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An examination of social change around the world from a global and historical perspective. Part One explains the rise of the Western world from the 1500s, while Parts Two and Three focus on the 20th...

A scholarly edition of a work by Sir David Hamilton. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

An ambitious, lavishly illustrated survey of a prized precious gem, sapphires. This is the most ambitious book ever published on the sapphire. From Emperors and Empresses, Kings and Queens, Tzars and...

As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical...

This anthology offers a definitive overview of the past five decades of American poetry, encompassing works by Aiken, Auden, Sandburg, Ashbery, Updike, Gilpin, and others

Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Georges Bataille’s earlier book The Accursed Share brought to anthropology and history, namely, an analysis based on notions of excess and expenditure. No...

While some writers account for Japan's postwar economic "miracle" in terms of a distinctively Japanese, traditional model of social organization, the writers of this study consider Japan's...

In 1992, critically acclaimed poet James Ragan was in Los Angeles when riots exploded across racial and class lines. That same year he was also living in Prague when Czechoslovakia divided into two...

Explores different applications of Aristotle's hypothesis on the components of form, matter and pyschological states.

This new and exciting interactive resource package centers around fourteen high quality computer simulations covering essential topics in solid state physics. The computer simulations provided on...

Existing theories of the nature of the state in Western capitalist democracies have been mostly propounded from one of three major theoretical perspectives, each emphasising a particular aspect of...

Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of...

These essays address the central points of debate concerning the nature and value of Romanticism. Beyond the collected works, Romanticism compares and contrasts each point of view represented in the...

The study of classical languages by earlier generations of English-speaking students was greatly facilitated by the study of English grammar in the schools, a tradition now out of favor but one that...