In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti buried his unpublished poems in his dead wife's grave; in 1869 he dug them up and published…

James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) was one of the great mathematicians of the 19th century. For the first time 140 letters…

This is a companion volume to Coping includes chapters by some of the best-known clinical and health psychologists and…

Enzymes are biological catalysts that have a number of remarkable properties. Fundamentals of Enzymology, 3rd ed builds on…

The development of the internet has brought about a seachange in the traditional doctor-patient relationship. This book…

Every organism has visible, macroscopic traits that represented dramatic, transformative innovations when they first arose,…

Compares three contemporary women writing in German: Herta Muller (from Romania), Libuse Monikova (from Czechoslovakia), and…

Ernie O'Malley was a leader in the 1916-1923 Revolution in Ireland, and a contemporary of Michael Collins and Eamon de…

After introducing the empiricist point of view in philosophy of science, and the concepts and methods of the semantic…

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.…

This work investigates the precise effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). Are…

The Latin text of the most comprehensive work on Roman agriculture surviving from antiquity, written in the first century…

The term 'transdifferentiation' is used to describe 'metamorphosis' of one fully developed cell type into another. There has…

Philosophers have treated being and truth as properties, and identity as a relation. The author shows that this is due to an…

This book analyses the influence that Adam Smith's philosophy had on his Wealth of Nations, and reveals the unity in Smith's…

Terence Cuneo presents a new argument for moral realism. According to the normative theory of speech, speech acts are…

James O. Young seeks to explain why we value music so highly. He draws on the latest psychological research to argue that…

Statesman, dramatist, philosopher, and prose stylist, Seneca was a leading figure in the Roman Empire in the first century…

Michael Blome-Tillmann presents an innovative account of epistemic contextualism, based on the idea that pragmatic…

Early Jazz provides a musical tour of the early American jazz world. A classic study, it is both a splendid introduction for…

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A timely graduate level text in an active field covering functional analysis, with an emphasis on Banach algebras.…

This volume draws together influential work by Hilary Kornblith on naturalistic epistemology. This approach sees…

The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine articulates the ideas, methods, and practices of narrative medicine.…

The revisions of both DSM-IV and ICD-10 have again focused the interest of the field of psychiatry and clinical psychology…

A collection of fourteen essays by influential scholars on the `Attic Orators', the ten or so speechwriters who developed…

This work offers the first comparative treatment of the roles of informal ad hoc groupings of states, such as Groups of…

This volume presents responses to the work of James Griffin, one of the most significant contributors to the contemporary…

Providing comprehensive discussion of a controversial subject, this work includes sections on genetic epidemiology,…

This book discusses issues of child labour such as poverty, malnutrition, social disadvantage, gender, globalisation, and…

The essays in this book are unified by the thesis that freedom, rationality, consensus, and knowledge depend on thoughts…

Systematically encompassing the major areas of applied linguistics, the editors and contributors to The Oxford Handbook of…

Part of a two-volume work providing an account of aspects of liquid-liquid extraction technology, as well as extraction…

Bringing together some of the leading thinkers on the development of positive affect, this book aims to create a different…

Are aesthetic judgements simply expressions of personal preference? If two people disagree about the beauty of a painting…

Becoming Who We Are clarifies the political and existential aspects of Stanley Cavell's understanding of ordinary language…

Aspasia of Miletus, next to Sappho and Cleopatra, is one of the best known women of the classical world. This study traces…

This is a revision text for the Structured Oral Examination for the Final FRCA exam. Including 14 mock exams, it provides…

Analyses the relationship between income and subjective well-being, and in particular in the context of developing…

Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and of our perception of them. He employs a general…

We use concepts of causal powers and their relatives-dispositions, capacities, and abilities-to describe the world around…

It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of 'recovery' from mental health has been more widely considered and…

How to understand and support cognition in human-technology interaction is both a practically and socially relevant problem.…

Beyond Dogma examines Rumi's central teaching about friendship with God (walaya) in light of earlier Sufi discourse on this…

Beyond Vision brings together eight essays by Casey O'Callaghan which draw theoretical and philosophical lessons about…

Lachmann offers a new explanation for the origins of nation-states and capitalist markets in early modern Europe. Comparing…

Most people have implicit biases: they evaluate social groups in ways that they are unconscious of or cannot control, and…

Recent years have seen increasing interest in the needs of children facing bereavement, and a corresponding increase in…

Written by an an international, interdisciplinary team of experts in immunisation policy, Protecting the World's Children is…