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  • Badiou's 'Being and Event'

    A Reader's Guide

    Series series Reader's Guides
    Alain Badiou's Being and Event is the most original and significant work of French philosophy to have appeared in recent decades. It is the magnum opus of a thinker who is widely considered to have re-shaped the character and set new terms for the future development of philosophy in France and elsewhere. This book has been written very much with a view to clarifying Badiou's complex and demanding ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Complete Guide to Stretching

    4th edition

    Series series Complete Guides
    A reasonable level of flexibility is essential to the healthy functioning of joints and muscles, which in turn facilitates performance and reduces the risk of injury.Now in its 4th edition, The Complete Guide to Stretching provides an accessible overview of the scientific principles that underpin this form of training and offers more than 70 exercises designed to safely increase range of motion ... Read more

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  • The Complete Guide to Sports Injuries

    This addition to the well-known Complete Guide series is an essential introduction for physiotherapy students or any fitness professional dealing with sports injuries.Written by leading physiotherapist and successful author Chris Norris, this book covers the background into the structure and function of an area, the key signs for recognising symptoms and how to treat injuries with massage, taping ... Read more

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  • After Rilke

    renderings, parodies, rejoinders and animadversions

    In these renderings of a wide selection from Rilke’s New Poems (1907-6) a leading literary theorist and philosopher takes a fresh look at the process, possibilities, and challenges of poetic translation. While honouring Rilke’s singular gifts of inventiveness, depth, acute observation, and narrative power Christopher Norris also finds plentiful room for expanding the scope of translation as an ... Read more

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  • Back Rehabilitation

    Core Stability Re-examined

    Low back pain affects most of us at some time, and exercise is key to both its prevention and treatment. Critically appraising work from several approaches to produce an integrated, practical approach suitable for day-to-day clinicians and personal trainers, this essential guide looks at the science and practice of designing and teaching the best exercise programmes for this common condition. ... Read more

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  • Deconstruction

    Theory and Practice

    Series series New Accents
    Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The volume focuses on the works of Jacques Derrida which caused this seismic shift in critical thought, as well as the work of North American critics ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Sports and Soft Tissue Injuries

    A Guide for Students and Therapists

    The fifth edition of the retitled Sports and Soft Tissue Injuries sharpens its focus on the treatment of sports injuries, providing the most complete evidence-based guide for physiotherapists, sports therapists and medical practitioners working with athletes.Opening with chapters that examine the underlying science of tissue healing and principles of rehabilitation, the book employs a systematic ... Read more

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  • Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity'

    Through a close engagement with some key thinkers, Norris argues that deconstruction is part of the "unfinished project of modernity." a project whose interest and values it upholds by continuing to question them in a spirit of enlightened self-critical inquiry. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism

    Series series Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
    In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions. Through a close critical reading he shows how they fail to make adequate sense on any rational, consistent, and scientifically-informed survey of the evidence. Along the way he incorporates a number of detailed case-studies from the history and ... Read more

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  • The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? When first published in 1983, Christopher Norris’ book was the first to explore such questions in the context of modern analytic and linguistic philosophy, opening up a new and challenging dimension of inter ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Contest of Faculties (Routledge Revivals)

    Philosophy and Theory after Deconstruction

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. On the one hand, deconstruction brings a vigilant awareness of the figural and narrative tropes that make up the discourse of philosophic reason. On the other it insists that argumentative rigour cannot be divorced from the kind of close reading ... Read more

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  • Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism

    Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics

    Series series Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
    This book is a critical introduction to the long-standing debate concerning the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics and the problems it has posed for physicists and philosophers from Einstein to the present. Quantum theory has been a major infulence on postmodernism, and presents significant problems for realists. Keeping his own realist position in check, Christopher Norris subjects a ... Read more

    $66.99 USD