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The Politics of Extremism in South Asia
South Asia is home to a range of extremist groups from the jihadists of Pakistan to the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. In the popular mind, extremism and...
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Christianity, Art and Transformation
Christianity, Art and Transformation explores the historical and contemporary relationship between the arts and Christianity with reference to the...
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Solon and Early Greek Poetry
The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This book explores the types of history that have...
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Discourse and Context
How do social situations influence language use, discourse and conversation? This book is the first monograph to present a multidisciplinary theory...
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Ecumenism, Christian Origins and the Practice of Communion
The theology of communion, or Koinonia, has been at the centre of the ecumenical movement for more than thirty years. It is central to the...
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The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas
This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Asia and the...
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The Cost of Counterterrorism
In the aftermath of a terrorist attack political stakes are high: legislators fear being seen as lenient or indifferent and often grant the executive...
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Theology and the Drama of History
How can theology think and talk about history? Building on the work of the major twentieth-century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar as well as...
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Plato and Theodoret
In late antiquity Plato’s philosophy became a battlefield between the competing discourses and rival intellectual paradigms represented by...
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After Bush
The foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration has won few admirers, and many anticipate that his successor will repudiate the actions of...
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Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship
This book offers a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship and its relationship to self-love. The book gives central...
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Thinking about Harmony
Focusing on music written in the period 1800–1850, Thinking About Harmony traces the responses of observant musicians to the music that was being...
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Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought
This book offers a fascinating account of the central myth of Western culture - the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Philip Almond...
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Aristotle and the Science of Nature
Andrea Falcon’s work is guided by the exegetical ideal of recreating the mind of Aristotle and his distinctive conception of the theoretical...
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The Socialist Corporation and Technocratic Power
In this book Dr Woodall analyses the political implications of the pursuit of industrial growth for the authority of the Polish United Workers'...
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Toward a Theory of Human Rights
Neither the morality of human rights nor its relation to the law of human rights is well understood. In this book, Michael Perry addresses three...
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H.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910–1950
Diana Collecott proposes that Sappho’s presence in H. D.’s work is as significant as that of Homer in Pound’s and of Dante in Eliot’s. She...
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The Stoics on Ambiguity
Stoic work on ambiguity represents one of the most innovative, sophisticated and rigorous contributions to philosophy and the study of language in...
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Boundaries and Belonging
This interdisciplinary volume maintains the importance of a spatial understanding of society and history, but suggests a way of conceiving of borders...
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Negotiation and the Global Information Economy
What role do diplomacy and negotiations play in economic globalization? Many argue that great powers shape diplomacy to their advantage, others that,...
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American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995
Focusing on key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of...
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The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Grain Agreement
This study of the 1975 US-USSR Grain Agreement negotiations illuminates the parameters and constraints faced by policy makers in a democratic,...
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A Theory of Syntax
Human language seems to have arisen roughly within the last 50-100,000 years. In evolutionary terms, this is the mere blink of an eye. If this is...
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An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
This comprehensive introductory textbook to early Chinese philosophy covers a range of philosophical traditions which arose during the Spring and...
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