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In this edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson", Marshall Waingrow offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. He charts the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors which crept into the final edition.

The text for this volume of poetry reproduces the first edition of 1917, allowing Hardy's poems to be read as he first gathered them and as the publishers first produced them. This edition also contains an introduction and a bibliography.

The biography of a leader of the campaign for moral education which had been conducted for several decades in Britain and in the USA.

A vital reference for everyone interested in Islamic inscriptions on buildings, objects and works of art.

A book on the emergence of modern humans

A look at the British Government's policy towards China between 1945 and 1950.

Edmund Gosse: Father and Son

Gertrude Stein frequently proclaimed herself to be a genius. But, what did the term really mean to her? This work explores the centrality and secificity of the idea of "genius" to Stein's work and the aesthetic ideals and contradictory intellectual affiliations of modernism in general.

This book explores the major philosophical issues in the historic interplay of Islamic and Jewish philosophy.

This is the first source-book for the cross-disciplinary area of post-marxism. It takes students through a wide range of readings from philosophy, politics, and sociology, to human geography, international relations, and feminist studies.

Katherin A. Rogers defends the traditional approach, considering contemporary criticisms but concluding that the most adequate account of the nature of God should build upon the foundation laid by the Medieval philosophers.

This book is a first-stop introduction to corpus-based language research. It introduces the practical problems and benefits including the points to be reviewed before using computers, obtaining corpus material, the main analytical tools and the most important applications of computerised natural language processing.

This is an issue of our journal Translation and Literature.

A study of the relationship between narrative and history from the late-19th century to the present day. The book reconsiders the terms of modernist narrative and modernist attitudes to history, and offers a theoretical engagement with the problems of the historiography as they affected writers.

In this sympathetic restatement of C B Macpherson's ideas, Townshend provides an overview of Macpherson's theory of possessive individualism and critique of liberal democracy

This is a history of the environment of England, Wales and Scotland, and of the interactions of people, place and nature since the last ice sheet withdrew some ten thousand years ago.

This new Anthology presents a fascinating range of Robert Louis Stevenson's essays on fiction.

This book looks a the role of the slave trade in the economic development of 18th-Century Lancaster.

This book argues that Shelley was both ahead of and in tune with his time and ours.

This book examines life in a set of pilgrim villages in Sudan to show how the concept of pilgrimage is maintained.

This social biography chronicles the life histories of several generations of Kalanga men and women in a single extended family.

Takes an industrial approach to women's documentary practices in Iran since the late 1990s with a patrticular focus on gender politics.

The international authors of this book open a range of windows on our study of the USA.

Flora of Turkey, Volume 3

This book identifies the original impetus and the driving force behind Deleuze's philosophy as a whole and the many concepts it creates.

This is a timely philosophical treatment of the current wave of international terrorism and armed conflicts around the world and the dangers they represent.

This is a concise but comprehensive introduction to modern American social and political thought. The author demonstrates the rich intellectual tradition of the United States and facilitates a better understanding of American society and politics through exploration of key social and political theories and theorists.

This volume offers a new interpretation of Hegel's thought, challenging traditional readings and reconsidering Hegel in terms of his understanding of his own philosophy.

This book offers an integrated overview of the themes and discourses of feminism and multiculturalism which inform the 'politics of difference'; an area of burgeoning interest in contemporary political theory.