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  • - A Marketable Vice
    av C. Donelan
    1 167

    Don Juan , Byron's best poem, is a sensational radical satire. It uses the legend of Don Juan to expose the male fantasies behind Romanticism and nineteenth-century public culture. This book looks at how Europe's most famous literary celebrity shows his dark side in Don Juan , a canonical long poem and a pop culture masterpiece.

  • - Discourses and Practices
     
    1 167

    This book is based on a conference addressing the relationship between the environment and security in the post-Cold War world.

  • - Theory and Practice
    av J. Presley & P. Mills
    1 457

    Given the propensity of the world financial system to crisis, this book explores the radical alternative put forward by Islamic (and Western) theories of non-interest banking.

  • av Keith Griffin
    571

    The question of alternative strategies for economic development is the subject of great controversy and intense debate amongst practitioners and academics concerned with economic and social progress in the Third World.

  • - Ownership, Control and Performance
    av Y. Yan
    1 167

    Corporate governance, namely the relationship between the ownership and control of firms, takes on new dimensions in the case of international joint ventures operating in the special context of China.

  • av P. Kiernan
    1 457

    It shows how actors, directors and playgoers have responded to the demands of 'historical' constraints (and unexpected freedoms) to provide valuable new insights into the dynamics of Elizabethan theatre.

  • - A Thousand Voices
    av NA NA
    687

    More has been written about the Beatles than any other performing artists of the twentieth century. It is essential reading for those wishing to understand not only the phenomenon of the Beatles but also the cultural environment within which popular music continues to be practised and studied.

  • av J. Hammond
    1 457

    A detailed chronology of the life of H.G. This Chronology brings vividly to life his extraordinary energy and industry, and the wide range of his friendships and interests. Written by one of the leading authorities on Wells, this Chronology offers a definitive outline of the life and times of a major twentieth-century writer.

  • - The Concept of Empire, 800-1800
    av Professor James Muldoon
    1 457

    This book examines the range of meanings attributed to the concept of empire in the medieval and early modern world, demonstrating how the concepts of empire and state developed in parallel, not sequentially.

  • - Popular Protest in Northern France 1940-45
    av L. Taylor
    1 167

    Between Resistance and Collaboration explores the various means by which the local population both protested the hardships brought about by the Nazi occupation of Northern France, often forcing the authorities to do something about them, and evaded the plethora of regulations, political and economic, when the authorities were unable or unwilling to act.

  • - Gender, Margins and Mainstream
    av K. Henshall
    1 457

    The Japanese are not driven by a universal morality based on Good and Evil, but by broad aesthetic concepts based on Pure and Impure.

  • - The Case of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary
    av J. Adam
    1 457

    This book deals primarily with social costs of transformation to a market economy in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. In addition, the book discusses the strategy of transformation, privatisation and the economic performance of the three countries.

  • - From Bourguiba to Ben Ali
    av E. Murphy
    2 067

    This book examines the processes of economic and political reform in Tunisia, placing the current policies of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali within their historical context.

  • - Such Sweet Wayfaring
    av J. Wyatt
    1 457

    There is a long-held view that Wordsworth's inspiration dried up before the age of forty. The argument is that, in order to appreciate this work, much of which was inspired by itineraries in Britain and in Europe, we have to read the poems as they were first published.

  • av R. Solomon
    1 457

    The policy impact of changing philosophies of economic policy in the US, Britain, Western Europe, the USSR, Russia and Eastern Europe, China, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America are analysed.

  • - Children's Books and Radical Experiments in Art
    av Juliet Dusinberre
    1 347

    Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers - such as Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain - but for Virginia Woolf and her generation.

  • - Currencies, Prices, Investment and Competitiveness
     
    1 457

    What will joining the EU mean for the new Eastern member states and their economies? The authors discuss the lack of competitiveness of Eastern countries and their need for structural adjustments (in the financial sector, in agriculture, and in manufacturing) in order for them to survive and thrive in their new economic environment.

  • - Gender, Politics and Poetics in the Writing of Burke, Coleridge, Cobbett, Wordsworth, De Quincey and Hazlitt
    av T. Fulford
    1 941

    This book examines the male Romantics' versions of poetic authority in theory and practice in the context of their involvement in the political debates of Regency Britain and argues that their response to Burke's gendered discourse about power effected radical changes in the definitions of masculinity and femininity.

  • - Fiction in English
     
    621

    Caribbean Women Writers is a collection of scholarly articles on the fiction of selected Caribbean women writers from Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad.

  • - The Unvanquished Ideal
    av D. Conway
    625

    This text defends the ideal of minimum government against the charges put forward by egalitarian welfare liberals, communitarians and conservatives, arguing it best advances human well being.

  • - Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
    av M. Garrett
    1 167

    Several thousand letters to and from Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning have survived, together with other information on the composition and context of works from Barrett's 'lines on virtue' written at the age of eight in 1814 to Browning's Asolando (1889).

  • - Modern Debates in Historical Perspective
    av M. Twohey
    1 457

    Describes the relationship between political authoritarianism and people's welfare in modern China.

  • - Its Forms, Dimensions and Paradoxes
    av I. Dilman
    1 457

    The book is concerned with questions about love: questions about its many forms, strands and aspects, and the relation in which they stand to each other. It is concerned with the way different aspects of sexual love conflict with each other, with the way self-regard and self-interest can corrupt love, and with spiritual love and its difficulties.

  • av R. Marris
    1 457

    These then novel important features of modern capitalism - mergers, takeovers and executive bonuses and the relationship between the growth of firms and the growth of the economy - have become increasingly topical.

  • av R. Layard
    2 081

    Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad. Inequality argues that lifetime inequality is the basic inequality we should worry about.

  • - A New Sovereignty?
    av K. Mills
    2 061

    Mills focuses on one of the most significant parts of the sovereignty debate on human rights and humanitarian issues and raises three interrelated questions.

  • av J. Hammond
    1 457

    Providing a ready access to the main facts of Poe's life and career, this Chronology will be of service to the student, scholar or general reader who wishes to check a point quickly without referring to the detailed narratives offered by the standard biographies.

  • - A Literary Life
    av C. Machann
    1 347

    Matthew Arnold, the foremost Victorian 'man of letters', forged a unique literary career, first as an important post-Romantic poet and then as a prose writer who profoundly influenced the formation of modern literary and cultural studies.

  • av N. Hong & M. Warner
    2 501

    It deals with the evolution, reform and consolidation of the Chinese labour movement and, particularly, the role of the main arm of Chinese organized labour, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) at both the apex and grass-roots levels.

  • - Literature and Social Space in the Early Modern City
    av John Twyning
    2 061

    In the Early Modern period, massive emigration, along with political contention between the Court and the City, reshaped London's social topography and human landscape.

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