Plagues, Priests, and Demons is a comparative, interdisciplinary study of the rise of Christianity in the late Roman Empire…

Written specifically for graduate students and practitioners beginning social science research, this textbook introduces the…

Originally published in 1976, this book was written specifically to guide students of political theory who want to…

Why do institutions emerge, change, persist and die? This book addresses one of the central issues in the social sciences…

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…

First published in 1925, this two-volume work deals with the blood's role in respiration. This second volume deals with…

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Drawing on a wide range of Orwell's writing, including unpublished and previously unused material, Rai charts his…

Originally published in 1926, this book is a fascinating account of life in England from the mid-nineteenth century to the…

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…

Written in an engaging, reader-friendly style, this comprehensive guide provides undergraduates with the essential tools for…

• Rok vydání 1912

Part of the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature series, Earthworms and their Allies, written in 1912 by Frank E.…

This book shadows the usage of the racial slur 'Uncle Tom' throughout history to understand how social norms associated with…

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 1929, this book presents a series of studies covering various aspects of the life and work of…

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…

This book, first published in 1990, presents a radical interpretation by Czech philosophers of science of the philosophical,…

In theory, most Americans continue to support the death penalty. But since 1996, death sentences in America have declined by…

• Rok vydání 1912

Published in Oxford in 1912, Pitman's edition of the four middle books of Tacitus' Annals, covers the final years and death…

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…

This collection will be the first to make accessible to students Priestleys' Essay on the First Principles and The Present…

A systemic argument that is virtually unknown in international relations. This book describes and tests a fully systemic…

Are indigenous peoples' governments in the Andes providing a more participatory, accountable, and deliberative form of…

Explores how, in the aftermath of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, a transnational network of activists…

Originally published in 1914, this book by Charles Waldstein provides an introduction to the study of sculpture. The text is…

This volume documents how the molecular biosciences have outgrown the nature/nurture distinction, and situates genetics in…

Originally published in 1939, this book examines the critical careers of a number of English poets. Bronowski looks at the…

The journal is concerned with the study of philosophy in all its branches: logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics,…

Power and the Vote newly engages the debate on democracy's impact in the developing world with fresh data and theory.…

Humberto Barreto gives professors a simple way to teach macroeconomic models and incorporate data into their courses using…

• Rok vydání 1780

Published in 1780, this work was the first to suggest that specific receptors, tuned to only part of the physical spectrum,…

• Rok vydání 1860

This work was published by the Rolls Series in 1860 and is drawn from three linked copies of the earliest-known record of…

This is an abridgement of the complete translation of the New Essays, first published in 1981, designed for use as a study…

The earliest forms of representative government were to be found in Maryland from its founding in 1632. David W. Jordan…

• Rok vydání 1941

During the century leading up to this book's publication in 1941, there had been a revolution in conditions governing the…

First published in 1934, this book provides an accessible introduction to various aspects of radio technology. The text…

This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, demonstrating why AIDS…

This book is original in its conception, perspective and treatment of the languages and identities of the West Indies as a…

This second edition of West Indians & Their Language updates the text of the first edition and includes some additions while…

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced…