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In its heyday in the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm. Since then the global financial crash of 2008 and...

This novel textbook provides the first consolidated overview of the scope, purpose, and applications of conservation physiology with a focus on wil...

Publisher: Oxford University Press, CanadaIllustration(s): 2 photos (1-colour); 14 figures, 6 tablesNumber of pages: 536Publication date: 2021Dimen...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): A. Maurits (Associate Professor of Government, Associate Professor of Government, William & Mary) ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Michael J. (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University) RosenfeldIllustra...

Twenty-five years after Fatherland, Robert Harris returns to World War Two and the years around it, with the major real-life figures featuring thro...

Will and Yunes chronicle the latest scientific discoveries as they put Einstein's theory to the test in astonishing ways. They document the struggl...

Environmental science (ecology, conservation, and resource management) is an increasingly quantitative field. This accessible textbook introduces q...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): William R. (Distinguished and Rogers Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Distinguished and Roge...

Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guid...

This book explores the potential of the Anglosphere - a transnational imagined community of the English-speaking peoples - which came to internatio...

How fast can you calculate? Would you like to be faster? This book presents the time honored tricks and tips of calculation, from a fresh perspecti...

Reducere. Both Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are literary superstars, known around the world as the creators of Middle-earth and Narnia. But few of their readers an...

The Varieties of Religious Experience is William James's classic survey of religious belief. With psychological insight and philosophical rigor, Ja...

The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of ...

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth ce...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kate BowlerHow have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status a...

This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twent...

This anthology brings together 14 of the best Victorian fairy tales, by major period writers as well as specialists in the genre to show the vibran...

Reducere. Graced by more than 200 illustrations, many of them seldom seen and some never before published, this sparkling volume offers vivid portraits of th...

Reducere. Whether you realize it or not, you are the beneficiary of centuries of careful study and reflection on God's Word. The writings and teachings of fi...

DescriptionEver since Mrs Malaprop first took to the stage in 1775 and described a gentleman as 'the very pineapple of politeness', some famous fig...

Now available in a new translation, this classic of nineteenth century French literature has been consistently praised for its style and its vision...

The Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the fath...

Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for "...

An essential record of one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics, and an important figure in Robert M...

Reducere. Magdalen College, where C.S. Lewis taught in Oxford, was an appropriate site for the "Informing the Inklings" conference hosted by the George MacDo...

Reducere. DescriptionMagdalen College, where C.S. Lewis taught in Oxford, was an appropriate site for the "Informing the Inklings" conference hosted by the G...

A new edition of the highly acclaimed manual of freestyle shamanism, suitable for all those inspired by such figures as Austin Spare and Aleister C...

DescriptionLiterary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary critic...

From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the biography of Ronald Kn...

Contributor(s): Author: John E. WashingtonEditor: Kate MasurOriginally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is...

Richard R. Brettell's innovative and beautifully-illustrated account explores the works of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali--as we...

Reducere. Description Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self-portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on bo...

In this accessible and comprehensive work, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins cover the entire history of philosophy--ancient, medieval, and moder...

Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual development. After painting Hegel's life and times in...

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive d...

Reducere. Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meani...

Reducere. In this Bancroft Prize-winning history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that ...

'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental ...

Reducere. Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly ori...

One of the great works of the twentieth century, Kafka's The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or...

Contributor(s): Author: Diogenes LaertiusTranslator: Pamela MenschEditor: James MillerEveryone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own...

Contributor(s): Editor: Donald PreziosiHere is a new edition of Donald Preziosi's masterful selection of the most influential and innovative writin...

In the first ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist Marjorie Cameron (1922-1995), on...

DescriptionTuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history. There is evidence from ...

Reducere. DescriptionCollected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles ...

DescriptionEvery year around 10 million people are diagnosed with cancer, around 80% of whom are destined to die from the disease, accounting for 1...

Now fully revised and updated in its second edition, An Introduction to Conservation Biology is well suited for a wide range of undergraduate cours...

Reducere. In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere--the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist le...

Reducere. Nearly 50 years after his death, Louis Armstrong remains one of the 20th century's most iconic figures. Popular fans still appreciate his later hit...

The Modern Salonni re is a collection of essays that combines Saxon Henry's passions of traveling, reading, and creative nonfiction. Locale by loca...

Reducere. A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative, " Nathan Huggins' Harlem Ren...

Reducere. Wall Street is is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles...

DescriptionHere is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. William H. C...

Reducere. The AMA Manual of Style is a must-have resource for anyone involved in medical, health, and scientific publishing. Written by an expert committee o...

The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over seventy years, but recently the U.S. National Security Strate...

DescriptionActivists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil righ...

Reducere. Featuring twenty-five insightful selections by prominent philosophers, literary figures, and religious thinkers, The Meaning of Life: A Reader, Fou...

Mark A. Noll, named one of America's most influential evangelicals by Time Magazine, provides a fresh and accessible history of Protestantism from ...

When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social st...

A comprehensive introduction to Yemen's current crises, major players, and potential solutions to an ongoing civil war. In 2014, a tribal alliance ...

This new edition has been fully revised and updated to provide over 1, 800 A-Z definitions of terms from the field of social care, concentrating on...

Reducere. When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine...

Reducere. In Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity, M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the Christian conc...

Reducere. Oil and Gas 1 is ideal for pre-work students, studying at elementary level, who will need to use English in work situations. Oil and Gas 1 develops...

Reducere. By any measure, Seneca (?4-65AD) is one of the most significant figures in both Roman literature and ancient philosophy. His writings are voluminou...

Reducere. Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most important innovators of the century, Tariq Ramadan is a leading Muslim scholar, with a large followin...

Reducere. In the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stant...

'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with ...