Sustainable Democracy identifies the principal political and economic choices confronting new democracies in Southern and…

The figure of the puritan has long been conceived as dour and repressive in character. Kristen Poole sheds new light on…

• Rok vydání 1979

This 1979 text addresses the ways in which the dominant theories in large areas of Western social science have been subject…

From one of Australia's foremost thinkers, this 1997 collection of essays encompasses 25 years of scholarship. George Seddon…

This book offers a detailed description and analysis of West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch, within the framework of Government…

For James, experience was a dialectical process that registered and expressed his consciousness of the external world.…

• Rok vydání 1998

This 1998 book provides a sophisticated alternative account of the role of the intellectual in democracy, both in civilising…

This book examines, from an explicitly geographic perspective, the relationships between migrants and the inner city during…

Compared to the rest of the world, Japan has a healthy population but pays relatively little for medical care. Taking a…

This digital edition is a reprint of a 1970 edition. It is an advanced reader in Chinese, giving a text in modern written…

Norbert M. Samuelson asks the question: what is the most reasonable possible conception of the doctrine of 'revelation'…

Originally published in 1940, this book contains the Birkbeck Lectures for 1937-8. Smyth assesses the contributions that…

This volume of specially-commissioned essays takes as its theme the legacy of Rome in Carolingian culture in eighth- and…

• Rok vydání 1982

This 1982 book was the first major critical study of Jaroslav Hašek and his most important literary creation, The Good…

This is an eminently readable introduction to contemporary literature in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The author…

Originally published in 1949, this book contains the French text of various essays by Charles Baudelaire. The essays cover a…

This volume of essays deals critically and historically with tht subject of British radio drama. It includes full appraisala…

German philosopher and physician Ludwig BĂĽchner (1824-99) wrote Kraft und Stoff in 1855. At a time when German philosophy…

This study sees the city as a mosaic of social worlds, demonstrating that much of the manifold variation in the social…

In this case study of contemporary Sierra Leone, William Reno argues that the global reach of some foreign firms offer…

How, when, and why did ordinary people began to care for the fate of distant strangers? This book addresses these questions…

• Rok vydání 1999

This 1999 collection of essays introduces some of the most interesting of the research methods developed by sociologists for…

These essays direct attention to important questions on the relationship between food and history, showing how the past can…

• Rok vydání 1982

In this 1982 book, Professor Bance sets the novels of Theodor Fontane in the context of nineteenth-century Europe in order…

Nicholas Temperley has found in this neglected field a wealth of fascinating music, as well as a host of intellectual…

The affluent workers studied in this book, originally published in 1968, were employees of three major industrial concerns…

This book is a Western study of Novikov's complete career and it shows how he responded to Catherine's enlightened despotism…

This was the first in-depth examination of relations between the Church of England and other faiths in the Prison Service…

This book examines the emergence of atypical work. It focuses on knowledge-based employees - or experts - to show the way in…

This book examines a number of different accounts developed by philosophers and political theorists to explain why political…

Originally published in 1987, this book forms a conceptual account of the relationship between music and poetry in the late…

This collection of twelve essays by biologists, historians, and philosophers examines the growth and conceptual structure of…

This book is about the grounds of ethical life, or the nature and basis of our ethical obligations. Charvet considers the…

An original and thought-provoking study of the material objects produced, acquired and treasured by those who worked for the…

Using an integrated historical and philosophical approach, this book explores the origin of modern physics in Copernicus,…

This is an introductory survey of the history and recent development of Latin American economy and society from colonial…

David Lloyd brings together manifestations of oral culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing how the…

Dr Stephen Gill makes an original contribution to the extent and nature of America as a hegemonic state. He challenges…

In many languages, the objects of transitive verbs are either marked by grammatical case or agreement on the verb, or they…

This volume brings together essays from distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines - philosophy, history, literary…

In past decades, democratic theory has been on the defensive, largely as a result of the disappointments of democratic…

In a vibrant contribution to the fields of global intellectual history and the history of South Asia, Christopher Bayly…

PowerPoint has become an integral part of academic and professional life across the globe. In this book, Hubert Knoblauch…

This is a new account of the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett from Murphy (1938) to Worstward Ho (1983). Drawing on…

This is a critical study of the political and social ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau. The importance of the book lies in the…

A critique of Robert Putnam's social capital thesis from the perspective of women and cultural minorities in America. Arneil…

The essays in this collection focus on the nature of popular protest and agrarian unrest and the development of nationalism…

Offers a grammatical explanation to the peculiarity of the language of the Apocalypse (or Book of Revelation).…