This Companion explores percussion instruments and music from the perspectives of performers, composers, conductors,…

How do democracies form and what makes them die? In a wide-ranging narrative of democracy's history in Europe, from 1830s…

Chopsticks have become a quintessential part of the Japanese, Chinese or Korean culinary experience around the world. This…

The notions of purpose, goal, end and function are used (and abused) in descriptions of a very wide range of human, animal…

Structuring Drama Work is the only drama resource that explores 100 dramatic conventions and techniques and provides ideas…

This first edition has been written by experienced teachers to meet the requirements for the latest Cambridge IGCSE (R)…

• Rok vydání 1999

This 1999 edition of Japan Today takes account of Japan's changing fortunes in the l990s, describing the recent economic…

Does a word mean what it says? Sometimes - but not always. Who's using a word and to whom, in what context, for what purpose…

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

This book, first published in 2000, draws on the great wealth of associations of street-names in Cambridge. It is not a…

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

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

• Rok vydání 1859

This 1859 monograph revolutionised the scholarly understanding of the ancient Near East by producing evidence that a highly…

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

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was one of the most original thinkers of the nineteenth century. In this influential 1830 work,…

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

Originally published in 1914, this book presents an exhaustive study into the Greek and Hebrew versions of the Book of…

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

Originally published in 1922, this book contains the Greek text of the only surviving complete speech by the orator Lycurgus…

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

First published in 1925, this book not only examines the history of the Year Book and its role in English law, but also…

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

Sir Sidney Lee (1859-1926) was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare, who in 1898 wrote a highly regarded account…

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

Though many books have examined the net's importance for business leaders and strategists, Wallace focuses on the ways in…

Isaiah Berlin introduces a new edition of Joseph de Maistre's Considerations on France (1797), the best known and most…

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

An expanded paperback edition of James R. Flynn's thought-provoking examination of dramatic increases in IQ gains over the…

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

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

After twenty years of international talks, the world is now in gridlock about how best to tackle the problem of global…

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

Due to economic crises, labor parties followed economic policies that hurt labor unions during the 1990s, such as trade…

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…

Originally published in 1919, this book examines the junction between music and psychology, particularly harmony. Watt…

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…

Dilke and Wilkinson argue in this 1892 book that, while hoping to avert war by diplomacy, the Government has a duty to…

First published in 1880, this is a complete catalogue of the traders and products that featured in a London exhibition on…

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…

First published in 1766, this tract by the philanthropist Jonas Hanway (c.1712-86) was an indictment of the English care…

The best available guide to appreciating the literary art of this book expounding the implications of Epicurus' dictum that…

This book is a study of Aristotle's metaphysics in which the central argument is that Aristotle's views on substance are a…

Providing an original analysis and assessment of the political thought of Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault,…

These essays address some of the most intriguing questions raised by natural law theory and its implications for law,…

Trevelyan's Education of the People (1838) is a defence of the educational reforms that took place in colonial India during…