• Rok vydání 1867

Social reformer, Chartist sympathiser, advocate of universal suffrage, and opponent of slavery, Henry Solly (1813-1903) was…

This book, first published in 1927, analyses the grammar of various Western languages, both ancient and modern.…

Originally published in 1917, this collection of essays deals with the underlying aims and principles of education,…

This volume takes stock of 'the state of the welfare state': how do welfare states change? How did the reforms of pension…

This innovative program of research combines qualitative and quantitative methods to develop a distinctive…

Widely regarded as Brahms' supreme achievement in the field of chamber music, the Clarinet Quintet is here placed in the…

Originally published in 1905, this book contains the text of Hudibras by the satirical poet Samuel Butler (1613-80). The…

First published in 1928, this volume provides a study of tribal culture on Rossel Island, with a detailed section devoted to…

In this important essay, Joseph Mali argues that Vico's New Science must be interpreted according to Vico's own clues and…

This book shows that Adorno holds a substantive ethics, albeit one that is minimalist and based on a pluralist conception of…

Originally published in 1924, this book contains the Latin text of the first book of Quintillian's Institutionis Oratoriae.…

Introductory essays by major scholars provide individual studies of the major poets of the early seventeenth century,…

Sergio Moravia's The Enigma of the Mind (originally published in Italian as L'enigma della mente) offers a broad and lucid…

This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608 and then Galileo's discoveries, casts the European…

How important is the state to Russia's prospects, even as Russia tries to work out the contours of a stable and productive…

Francisco Vitoria work has been translated here into English. For the first time, these texts comprise the core of Vitoria's…

Is there still a right to seek asylum in a globalised world? Asylum-seekers increasingly find themselves intercepted by…

Challenging the concept of the 'social Trinity' that posits three conscious subjects in God, this volume furthers the…

Originally published in 1920, this book presents chapters 1-4 and 14-22 from Coleridge's Biographia Literaria. The text was…

Originally published in 1928, this book was written to provide a guide to the translation of French into English, from…

This book, written by one of philosophy's pre-eminent logicians, argues that many of the basic assumptions common to logic,…

Gender and Culture in Psychology introduces readers to new approaches to the psychological study of gender that bring…

John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861) was a clergyman and Cambridge botanist, best remembered for being mentor to Charles Darwin.…

Originally published in 1982, Professor Friedman studies the abolitionists as individuals, delving into the psychology,…

This book focuses on some of the most important political-economic changes in advanced industrialized countries over the…

Contends that Yemen's recent history is a mirror of its past and that, despite national unification in 1990, the country…

In this revised and updated 1993 edition of a book first published in 1981, the authors synthesize recent research to…

Originally published in 1925, this book contains the edited text of Arthur Young's eighteenth century travelogue A Tour In…

This book presents an edition, with facing translations and commentary, of three long-neglected Old English apocryphal…

Taking Renaissance theorists' music examples as a point of departure, this study explores fundamental questions about how…

By examining the system of authoritarianism in eight Arab republics, Joseph Sassoon portrays life under these regimes and…

Language typology identifies similarities and differences between languages of the world. This textbook provides an…

Robin Fox's study of systems of kinship and alliance has become an established classic of the social science literature. It…

Originally published in 1935, this book presents the origins and structure of the industrial 'quasi-monopoly' in Germany in…

Originally published in 1930, this book was written primarily for the use of those approaching the subject of English prose…

Dion Boucicault, the most popular dramatist of the second half of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific…

Real Social Science is a major development in a novel and thriving field of research. Presenting a range of examples of a…

This unusually accessible account of recent Anglo-American philosophy focuses on how that philosophy has challenged deeply…

This Companion seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on the texts they…

Originally published in 1914 and intended as a guide for teachers and students, this book examines the types of animals…

A history driven by interests in psychical research, this book traces Victorian spiritualist movements from origins in the…

This pioneering book studies the function and status of the written word in Carolingian society in France and Germany in the…

• Rok vydání 2005

In this book, which is derived from the Hamlyn Lectures delivered in 2005, Conor Gearty considers whether human rights can…

This book explains why governments contemplate regional monetary integration and why some country groups are more likely…

This book addresses the complex relation between Aquinas's moral thought and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, exploring how…

• Rok vydání 1990

In this 1990 book, Rob White cuts through the political rhetoric and media images of young people, and exposes the…

• Rok vydání 1998

This 1998 book examines Sir Joseph Banks' role in promoting 'imperial science', in the context of the British state during a…

• Rok vydání 2004

This 2004 Companion provides a biographical, theatrical and social-cultural background for Verdi's music, examines in detail…