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Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams triggered a storm of protest when he suggested that some accommodation between British law and Islam's shari'a law was 'inevitable'. His foundational...

As one of the first theorists to explore the unconscious fantasies, fears, and desires underlying religious ideas and practices, Freud con be considered one of the grandparents of the field of...

Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and...

Following on the success of The Bike Book, this volume takes us inside all aspects of this growing phenomenon--from smart technology and advanced design to the top visual trends. With power,...

Text: English (translation)Original Language: Greek

The description for this book, Rubens before 1620, will be forthcoming.

Text: English (translation)Original Language: Italian

This eighth volume consists of the separate histories of the countries of Spanish South America. Part I covers in depth the history of Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Part II is devoted to Chile...

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is widely taken to be the starting point of the modern period of mathematics while David Hilbert was the last great mainstream mathematician to pursue...

An annotated and illustrated Thucydides reader containing passages from books I-VIII of the Histories with introductory material for all eight books of the Histories, commentary and grammatical notes...

The 200-year-old notion that concepts, ideas, and theories are all influenced by or occasioned by historical circumstances is today a commonplace in all fields, and lays bare the historical character...

Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on Classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has...

Published in the summer of 1863, A General View of the Criminal Law is a highly original account of the fundamental nature, substance and functioning of the criminal law in mid-Victorian England...

This is a completely rewritten and updated edition of Professor Parry's textbook of medicine in Africa. It sets out for medical students the universal princples of medicine in the particular context...

V. 1. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Pt. 1. Ancient British And Anglo-saxon Coins, By P. Grierson. -- V 2. The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Pt. 1. The Anglo-saxon Coins In The Hunterian And Coats...

Spanning U.S. urban history from the colonial period the the present, this collection presents thirty-two of the best interpretive essays on the growth and development of the American city.

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, based on the life of Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All is True, is...

This new translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on two works by one of the oldest known Greek poets:...

This classic anthology, first published in 1921, has been instrumental in reviving interest in the seventeenth-century metaphysical poets and in securing for them the high reputation they now enjoy...

A revised and abridged version of The Oxford Companion to French Literature features entries on writers, translators, particular works, literary movements and genres, the evolution of French...