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Stories about the acts of the apostles have been circulating since the second century: colourful tales of the travels,…

First published in 1898, this is a compendium of letters written by the explorer Henry Morton Stanley during his travels to…

First published in 1937, this book is a critical examination of the Hermes and Dionysos of Praxiteles. Antonsson suggests a…

Sawyer addresses a key issue in sociology, the relation between the individual and the group. He argues that societies are…

Originally published in 1976, this book was written specifically to guide students of political theory who want to…

Remembered for both his satirical and serious work, Robert Barnabas Brough (1828-60) was a playwright, journalist and poet.…

• Rok vydání 1869

This 1869 publication describes the spiritualist activity of Scottish-born medium Daniel Dunglas Home (1833-86). The author,…

This book examines the politics of social policy in an era of austerity and conservative governance. Focusing on the…

Essays in this volume address questions about responsibility that arise in moral philosophy and legal theory. Some analyse…

A collector of literary antiquities, Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) was particularly interested in medieval ballad poetry.…

Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was a philologist whose work was regarded as seminal. His textbooks on Old English remain standard…

History of Philosophy: Twentieth-Century Perspectives is based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series…

Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organised within and between human minds.…

Drawing on a wide range of Orwell's writing, including unpublished and previously unused material, Rai charts his…

This book raises and addresses questions about the consequences of democratic institutions for economic performance. This…

Originally published in 1911, this book contains the Revised Version text of the Book of Joshua with critical annotations by…

This volume asks the fundamental question: how might human societies live? By exploring in the newest context some of the…

Originally published in 1923, this book presents essays and lectures by the pioneering British meteorologist Napier Shaw…

Philosophy of mind as traditionally understood has rarely engaged directly with psychology and psychiatry. This collection…

Audi offers a balanced and sophisticated treatment of the relations between religion and politics in a modern, secular…

One of the many interests of the British scholar Sir Walter Oakeshott was Elizabethan exploration, which he examines in this…

Sir Eric Teichman (1884-1944) was a British diplomat and renowned travel writer. In this book, which was first published in…

This study is concerned with element order in written literary Russian, a study usually known as word order, a term which is…

Originally published in 1923, this book presents a study regarding the fundamental nature of ethical principles. The text…

Originally published in 1929, this book presents a series of studies covering various aspects of the life and work of…

George Sturt (1863-1927) was a British wheelwright and writer who generally used the pen-name George Bourne. First published…

• Rok vydání 1966

In an age of female suicide bombers, comfortable assumptions about the peaceful nature of women have become questionable.…

Special purpose jurisdictions constitute the most common form of local government in the United States today. This book…

Examines the endurance and influence of mystical beliefs on political strategy in Iran from the Safavid dynasty to the…

Originally published in 1888, this book contains the Latin text of the 21st book of the monumental history of Rome by Titus…

Descartes' Meditations offers some of the most influential ideas in Western thought. By providing a clear, accessible…

First published in 1928, this was one of the first in-depth studies of the English navy's failure to prevent William of…

In this 1909 handbook, prolific Egyptologist W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) examines a sample of Egyptian art from the…

In theory, most Americans continue to support the death penalty. But since 1996, death sentences in America have declined by…

Watkin Tench (c.1758-1833) was part of the crew of the Charlotte, one of the First Fleet ships of convicts destined for New…

Originally published in 1922, this book presents translations from about fifty authors of Arabic and Persian works. The…

This book shows that 'how' a story is reported is more important for building ratings than what the story is about. Local…

This collection will be the first to make accessible to students Priestleys' Essay on the First Principles and The Present…

A systemic argument that is virtually unknown in international relations. This book describes and tests a fully systemic…

Originally published in 1931, this book contains a number of selections from the prose writings of William Morris. The…

Are indigenous peoples' governments in the Andes providing a more participatory, accountable, and deliberative form of…

Explores how, in the aftermath of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, a transnational network of activists…

This volume documents how the molecular biosciences have outgrown the nature/nurture distinction, and situates genetics in…

C. W. Hobley (1867-1947) was a colonial administrator stationed in Kenya between 1894 and 1921. This ethnography contains…

Power and the Vote newly engages the debate on democracy's impact in the developing world with fresh data and theory.…

Humberto Barreto gives professors a simple way to teach macroeconomic models and incorporate data into their courses using…

James Stephen (1758-1832) was a lawyer, anti-slavery advocate, and Member of Parliament. He argued that the French should…

• Rok vydání 1780

Published in 1780, this work was the first to suggest that specific receptors, tuned to only part of the physical spectrum,…