This book examines the effects of the Peloponnesian War on the arts of Athens and the historical and artistic contexts in which this art was produced. This is the first book to focus on the new themes and new kinds of art introduced in Athens as a result of the thirty-year war.
For nearly 150 years, Anthony Trollope has been among the most admired of British novelists. This collection presents a balanced and diverse range of essays on Trollope, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Bringing together research from a diverse range of ecosystems, from desert to boreal, aquatic to alpine, this book explores how bryophytes can be used to monitor the effects of climate change on the living environment and in computer modeling of future changes.
This informed and unconventional view of the history, engineering and architecture of the justice system draws on the author's experience as a barrister, an... Læs mere
Written by international experts, this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in the major world religions, as well as older, indigenous... Læs mere
Why is authority always a problem? People ask continually: 'who is in authority?', 'who is the authority?', 'who can speak with authority?' Every disaster or crisis... Læs mere
This concise introduction covers all of the measure theory and probability most useful for statisticians. Originating from the authors'... Læs mere
For the first time, Burma's economic failure in the second half of the twentieth century is set firmly within the context of the country's earlier colonial... Læs mere
Takes readers gently from single to multivariate calculus and simple differential and difference equations. Unusually the book offers a wide range of applications in... Læs mere
Schneider's book is the first systematically comparative and historical analysis of the incorporation of business into politics in Latin... Læs mere
This study of discrimination focuses not on differences between men and women but on what women need to lead successful lives. This work promises to be a... Læs mere
Blood-sucking insects transmit many of the most devastating human and animal diseases including malaria, sleeping sickness and dengue. This book is primarily aimed... Læs mere