There is a growing conflict between modern and postmodern social theorists. Nicos Mouzelis examines this relationship and…

In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania, and discusses…

First published in 1977, this volume is a short and integrated account of the dynamic mechanisms involved in the defence of…

Contrary to the received view of social phobia as a disease of abnormal anxiety caused by an inner brain or mind…

A step-by-step guide to conducting interview-based qualitative research projects. The book covers formulating research…

Early Learning and Development provides a unique synthesis of cultural-historical theory from Vygotsky, Elkonin and Leontiev…

This 1898 English translation of an 1895 Norwegian work is notable for its descriptions of life among the Greenlandic Inuit.…

This book contains the substance of the Cambridge University Yorke Prize Essay for 1923. The text discusses the equity of…

Upon publication this was the full, post-glasnost critical biography of Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940). Lesley Milne traces…

John Wyclif was the fourteenth-century English thinker responsible for the first English Bible, and for the Lollard…

First published in 1950 this is a critical study of changes in religious thought in the latter half of the seventeenth…

Originally published in 1911, this book contains the complete text of the Psalms in six different English translations:…

This book is concerned with the communication of Christian ethics in the public forum of liberal, secular societies. It…

This book is concerned with the relationship between semantics and surface structure and in particular with the way in which…

Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), the founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and a writer on philosophy,…

In this well-illustrated survey, Spivey explains the social function of Greek sculpture as well as its aesthetic…

Published posthumously in 1902, this is Sidgwick's expository critique of the leading schools of thought that had emerged to…

This book addresses the central crisis in critical theory today: the attempts to theorise the subject as both a construct of…

Originally published in 1933, this book was written with the aim of presenting the life stories of William and Caroline…

Originally published in 1936, this book gathers together Diderot's writings on theatre, providing the reader with the…

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This 2006 book describes the many ways that the mind and body are closely interrelated, and how human thought and language…

This 1934 illustrated work, written to commemorate Trevithick's centenary, discusses the man and his engineering…

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In the fourth century, Arianism asserted that Christ was not truly divine but a created being. St Athanasius (c.296-373)…

Examining how de Beauvoir is constructed as an intelligible self by academics, biographers and the media, this book proposes…

This 2000 book on Nathalie Sarraute (1900-99), one of France's most distinguished twentieth-century novelists, was the first…

Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is one of the Caribbean's most famous writers. His unique voice is shaped by his position at…

Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across…

Children's responses to literature are equally fascinating from the psychological and the literary point of view. Nicholas…

Few concepts are more central to ethics than love, but none is more subject to varying interpretation. This 1999 book…

Originally published in 1987, the aim of this book is to advance a fresh perspective on the presentation, philology,…

Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book…

The Countess of Blessington (1789-1849) met the poet Lord Byron (1788-1824) in Genoa in 1823 and noted that 'the impression…

A full-length study of the use of dialogue form in Italy, from the early sixteenth century to the age of Galileo, which…

Originally published in 1915, this book presents an account of the use of abbreviations in Latin manuscripts of the early…

First published in 1873, this is a catalogue of the extensive collection of Cambrian and Silurian fossils in the Geological…

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In this 1778 work, Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) explains the reasons behind his decision to guide the curriculum at…

The way in which we acquire and become attached to our possessions reveals both the similarities and differences between…

The Slovak Dilemma is a case-study in nationalism. Accepting the view that the four and a half million Slovaks who inhabit…

This volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to…

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A problem-based introduction to phonetics, featuring over three hundred integrated exercises to help you discover and…

The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky has in recent years commanded increasing attention. This book, the first in English to be…

A provocative and stimulating revaluation of Nabokov that will interest any serious student of twentieth-century literature.…

Originally published in 1928, this book argues that the divide between psychology and physiology is largely artificial, and…

Bowlin argues that Aquinas's account of the moral life can be understood only when attention is focused on his remarks about…

This book examines how the original audience of the Apocalypse would have heard themselves portrayed in the visions of…

In this case study of police racism and police reform in Australia, the author provides a critical assessment of police…

Educational research is widely believed to be essentially empirical, consisting of research techniques such as statistics,…

This book investigates, from a linguistic point of view, how rural migrants adjust to an urban environment. The focus of Dr…