This is the first book devoted to the theoretical modelling of refractory carbides and nitrides and alloys based on them. It…

To an algebraist the theory of group characters presents one of those fascinating situations, where the structure of an…

This exploration of the works of a range of black and Jewish writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s to the 1980s,…

Examines the three major transformations that the country underwent from the early 1860s to 2000. The three transitions…

Novice researchers and professionals interested in extending their methodological repertoires will find practical guidance…

This volume presents, in an integrated framework, the newest, most contemporary perspectives on the role of nonverbal…

This is the first comprehensive account of this new approach to the fundamentals of parallel programming. It presents a…

How can the quality of scientific advice given to political decision-makers be controlled and assured? This book argues that…

Originally published in 2001, this volume brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines whose work focuses on the…

Mary Wollstonecraft has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic…

Despite almost a century of contact with Europeans, the Bush Mekeo people of Papua New Guinea are still essentially unknown…

This book is an important contribution to the theory of democracy and socialism.…

This far-reaching and fascinating study of foreign policy in South Africa begins by looking at the post-war challenges faced…

• Rok vydání 1988

This 1988 book brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines concerned with the study of the transition to…

This is a groundbreaking study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over the generations.…

Details the development of the privilege system, a precursor to copyright, in early sixteenth-century French publishing.…

This contemporary introduction to the fascinating theory of continued fractions covers a variety of applications that will…

This is a comparative study of aging and the social contract in Japan and the United States. By using quantitative and…

Sarkar provides the philosophical background necessary to understand the debates over the Human Genome Project.…

Infants' Sense of People focusses on infants during their first year of life, exploring how they begin to think about other…

This book is an exploration of the ways in which political belief is developed and sustained throughout the course of a…

• Rok vydání 1989

This 1989 book is a distinctive work in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Cognitive ergonomics and HCI…

This book examines the impact of ideas of race and gender on imperialism through various forms of discourse surrounding the…

Fourteen essays on the best known and most entertaining film, television and video versions of Shakespeare's plays.…

This key book is a tool for the theoretical and numerical investigation of nonlinear dynamical systems modelled by means of…

In this study, Ann Jefferson reassesses the theoretical implications of the nouveau roman and the terms in which fiction is…

This book synthesises the biological consequences of changes environments on the migrants and the genetic impact of…

• Rok vydání 2001

A comprehensive review and critique of the current research about the role of the school in preventing delinquency,…

Mirrors of Justice is a groundbreaking study of the meanings of and possibilities for justice in the contemporary world. The…

Presents a comprehensive survey of the major developments in social psychology, which took place in Europe during 1970s and…

An innovative interpretation of the development of Brazilian literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.…

How can we hope to eradicate poverty and hunger in the world? Paul Streeten, one of the most eminent authorities on economic…

• Rok vydání 1991

This 1991 book was the first extended study written within the framework of Government Phonology. Following the presentation…

Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which consumers and citizens turn to the market as their arena for…

This book is an attempt to find the central nerve of nineteenth-century culture, to discover the problem which unifies the…

Jack Goody's book explores the history of social anthropology in the interwar years. It focuses on key practitioners, such…

Originally published in 1942, this book presents an inquiry into the root causes of juvenile delinquency amongst young men.…

This comprehensive examination of Turgenev's fiction challenges traditional assumptions of both Eastern and Western critics.…

Successive Indian governments have remained committed to market-oriented reform since its introduction in 1991. In a…

This book is a study of how Baudelaire shapes the raw material of the French language within the formal framework of French…

This book, originally published in 2004, is concerned with the links between human evolution and infectious disease. It has…

In this timely collection, biological and behavioral scientists address questions emerging from new research about the…

This 1972 volume contains reports by research workers in zoology, psychology and psychiatry applying methods of comparative…

This book is the first systematic study of the role of celebrations and public holidays in the Arab Middle East. By tracing…

Taken as a whole the essays in this volume illustrate the outstanding contribution made to French Revolutionary scholarship…

In this examination of the role of syntax in theories of sentence comprehension, Paul Gorrell argues for a distinct…

The revolution in linguistic thought associated with the name of Professor Noam Chomsky centres on the theory of…

The Divided Mind examines the debate between innovation and tradition in American culture of the early years of the…