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One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seri...

To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. Midgley...

Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, o...

When Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infusing lif...

This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking. It id...

Pope to Burney, 1714-1779, Scriblerians to Bluestocking by Moyra Haslett, 113761207X, 9781137612076, Palgr Mac

Understanding Language Testing presents an introduction to language tests and the process of test development that starts at the very beginning. As...

Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and “pre-political.” This book criti...

Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the 'Contexts' series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associat...

A staple story of womanhood united against social and economic despondencies, Little Women is the tale of four March sisters, Jo, Meg, Amy, and Bet...

Drawing upon a range of theoretical perspectives, including cultural studies, postcolonial theory, critical race studies, political economy, and so...

The Secret Garden is one of the most delightful and enduring classics of children’s literature, which has remained a firm favorite with children th...

Fundamentals of Functional Analysis (Universitext)Springer9783319456317Higher EducationMathematicsMathematics3319456318

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British a...

Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway, marks an important stage in her development as a writer. In this novel she finally departs from the fo...

An enthralling retelling of Shakespeare's twenty masterpieces, Tales from Shakespeare is a real feast of simple words flavoured with those tasty ti...

Half of happiness is the recognition that we are happy; and half of misery is the forgetting how many causes of happiness we have. For many, the qu...

Dubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, grant R...

Climate change has been fueling migration, and, according to some policy reports, there could more than one billion climate migrants/refugees acros...

This reader-friendly introduction makes Joyce asscessible by combining the excitement of reading his words with the excitement of interpreting them.

Jacob Flanders is flawed, but also quite a brilliant man. An embodiment of solitude, Jacob is unable to concoct his affinity in life for traditions...

To study Rabindranath Tagore is to be christened with the excellence of inwardness. An ardent apostle of the endless excellence of man, Tagore is m...

, br>dh. Lawrence’s powerful and passionate novel is regarded as one of the greatest autobiographical novels of the twentieth century. It is the...