A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences Erica McWilliam ”Perhaps Jane Austen’s best-loved book

”Perhaps Jane Austen’s best-loved book

This comprehensive anthology of modern Indian writing

Insights -- like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works

The Madness of Cambyses is a translation of the Greek work on the Persian king: Cambyses II

Falkner's feeling for history and for the landscape of his Dorset setting combine with his gift for storytelling to turn Moonfleet into a historical romance of moving intensity

A History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences Erica McWilliam ”Perhaps Jane Austen’s best-loved bookThis ambitious critical history of the variety of disciplines we group together as the social sciences argues that the defining characteristic of social science, both historically and in the present, is ideology. Based originally on a flawed ideal of science, the 'social sciences' have incorporated and refined a set of assumptions about the nature of state and society, assumptions which have been institutionalized with the growth of modern