John Ramsay McCulloch (1789-1864) wrote or edited numerous works on the nascent field of political economy (several are…

This study presents a substantial and often radical reinterpretation of some of the central themes of Locke's thought.…

In this fascinating study, Robert Philip argues that recordings of the early twentieth-century provide an important, and…

Why was Shakespeare such attractive source material for the silent film industry? How were silent Shakespeare films…

This book makes available five classic studies of the organisation of behaviour in face-to-face interaction. It includes…

This clear, informative textbook is designed to help the student achieve optimal success as a language learner and user.…

This is the first book to explore how lesbians and gay men use history to define themselves as social, cultural, and…

This book assembles ten special studies, each devoted to an aspect of Fisher's multifaceted career or to exploring the…

This book explores the consequences of the Roman conquest of Greece. Social and economic developments during the period 200…

Dilthey is a figure of real importance in European philosophy and social theory. He exerted a significant influence on…

Was writing a revolutionary innovation, prompting or participating in social change, or a fundamentally repressive and…

This book is a regional study of what is now northern Lorraine during the period between the end of the Roman Empire and the…

In this book Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communists in political violence during the years of Hitler's rise to…

Leading critic Alastair Minnis investigates the relationships between authority and the vernacular in a range of texts from…

The book seeks to establish the significance for the Victorians of three great crises of English history. The book will…

• Rok vydání 1986

This 1986 book presents an in-depth treatment of the biology of chrysophytes, providing a strong foundation towards…

Faded Dreams paints a new and challenging picture of why racial inequality changes in America. The author argues that blacks…

This book is about the two-way interplay between vision and action. The contributors examine this interplay occurring during…

Here is a comprehensive empirical study of informal reasoning as argument, involving subjects across the life span. The…

How do the hard facts of political responsibility shape and constrain the demands of ethical life? That question lies at the…

This volume of essays on Jean-Baptiste Lully and his musical legacy honours the distinguished French baroque scholar James…

MacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding…

This book grounds its rhetorical approach in a methodological critique of current trends in the study of Leviticus, then…

Until quite recently, the Mexican Revolution was usually defined as an agrarian movement, as a peasant war, with Emiliano…

Long considered marginal in early modern culture, women writers were actually central to the development of a Protestant…

This book uses game theory to analyse the creation, evolution, and function of economic and social institutions.…

One of the preeminent philosophers of science writing offers a reinterpretation of the enduring significance of logical…

This book proposes a post-Cold War paradigm based on the interaction between the contemporary globalization of the…

• Rok vydání 1994

This 1994 book examines the National Assembly's restructuring of the French state between 1789 and 1791. Focusing on the…

Professor Schram offers a fascinating and sure-footed analysis of Mao's intellectual itinerary, recognizing the positive…

This book argues against the orthodox view of Socratic intellectualism and offers an alternative account that explains why…

This book addresses key topics in social theory such as the basic structures of social life, the character of human…

This volume considers the status of the key CGIAR collections, presenting extensive information on germplasm conservation…

• Rok vydání 1985

This 1985 book examines the origin of the present diversity of marine invertebrate animals. A review of the early stages in…

Thoughtful musicians seeking ways to deepen their understanding of how tonal music works will be drawn to this study focused…

This is a sociological investigation of the history and uses of alcoholic beverages. It explores the notion of free will…

The human world is replete with narratives. Some thinkers have afforded special importance to our capacity to generate…

• Rok vydání 2007

Pragmatics - the way we communicate using more than just language - is particularly problematic for people with speech…

The concept of beauty was central to debates about art, culture and taste in the eighteenth century. Robert W. Jones…

In this book, originally published in 1965, Mr Mayhead gives an introduction to the reading and study of English literature.…

This book proposes a strategic pressure theory that argues that in emerging democracies, political competition eggs on…

This is a formal and systematic study of the logical foundations of speech act theory.…

Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the…

This is the first book-length study of Descartes's metaphysics to place it in its immediate historical context, the Late…

In an attempt to find out why almost all doctors in the West used bloodletting to treat a great variety of diseases and…

His pupil and colleague Anil Seal has edited for this volume a group of Professor Gallagher's major essays. The collection…

The views of Freud, Proust and Lacan are depicted through this staging of a series of provocative dialogues between…

Focuses on specific examples and develops only the formalism needed to address these. Introduces the notion of Gröbner bases…