Ideas of living death - from undying love to supernatural survival - are remarkably prevalent in medieval literature. This…

This book focuses on the role of miscommunication in the financial crises of developing nations. By examining the…

This book examines patterns of political mobilization among groups in Mexico whose livelihoods have been threatened by trade…

This is a fascinating study of the making of the Harley Psalter, an illustrated manuscript which was produced at Christ…

This book provides the first complete guide to the present state of biblical studies. Intended for students and non…

Exploring practices in the family, school, university, the workplace and in letters, this book reveals patterns in the…

A survey of the major viewpoints in social psychology concerning peoples's self-awareness, explanations of their actions,…

Originally published in 1980, Dr McShane's discerning analysis of the theoretical issues involved takes account of the…

In the last decades of the seventeenth century the Swedish king Charles XI launched a remarkable bid to stabilize and secure…

Xi Chen explores the dramatic rise in social protests in China since the early 1990s. Challenging the conventional wisdom…

This book is the 1906 second edition of the Hulsean Lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge between 1901 and 1902.…

• Rok vydání 1999

Regional integration has emerged as one of the most important developments in world politics. In this 1999 book Walter…

This book examines the political relationship between government social programs and private social benefits. The extensive…

The political conflict that has taken the most violent form and proved costliest in human lives in Ghana in the last half…

• Rok vydání 1968

This 1968 book is a useful introduction to practical criticism for students. It offers an impressive range of closely…

Explores how Gothic romances engaged with late Victorian cognitive science. The book explains why popular novels like…

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of the historical process and the conflict on…

Originally published in 1946, this book examines the writing and controversy of Jean Fernel's The Natural Part of Medicine,…

This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosopher F. H. Bradley, the most influential member of the…

Donald MacKinnon, Emeritus Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, has been the most influential philosopher of religion in…

This 1969 collection was put together by Professor E. G. Turner and Professor T. B. L. Webster of A. M. Dale's works…

Through a series of individual narratives, this book explores the impact of being diagnosed with cancer on those with the…

In this book, Haynes presents a detailed literary historical argument about the sources and consequences of Jonson's…

Thirteen leading archaeologists have contributed to this innovative study of the socio-political processes - notably…

This book is important for students of Wordsworth; but it also examines certain central features of eighteenth-century…

Sarah Song explores the tensions between minority group rights and gender equality, drawing on detailed case studies of…

• Rok vydání 2001

Shakespeare and the Hunt is a book-length 2001 study of Shakespeare's works in relation to the culture of the hunt in…

Amartya Sen reconsiders the idea of 'the standard of living'. He rejects the more conventional economic interpretations in…

The impact and effectiveness of international institutions has previously been assumed to depend on the extent to which they…

This 2001 book is a comprehensive study of the ethics of G. E. Moore, the most important English-speaking ethicist of the…

With a writer of Faulkner's scope and subtlety even the study of his beginnings is a challenging task. How did the young man…

Originally published in 1936, this book provides a critical examination of the potential for excess in Romantic thought, a…

This collection of essays is designed to present the variety, complexity, and power of non-neoclassical economic thinking to…

This book proposes a fresh and original interpretation of Keats' use of classical mythology in his verse. Individual poems…

This is a book of essays by distinguished scholars on the relationship between Latin authors and their audiences. The…

This book examines how France's revolutionary authorities handled political opposition in the year following the fall of the…

Leading literary historian and eighteenth-century specialist Pat Rogers has long been recognized as an authority on…

In a time of ever-increasing specialisation this work focuses on the broader aspects of Western music, seeking to view its…

In this 1994 book Bradley Klein draws upon debates in international relations theory to raise important questions about the…

Mahdis and Millenarians is a study of early extremist Shiites in Iraq and Iran, who originated doctrines and practices that…

A revised edition of Dr Dawe's bestselling edition. As in the first edition, the commentary tackles problems of language and…

Political distrust is the perception by ordinary citizens of a discrepancy between their democratic ideals and the realities…

The combined forces of mission evangelism and colonial intervention have transformed the everyday family life of Pacific…

Despite NATO's success in managing European security policy, European governments have repeatedly tried to build a new…

This book provides a framework for analysing the changing relationship between politics and science in America. Professor…

John Skorupski examines the difference between or primitive and scientific modes of thought and the relationships between…

This book provides a synthesis of the theory of decision making and its practical application in decision analysis. The book…

Dr Peel argues that the author of this manuscript is Richard Bancroft, Bishop of London (1597-1604) and Archbishop of…