This interdisciplinary volume of essays examines the changing conceptions, character and condemnation of 'heresy' in…

This book describes the rise of national identity among the Azerbaijanis - the Turkic-speaking Muslims of Russia's…

Is it possible for postmodernism to offer a coherent accounts of ethics in a fragmented social and intellectual world? In…

This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of successful language learning strategies and reviews the…

This thought-provoking and practical book leads second language teachers to consider their views and values concerning their…

This 1984 text is concerned with how the past was represented in Britain and France in the nineteenth century. This was a…

This selection is of value not only to students of French literature and thought, but also to all those interested in the…

This 1920 volume contains book one of Euclid's Elements in Greek, together with an introduction and notes written in…

This study of Proust's famous novel A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past) focuses on Venice, one of the…

This is a book-length study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan, an intense creative relationship…

This text sets out the psychological basis of musical development in children and adults. It has two major objectives: to…

In this book Professor Bruford shows how the ideal of self-cultivation entered into the thought of a number of highly…

An interesting reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood'. It exploits cultural…

This international and interdisciplinary collection presents and discusses the many issues and educational practices that…

In this volume on Shakespeare's tragedies, originally published in 1948, the author considers them specifically as plays,…

Scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, presents a fresh approach to the study of…

• Rok vydání 1769

This 1769 work brings together published and unpublished letters both from and to Benjamin Franklin, which demonstrate the…

This influential edition of Pindar by the American classicist Basil L. Gildersleeve (1831-1924) contains a brilliant and…

The authors argue that standard educational practices that do not lead learners to grasp the meaning of tasks usually fail…

A new look at Kant, focusing on the seminal interplay of ethics, politics and religion in his major works and providing a…

How do our brains enable us to speak creatively and process language? This accessible book examines the linguistic and…

Originally published in 1933, this book is a culmination of a lifetime of research by Hans Friedrich Gadow into the…

The book is for researchers, teachers and students in the fields of judgment and decision making, cognitive and…

This anthology, part of a three-volume series devoted to German aesthetic and literary criticism from the eighteenth and…

• Rok vydání 1999

This 1999 archaeological study considers traditional assumptions about social relationships in Greek households during the…

In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. Covering a range of genres, including e-mail, chat, and the…

Social memory is a powerful political and emotional force, although recovering the shared memories of past societies is…

This study of two contrasting towns in Anatolia focuses on their domestic environment. Through her use of documents from the…

Criticism of Eliot interprets his work as the private record of an internal spiritual struggle. Professor Cooper…

An original and challenging study of Marxist aesthetic theory from an art-historical perspective.…

Harry A. Miskimin uses topical economic concepts to examine the economic structure of early Renaissance Europe in 1300-1460.…

Modern society was born as a society of crowds. This book analyses how the phenomenon of crowds became a concern to…

Coleridge, who asserted the primacy of the transcendent imagination, was in a obvious sense the direct opposite of Bentham,…

Through detailed examination of a wide variety of novels, plays, sermons, songs, popular engravings, portraiture, and…

This fascinating book examines theories of children's perceptions of space and place. An international team of authors…

In this book Mark Jancovich examines the development of the New Criticism during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and its…

Sociology and common sense both assume that there is an objective world that exists independently of the knower and that is…

This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory has led to an intellectual sterility which ignores…

This book explores ideas about art implicit in Shakespeare's plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in…

• Rok vydání 1804

In this 1804 publication, Scottish mathematician and natural philosopher Sir John Leslie (1766-1832) investigates the nature…

Alnoor Ebrahim's study analyses the organizational evolution of NGOs, tracing their increased profile as bilateral partners…

This book examines all major aspects of theatre practice and dramatic literature of the Victorian period. Michael Booth's…

This comparative study of the influence of social, political and legal theory on the law of torts in Europe since 1800…

This is an historical commentary on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, an anonymous history of events in the Greek world in the late…

Published in 1874, this two-volume work by Isaac Todhunter (1820-84), perhaps the greatest Victorian historian of…

This volume presents a wide-ranging new perspective on Swift's literary and political achievement in its English and Irish…

This book is a detailed examination of the arguments used to support the recent hypothesis that Mark was the last synoptic…

This book examines the political role of personal relationships in classical Greece.…