This book investigates the sources and the limits of judicial authority in constitutional courts, focusing on the central…

Between the years 1850 and 1855 there appeared, in rapid succession, five American books now universally recognised as…

The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories; here Robert Smith offers a reading of Derrida's…

In this book, Colleen Murphy analyses the difficulties for political relationships which arise from civil conflict and…

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the past and present of American Muslim communities. Chapters discuss…

This book argues that some English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were not adherents to classical…

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be…

This is a comprehensive analysis of the myriad US laws for imposing economic sanctions for foreign policy reasons. Against a…

The marketplace is a remarkable social institution that has greatly extended our individual reach. In this book, Albino…

This 1980 book contains a selection of twelve essays spanning the period 1953-77, three of which are translated. The essays…

Why have seemingly similar African countries developed very different forms of democratic party systems? To explain their…

Using an innovative theoretical framework, Dr Ritt describes the phenomenon of the change in vowel length in early Middle…

The idea of man as an essentially irrational being has preoccupied some of the most influential of Russian thinkers,…

Mr Norbury describes the ways in which nouns and adjectives are built up in Russian. He deals at length with the most useful…

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive survey and evaluation of the problems of incorporating individual and…

This volume includes historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941 by some of the country's leading…

A guide to Korean language usage for students who have already acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their…

This book is a comprehensive account of Milton's two aristocratic entertainments, Arcades and Comus. The book is especially…

Honor in nineteenth-century Germany is usually thought of as an anachronistic aristocratic tradition confined to the…

This book argues that the insulation of public life from the ethical standpoint puts in jeopardy not only our integrity as…

Mark Alfano argues that we have reason to attribute virtues to people because such attributions function as self-fulfilling…

This book argues a theory of legitimacy for the administrative process must be created. The author seeks to develop such a…

This collection of essays, by international Kant scholars and moral philosophers, discusses Kant's philosophical development…

This clearly argued study, structuralist in approach and sensitive to nuances of style and language, will appeal to students…

• Rok vydání 1954

This book is based on the Sir George Watson lectures given at British Universities in the autumn of 1954, in which the…

This collection of essays, written by a team of leading scholars in the field, undertakes not simply to recover the names…

This book studies four actors of Shakespeare's time, who also wrote plays and marketed themselves as authors and…

A study of leading English politicians from the Tudor period to the time of original publication in 1969. Mr Grainger…

This is an assessment of the work and influence as a director of Jacques Copeau (1879-1949), who has long been regarded as…

This is the first study to examine in detail the political and fiscal origins of the French Revolution by means of sustained…

What is consciousness? By bringing together leading historians of philosophy and contemporary philosophers of mind to…

This is the first full production history of Long Day's Journey Into Night, by Eugene O'Neill. It provides a detailed…

Originally published in 1929, this volume gathers together nine essays by Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968), a highly influential…

• Rok vydání 1914

This book presents a realistic assessment of British priorities in the years before 1914.…

This book, by the distinguished Czech scholar Evzen Meustupny, considers the archaeological method, the way in which…

This book develops a coherent and accessible argument to explain the unpredictability of the behaviour of individuals. The…

David Ellis sets out to resolve the meaning behind the 'spots of time' in the Prelude. Since the passages which concern him…

Politics are not alien to poetry and in his Wiles Lectures Sir Maurice Bowra covered the main lines of European poetry…

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral…

JĂĽrgen Habermas asserts, in the Preface to Knowledge and Human Interests, that a radical critique of knowledge is only…

This 1989 book is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary North and…

This collection examines the institutional framework in which monetary policy is made. The essays consider two questions:…

• Rok vydání 1996

Ideologies and identities are central to the organisation of political life and political conflict, yet most empirical…

This is a full-length study of a Celtic language from the standpoint of modern linguistic theory. Dr Awbery particularly…

Robert Wade examines the economic conditions for collective action drawing on research in areas of Andhra Pradesh where rain…

• Rok vydání 1982

The papers in this 1982 volume deal with Marx's ideas and the varying constructions put on them by later Marxists. Based on…

This book, first published in 2000, traces the progress of Renaissance romance from a genre addressed to women as readers to…

The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Anthony J. Cascardi…