Sea Hunters of Indonesia is a comprehensive study of the culture, economy, and history of Lamalera, a traditional whaling…

A comprehensive review of state-of-the-art research in Entrepreneurship, written by an international team of leading…

This literary biography of Milton is based on a range of documentary evidence. It includes supplementary notes which record…

This is a study of the Wheatstone English concertina and its music, players, and audiences in Victorian England. Illustrated…

Taking the well-known Irish language revival policy as a case study, this book examines the complex relationship between…

Alastair Fowler surveys picturing and perspective from the15th century to the 18th, drawing analogies between literature and…

This study argues that polysynthetic languages - in which verbs are built up of many parts and where one verb can act as a…

In "Ennead II.1 (40)", Plotinus grapples both with the philosophical issue of personal identity through time and with the…

International commercial arbitration has undergone fundamental changes in most countries of Latin America. Intended for…

Why did the Netherlands, after the Dutch Reformation, emerge as the most religiously tolerant country in Europe? This study…

What do the portraits of a great poet tell us about his life, his image of himself, and the ideas of him held by his friends…

This collection of essays focuses on fundamental issues of Christian belief and culture in the Middle Ages. Ranging…

This study of the effect of social engineering in Inner Mongolia since the Chinese communists took control illuminates the…

Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford…

This new work explains the legal and other factors influencing a utility's commercial thinking or practical approach to a…

Examines the web of similarities and differences between music and poetry using works by Mallarme and Debussy as case…

Edited with a facing-page translation by C.R. Dodwell, this treatise is of great interest as the only known treatise of the…

Political participation is increasingly recognized as a key issue in the debate about minority rights. This Commentary…

The second volume in this annotated collection of texts relating to the 'progresses' of Queen Elizabeth I around England…

Statius' epic poem the "Thebaid", which was written in 12 books in about AD 80-92, concerns the expedition of the seven…

A collection of essays, by a team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, exploring the mental images and symbolical…

The fifth volume in this annotated collection of texts relating to the 'progresses' of Queen Elizabeth I around England…

This is the first book-length study of Philo (159-84 BC), the principal philosophical teacher of Cicero. Charles Brittain…

This book contains a study of the technical constants found in Old Babylonian mathematics 4000 years ago - the earliest…

The Alexandra attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece, and one of the most important and notoriously difficult…

This is a book about Greek culture. It explains why Greek comedy picked out food in particular as a cultural marker.…

This text explores the dynamics that have accompanied the implementation of largescale Urban Development Projects (UDPs) in…

This is the first complete edition of the works of William Congreve (1670-1729), one of Britain's most important literary…

A study of the "Cyropaedia", an historical novel by the Greek writer Xenophon, based on the life of the Persian King Cyrus…

A scholarly edition of works by Thomas Traherne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction,…

Demography has been associated with a quantitative orientation for studying social problems. As a result, demographers tend…

Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and reformer, was at the height of his fame and influence in the 1820s. This volume presents 301…

This commentary on freedom of religion or belief provides a comprehensive overview of the pressing issues of freedom of…

The Arabic manuscript collection now in the Bodleian Library includes some of the oldest and most important scientific and…

This book is the first volume to be devoted to performing Henry Purcell's music. It deals with issues of performance…

The first volume in this annotated collection of texts relating to the 'progresses' of Queen Elizabeth I around England…

This is a new edition of one of the best known Oxford Logic Guides. The book gives an introduction to intuitionistic…

An anthology of over fifty primary texts representing the development of grammar, rhetoric, and literary study from the…

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is an exciting brain imaging technology that allows real-time tracking of neural activity,…

A scholarly edition of a work by Adam Smith. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction,…

The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines and illustrates every meaning of every word used in written English in…

Featuring letters that cover a formative period in W B Yeats' political career, and the beginning of his theatrical…

Bishop John Fisher was a scholar and theologian, famous as a preacher and author of the first sermon-sequence to be printed…

Using case studies this book aims to examine the obsolescence and revitalization of languages and dialects focusing on Welsh…

More than 5000 vases from Apulia are classified and catalogued in these volumes. These vases are of great importance for the…

Looking at the significance of language contact in America, this is a grammatical and sociohistorical study of Mobilian…

This is an ethnography of Bacup in the north-west of England. It dwells on the way the past features in talk about the place…

Providing a theoretical framework for the development of young people in a stressful society, this book evaluates practical…