Written by some of the world's leading penologists, this collection of accessible essays looks at why prison persists, why…

Professor Bennett examines Hofmannsthal's work in the context of literary theory and the history of philosophy.…

This volume provides a basis for the comparative study of literature of the United States and Spanish America. The first…

The consuls were not only the supreme magistrates in Republican Rome, but the very personification of the Republic itself.…

Research in the area of autobiographical memory has evolved dramatically over the last decade. This book provides the state…

Each generation of American children growing up in the twentieth century has come of age in a different world. How do major…

• Rok vydání 1997

How and why has allegory survived, despite the Romantic critique of it as an outdated and artificial literary mode? This…

• Rok vydání 1978

This 1978 book examines the French Jewish writer Bernard-Lazare (1865-1903) and the Dreyfus Affair, in which he was…

This study challenges the view that all courtly literature promoted the social status of women. Unlike previous books which…

First published in 1981, On Becoming Human presents a unique theory of human origins, an original explanation of how early…

Bringing together the work of anthropologists and historians, this volume, first published in 1984, challenges the notion…

Politics, work, and daily life in the USSR is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social system really works and how the…

The Greek polis was the first society to be monetised and the first to produce drama. This pioneering book seeks to uncover…

With his extensive knowledge of the ways in which Plato was read and invoked as an authority in late antiquity Dr Tarrant…

This is a systematic account of the multiplicative structure of integers, from the probabilistic point of view. The authors…

• Rok vydání 1973

This 1973 volume is a fascinating collection of original studies on the immediate consequences and the likely long-term…

• Rok vydání 1979

This 1979 book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of social markers in speech. Each chapter explores the nature…

Baudelaire, MallarmĂ© and ValĂ©ry, three central poets of the modern French tradition, form a noble poetic lineage. Although…

This is an examination of criminal behaviour from birth to adulthood in a sample of nearly 1,000 subjects in order to…

This timely 1983 book offers a useful overview of topical research and theory concerning social cognition and social…

In this book Victor Bulmer-Thomas uses his previously unpublished estimates of the national accounts to explore economic and…

Early American Women Critics provides a new history and analysis of the commentaries, written and spoken, circulated by…

This celebrated study, first published in 1951, offers a reinterpretation of the writings and attitudes of Edward Hyde, Earl…

Gibian explores the role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes in what was known as America's 'Age of Conversation'. Combining…

This compilation of anecdotes, aphorisms and biographical details about his friend Alexander Pope, the most famous poet of…

The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct…

This volume presents research findings on the effects of early childhood programs and practices in the first decade of life…

Dedicated to providing exam practice in single best answer and multiple true/false question styles, SBA and MTF MCQs for the…

In Vox Latina and Vox Graeca Professor Allen was concerned primarily with the pronunciation of the individual vowels and…

This third volume of Colin Ronan's abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is devoted to Chinese contributions to…

• Rok vydání 1974

This 1974 book is a personal survey by an eminent linguist, setting out the position of linguistics, questioning some…

First published by Cambridge in 1929, this volume contains selections from Travels in France by Arthur Young (1741-1820), a…

This 1991 book identifies and illustrates the basic varieties of security policy from the nineteen- and twentieth-centuries.…

This book examines the wages people earn, the jobs they do, and the effect of government labour market policies on wages and…

This is the first of Professor Brink's three-volume commentary on Horace's literary epistles, originally published in 1963.…

In Business Ethics as Practice, Mollie Painter-Morland urges us to take business ethics seriously by reconsidering the role…

This book offers a detailed and comprehensive guide to contemporary sources for research into the history of individual…

The monastic community of Fulda was one of the most powerful institutions in early medieval Europe. Tracing its development…

Social postmodernism offers a transformative political vision and addresses the live questions in identity politics. The…

This volume brings together today's leading scholars of judicial politics to explore the extent to which courts in Latin…

In response to a perceived failure of most community-scale plans, the author presents his own vision for community design,…

This volume examines the post-communist and political transition in Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), Poland,…

What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and the world? What is consciousness? What is experience? How free are we?…

Originally published in 1974, this volume, edited by Professor E. M. Wilson, presents a coherent body of essays on…

This book examines the causes and consequences of different mating patterns in man with particular reference to historical,…

A concise account of human evolution for advanced school and first year university students, Origins of Humankind covers…

In this book James Richardson examines nine major international crises from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order…

This accessible volume comprises sections from a wide range of Locke's books, structured so that the interconnections of his…