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Darwinism’s Struggle for Survival
In Darwinism’s Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. He begins by...
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On the Citizen
De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all...
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The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency
This important book brings recent findings and theories in biology and psychology to bear on the fundamental question in ethics of what it means to...
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On the Citizen
De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all...
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The English Levellers
The Levellers were a crucial component of a radically democratic movement during the civil wars in seventeenth-century England. This was to be...
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The English Levellers
The Levellers were a crucial component of a radically democratic movement during the civil wars in seventeenth-century England. This was to be...
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The Urban Image of Augustan Rome
The Urban Image of Augustan Rome examines the idea and experience of the ancient city at a critical moment, when Rome became an Imperial capital....
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Dialectology
When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics), dialect geography and spatial...
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Approaches to the Evolution of Language
This is one of the first systematic attempts to bring language within the neo-Darwinian framework of modern evolutionary theory, without abandoning...
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Language and History in the Early Germanic World
This book offers a distinctive and accessible approach to the earliest encounters of the Germanic tribes of Northern Europe with classical antiquity...
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Measuring Minds
This book explores the origins of the American intelligence testing movement. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America’s...
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Islam and Postcolonial Narrative
In Islam and Postcolonial Narrative, John Erickson examines four major authors from the third-world - Assia Djebar, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tahar ben...
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Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition
Arthurian literature is a popular field, but most of the published work focuses on the vernacular tradition. This book, uniquely, looks at Latin...
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The Arabic Literary Heritage
Roger Allen here offers an account of the cultural tradition of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to...
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Digenis Akritis
Digenis Akritis is Byzantium’s only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of double descent on the frontiers between Byzantine and...
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Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies
This collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous...
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The Nude in American Painting, 1950–1980
In the years following Willem de Kooning’s exhibition of the Woman paintings in 1953, a younger generation of American painters turned to the...
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Sport and Society in Ancient Greece
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece provides a concise and readable introduction to ancient Greek sport. It covers such topics as the links between...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 26)
In the present volume, the two essays that frame the book provide exciting insight into the mental world of the Anglo-Saxons by showing on the one...
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Slavic Prosody
In Slavic Prosody Professor Bethin gives a coherent account of the Slavic languages at the time of their differentiation and relates these...
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The Dynamics of Focus Structure
In this book, Nomi Erteschik-Shir develops a new theory of focus structure, integrating insights from syntax, semantics, phonology and pragmatics....
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Phonological Representations
Rewriting rules, derivations and underlying representations is an enduring characteristic of generative phonology. In this book, John Coleman argues...
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Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
Dickens’ novels, like those of his contemporaries, are more explicitly indebted to the theatre than scholars have supposed: his stories and...
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The Romance of the New World
This book studies the lively interplay between popular romances and colonial narratives during a crucial period when the values of a redefined...
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