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

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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

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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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'

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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.