Böcker av Nigel Blake

With the continued success of nuclear deterrence itself in question, citizens feel an urgent need to assess the clash between personal doubts, cherished principles and their governments' loudly voiced moral certainties. In this title, first published in 1984, philosophers of varying persuasions provide new analyses of these problems.

Europe has everything to lose from nuclear war, and nothing to gain from it. Yet it is nuclear deterrence that we are relying on to shield us from war. In this book, originally published in 1983, philosophers go behind the rhetoric of the nuclear debate and analyse the dangers of deterrence.

The essential guide to garden birds, full of colour photos, identification tips and advice on feeding birds and attracting them to a garden.

This timely book addresses concerns about educational and moral standards in a world characterised by a growing nihilism.

This work challenges some of the assumptions behind recent thinking on lifelong learning and discusses the idea of the learning society through a reappraisal of the relationship between the university and the community. It reconsiders the demand for efficiency, effectiveness and accountability.