1879 to the present, and includes writings by John Muir, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Kuralt, Ernie Pyle, and John McPhee

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A Princeton University professor analyzes the battle over the curriculum and 'political correctness' in higher education, arguing that colleges have been asked to restore democracy and rehumanize workers--tasks too large and ill-defined for their resources. (view table of contents)

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9780809065394 | Hill & Wang Pub, May 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Explores the ways in which the educational system can combat such problems as a degenerating democratic system, lack of creative thinking, and moral and spiritual decline

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