This collection of essays considers the work of Professor Sir Thomas Smith QC (1915–1988) and, through that work, the development of Scots law as a mixed legal system.
A collection of 17 cutting-edge essays on Rome Season Two.
Compares the ancient epic and the American Western as parallel cultural narratives.
Introduces students to 8 ethical theories that aim to tell us what we ought to do and why: normative ethics, utilitarianism, egoism, deontological ethics, the ethics of rights, virtue ethics, particularism and ecological ethics.
The Reader makes readily available for the first time 17 major, previously uncollected significant essays from the Journal of Beckett Studies from 1992 to the present.
Competing visions of the future are at the heart of debates on climate change. In navigating between entrenched geopolitical logics and transformative... Læs mere
With Reform riding high in the polls, Andy Knott charts the history of popular politics in the UK to consider whether the historical antecdents can shed light on the current resurgence.
Examines a poetic movement that rose from under official state discourse in 1970s Syria.
Offers the first book-length study of archiving in the Cairo sultanate.
This volume collects 21 papers on Classical Islam by one of the world’s leading experts on medieval Islamic history. The papers explore career of the Prophet Muhammad... Læs mere
This volume collects 20 papers on the Crusades by one of the world’s leading experts on medieval Islamic history. It explores the distinctive nature of Islamic... Læs mere
In these exclusive interviews, New York School poets reveal what the New York School meant to them and how its legacy continues today.