Schopenhauer's philosophy is well known for a deeply ingrained pessimistic quality. Vasalou carefully and subtly unpacks and…

This volume presents some of the most original interpretations of art available. The selection represents the whole of…

• Rok vydání 2007

This 2007 book establishes that the parties in the European Parliament are cohesive and that political competition in this…

This book sets out to explain the most foundational aspect of international law in international relations terms. By doing…

This book outlines some of the main historical trends of German poetry and illustrates them with a selection of poems. It…

To the Threshold of Power is the first volume of a two-part work that seeks to explain the origins and dynamics of the…

This book is a guide to imaging studies for clinicians to aid in requesting the appropriate investigations for common…

Dr Brown examines the functions of different types of rules in the phonological component of a generative grammar with…

Originally published in 1971, this volume was created to commemorate the bicentenary of Hegel's birth in 1770. Thirteen…

Originally published in 1954, in the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains a selection of Heinrich Heine's late…

This 2001 book uses legal texts, literary and artistic creations, maps and policy debates, to trace the changing uses,…

This book explores how disability activists in the UK and Canada have transformed their aspirations into legal claims in…

Fumerton makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of the knowledge argument for dualism - the observation that we can…

In this illuminating new theory of grammar, Hubert Haider explores the basic asymmetry in the phrase structure of any…

This book starts from the premise that methodology - the procedures for obtaining an 'objective' knowledge of the past - has…

This book scrutinizes the social, political and technological forces that shaped our cities and their transportation…

In recent years there has been a significant increase in crime amongst persons suffering from major mental disorders. In…

Investigating American television viewing habits as a distinct cultural form this book is based on an empirical study of the…

Ewan James Jones offers a revisionary account of Coleridge's poetry, challenging the recent critical tendency to view…

First published in 1972, this is a searching critique of work by both sociologists and psychologists on organizational…

This book explains why 'fracture' and 'fragmentation' are two critical concepts that are particularly suited to…

Propertius' fourth book is his most challenging and innovative. It disrupts genre; dislocates time and order; and meditates…

Traditionally, the study of the Middle East has focused on Islam and on the regime, without accounting for the contrary…

Mark Pattison was Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1861 to 1884, and a rival of Jowett in the promotion of university…

Thinking about Yugoslavia offers an ambitious overview of the debates on the causes of the Yugoslav break-up and the…

This book was originally published in 1965. Professor Styan examines what a play is and discusses such topics as the…

The theme of this book is the analysis of the changes that have occurred in the kinship patterns of the Toka of South Zambia…

In this major contribution to the power debate, the author argues for a sophisticated view of power as a complex network of…

This book provides detailed information on shifts in women's work patterns. It explains how and why these shifts have come…

According to common misconception the Chinese political system is highly centralized. One result of this widely accepted…

First published in 1903, this book is an edition by James Herbert Srawley of the Oratio Catechetica by Gregory of Nyssa.…

This lively and accessible collection of essays explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature's…

Laughter in Interaction is an illuminating and lively account of how and why people laugh during conversation. Bringing…

The American Presidency introduces students to new insights produced by the scientific study of the presidency and the…

This study, first published in 2006, asks whether democracy, modeled as competition between political parties that represent…

Dr Harding demonstrates in this study the importance of human relationship in Coleridge's thought and writing. It traces…

• Rok vydání 1965

Dr Crabb's 1965 study of the Ekoid Bantu languages of Ogoja examines these related languages as a basis of comparative…

This book focuses on the unusual nature of peasant society in the Apulian region of south-eastern Italy, where the peasants…

Drawing on interdisciplinary work in the field of ethics, Jil Larson offers new readings of late Victorian and…

These essays explore the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world. They are all inspired by a cluster…

In this study Dr Stauder examines the various social and spatial groupings of Majang society.…

This 1922 second edition forms part of a series of books on public health and hygiene designed to advise those working for…

The poor seem easy to identify: those who do not have enough money or enough of the things money can buy. This book explores…

The radical changes in the behaviour of organised teachers and their significance for British politics in the 1970s, are…

In Political Theory and Postmodernism, Stephen K. White outlines a path through the postmodern problematic by distinguishing…

Roger Lass is concerned about the nature of argumentation within linguistics and the status of its data and theoretical…

Through different theoretical references and concrete studies, Goertz illustrates the fruitfulness of the contextual…

• Rok vydání 1971

This 1971 text was the first critical edition of La fianza satisfecha, a play of disputed authorship dating from the Golden…