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Reliable Knowledge offers at once a valuably clear account and a radically challenging investigation of the credibility of…

Reprinted in 1924 and 1955, this 1918 volume gathers important writings of Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-69), the…

This book, first published in 1915, is a collection of lectures given between 1897 and 1913 by Reginald Poole, Keeper of the…

In his Leslie Stephen Lecture the great historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography,…

Originally published in 1932, this book presents the complete Greek text of Agamemnon with an English verse translation. The…

N. W. Thomas (1868-1936) was one of the first government anthropologists of the colonial era. This work develops and defines…

Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates.…

• Rok vydání 1843

An 1843 rallying call for 'perfect liberty', understood as 'that which allows as much freedom to each individual human…

Based on recent multidisciplinary research and insights from political activism, Gender in Flux addresses gender as a main…

Originally published in 1945, this study of Denmark forms part of the British Survey Handbooks series. The object of the…

The Magus, a legendary magician of superhuman powers, is an archetype central to myth and religion across many cultures.…

This 1938 book reopened a question generally held to have been settled: the sources from which St John derived the material…

Originally published in 1953, this book presents a concise study regarding the nature of Euripidean tragedy. The main part…

• Rok vydání 1858

This 1858 work by William Stubbs (1825-1901) presents a chronological account of the succession of the bishops of England…

First published in 1913, this volume furnished a clearly worded and accessible introduction to the subject of Victorian…

Originally published in 1927, this book presents a selection of previously unprinted essays by the classical scholar John…

Agnes Arber (1879-1960) provides here a fascinating exploration of the morphology of flowering plants. First published in…

James Kerr translated this history of the rise to dominance of the Marathas over the Mughal empire in India in 1782. Written…

This three-volume work was originally serialised in Dickens' magazine Household Words between 1851 and 1853 and published in…

Clear and easy to use, Kennedy's renowned textbook contains anything a student of Latin could hope to know, from tables of…

Originally published in 1936, this book presents an account of some aspects of the life of the renowned French letter-writer…

Originally published in 1934, this book provides a concise examination of a crucial time in William Gladstone's political…

Margaret Smith's 1928 biography of eighth-century Sufi saint Rabi'a is an authoritative account of Rabi'a's evolution from…

Originally published in 1965, this book was written to provide 'a not too obtrusive guide' to German poetry from Luther's…

Originally published in 1958, this book contains the texts of two 1658 works by Sir Thomas Browne, Urne Burial and The…

Originally published in 1911 as number thirteen in the Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics series, this…

This book provides an introduction as to what epigram means and why it matters. Subjects covered include the roots in…

Originally published in 1937, this book examines the place of poetry in human life. Hamilton argues that, rather than…

Originally published in 1931, this book was based on eight talks given for the BBC during August and September 1930. The…

Originally published in 1919, this book was based upon an essay by Charles Coxton that was awarded the Prince Consort Prize…

Originally published in 1946, this book presents the content of the J. H. Gray Lectures for that year, which were delivered…

Robert Francis Jameson was the British Commissioner of Arbitration stationed in Cuba between 1819 and 1823. This volume,…

First published in 1891, this catalogue by Henry Woods (1868-1962) contains the specific names, classes and orders of 558…

• Rok vydání 1844

This 1844 work reports on the state of the Republic of Haiti after the ending of slavery. Candler found that trade had…

Originally published in 1928, this book deals with the physical and mathematical aspects of the symmetrical optical system.…

This 1892 book follows the fashion of late nineteenth-century works (often by women) which combine descriptions of gardens…

• Rok vydání 1878

Moritz Steinschneider (1816-1907) is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the study of modern Judaism and his work is…

In this 1900 publication, the American journalist and social reformer Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903) analyses labour…

In this work, published in 1879, Berthold DelbrĂĽck (1842-1922), the German scholar remembered for his contribution to the…

Originally published in 1925, this book contains three lectures delivered by the British theologian F. R. Tennant…

Originally published in 1933, as part of The School and World Community Series, this book presents a series of accounts…

• Rok vydání 1901

In this 1901 work, Berthold DelbrĂĽck (1842-1922), who is famous for his contribution to the study of the syntax in…

Superstring theory is one of the most exciting and actively pursued branches of physics today. This book explains the…

This three-volume work was originally serialised in Dickens' magazine Household Words between 1851 and 1853 and published in…

First published in 1914, this book contains a selection of English poetry originally intended to supply 'pieces for…

The Cambridge bookseller Gustave David (1860-1936) was a key feature of the Cambridge landscape from the late nineteenth…

Originally published in 1908, this book contains six essays on various aspects of the Platonic theory of knowledge as…

First published in 1930, this book contains three French stories by AndrĂ© Demaison. The stories were taken from Le livre…