6177 results for '"Tom Beer (Editor)'

In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring...

Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development represents an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of Leon Trotsky's concept of uneven and combined development. This groundbreaking collection...

The history of mathematics is replete with examples of major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. The modern theory of probability arose out of problems of concern to...

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering...

 This beautifully illustrated volume tells the story of Cubism through twenty-two essays that explore the most significant private holding of Cubist art in the world today, the Leonard A. Lauder...

Nine essays first presented at the Historians of Islamic Art Association's seventh biennial symposium, entitled "Regime Change." The essays collected in this volume highlight some of the regimes...

A groundbreaking new perspective on the painter's scandalous nudes. Among the most celebrated works of Modigliani's brief but brilliant career are his large-format nudes. Drenched in color and...

The first English translation of René Morax and Werner Wolff's avant-garde adaption of King Stag. King Stag is a play originally written in 1762 by Italian playwright and champion of Commedia...

Natural history and treatment outcome of disease are of critical importance to patients, clinicians and health care providers across the full range of medical disciplines. In many specialties, such...

The Fallopian tube has until recently been a neglected structure, bypassed by IVF and seen only as a tube that transports the egg to the uterus. More recently, its central role as the site of...

In this series of linked essays, Tom Paulin explores the tradition of dissent in English literature, from Elizabethan times to the present. Among the writers that fall under his luminous gaze are...

In The Pilot (1824) and The Red Rover (1828), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Collected here in a single Library of America volume, they are among his finest works...

Return to the nation's founding to rediscover the dramatic original debates--on presidential power, religious liberty, foreign corruption, and more--that still shape our world todayWhen the...

Unrivaled in scope and scholarship, The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization is an indispensable guide to the richly textured history of ancient Greece and Rome. From military history to...

Archaeologists are becoming increasingly conscious of their ethical responsibilities in the discovery, interpretation and custodianship of the archaeological record. In this important new collection,...

The first handbook of Socio-cultural Pyschology to deal with such a variety of themes and wide international scope. Valsiner and Rossa approach human psychology in all its complexity, providing a...

Since the 1970s, the U.S. economy has been sending more and more of its rewards to fewer and fewer people. Once seen as a global exemplar of egalitarianism and middle-class opportunity, America has...

Fifteen major essays on international economics investigate five principal themes: theory, and empirics, of financial issues in open economies; economic growth; public economies; and political...

This publication is at once a record of and a reflection on the Biennale. The book consists of four main parts. The first part Forum features interviews with Ralph Lerner, Chang Yung-ho, Rocco Yim...

Typography Papers is book-length publication from the Department of Typography at the University of Reading (in England). Typography Papers 9 opens with a beautifully illustrated article by type...