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Biology and the Foundations of Ethics
There has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This...
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The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics
The aim of this book is to explain the shape of Greek mathematical thinking. It can be read on three levels: as a description of the practices of...
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Reflections on Violence
Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century: J. B. Priestley argued that if one could...
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Reflections on Violence
Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence is one of the most controversial books of the twentieth century: J. B. Priestley argued that if one could...
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Political Writings
This major addition to the series of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought seeks to give students with no specialist knowledge access...
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Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture
This is the first ever English rendition of the classic statement of divine right absolutism, published in 1707. Jacques-Benigne Bossuet argues in...
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The Korean Language
This book provides a detailed survey of the Korean language, covering its speakers, genetic affiliation, historical development, dialects, lexicon,...
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Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture
The aim of this book is to identify and evaluate the distinctive styles of five important ancient Greek sculptors whose work is discussed by ancient...
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The Amazonian Languages
The Amazon Basin is arguably both one of the least-known and the most complex linguistic regions in the world. It is the home of some 300 languages...
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The Cambridge History of the English Language
This volume deals with the history of the English language from 1776 to 1997. An extensive introduction details the changing socio-historical setting...
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Epistolary Fiction in Europe, 1500–1850
Thomas O. Beebee examines epistolary fiction as a major phenomenon in Europe from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. His study is the...
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The Gender of Death
Why is it that in some cultures and times, literature, folklore, and art commonly represent death as a man, in others as a woman? Karl S. Guthke...
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The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a...
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Moral Combat
This book explores the thesis that legal roles force people to engage in moral combat, an idea which is implicit in the assumption that citizens may...
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Legal Positivism in American Jurisprudence
This book represents a serious and philosophically sophisticated guide to modern American legal theory, demonstrating that legal positivism has been...
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Vermeer: Reception and Interpretation
In this study, Christiane Hertel interprets the suppositions underlying Vermeer’s canonization in the nineteenth century and also addresses the...
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After Raphael
After Raphael is the first comprehensive overview of sixteenth-century Italian painting to be published in over 30 years. Reevaluating the paintings...
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Signifying Art
A study of the work of a generation of respondents to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who...
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Signifying Art
A study of the work of a generation of respondents to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who...
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Banking and Business in the Roman World
In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the...
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Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture
Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture focuses on representations of work in American sculpture, from the decade in which the American Federation of...
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Roman Law in Context
Roman Law in Context explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it...
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The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s
This book offers an original study of the debates which arose in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature. Paul Keen shows how these...
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Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The first collection of critical essays on Luis Buñuel’s 1972 Oscar-winning masterpiece, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, this anthology...
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