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London, United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1970. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, xvi + 220 pages including a house plan and a map, plus several black-and-ahite illustrations; book very… More...

London, United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1970. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, xvi + 220 pages including a house plan and a map, plus several black-and-ahite illustrations; book very gently used, not a trace of ahelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ gently rumpled along edges, two immeasurably tiny tears at back top. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good +., Hutchinson, 1970, 3, Riverhead. Very Good. 7.74 x 0.92 x 5.18 inches. Hardcover. 1995. 280 pages. <br>A delightful parody of The Book of Virtues frolics through the seven deadly sins with humorous, surprising passages from the most entertaining classics of the ages, from Aphra Benn 's The Willing Mistress to Virgil's The Salad. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Hutchinson, a former Hawaii bureau chief for the Hollywood Reporter and a self-anointed connoisseur of vi ce, offers this delightful little send-up of William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues. Skipping merrily through a forbidden catech ism of the Seven Deadly Sins?Lust, Avarice, Sloth, Gluttony, Prid e, Envy and Anger?this captivating array of verse and prose moves from pre-Christian Greeks and Romans down through the Renaissanc e in France and England and on into the moderns. Represented are pearls from Greek historian Xenophon (c.430-354 B.C.), Dickens, M ark Twain, Woody Allen, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Flaubert, Tom Wolf e, Groucho Marx, e.e. cummings and Oscar Wilde, to mention a few. Lust is given top billing and afforded almost a third more pages than each of its six less intriguing sisters. Beginning with an erotic selection from Boccaccio's Decameron and ending with a zip less fantasy from Erica Jong's Fear of Flying, the anthology is a standard reference for those with the urge to brush up on the fi ner points of sin. Illustrations. BOMC and QPB selections. Copyr ight 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Pretty o bviously cocking a snook at William Bennett's surprise best-selle r, The Book of Virtues (1993), editor Hutchinson says of his own compilation, Unlike in books purporting to teach morality, you wi ll actually want to read the stories in this book. Well, you migh t first want to send Hutchinson to remedial writing classes to he lp him overcome tortured locutions like that one, but he's right, this vicious stuff, both prose and verse, is highly readable. It includes excerpts from Dickens, Flaubert, Austen, Virgil, Rabela is, Xenophon, Dostoyevsky, etc., among classic authors, and Woody Allen, Dan Jenkins, and John Kennedy O'Toole among contemporary writers; and it is sorted into seven chapters named after the sev en deadly sins. Nothing in it, however, will corrupt anyone, nor raise a single eyebrow. Ray Olson About the Author Robert J. Hut chinson is an award-winning writer and author who studied philoso phy as an undergraduate, moved to Israel to learn Hebrew, and ear ned a graduate degree in New Testament. The former managing edito r of Hawaii Magazine, he has written travel, science and politica l articles for a wide variety of publications in both North Ameri ca and in Europe. Hutchinson's most recent book is The Dawn of Ch ristianity: How God Used Simple Fishermen, Soldiers and Prostitut es to Transform the World (Thomas Nelson, 2017), a journalistic r etelling of the first 20 years of the Jesus movement that draws u pon recent discoveries in archaeology and New Testament studies. He lives with his wife and five children in a small seaside town in the United States. ., Riverhead, 1995, 3, Routledge. Good. 6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d). Paperback. 2018. 154 pages. <br>What is this thing called Global Justice? explores the core topics covered on the increasingly popular undergraduat e modules on global justice including: world poverty economic inequality nationalism human rights humanitarian intervent ion immigration global democracy and governance climate cha nge international justice. Centered on real world problems, t his textbook helps students to understand that global justice is not only a field of philosophical inquiry but also of practical i mportance. Each chapter concludes with a helpful summary of the m ain ideas discussed, study questions and a further reading guide. ., Routledge, 2018, 2.5, Wiley-Blackwell. Good. 6.8 x 1.32 x 9.7 inches. Paperback. 1993. 624 pages. Cover worn. Name on ffep<br>Iain Hampsher-Monk's lucid and accessible history of modern political thought is the introd uction which many have been waiting for, providing a thorough gui de to the ideas and writings of major political thinkers from Hob bes to Marx (including a full account of The Federalist papers). The author's aim throughout is to incorporate the benefits of mo dern scholarship of the historical school, with its emphasis on h istorical and political circumstances as a key to meaning. Recogn izing that for most students time will not allow detailed study o f the historical and political contexts of particular works, Hamp sher-Monk provides here the background necessary for the reader t o situate the writings of key thinkers in relation to wider curre nts in intellectual and political history. A History of Modern P olitical Thought will meet the needs of both general readers and students of political theory and philosophy. It is an indispensab le secondary source which aims to situate, explain, and provoke t hought about the major works of political theory likely to be enc ountered by students of modern political thought. Editorial Revi ews From the Inside Flap Iain Hampsher-Monk's lucid and accessib le history of modern political thought is the introduction which many have been waiting for, providing a thorough guide to the ide as and writings of major political thinkers from Hobbes to Marx ( including a full account of The Federalist papers). The author' s aim throughout is to incorporate the benefits of modern scholar ship of the historical school, with its emphasis on historical an d political circumstances as a key to meaning. Recognizing that f or most students time will not allow detailed study of the histor ical and political contexts of particular works, Hampsher-Monk pr ovides here the background necessary for the readers to situate t he writings of key thinkers in relation to wider currents in inte llectual and political history. From the Back Cover Iain Hampsh er-Monk's lucid and accessible history of modern political though t is the introduction which many have been waiting for, providing a thorough guide to the ideas and writings of major political th inkers from Hobbes to Marx (including a full account of The Feder alist papers). The author's aim throughout is to incorporate th e benefits of modern scholarship of the historical school, with i ts emphasis on historical and political circumstances as a key to meaning. Recognizing that for most students time will not allow detailed study of the historical and political contexts of partic ular works, Hampsher-Monk provides here the background necessary for the readers to situate the writings of key thinkers in relati on to wider currents in intellectual and political history. Abo ut the Author Iain Hampsher-Monk is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exeter and Editor of the international Jour nal History of Political Thought. From the Back Cover Iain Hamps her-Monk's lucid and accessible history of modern political thoug ht is the introduction which many have been waiting for, providin g a thorough guide to the ideas and writings of major political t hinkers from Hobbes to Marx (including a full account of The Fede ralist papers). The author's aim throughout is to incorporate t he benefits of modern scholarship of the historical school, with its emphasis on historical and political circumstances as a key t o meaning. Recognizing that for most students time will not allow detailed study of the historical and political contexts of parti cular works, Hampsher-Monk provides here the background necessary for the readers to situate the writings of key thinkers in relat ion to wider currents in intellectual and political history. Ab out the Author Iain Hampsher-Monk is Professor of Political Theor y at the University of Exeter and Editor of the international Jou rnal History of Political Thought. About the Author Iain Hampshe r-Monk is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exet er and Editor of the international Journal History of Political T hought. ., Wiley-Blackwell, 1993, 2.5<