In this book, Kevin M. Cherry compares the views of Aristotle and Plato about the practice, study and, above all, the…

This is a 1950 collection of eight essays about Plato and the Presocratic philosophers who were F. M. Cornford's particular…

Aebischer discusses stage and screen performances of Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, Othello and King Lear with a view to showing…

From Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood, this volume is a multi-authored English-language history of Canadian writing in…

This collection of essays will challenge some preconceptions about Marlowe by tackling major aspects of his dramaturgy, his…

This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the seventeenth century's most notorious and sensational…

This book investigates how bishops deployed reward and punishment to control their administrative subordinates in…

A novel theory of politics and international relations rooted in ancient Greek theories of human motives. Lebow offers a…

This widely acclaimed account of the role of counterfactuals in explanation deploys extended examples from both history and…

This book traces the unique attraction Scotland has had for the great eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers. It is…

• Rok vydání 1998

This 1998 study examines the popular appeal of Liberal, Tory, and Labour politics in the period 1867 to 1914, and asks us to…

This book defends the claim that politics is a linguistically constituted activity and shows that the concepts which inform…

The phenomenon of action in which the mind moves the body has puzzled philosophers over the centuries. In this new edition…

An extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine. The book examines…

• Rok vydání 2007

Ezra Pound was deeply engaged with the avant-garde art scene in London and Paris. Drawing on previously unpublished archive…

This is a study of the demographic processes of two castes in rural north India, that asks why fertility levels are higher…

Professor Pompa has here translated and introduced a selection of the central, representative texts, where the most…

This book analyses a much neglected writer's contribution to the debate within Judaism in the post-exilic period about who…

Plato's Progress deals with scholarly questions of datings and developments, showing and demanding familiarity with a wide…

This account of vowel patterns in language brings a wealth of cross-linguistic material to the study of vowel systems and…

The essays contained in this volume provide a focus on the work of the music theorist Heinrich Schenker - a figure of…

This book presents in translation writings by six medieval philosophers which bear on the subject of conscience. Conscience…

Dr Brandwood's book presents a factual and critical account of the more important of the various attempts that have been…

This is a full-scale study of the political thought of the Italian jurist, Baldus de Ubaldis (1327-1400). It examines his…

This book is a comprehensive survey of 'neoinstitutional economics', which integrates neo-classical economic theory and the…

This book is a re-thinking of Aristotle's metaphysical theory of material substances. The main aim of the study is to…

Demonstrating how the lost lexicon of fashionable late Renaissance alchemy imbued Shakespeare's bawdy sonnets and A Lover's…

This is a study of the works of art from early Greece which have long been presented as 'illustrations to Homer', but which…

Although much has been published on the social history of death, this book provides a comprehensive account of attitudes…

This collection of papers is the most recent book to be published by the well-known British theologian, Nicholas Lash.…

How the natural non-verbal properties of utterances interact with linguistic ones is often largely ignored. This book…

This collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field sheds new light on the verb in English. The authors…

A theory of the margin has long featured in the work of medieval historians. Marginal regions are taken to be those of poor…

A lucid account of Theodor Adorno's perspectives on major components of sociology, including empirical and theoretical…

This is a systematic and wide-ranging study of cinema as an art form, showing how the medium conditions fundamental features…

• Rok vydání 1947

This 1947 volume provides a dual-text English translation of the Anonymus Londinensis papyrus, an important document of…

This book can be viewed as a summation of Roderick Chisholm's views on an enormous range of topics in metaphysics and…

Gur Zak examines Petrarch's humanist philosophy and his concept of the self, and argues that both are defined by Petrarch's…

What differences do welfare state variations make for women? How do women and men fare in different welfare states? Diane…

Language and Thought brings together essays by a distinguished interdisciplinary team of philosophers and psychologists, who…

This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies…

John Passmore (1914-2004) was a renowned Australian empirical philosopher and historian of ideas. In this book, which was…

This study uses a semiotic theory of signification in order to investigate different types of musical communication. Musical…

In this study of cultural confrontation the author looks at the attitude of the Greeks to four different civilizations - the…

This vividly written book is the first comprehensive assessment of the origins of the present-day democratic regime in…

Professor Dixon challenges many of the views held by linguists, archaeologists and geneticists about the origins and…

This book argues that perceptual experiences do not have conceptual content, and that what makes them play such a…

The twentieth century saw sweeping changes in health care worldwide, from pharmaceuticals, to new technologies, to…