This book explores the connection between the changing social context of colonial New England and the emergence of political…

A rare collection of letters written by British emigrants who came to North America shortly before the onset of the…

A plea for a just society, this book is about reconciliation with Australia's Aboriginal people.…

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This 1997 book uses the concepts of rent and rent-seeking as tools to study the Malaysian political economy, exploring how…

First published in 1909, these memoirs by Jane Ellen Panton (1847-1923) look back on life in mid-nineteenth-century England…

A comprehensive overview of key areas relating to the development of eating and food intake and effects of nutrition on the…

This critical introduction to the philosophy of language focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on…

This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple dimensions.…

This text provides a systematic introduction to the issues involved in planning, developing, and managing effective language…

The interest of John Rhys (1840-1915) in linguistics was fired by attending the lectures of German philologists while…

The revised edition of David Brazil's seminal work The Communicative Value of Intonation in English.…

In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores early modern occult beliefs and their relation to women and…

This book offers a rich and clearly-written analysis of the women's movement in contemporary Russia. It tells the engaging…

What are Norms? challenges the traditional Parsonian theory of the basis of social order and proposes a theoretical…

Despite a global economic order favouring core industrial countries, opportunities still exist for social-democratic regimes…

• Rok vydání 1996

This 1996 book presents a theory of the formation of national literatures, based on analysis of two hundred American and…

This book offers an interpretation of Fichte's most famous writings centred on two main themes: property and virtue. It…

Originally published in 1923, this volume is based on a series of three lectures delivered by Reynold A. Nicholson…

This book examines how transformations in Brazil's social, economic and political organization affect the demographic…

This book provides a survey of studies so far made on various aspects of current Aboriginal economic life in different…

Lebow argues that causal inference is always rhetorical in nature and must be judged on grounds of practicality.…

This 1879 work by Harriet Murray Aynsley (1827?-98) is a fascinating example of women's travel writing at the height of the…

Over the last several decades, functional theory in the social sciences has fallen into disfavour. Alleged to be a static…

This study is an unusual contribution to the philosophy of mind in that it argues for the sometimes unfashionable view of…

• Rok vydání 1990

A whole range of major American writers have focused on images of the household, of domestic virtue, and the feminine or…

Brancati explores the causes and consequences of democracy protests between 1989 and 2011. She highlights the role of…

The essays in this book view institutions, groups and individuals responding and adjusting to changes in their world,…

Originally published in 1950, this book compares the impact of white colonialism on the indigenous populations of North…

When is war justified? When is intervention in the domestic affairs of other states justified? Is international terrorist…

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• Rok vydání 1958

This book provides a detailed examination of the writings of Chinua Achebe, Africa's best-known and most widely-read author,…

This unique edited volume presents a coherent view of how infants and children perceive and think about the human body. The…

This book demonstrates how popular dissent is becoming an increasingly important aspect of global politics. The author draws…

New scientific discoveries about the nerves inspired writers like Hawthorne and Beecher Stowe to re-imagine the role of the…

This book investigates Antoine's exploration of the possibilities and limitations of stage realism, his concept of a…

Property and Prices provides the missing theoretical link between Sraffa's Production of Commodities and Debreu's Theory of…

• Rok vydání 1859

This book is an intensive study of what was by far the most productive year in Baudelaire's literary career. It combines…

The Shield of Nationality examines multinational corporations' relations with governments in developing countries.…

This book is a collection of case studies analysing the role and influence of Islam in the foreign policies of states with…

This anthology is intended to make Pope's major prose work more widely available. It includes the critical prefaces to his…

This innovative study argues that intelligence is a plural concept, socially and historically determined, and that it can…

This is the first book to deal with the work of three important Soivet theatre directors - Alexander Tairov, Evgeni…

This lively introduction to figurative language develops new analytical tools and proposes a cohesive view of a broad range…

Despite a century of effort, criminologists do not yet fully understand the relationship between disadvantage and crime.…

This book focuses on the beleagured position of the SPD in Imperial Germany after the fall of Bismarck and underlines the…

Los Angeles is the most fragmented and the most minoritized metropolis in America, and its most luridly abstract and…

A study of various central and connected topics in philosophical logic and the theory of meaning. There are important…

This book examines a key tradition in Judaism (the rule that exempts women from 'timebound, positive commandments'), which…

The public has long been painfully aware of the economy's stagnation. The contemporary recession has brought to the…