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Music theorists have long believed that 19th-century triadic progressions idiomatically extend the diatonic syntax of…

In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the…

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Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how, for example,…

In Evolutionary Neuropsychology, Frederick L. Coolidge examines the evolutionary origins of the human brain's present…

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The Psychology of Music: A Very Short Introduction seeks to answer fundamental questions of enduring interest, such as "What…

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'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and…

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This is the largest selection of Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca's letters currently available. In them Seneca…

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Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer…

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Examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of humans, including examples from many recent…

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There is a huge interest in Dawin and evolution, and the developments of his ideas are still controversial Darwin`s theory…

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'Two things alone I long for: first, that when I die I may leave the Roman people free...and second, that each person's fate…

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Concise, engaging, relevant: light on quantitative techniques and packed with cases offering a real-world perspective, this…

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This specialist handbook is a practical, comprehensive, and concise training guide on how to implant, follow-up, and…

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Narcissists have been much maligned, but according to clinicians who study personality, there are many productive…

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This book presents a wide-ranging survey of the scope and significance of international human rights law. Arranged…

This book investigates the changing ways in which composers employed notation and musicians understood it between the middle…

• Rok vydání 2010

"Pygmy music" has captivated students and scholars of anthropology and music for decades if not centuries, but until now…

The Rise of Homo sapiens is an introduction to human cognitive evolution written by psychologist Frederick L. Coolidge and…

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This kit provides all you need to give your child's early maths learning the right start, with carefully designed activities…

This new translation offers a more representative selection of the Grimms' tales by including fables and morality tales as…

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• Rok vydání 2008

On Obligations was written by Cicero after the murder of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring…

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Scenes of Clerical Life consists of three short novellas in which the lives of ordinary men and women in a provincial…

Two Persian travellers arrive in Paris and report on the European society of the Enlightenment in their letters home. With…

Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams(Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream…

Johnson\'s Journey to the Western Islands and Boswell\'s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides form a natural pair for an OWC…

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William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature,…

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'Rimbaud, the poet of revolt, and the greatest' Albert Camus Rimbaud is the enfant terrible of French literature, the…

As gambling becomes more prevalent and more accessible in our society, pathological gambling is growing as a serious…

The new edition of this successful book has been up-dated to incorporate recent advances in both approach to, and treatment…

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In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional…

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This study presents a new perspective on an important fourteenth-century Greek theologian, Gregory Palamas. Kniha…

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The first authoritative summary of its kind in this area, Handbook of Psychology and Sexual Orientation is the primary…

The primary purpose of this book has not been to recount all that past scholars have said about the science, but rather to…

Madness and Modernism provides a phenomenological study of schizophrenic disorders, criticizing some standard conceptions of…

This collection aims to explore how the media represent and construct gender, law, and feminism. The book consists of both…

Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest, in part because he provides vital evidence of the views of…

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`You should know that men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law.` Thus spoke Pope Paul…

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Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their…

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What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we…

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• Rok vydání 2004

Do we really make our own decisions? Or are we compelled to act by factors beyond our control? This introduction is an…

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In this revised and updated edition of The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction, John Guy offers a compelling and authoritative…

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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of…

Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is a treatise concerning the theory and practice of the most dynamic form of discourse in…

Extensively revised and updated in this fifth edition, The Modern Middle East explores how the forces associated with global…

"The Introduction to philosophy" written by Porphyry at the end of the second century AD is the most successful work of its…

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Sumerian is the world's oldest written language, first written down, in ancient Iraq, some 5000 years ago. These…

• Rok vydání 2011

Studies of mechanisms in the brain that allow complicated things to happen in a coordinated fashion have produced some of…

• Rok vydání 1998

Ideologies play a crucial role in the way we understand and shape the political world. But no one has yet satisfactorily…