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The Kindness of Strangers
Many of us care deeply about the fate of young people growing up in poverty. We worry about their future and the future of an increasingly fragmented... Les mer
Sophocles: Antigone
Sophocles’ Antigone is probably the most widely read and performed of all Greek tragedies, and its themes and conflicts resonate powerfully into... Les mer
Cicero
Cicero’s On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempt to adapt Greek theories of political life to the... Les mer
Developmental Regulation in Adulthood
Human behavior is very flexible and ontogenetic potential adds to the scope of variability of developmental paths. Therefore, development in the life... Les mer
Theocritus: A Selection
This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow’s edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the... Les mer
Cicero
Cicero’s On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempt to adapt Greek theories of political life to the... Les mer
Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England
Talfourd’s first Copyright Bill was presented in 1837, and the public and Parliamentary controversy it provoked is reflected in contemporary... Les mer
Constructing Scientific Psychology
Constructing Scientific Psychology is the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley.... Les mer
Terence: Eunuchus
Terence’s Eunuchus (The Eunuch) was his most successful play in his lifetime but has been surprisingly neglected by modern commentators. In this... Les mer
The Unity of Plato’s Sophist
Plato’s later dialogue, the Sophist, is deemed one of the greatest works in the history of philosophy, but scholars have been shy of confronting... Les mer
Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade
This study offers an original exploration of Milton’s relationship to the seventeenth-century book trade. Critics have often assumed that Milton... Les mer
Inventing our Selves
Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity,... Les mer
Terence: Eunuchus
Terence’s Eunuchus (The Eunuch) was his most successful play in his lifetime but has been surprisingly neglected by modern commentators. In this... Les mer
Posidonius
Posidonius was a major intellectual figure of the Hellenistic world whose interests and contribution spread over the whole intellectual field:... Les mer
Motivation and Self-Regulation across the Life Span
In the last two decades, an approach to the study of motivation has emerged that focuses on specific cognitive and affective mediators of behavior,... Les mer
Theocritus: A Selection
This is the first full-scale commentary on poems by Theocritus since Gow’s edition of 1950, and the first to exploit the recent revolution in the... Les mer
Cognition and Communication at Work
This book brings together contributions from researchers within various social science disciplines who seek to redefine the methods and topics that... Les mer
Perspectives on Activity Theory
Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school, initiated by... Les mer
Coercion and Punishment in Long-Term Perspectives
Children must learn to act appropriately, in ways that differ from society to society and from context to context. The question of how best to... Les mer
Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience
In this book Pierre Keller examines the distinctive contributions, and the respective limitations, of Husserl’s and Heidegger’s approach to... Les mer
Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890–1967
This is a full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology - an attempt to advance holistic thought within natural science. Holistic thought is... Les mer
Kant’s Ethical Thought
This is a major new study of Kant’s ethics that will transform the way students and scholars approach the subject in future. Allen Wood argues that... Les mer
The Philosophy of Peter Abelard
This book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079–1142) which argues that he was not, as usually presented, a... Les mer
Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience
The perspective that deaf people should be regarded as a cultural and language minority group rather than individuals with an audiological disability... Les mer