Darnell M. Hunt goes beyond the obvious explanations of celebrity, scandal and voyeurism to ask why America was so obsessed…

In this volume distinguished aestheticians consider the ways in which painting, sculpture, music, poetry and the cinema…

Part of the importance of this text lies in its correspondences to other medieval glossaries. Offering a complete…

In this fascinating book, Skiena and Ward bring quantitative analysis to bear on ranking and comparing historical…

Since its hard-won independence from Pakistan, Bangladesh has been ravaged by economic and environmental disasters. Only…

First published in 1923 as the second edition of a 1922 original, this book provides a brief account of the methods used in…

This book offers a new way to think about the legacies of two institutions, the Nuremberg Trials and South Africa's Truth…

The first book to present mathematics teaching from Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory of learning perspective. The authors…

This book provides the original text of A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, which was first published in…

This highly acclaimed volume brings together some of the world's foremost historians of ideas to consider Machiavelli's…

For students with only the most basic knowledge of Greek, this book provides the ideal introduction to the New Testament in…

This is a book about a gambling system that works. The author tells the story of how he used computer simulations and…

First published in 1892, and intended for biblical scholars reading the text in the original languages, this book provides a…

Originally published in 1913, this book contains the German text of Schiller's tragedy Die Braut von Messina, which caused…

Originally published in 1981, this book examines the ways in which social groups interact in the making of a common food in…

For many years the term fin de sicle has been used to imply a state of decadence which was thought to have pervaded…

In a series of critical reflections on the major controversies in and about world politics, leading scholars shed light on…

This book proposes a better fiscal language for US budgetary policy, rooted in economic fundamentals such as wealth…

Originally published in 1910, this book contains the text of fifty poems written by Tennyson between 1830 and 1864,…

Film in Australia is a groundbreaking book that provides a comprehensive analysis of films made since 1970. By adopting a…

Introducing new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication, this is a…

With V diagrams allowing students to analyze complex problems into constituent parts, they become active participants in the…

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This book was formed from the Prince Consort Prize Essay for 1934. Covering various aspects of the Dissenter movement…

A series of detailed studies, first published in 1967, of the most characteristic, and often the most difficult, features of…

This Companion, first published in 1997, provides an introduction and guide to the works and life of one of the most…

Examines the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies, focusing on what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute…

An innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom analyzes and discusses the role it plays in his…

Originally published in 1913, this book examines the effect of the Puritan Revolution upon the Church of England and the…

Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience of widespread…

This contains an edition of Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko (1688), one of the earliest literary works about African slavery in…

Drawing on new research in social and political history, and offering detailed readings of key texts, this multifaceted…

This highly successful Companion has now been updated to include post-Soviet trends and new developments in Russian culture…

Originally published in 1901, this book presents a collection of Greek and Latin compositions by the British classicist and…

First published in 1923 and delivered as the Watson Chair Lectures to various British universities in the previous year,…

First published in 1921, this book was originally intended as an introductory guide to Dutch history, language and…

Originally published in 1913, this book presents the complete text of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a long narrative…

How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This…

This book introduces key principles and concepts regarding human learning and cognition for people who have little or no…

This book examines not the exhaustion but the generation of sentiments, values, ideals, justifications and actions which…

First published in 1925, this book discusses the various forms of sewage treatment, with a particular eye to cost…

Schools can do little to reduce the economic and political causes of war and violence, but they can do much to moderate the…

This volume considers women in the context of armed violence, security, and the small arms agenda. Additional chapters…

This 1947 collection of thirteen short stories, presented in the original Italian, was created to provide interesting…

This is a history of Soviet education policy 1921-34 that places special emphasis upon the theme of social mobility through…

When is language considered 'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? What is the difference…

This book presents an alternative view of al-Qaida's role in Afghanistan, arguing that they were a cohesive organization…

The first edition of this book formed a basis for an approach to Elizabethan poetic drama as a performing art, and…

This Companion provides comprehensive coverage of the concerto - a genre rarely considered in its entirety - and includes…