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ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas
THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair
ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia
ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn
ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes
AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick
BARTHES Jonathan Culler
THE BIBLE John Riches
BUDDHA Michael Carrithers
BUDDHISM Damien Keown
CLASSICS Mary Beard and John Henderson
CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard
CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Simon Critchley
COSMOLOGY Peter Coles
CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and Sean Murphy
DARWIN Jonathan Howard
DESCARTES Tom Sorell
DRUGS Leslie Iversen
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Paul Langford
THE EUROPEAN UNION John Pinder
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION William Doyle
FREUD Anthony Storr
GALILEO Stillman Drake
GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh
HEGEL Peter Singer
HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood
HINDUISM Kim Knott
HISTORY John H. Arnold
HOBBES Richard Tuck
HUME A. J. Ayer
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton
INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary
ISLAM Malise Ruthven
JUDAISM Norman Solomon
JUNG Anthony Stevens
KANT Roger Scruton
KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner
THE KORAN Michael Cook
LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler
LOGIC Graham Priest
MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner
MARX Peter Singer
MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers
MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths
MUSIC Nicholas Cook
NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner
NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew
PAU L E. P. Sanders
PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Samir Okasha
POLITICS Kenneth Minogue
PSYCHOLOGY Gillian Butler and Freda McManus
QUANTUM THEORY John Polkinghorne
ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway
ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler
RUSSELL A. C. Grayling
RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION S. A. Smith
SCHOPENHAUER Christopher Janaway
SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY John Monaghan and Peter Just
SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce
SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor
SPINOZA RogerScruton
STUART BRITAIN John Morrill
THEOLOGY David F. Ford
THE TUDORS John Guy
TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN Kenneth O. Morgan
WITTGENSTEIN A.C.Grayling
WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman
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AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and Richard Rathbone
ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw
ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne
ART HISTORY Dana Arnold
ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland
ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin
ATHEISM Julian Baggini
THE BRAIN Michael OShea
BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright
BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown
CAPITALISM James Fulcher
THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe
CHAOS Leonard Smith
CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham
CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson
CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead
CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy
CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE Robert Tavernor
CLONING Arlene Judith Klotzko
THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon
CONTEMPORARY ART Julian Stallabrass
THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman
DADA AND SURREALISM David Hopkins
DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick
DERRIDA Simon Glendinning
DESIGN John Heskett
DINOSAURS David Norman
DREAMING J. Allan Hobson
THE EARTH Martin Redfern
ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta
EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY Geraldine Pinch
THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball
EMPIRE Stephen Howe
THE END OF THE WORLD Bill McGuire
EVOLUTION Brian and Deborah Charlesworth
EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn
FASCISM Kevin Passmore
THE FIRST WORLD WAR Michael Howard
FREE WILL Thomas Pink
FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven
GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger
HABERMAS Gordon Finlayson
HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson
HIROSHIMA B. R. Tomlinson
HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood
IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Paul Wilkinson
JAZZ Brian Morton
LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews
LOCKE John Dunn
MANDELA Tom Lodge
MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope
THE MIND Martin Davies
MODERN IRELAND Senia Paeta
MOLECULES Philip Ball
MYTH Robert Segal
NATIONALISM Steven Grosby
NORTHERN IRELAND Marc Mulholland
PERCEPTION Richard Gregory
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot
PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards
PLATO Julia Annas
POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young
POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler
POSTSTRUCTURALISM Catherine Belsey
PREHISTORY Chris Gosden
THE PRESOCRATICS Catherine Osborne
THE RAJ Denis Judd
THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton
RENAISSANCE ART Geraldine Johnson
SARTRE Christina Howells
SCHIZOPHRENIA Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Helen Graham
TERRORISM Charles Townshend
TRAGEDY Adrian Poole
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Martin Conway
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