Originally published in 1969, Professor Shackle's book examines how a decision is made by exploiting the best present…

This is the first book to provide an introduction to music editing, including the history of the field, and the issues and…

A comprehensive comparison of how Protestant and Catholic martyrs were represented during the Reformation, the most intense…

• Rok vydání 1859

Magomero is the history, since 1859, of a Malawian village. The region saw historically important political activity, in the…

Newton's philosophical views are unique and uniquely difficult to categorise. Newton as Philosopher presents Newton as an…

In this forcefully argued collection of essays, Frank Cioffi examines Wittgenstein's reflections on the comparative claims…

Reciprocity is a crucial part of our social and economic lives, yet until recently it has been somewhat ignored by…

The aim of this 1996 book is to identify and assess the distinctive styles of five important ancient Greek sculptors. By…

The goal of this book is to organize in one volume what is known about problem solving and the factors that contribute to…

A complete re-edition of the texts of two Roman laws from the second century BC, which have survived from antiquity on 12…

Richard Norman looks at issues concerning the justification for war and thereby examines the possibility and nature of…

By examining politics, immigration patterns, economics and technology in explaining the largely forgotten Italian connection…

This is an unusual book and a deliberately controversial one. The authors cast doubt on assumptions which neo-Classicists…

Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of…

This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell us what…

This book reveals that in spite of his protestations, Joyce was profoundly influenced by one of the major figures of…

In exploring ways in which music theory has represented and employed natural order since the scientific revolution, this…

These essays explore the topics of causation, time, fate, determinism, natural teleology, different conceptions of the human…

This book is a local study about East Germany that tries to explain the longevity of the post-World War II Communist regime…

This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers, which focuses particularly upon their use of…

In the Middle Ages, Damascus was one of the most important cities of Eurasia. Michael Chamberlain focuses on the city to…

In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship…

Nicholas Jardine offers here an edition and the first translation into English of Johannes Kepler's A Defence of Tycho…

This book offers a reinterpretation of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, looking instead at the lesser-known…

This book examines the use of medieval precedent in political and ecclesiastical debate.…

This is a collection of specially commissioned research essays by scholars on the government of Tudor England. Professor Sir…

This book explores how some word meanings are paradigmatically related to each other, as opposites or synonyms, for example,…

The book seeks to describe the psychological processes that are involved in arriving at religious knowledge. It is argued…

In this lavishly illustrated 1986 survey, two distinguished historians and engineers assess the major achievements of…

Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship confronts a question that is central to Aristotle's political philosophy as…

Hegel's often-echoed verdict on the apolitical character of philosophy in the Hellenistic age is challenged in this…

Capital theory traditionally spans two major compartments of economic theory: the theory of production of both individual…

• Rok vydání 1998

This 1998 book examines the legacy of Romantic poetics in nineteenth-century political poetry. It argues that a…

The book contains four studies that consider the challenges of implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child in…

Dialectic is a method of investigation which has enjoyed a long history and has been invoked and involved in a great variety…

This well-written and highly-acclaimed study follows Augustine and his preoccupation with the problem of evil and his…

This book traces the growth of philosophical justifications of toleration. The contributors discuss the grounds on which we…

This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the…

Jean Porter provides a highly sophisticated account of moral reasoning, developed out of the thought of Thomas Aquinas,…

It is well known that children spend much time pretending, but it is less appreciated that animals may do the same. This…

Literary journalism is a rich field of study that has played an important role in the creation of the English and American…

• Rok vydání 2010

Anticipating risks has become an obsession of the early twenty-first century. This 2010 book shows how we can organise our…

This is a clear and lucid account of Nietzsche's philosophy of art, combining exegesis, interpretation, and criticism in a…

This book is a systematic study of Descartes' relation to Augustine. It offers a complete reevaluation of Descartes' thought…

This book examines whether and how the Office of the Solicitor General influences the United States Supreme Court. Combining…

A new edition of a successful title, which has been fully revised and updated to reflect contemporary issues in curriculum.…

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of research methods in second-language teaching and learning,…

Based on research in Arabic and English, this book analyzes US-Arab conflicts over modernization. Challenging assumptions…