Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get…

An international group of experts review guidelines for achieving sustainability in water resource systems.…

This book demonstrates that a crucial component of statebuilding in Venice was the management of public speech. Using a…

First published in 1982, this volume is a collection of original essays by young British philosophers reflecting the state…

Built around a diverse selection of academic literature and illuminated through comprehensive and critical commentary, this…

Volker Halbach examines the most important axiomatizations of truth, explores their properties and shows how the logical…

• Rok vydání 2003

This 2003 book looks at ways of improving our understanding of religious change by strengthening the links between social…

In this book particular attention is given to the role of commodity aid in economic development. Pakistan's experience with…

Milton's contempt for women has been accepted as fact by many critics. This book re-evaluates this claim by analysing his…

Do we think in natural language? Or is language only for communication? Much recent work in philosophy and cognitive science…

This book describes how and why women were permitted to act on the public stage after 1660 in England, and the consequences…

A selection of Housman's writings, including the Introductory Lecture of 1892 and The Name and Nature of Poetry, 1933, both…

This is an original investigation of the early uses of the terms 'pilgrim' and 'pilgrimage' in life and literature. Edwards…

This volume argues that the commitment to justice is a fundamental motive and that, although it is typically portrayed as…

Apoptosis is programmed cell death, and it allows the continuous turnover of cells in the body. This book, first published…

This book is a major contribution to decision theory, focusing on the question of when it is rational to accept scientific…

This collection of William Empson's vibrant essays on drama, the second volume of his writings on Renaissance literature,…

This original and engaging study of community media, first published in 2005, combines original research with comparative…

This book examines the impact of the Reformation on the ideal and practice of marriage in sixteenth-century Germany.…

This book examines the strangely neglected area of Chekhov's one-act plays, written between 1885 and 1903. Still frequently…

The gecekondu are the shantytowns of Turkey. This study by Kemal Karpat investigates within a broad historical, conceptual…

• Rok vydání 2000

This 2000 book was the first to consider the role of Italian confraternities in the patronage of art. Eleven…

Are newly established presidential democracies doomed to fail? Advocates of parliamentarism point to the fact that these…

Specifically designed to enhance perspective and encourage productivity, this is a guide to the key principles of scientific…

This volume brings together a collection of essays on Borges by leading scholar Jaime Alazraki. Together the essays…

In this collected work an international team of experts considers the consequences of colonialism in settler societies from…

This study of the character and policies of Charles I provides an analysis of the political crisis leading to his personal…

Originally published in 1916, as part of the Cambridge Technical Series, this book was written to provide a guide to the…

Bryan Cheyette combines cultural theory, discourse analysis and new historicism with close readings of work by a wide range…

Designed primarily as a textbook for linguistics and philology students, this book will also be of interest to those…

This book examines the cultural lives of cause lawyers by focusing on their representation in various popular media.…

This, the first book-length application of discursive psychology to intellectual disability, shows through a range of case…

Eleven of Graham Nerlich's essays are here brought together in a carefully structured volume, dealing with ontology and…

This book utilises the author's twenty years of research experience to describe conclusions on the nature of quasars, their…

In The Psychologizing of Modernity, Mark Jarzombek examines the impact of psychology on twentieth-century aesthetics.…

In this short introductory book, Professor Forster examines Petrarchism as a European phenomenon transcending national…

Professor Chao covers the whole field of language and of modern developments in linguistics, with particular emphasis on…

This volume examines Romantic writing in relation to colonial politics and the peoples and places with which the British…

A reissue with a foreword and supplement, of a modern classic published in 1960. The invention of the mechanical clock was…

Vincent Courtillot suggests that cataclysmic volcanic activity is linked to the death of the dinosaurs and other dramatic…

This 1977 text was the first full study of Erwin Piscator, the German theatrical producer who was prominent in the 1920s and…

This book explores Bruno Taut, a leading architectural theorist in Germany, and the modern architectural movement during the…

The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare the basic structures of Matthew's and Paul's ethics, rather than to…

This book analyses the business, geography and politics of shopkeeping in Milan between 1886 and 1922. The author addresses…

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Michael Banton's classic book reviews historical theories of race and the…

A leading scholar in Romantic literature and theology, John Beer offers a persuasive new account of post-revolutionary…

Through subtly nuanced close readings of Marvell, Katherine Philips and Milton, Andrew Shifflet shows that these writers had…

This book takes the idea of 'village' not for granted, but as a dogma to be accounted for.…