This is the first book-length study in any language dedicated specifically to lute, guitar, and vihuela performance. Brings…

• Rok vydání 1976

This 1976 book consists of the public and private letters of merchants which present a lively panorama of early life in…

This study focuses on the way the Letter to the Hebrews explains the Christian doctrine of salvation by means of sacrificial…

Originally published in 1925, this volume presents the Latin text of the first two books of Cicero's De finibus bonorum et…

Murillo's analysis of the Latin American electricity and telecommunications sectors shows that different degrees of…

Braithwaite argues that some societies have higher crime rates than others because of their different processes of shaming…

This timely book answers complex and perplexing questions raised by Wall Street's role in the financial crisis. Wall Street…

Do political dynamics influence distributional outcomes in the US? Utilizing income surveys, elite surveys and aggregate…

First published in 1973, this collection of notes and illustrative documents compiled by Yorkshire historian Sir Charles…

The book is concerned with a subject which has not been treated before - the history over four centuries of Islamic artistic…

Ali Mirsepassi explores Eurocentric assumptions about modernity and Islamic Fundamentalism. He argues the Iranian Revolution…

First published in 1853, this was one of the earliest treatises to take a scientific as well as a practical approach to the…

What happens to the rural folk - to their power and economic well-being - when development takes place in a democratic…

Originally published in 1927, this book contains the text of nine lectures on various subjects relating to Christian…

Peter France sets the Confessions in the context of Rousseau's life and society, discussing the different aims he set…

In these essays, written (with one exception) between 1978 and 1982, Immanuel Wallerstein elaborates on the political and…

A hundred years ago Darwin and Wallace in their theory of natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, explained how…

First published in 1927 as the third edition of a 1923 original, this popular book by Professor R. H. Yapp is a…

A comprehensive account of how writers across Europe and America have responded creatively to the Holocaust, from diaries…

This book is the first to be devoted to the music of Stravinsky's last compositional period. Challenging conventional…

This is the first full-length study of the twenty-first-century novel. It examines writers from around the world and…

First published in 1940, E. E. Reynold's Unknown Ways is a collection of tales, intended for young readers, focusing on…

John Neville Figgis (1866-1919) was a historian, political theorist and monk, his writings extensively influenced the…

The theory of Ockham's razor has a history dating back to Aristotle. In this book Elliott Sober presents a clear and…

Based on the world's largest corpus of written and spoken American English, it includes up-to-date vocabulary (""blog,""…

The problem of the nature of being was central to ancient Greek and medieval philosophy, and here Peter van Inwagen applies…

Focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery.…

• Rok vydání 1999

This 1999 volume contains sixteen specially commissioned essays on the saxophone, and its history and technical development…

For centuries, oligarchs were viewed as empowered by wealth, an idea muddled by elite theory early in the twentieth century.…

The concept of yinyang lies at the heart of Chinese thought and culture. The relationship between these two opposing, yet…

In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning book States and Social Revolutions (1979), updates…

Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining the…

This collection of specially commissioned essays offers an accessible introduction to the history of the piano, performance…

Marxism this book argues, is still the most effective way of understanding capitalism. Ellen Meiksins Wood reformulates the…

Written between 1982 and 1989, this collection contains the author's perspective on the events of this period. The book also…

In order to present an overall view of the development of Hegel's political thinking the author has drawn on Hegel's…

Tracing the development of linguistic theory from Descartes to Wilhelm von Humboldt, Chomsky's book is one of the most…

An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts…

An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts…

A translation of Hegel's classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right.…

Originally published in 1927, this book presents a series of extracts from the novels of Charlotte and Emily BrontĂ«.…

Matthew Lange explores education's impact on ethnic violence, highlighting the role that social context plays. Rather than…

An examination of the social, economic, political and cultural context of first century Judaism. Precipitated by the coming…

• Rok vydání 1927

This 1927 book presents an accessible guide to Gothic foliage sculpture, aimed at visitors to ancient English churches.…

First published in 1927, this second edition of a 1924 volume gathers together and deals with Rabbinic metaphors, similes…

Original published in 1926, this book presents a detailed account of quantum theory from its beginnings onwards. The text…

First published in 1921, this book contains a selection of poems by Wordsworth ordered chronologically. The selection was…

This handbook examines the work from a number of cultural and technical perspectives.…