Robert Hornsby examines the nature of political protest in the USSR following Stalin's death. He explores the emergence of…

Writing America Black, first published in 1999, examines the African American press and selected literary works by black…

This book explores both how Plato challenged existing literary forms, principally Homeric epic, and how later literature…

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Why do some politicians succeed in moving into the highest offices of state, while others fail? This book examines the…

This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to…

Ranked societies are characterized by disparities in personal status that are often accompanied by the concentration of…

Human behaviour, Heise argues, normally promotes the maintenance of a steady emotional state. Should events produce undue…

David Heyd's study will stimulate philosophers to recognise the importance of the rather neglected topic of the…

J. Judd Owen sheds new light on the ambiguous status of religion in modern democratic society by tracing a surprisingly…

Canuel examines the way that Romantic poets, novelists and political writers criticized the traditional grounding of British…

A systematic and comprehensive analysis of European security cooperation, which argues that European states have…

This book discusses the intersection between philosophy and literature during the British Enlightenment. Novelists such as…

Natural Law Liberalism argues that liberal political philosophy and natural law theory are not contradictory but mutually…

Students of sixteenth-century Germany and its literature, in need of a text and translation of the works of Conrad Celtis,…

Professor Franklin here explains a major innovation associated with the English Civil Wars. It was only now, he shows, that…

This volume, first published in 2000, focuses on the relationship between writing and public concerns in seventeenth-century…

This book contributes to a new understanding of the interaction between Jews and Christians in the ancient world,…

This book provides a precise and thorough description of the meaning and use of spatial expressions, using both a…

The 2008-9 recession destroyed the professional consensus about the kinds of models required to understand cyclical…

Work and Politics develops a historical and comparative sociology of workplace relations in industrial capitalist societies.…

This book presents computational mechanisms for solving common language interpretation problems.…

A study of the system of political stratification and the pattern of political alliances in rural Western Maharashtra. Based…

Addressing the concept of philosophy as therapeia, this collection of essays by leading scholars provides a new reading of…

This fascinating book outlines an approach to the development of expressive and communicative behaviour from early infancy…

Michael Bernard-Donals explores the ambivalence underlying the language theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, and the mirroring…

Grossman examines the narrative form of Paradise Lost to discover Milton's thoroughly modern concept of self. Banished from…

This book makes a significant contribution to the tradition of liberal political theory: it explores the foundations and…

Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) included a poem called A Lover's Complaint, of questionable authenticity. This text, the first…

This book casts light on important questions of biblical interpretation, and demands a radical reassessment of the meaning…

The Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (1643/50) was the first French document to discuss keyboard performance practice in any…

In this comparative study, Professor Clinard challenges the often noted correlation between high rates of crime and high…

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This 1990 book is a survey of the critical reaction to Beethoven's music as it appeared in the major musical journals,…

This book represents an attempt to gather together Marxist perspectives in archaeology and to examine whether indeed they…

'Self-evident truths' was a profound concept used by the drafters of the American Declaration of Independence to insist on…

Originally published in 1960, this book presents a discussion of the relationship between economic theory and economic…

This study should encourage a re-evaluation of Hollis's influence in the Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution.…

This book can be viewed as two different texts: one constitutes an introduction to the theory of mechanism design and the…

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This 1993 book examines the ways in which the recent growth of the 'theory industry' in English studies has threatened its…

The Politics of Military Coalitions is an impressive study that challenges dominant conceptual and empirical approaches to…

First published in 1979, this book examines past thought and research about the social and psychological causes of juvenile…

Richard Ambrosini's study of Conrad's Fiction as Critical Discourse makes a claim for the importance of theoretical ideas as…

Language is spoken at a particular time, in a particular place, by a particular person; and certain words, the deictic…

This volume contains an introduction dealing with the background and content of the Book of Daniel, following the pattern…

This is a study of agricultural development in undivided Bengal during the period 1920-1946.…

The Radical Bourgeoisie traces the development of the political culture that sustained the Third Republic in France. It…

A powerful critique of sociology and a call to reject the prevailing orthodoxy, first published in 1996. Arguing that…

This volume remedies the scarcity of accessible, modern assessments of Berzelius by bringing to a broad audience the results…

This second volume in Colin Richmond's individual and compelling study of the Paston family describes the bitter disputes…