• Rok vydání 1991

When this book was first published in 1991, developments in the study of theoretical ecology had led to the appearance of…

Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on. He argues that collisions, literal and…

This 2005 book explores the ideas and culture surrounding the Spanish Civil War. Leading historians offer new…

The IBP 'check-sheet' survey was devised to gather information on how to protect sites and species for future scientific…

This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the…

This book, first published in 2001, shows how Woolf, Eliot and Yeats believed in eugenics, the science of race improvement,…

Samuel Rickless argues that the main point of Plato's Parmenides is to change our conception of the Forms by granting that…

Originally published in 1983, this was the first comprehensive study of the French sacred theatre during the crucial…

Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth, showing that in order to come to terms with…

This book is based on a meeting on the Fungal Nucleus organised by the Physiology Group of the British Mycological Society…

This study argues that the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer should be central to our understanding of England's…

How do children and other young animals learn to communicate? This book shows the importance of social companions in the…

This study describes the way in which the Franciscan and Dominican orders became involved in preaching the cross and…

In this valuable collection of essays, published to coincide with the tercentenary of Handel's birth, Reinhard Strohm…

Reinhold Niebuhr was a major American theologian and political thinker of the mid-twentieth century. His thought remains…

Michael Levenson explores here the complex question of the self, the individual subject, as it undergoes various transitions…

This book presents a selection of ten of the most significant contributions of essays to Faire de l'histoire, a major…

Perspectives on Technology consists of papers written by Nathan Rosenberg over a ten-year period, from the early 1960s to…

Taking Grainger's views as his starting point and heading each chapter with a quotation from Grainger's writings, John…

This collection of essays demonstrates the width of Darwin's interests and ability as a biologist. The theory of evolution…

New essays connecting recent scientific studies with traditional issues about the self explored by Descartes, Locke and…

This book explores how mechanics participate in the intellectual culture of Renaissance humanism. Harnessing the discipline…

This is a lively and learned account of Shakespeare's plays as they were transformed from scripts to be performed into books…

Claiming that contemporary theory and practice have much to gain from engaging Aquinas's normative concept of the common…

The question of national identity has long been a vexed one in Russia, and is particularly pertinent in the post-Soviet…

This book is a collection of essays on various aspects of the life and work of Brahms. There are three main areas of focus -…

This is a study of rural social structure in the county of Essex between 1350 and 1500.…

Apocalypse is a radical criticism of our civilisation and a statement of Lawrence's belief in man's power to create 'a new…

• Rok vydání 1967

This 1967 study of Plotinus' philosophy was the first comprehensive work in English since Inge's The Philosophy of Plotinus…

This work describes systematically how the collaboration between Pietism and the Prussian state not only led to an increase…

This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution…

Andrew Hadfield offers a challenging reinterpretation of the sixteenth century through the work of major writers of the…

In this volume Dr Romaine lays the foundation for a field of research encompassing both historical linguistics and…

This 2002 book explores Wittgenstein's engagement with the work of the pragmatist William James. Russell Goodman argues that…

The position of rational egoism centres upon the thought that the rational thing to do must be to pursue one's own…

This volume of essays considers rational responses to the insufficientcy of reason itself, and to the 'indeterminacies' in…

A lively new volume of original essays in which leading experts address transatlantic literary exchanges in the formative…

Modernist literature discovered through myth an underlying metaphysic to an increasingly fragmented world. Michael Bell's…

Meaning, Discourse and Society investigates the construction of reality within discourse. Wolfgang Teubert shows that…

Siegel's close analysis of the original texts - with careful attention to the equations as well as to the words - reveals…

In the end Dr Blackburn produces a rationale for belief in certain short-term predictions based on his reinterpretation of…

The Exagoge is a drama on the theme of the Jewish Exodus, written in the form of a Greek tragedy by a Jew some time during…

Semicolonial Joyce is a collection of essays addressing the importance of Ireland's colonial situation in understanding the…

This important revisionary study, following on from Dr Clark's previous highly influential books, creates a new framework…

The picturesque (a set of theories, ideas, and conventions that grew up around the question of how we look at landscape)…

This 2007 collection offered the first definitive study of a surprisingly underdeveloped area of scholarly investigation,…

The central problem of the essays in this volume is the problem of theory appraisal in economics. In the history of economic…

The problems which Christians faced in the second-century world, with its variety of religious beliefs, have a close…