Emily Davis (1830-1921) was an English feminist and campaigner for women's education. First published in 1866, this volume…

• Rok vydání 1886

Henry Wheatley's How to Form a Library was published in 1886 when libraries were increasing rapidly. In discussing the…

The essays in this volume assess the empirical and theoretical questions raised by inequalities of income and wealth. They…

Very little is known about the life of the third-century Greek algebraist Diophantos of Alexandria: uncertainty surrounds…

The question of equal access to quality education is one of the most persistent political and policy issues in the United…

Originally published in 1913, this volume contains the complete text of the Old Testament's Song of Songs in English…

The first book of odes is designed both to establish Horace's engagement with his Greek predecessors and to create a role…

First published in 1901, as the second edition of an 1886 original, this book provides a detailed analysis of English…

This book argues that bureaucracies can contribute to stability and economic development, if they are insulated from…

Contentious Performances presents a logic and method for describing contentious events - occasions on which people publicly…

Revolutionary, mathematician, economist, philosopher and politician, Condorcet (1743-1794) wrote a compelling view of human…

First published in 1951, this book examines the role of measurement in obtaining and applying economic knowledge. Esteemed…

A collection of essays examining the relationship between cultural values and the body as a source of symbols and instrument…

This book offers a new theory of the historical relationship between economic modernization and the emergence of democracy…

James Robert Ballantyne (1813-64), who taught oriental languages in India, published this work in 1859. Intended for the…

Originally published in 1918, this book contains edited English translations of French texts written by the Jansenist…

Generalized trust - faith in people you do not know - is a value that leads to many positive outcomes for a society. Yet…

Octavia Hill (1838-1912) was a social reformer, appalled by London slum conditions. In these essays and talks, first…

This 1906 work, with its many later improvements, became a standard textbook on curve-fitting. Reprinted here is the 1953…

Tracing the changing musical, philosophical and intellectual currents of thought which inform Boulez's work, this study…

First published in 1903, this book presents a wide-ranging study of rabies. Three key areas of the disease are explored: its…

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This book, published…

John Lewis Burckhardt (1784-1817) was a Swiss explorer who explored Arabia and the Middle East in the guise of a Muslim.…

Offers one of the first comparative treatments of Protestant and Catholic history in nineteenth-century America. Gjerde…

This 1912 book provides an introduction to the general background of German heroic poetry and detailed analyses of specific…

This study is a realist interpretation of the long diplomatic record that produced the coming of World War II in 1939. A…

This book explores the factors that drive political ambition at the earliest stages. Using data from a comprehensive survey…

Part of the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series, H. R. Procter's The Making of Leather, first published in…

Thisedition of Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America adds a prologue describing…

Originally published in 1918, this book contains an annotated edition of the poems of William Cartwright (1611-43) as…

Originally published in 1955, this book contains the Latin text of the first book of Lucan's Pharsalia or De bello civili.…

In this collection, first published in 2005, twelve prominent philosophers and legal and economic theorists offer valuable…

This fresh analysis of Lincoln's life, political career, and presidency reveals how he shaped his personal appearance,…

The expanded and revised third edition of this intriguing book considers a range of knotty paradoxes including paradoxes…

Presents a selection from Ovid's Metamorphoses, his witty, amusing and richly influential collection of Greek and Roman…

Originally published in 1933, this book examines the impact of the Oxford Movement on the thought and life of the Church of…

This book asks why in recent years the social and economic upheavals in Kuwait and Qatar have been accompanied by a…

Originally published in 1937, this book contains six essays on the teaching and thought of Isaac ben Judah Abravanel. The…

• Rok vydání 1889

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

C. W. Leadbeater (1854-1934), a leading figure in the Theosophical Society, first published this book in 1899; this fifth…

Originally published in 1937, this book presents a selection of eighteenth-century German critical texts relating to…

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

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…

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

This book collects essays by Professor Pocock concerned principally with the history of British political thought in the…

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