Having already examined Pascal's religious thought and attitude in his previous book The Holiness of Pascal, in this 1941…

John Willis Clark, academic and antiquarian, collected Cambridge literature of all periods and upon every subject. This…

Philosophy and Sport brings together the lectures given in the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for…

This work is a critical interpretation of Sikh literature from a feminist perspective, and puts a new interpretation on a…

Lawless was a novelist born in County Kildare in 1845. Despite her great love for Ireland, she eventually became…

Originally published in 1933, this book presents a report prepared by the Cambridgeshire Council of Music Education. The…

Written for a general readership by some of the leading specialists in the field, this Companion presents up-to-date…

This book traces the development of this little-understood heresy from its Middle Eastern roots. The Bogomils derived…

Contractarianism has been at the center of recent debates in moral and political philosophy. In these essays Jean Hampton…

Originally published in 1924, this book presents nine Mayor's Court rolls preserved among the archives of the Corporation of…

In The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, leading scholars discuss her work in several fascinating contexts: literary…

This book sets out to determine how much of the hype about the sensitive, post-feminist 'new man' is based on fact, and why…

Originally published in 1903, this book presents the content of two lectures delivered by the author during 1902 to students…

We rely on NGOs to monitor the ethical practices of governments and for-profit firms and to undertake many humanitarian…

First published in 1902, as the second edition of a 1900 original, this book was prepared with special regard to the…

The second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War. Updated to take account of the latest…

This is a study of landholding, taxation and social structure in one county of central China that became famous in the Ming…

This translation of an 1802 French work describing the benefits of farming Merino sheep was published in 1810 by the English…

This book traces how the political ideal of self-determination has turned into an international legal standard, assessing…

Originally published in 1934, this book presents a series of essays on various important figures and ideas in the…

Leading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European…

Originally published in 1909, this book contains a guide in English and French to the sculptures of Chartres Cathedral. The…

Principally comprising records found in private collections and those held by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, this…

The book presents human rights struggles within and between the United States and the Middle East in the post-September 11th…

This book summarises the complex genesis of Berlioz's RomĂ©o et Juliette then examines the music closely and always with a…

Comprehensive and accessible, this Companion examines Franklin's writings and his life with a new sophistication, placing…

First published in 1925 as the third edition of a 1911 original, this second volume of Dr Charles Myers' two-part textbook…

Price brings a multi-disciplinary approach to an understanding of why leaders fail ethically in the public, private, and…

Why did the idea of market freedom hold so little appeal before the modern period and how can we explain its rise to…

Originally published in 1911, this book contains 35 poems selected from Browning's works of the years 1835 to 1864,…

In an original study of the history and politics of the Rhineland region, Michael Loriaux argues that the European Union is…

This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth…

Richard, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842) was Governor-General of Bengal from 1798 to 1805. He was appointed British…

This book provides the first introductory, comparative account of the rise of giant business corporations in America and…

This collected volume addresses all aspects of Mary Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career. It illuminates…

John Cottingham's much acclaimed translation of Descartes's philosophical masterpiece, Meditations on First Philosophy, is…

Does the election of African-American politicians matter? Electing black legislators yields more federal dollars and…

Originally published in 1932, this book was created with the aim of widening the interest of British people in the popular…

First published in 1925, this book provides a selection from a previously unpublished work on Genesis and Exodus by the…

In this comparative study, Ellermann examines the capacity of the liberal democratic state to coercively regulate…

For this volume George Taylor has edited five plays by two largely forgotten eighteenth-century playwrights, Samuel Foote…

Based on her experience as disciple of a private practitioner, participating in scholarly seminars of a senior Chinese…

Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724-1804) is best known for his works on the picturesque.…

• Rok vydání 1910

This 1910 book anthologises a variety of poetry from the time of Shakespeare. The text is divided by genre and within each…

Originally published in 1938, this book provides exercises in French prose and free composition for school students. The…

• Rok vydání 1862

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of…

Originally published in 1946, this book presents R. C. Trevelyan's English metrical translation of Sophocles' Oedipus at…

American philanthropist Elihu Burritt (1810-79) was involved in many causes, including abolition, temperance, and world…