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Brown outlines best practice for the preservation of monuments and architectural and natural beauty. The second part, based…

The German poet Mathilde Wesendonck (1828-1902) was the wife of Wagner's patron, the wealthy silk merchant Otto Wesendonck.…

The British colonial administrator Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874-1938) travelled extensively in the Far East,…

Charles Taylor is beyond question one of the most distinctive figures in the landscape of contemporary philosophy. In a time…

• Rok vydání 1889

This 1889 work on prisons, capital punishment, and the need for reform, was based on experience of prison visiting. Skene…

The introduction and four scholarly essays in this volume constitute an overview of Hemingway's career as a short story…

In this scholarly compilation, Pearce has searched the muniments of Westminster Abbey to uncover the names, lives and…

This collection brings together a wide variety of contributors with different backgrounds and distinctive skills to explore…

As a left-hander, the archaeologist and anthropologist Daniel Wilson (1816-92) was interested to discover as many…

The first systematic study of Black-Latino intergroup relations at the national level of US politics. Based on the…

This 1916 analysis of the Navy's role in the Restoration of 1660 and its growth in the seventeenth century reveals the flair…

In this follow up to I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies, Nick Smith expands his ambitious theories of categorical…

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…

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…