David Ricardo was the leading political economist of the early nineteenth century. This book presents a reconstruction of…

The authors speculate on the relationship between identity and citizenship in Israeli society and explore the differential…

This book examines cultural nationalism from a liberal perspective. Chaim Gans examines demands made in the name of cultural…

This book, first published in 1975, examines the natural language numeral systems through generative grammar and gives…

This book looks at the traditions behind some of the common images that appeared on stage in the early seventeenth century.…

Laura Levine examines the ways in which Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson addressed a generation's anxieties about gender and…

A look at the life of Shen Pao-chen who devoted his life to building China's first modern naval dockyard and academy. His…

The writings of Mary Astell (1666-1731) are a remarkable contribution to the constitutional debates of the time. Astell's…

This Cambridge Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to various forms of American Methodism. Written from various…

Ritual action in China often takes its logic from political action. In this book Emily Ahern explores the implications of…

This book provides an account of the Turing Imitation Game, its history and implications, illustrated with practical tests.…

This collection of ten original essays engages the 'crisis in sociology' at the most fundamental level of thought and…

Curtis Perry's study provokes a fresh examination of the historical factors shaping long-familiar notions of what…

A description of the phonology of modern Greek dialects from the point of view of their historical development in so far as…

This is the first book to offer a complete introduction to the recorder.…

Andrew Bennett challenges the popular conception of Wordsworth as a writer who didn't so much write poetry as compose it…

Social experimentation is a tool that enables economists and policy makers to test proposed economic policies in the real…

The aftermath of the Popish Plot and the subsequent succession crisis provide the context for this new study. It challenges…

In this book, Brooke Ackerly examines the methods by which Third World feminist activists have criticised society. She…

This is the first systematic interpretation of William Durant's remarkable project to transfer supreme legislative authority…

First published in 1927, this book examines the effect of various inorganic substances on the growth of plants. Brenchley…

Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry is an inquiry into the cultural roles lyric poetry does and can play in…

Alexis Soyer (1810-58) was perhaps the first celebrity chef. A flamboyant, larger-than-life figure, he nonetheless took his…

Originally published in 1933, this book provides a discussion of psychoanalysis aimed at 'those versed in other fields'.…

James Mill (1773-1836) is today best known as Jeremy Bentham's chief disciple and John Stuart Mill's father. Yet he was…

After tracing Durham's late tenth-century origins, the book examines the subsequent developments in religious and military…

Mervyn Frost argues that ethics is accorded a marginal position within the academic study of international relations. In…

Hegel's farseeing suggestion that art reaches its 'end' in modernity resonates powerfully today. Drawing on unpublished…

This book deals with the ways in which the French novel of the eighteenth century marks a transition from the long,…

In this, the earliest thorough analysis of a Braj Bhasa text, Dr McGregor presents one of the oldest known Braj Bhasa prose…

This book explores the relationship between work leisure time. At the opposite extreme to the 'instrumental' attitude, where…

This is the first book-length study of dynasticism in modern democracies. Using original data on twenty-first-century Indian…

As well as being an outstanding contribution to Indian economic and social history, this book draws important conclusions…

Produkt Promoting Racial Harmony - Banton, Michael (University of Bristol) zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Cambridge…

Originally published in 1942, this book constitutes the companion volume to The Heart of Pascal (1945); both volumes were…

Fictions of Labor considers William Faulkner's representation of the structural paradoxes of labour dependency in the…

This book offers a thoroughgoing literary analysis of William Cobbett as a writer. Leonora Nattrass explores the nature and…

This book is a wide-ranging study of the meaning of democracy and the factors which determine its level.…

A study of the different roles which nouns play in the event or state expressed by the verb or adjective with which they are…

All the works of the Chinese poet T'ao Yuan-ming (AD 365-427) generally considered genuine have been translated here with…

First published in 1941, this book examines how poetry might effectively be set to music. The substance of the text was…

Direct Democracy Worldwide addresses the relationship between direct and representative democracy in the contemporary world…

This book is about why state spending on things like pensions, unemployment benefits, and family allowances is tilted…

This book, which illuminates the ways in which the forces of world capitalism acted upon and structured the peripheral…

This book is about one of the most baffling of all paradoxes - the famous Liar paradox.…

This book examines the nature and operation of social thought and language as used in everyday life, and looks at social…

This book describes the contribution of David Ricardo, one of the most influential economists of the nineteenth century, to…

First published in 1999, this book brings together the extensive modern evidence for an innate capacity to imitate in…