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This book explores the institutional links between society and government that shape political communication.…

Originally published in 1918, this book contains papers on social and economic questions by the British engineer and…

First published in 1853, this work recounts an unsuccessful mission to locate the missing Franklin expedition. Edward…

Originally published in 1932, this book contains five essays on events during the reign of Pope Gregory VII, born Hildebrand…

This book offers an in-depth analysis of journalistic attention to the Supreme Court.…

Originally published in 1926, this book presents the content of a series of lectures written by the British philosopher and…

Pauline teaching, in conjunction with the teachings of Christ, provides the foundation for Christian thought on a wide…

Addressing key questions at the intersection of religion and science, this book summarizes some of the latest, compelling…

First published in 1921, and originally intended as a textbook for students entering secondary school, this book gives an…

The American playwright and manager-director Augustin Daly dominated the theatrical scene in the United States during the…

Originally published in 1924 for use in schools, this book contains the Revised Version text of Genesis 25-50, with critical…

Politics without Stories explains how conservatives tell stories to show how public problems can be solved, while liberals…

The mathematician Isaac Todhunter (1820-84) was an examiner for the University of Cambridge and a successful textbook…

• Rok vydání 1919

Originally published in 1920, this collection of essays presents and discusses some of the subjects addressed in the Report…

This 1797 history of the uprising of slaves in the French colony of St Domingo (now Haiti) was written by a West Indian…

This is a 1995 edition of Dr Stubbings' Bedders, Bulldogs and Bedells: A Cambridge ABC, first published by the author in…

This concise volume gathers together two essays on Samuel Johnson and one on James Boswell. The essays are entitled 'Johnson…

This 1913 second edition of a 1910 original contains a series of extracts from French Romantic texts, together with short…

Originally published in 1923, this book contains short biographies of the lives and works of several nineteenth-century…

Originally published in 1936, this book presents a detailed analysis of various types of neurosis and their treatment. The…

Eva Charlotte Ellis LĂĽckes (1854-1919) was a pioneer of nursing training and friend of Florence Nightingale. In 1880, aged…

• Rok vydání 1925

Arthur Shipley (1861-1927) was a British zoologist who held the position of Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cambridge…

Originally published in 1853 and reissued here in the revised and enlarged third edition of 1859, this collection of verse…

Escaping the clutches of truthiness begins with one simple question: 'what is the evidence?' Howard Wainer shows how the…

Originally published in 1922, this anthology uses the days of the year as a framework for its structure. Indexes of authors…

Originally published in 1907, this book presents the content of the Yorke Prize Essay for 1905. An account of four types of…

• Rok vydání 1906

In this 1906 work, leading physicist Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940) gives an extensive account of the known facts about the…

Originally published in 1932, this book is comprised of a series of papers written for the Royal Society of Literature. The…

Originally published in 1963, this book presents a study of the occupations of Cambridge graduates from 1952 and 1953, the…

Originally published in 1905, this book contains four lengthy essays by the classical scholar A. W. Verrall on four plays by…

Originally published in 1896, this book contains the German text for the last drama in Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy,…

Originally published in 1936, this book contains representative samples of French poetry written between the middle of the…

Originally published in 1931, this book was written in 'an attempt to interpret to English readers the history of the…

No series of events has had a more dramatic impact on the course of American history than the Civil War and the emancipation…

In this groundbreaking volume, leading philosophers and mathematicians explore almost every aspect of Kurt Gödel's work on…

Originally published in 1938, this book contains the text of ten lectures arranged by the History of Science Committee at…

• Rok vydání 1855

Written in 1855 from the unusual perspective of a freed slave turned linguist and clergyman, this eventful journal charts…

Autonomy is often recognized as a central value in moral and political philosophy, but there are fundamental disagreements…

John Locke (1632-1704) is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment philosophers. This volume contains…

Originally published in 1934, this book contains a collection of papers written by Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor of…

A wide-ranging study of the central concepts in epistemology - belief, truth and knowledge. Professor Armstrong offers a…

This book reports the results of a comparative study of twenty communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy…

Analyzing Islamist electoral performance and behavior before and after the 2011 revolution that unseated former dictator…

Originally published in 1787, this work by the utilitarian philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) champions 'the…

This work contains anecdotes about the bibliophilic Roxburghe Club, as recorded by the antiquary and founder member Joseph…

Hacking the Electorate focuses on the consequences of campaigns using microtargeting databases to mobilize voters. Eitan…

In this volume leading international environmental philosophers further the debate about the value of nature, the concept of…

This book presents a powerful challenge to the dominant media and scholarly construction of radical Islamist politics as a…