The employment of women, particularly mothers, is now accepted as a 'fact of modern life'. This book examines the origins…

This book investigates how people learnt to read in the Middle Ages. It uses medieval teachers' glosses on Latin texts to…

Analysing the problems facing transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe, this book describes the legacy of the…

This is a study of the central questions of explanation in the social sciences, and a defence of 'holism' against…

Dorsey proposes a welfarist approach to the question of the basic social minimum. His book will be fundamental for all who…

This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as being monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its…

Ragnar Frisch (1895-1973) received the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science together with Jan Tinbergen in 1969…

Originally published in 1947, this book was written to provide an introductory survey of the developments in electromagnetic…

• Rok vydání 1872

This, the second edition of an influential commentary on the Roman satirist Juvenal by John Mayor (1825-1910), was published…

This book presents a new social theory of learning. As learning becomes a topic of great urgency for nations, businesses,…

South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great 'world religions' have inter-acted in…

In many of the sciences there is no means of ensuring absolute accuracy in the measurement of a particular quantity. The…

Could there be a truly African philosophy that goes beyond traditional folk thought? Kwasi Wiredu tries in these essays to…

• Rok vydání 2007

Offering readings of the work of poets who contributed to the oral traditions of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, alongside…

In this book Professor Baldry describes the development of the unity of mankind amongst the Greeks from Homer to Cicero…

Dr Porch's book challenges many standard assumptions about the place of the army in French political life between 1871 and…

Discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth…

What was the ethical perspective of modernist literature? How did Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett represent ethical…

This book, first published in 1979, is composed of studies in a descending sequence from perfect rationality, through…

The study of cyberpsychology is growing at a fast rate. While a number of cyberpsychology-related journals and books have…

This volume presents a series of important essays by American and European scholars on some of the problems involved in…

The 'Travelling Bachelor' who is named as author on the original title page of this two-volume work is in fact James…

Aristotle was one of the greatest logicians. He not only devised the first system of formal logic, he also raised many…

Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism argues for realism as a genre committed to depicting the imperilled ecological system of…

This book charts the evolution of metaphysics since Descartes, providing an unusually wide-ranging history that includes…

This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the…

This highly original collection of essays is concerned with children and their moral and political status in society.…

This volume provides a survey of all the major grain legumes from the standpoint of both their evolution and their potential…

Much contemporary philosophical debate centres on the topics of logic, thought and language, and on the connections between…

Henry James and the Philosophical Novel examines James's unique position as a philosophical novelist. The book offers a…

Usually seen just as an index of the 'low' genre of Petronius' Satyricon, corporeality is here explored as a metaphor and it…

• Rok vydání 1982

The authors of this 1982 book were invited to identify areas within sociobiology which provided particular problems or which…

The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative investigates the textuality of all discourse, arguing that the…

First published in 1977, this volume is a collection of eleven studies conducted during the International Biological…

The Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis proposes that the grammar of the particular language we spwak affects the…

This book examines and compares the 'old' institutionalism of Veblen, Mitchell, Commons, and Ayres, with the 'new'…

This collection of essays offers an alternative look at Joyce's writing by placing his language at the intersection of…

In this thought-provoking book, Turiel presents original positions on moral development, social justice, and culture,…

This is the first critically evaluative study of Gaston Bachelard's philosophy of science to be written in English.…

This volume provides a new interpretation of the operation and macroeconomic repercussions of the international monetary…

This is the first comprehensive book to cover the whole sweep of twentieth-century Chinese education at a high standard of…

This collection of fifteen essays opens up alternative perspectives on problems associated with the Scientific Revolution of…

• Rok vydání 2010

This 2010 volume examines Rousseau's many approaches to the concept of freedom, in the context of his thought on literature,…

In Milton's Warring Angels, William Kolbrener provides a critical account of the reception and interpretation of Milton's…

This 1996 book shatters the disproven but persistent myth of the closed immobile village with sedentary populations in the…

• Rok vydání 1995

This exciting 1995 collection of essays explores the inter-relationship of gender and war in Australia. Its focus is women's…

A critical history of government policy toward the US automobile industry, assessing the impact of the large corporation on…

• Rok vydání 1993

This controversial and provocative 1993 book is a detailed and continent-wide study of the impact of outsiders on Australian…