This book is based on lectures delivered at a meeting organised by the academia Nazionale dei Lincei with contributions from…

This book describes the results of a long-term study of the ecology, evolutionary genetics and sociobiology of a seabird,…

This book is about social change in the Soviet Union. It explores the way in which the social, economic and political…

This book draws on the experience of past and present truth commissions, analogous investigative or fact finding bodies in…

This study is entirely devoted to African literary drama in French, a major component of African theatre.…

In past years, there has been a revival of interest in the study of the international coordination of economic policy in the…

First published in 1925 as the third edition of a 1911 original, this first volume of Dr Charles Myers' two-part textbook…

Reissued here together are two medical works published in 1835 by John Grant Malcolmson (1803-44), a British surgeon based…

This 1959 book takes as its starting point Sir George Watt's Wild and Cultivated Cotton Plants of the World (1907), and…

First published in 1912, this two-volume work on bird migration includes maps, weather charts and photographs of key…

This book argues that radically new concepts of group identity emerged during the Renaissance. Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski…

This book provides a new translation of substantial extracts from the Qumran writings, which comprise an important part of…

This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in…

Originally published in 1989, this book presents a detailed analysis of nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur utilization by…

In this 1962 volume, Mr Wilkinson writes to communicate his own evident enjoyment and understanding of Ovid's fortunes. A…

• Rok vydání 1955

This 1955 book offered a new interpretation of early Protestantism and, against this background, a searching treatment of…

This book has two main aims: first, it seeks to relate central grants to the overall structure of taxes and expenditures of…

Originally published in 1953, this book first sets out some observational facts about comets, then the greater part of the…

• Rok vydání 1990

This important 1990 book from the Centre for Economic Policy Research examines the theoretical issues in the integration of…

Written by geologist and teacher James Bryce, this survey of the geological and natural history of Arran and Clydesdale was…

While much has been written on Pacific Basin trade and economic growth, few studies have focused on the conduct of exchange…

• Rok vydání 1999

This volume, first published in 1999, proposes to study children's development and education within its social as well as…

Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender-based pay inequality. The book argues that earnings…

The discussion focuses on questions such as the relative merits of earnings-related, income-tested and universal benefits;…

It has often been assumed by those studying animal behaviour that the social system adopted by a species is a fixed product…

This book is concerned with the theory and practice of social investment as a profession. It offers a conceptual foundation…

An absorbing story of scientific discovery in agriculture from 1936-86 and its exploitation for technological advance is…

On the Success of Failure is about the practice of grade retention in elementary schools, a particularly vexing problem in…

In this important and original contribution to the literature on the theory of the firm, Mario Morroni investigates the main…

Drawing on his correspondence and information from colleagues, this 1870 biography traces the life and work of the Edinburgh…

Originally published in 1901, this book contains the second half of the catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the collection of…

A student of architectural draughtsmanship under Augustus Charles Pugin, Benjamin Ferrey (1810-80) gained first-hand…

This book was originally published in 1980. Owing to the increasing use of electronic instrumentation in medical practice it…

How do children learn to talk? They are exposed to language from birth, interacting with knowledgeable speakers who correct…

The papers, featuring leading academics and central bankers, analyse the issues about having a single European currency.…

Best known for his sweeping historical romances, Walter Scott was also an accomplished critic. Reissued in one volume, this…

Professor Armytage's well-known book has become established as a very useful guide to the history of education in England.…

In the belief that intensive study of selected local areas is an important development in scholarship on Africa, the author…

Nitric oxide research has emerged as one of the most important and new areas in bone and joint diseases. First published in…

This book reports the results of five empirical studies undertaken in the early seventies by a collaboration headed by…

First published in 1977, this is an authoritative work by one of the world's leading ecologists. Aleksandrova's account is a…

Paul Moser's book defends what has been an unfashionable view in recent epistemology: the foundationalist account of…

In this two-volume work, the writings of colonial American missionary David Brainerd help detail his life story and work…

This book presents a fresh, rigorous explanatory theory of judgement, its varieties and its consequences, drawing upon…

• Rok vydání 1958

This 1958 book sets out the elementary precautions to be taken by anyone handling radioactive isotopes in laboratories. Dr…

This book is a guide to Chinese usage for students who have already acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend…

The Annual European Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic is among the most prestigious annual meetings in the…

• Rok vydání 1961

This 1961 text examines the complex of ambiguous attitudes which Rilke had towards Europe, in particular his hostility…