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Stephen's 1880 work blends history with literary criticism to provide what he called a 'sketch' of Pope for the interested…

Robert Willis (1800-75), professor of natural and experimental philosophy at the University of Cambridge, was especially…

\nThe global bond market is many times larger than the global economy. Every day, billions of dollars of tender offers,…

\nTargeting practitioners and researchers in financial risk, this book provides new ways of describing and valuing risk to…

An accessible account of how American foreign policy ideologies structure competing meanings of the \'international rule of…

\nThis volume offers scholars the first authoritative text of two works produced collaboratively by two of the most…

\nBy taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book explores the process of managing relations across cultures. With…

\nThe book brings together phenomena related to the interaction of case and meaning in a wide range of languages, and…

\nThis textbook teaches undergraduates in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine modern data analysis techniques. It uses…

The text of this inaugural lecture proposes that the newly established A. G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture is a…

This detailed and carefully argued essay attempts to prove the Neptunist theory of basalt formation. Now discredited, and…

Serving as the first systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition, and…

This timely book by internationally regarded scholar of ethics, Michael Boylan, focuses on the history, application and…

Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and…

Originally published in 1926, this book was written to provide an 'account of some of the ethnological conditions of the…

Originally published in 1933, this book presents a detailed description of the collections of silver, portraits and other…

Based on analysis of trends across Russia since communism collapsed, this book explains why the most nondemocratic regions…

A symbol of Britain's industrial heyday, Cadbury's offered recreational and educational schemes that included an astonishing…

\nFacing global climate crisis, Marx\'s ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than…

\nThis book offers a unique look at historical policymaking to explore how nineteenth-century fiction writers influenced the…

• Čeština

\nA fully revised and updated second edition of the award-winning, foundational study of refugee rights under international…

face2face Classware offers you exciting way to use the Student's Book material in class. Whether you've got a computer and…

Based on over one hundred and thirty interviews with government officials, revolutionary activists, war veterans, and…

Explores the art of acting in Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating how stage acting was…

\nA comprehensive and self-contained introductory text covering all the fundamental concepts and major principles of…

Originally published in 1928, this book contains a collection of letters by the playwright and author Oliver Goldmith,…

Originally published in 1924, this book contains modern and stylish translations of 701 of Martial's epigrams. Francis and…

Literary history can often be guilty of focusing too much on famous poets of a particular period, resulting in an unbalanced…

Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861) was a minister, physician and social reformer, who considerably improved the health of…

• Rok vydání 1848

Attempting to separate myth from reality, this illustrated 1848 monograph by Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811-53) and Alexander…

Originally published in 1915, this book is the first of two volumes describing the popular risings during the reign of Henry…

• Rok vydání 1991

This 1991 publication, edited by Wendy Childs and John Taylor (1925-2009), contains the first printed edition of a…

Originally published in 1918, this book contains the French text of Alain-RenĂ© Lesage's satire Turcaret, written in the…

\nThis handbook covers animal communication and language, memory and recall, social cognition, social learning and teaching,…

\nWritten primarily for postgraduate trainee obstetricians and gynaecologists preparing for the EBCOG Fellowship exam,…

This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of the rich histories of the peoples who lived on the Iberian Peninsula between…

This is the first full-length comparative study of the national renewable energy laws of every country in the world.…

Analyzes the evolution of American-Soviet relations during the 1970s, from the rise of detente during the Nixon…

A study of the tumultuous changes in the contemporary labour relations of China. It is a comprehensive study for scholars…

Suitable for advanced undergraduates or graduate students in psychology, counseling, social work, nursing, or medicine, this…

• Čeština

\nThis new translation of the Natural History\'s opening books lets readers immerse themselves in the natural world and…

Originally published in 1924 for use in schools, this book contains the Revised Version text of the Book of Exodus, with…

Originally published in 1935, this book contains the text of lectures delivered earlier in that year at the Young Public…

• Rok vydání 1816

John William Polidori (1795-1821) was, for a brief period, the personal physician to Lord Byron. William Michael Rossetti,…

This book represents a revolutionary approach to political science, revealing the practical human basis of why the world…

• Čeština

First published in 1882 as a translation from the original German text, this series of concurrent chronological tables…

Originally published in 1904, this book presents a critical discussion of the Book of Ecclesiastes, with additional notes on…