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Letters Writ By a Turkish Spy
1st Edition
By Giovanni P. Marana, Arthur J. Weitzman
November 01, 2025
Giovanni P. Marana, author of the letters in this volume was an Italian living in France in the seventeenth century. He wrote in the character of a Turk visiting Paris. Marana was probably the first writer to use the device of a series of letters written by a visitor to a foreign country in order ...
Oil and Gas in the Caucasus & Caspian: A History
1st Edition
By Charles van der Leeuw
November 01, 2025
The control of energy and its resources is linked deeply to the desire for power, and the quest for oil and gas tells a particularly dramatic tale that reflects mankind’s often stormy progress through history. Hydrocarbons and their discovery as a utility found their cradle in the Caucasus and ...
Practical Foundations of Physical Geography
1st Edition
Edited
By B. J. Knapp
November 01, 2025
Originally published in 1981, this book combines specialist expertise with teaching insight to provide an active approach to physical geography in a data-response format and was aimed at A Level students. The whole spectrum of physical geography is covered in 35 self-contained topics. Each topic ...
Proust's Recherche: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation
1st Edition
By Randolph Splitter
November 01, 2025
Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new preface by Randolph Splitter, this volume examines Proust’s novel A la recherche du temps perdu from a psychoanalytic viewpoint, showing that Marcel, the central character, like the novel itself, is characterized by an unstable equilibrium of...
Soil Processes
1st Edition
By Brian Knapp
November 01, 2025
Originally published in 1979, this book was conceived and developed to serve the needs of A-Level students by restricting its scope to a full coverage of relevant topics, thereby obviating the need for time-consuming reference to a variety of more advanced texts. The simple and clear treatment of ...
Speech Disorder in Nineteenth Century Britain: The History of Stuttering
1st Edition
By Denyse Rockey
November 01, 2025
Originally published in 1980, this comprehensive study of stuttering in Britain in the nineteenth century was the first detailed examination of one speech problem as manifested in a particular time and place. It examines the problems posed by stuttering and illustrates how it became the linguistic ...
The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment
1st Edition
By D. P. Walker
November 01, 2025
In the third century C.E. the heretical Greek Father, Origen, proposed a scheme for the eventual salvation of humankind. But no more overt attacks on the eternity of hell appeared until the seventeenth century. This book, originally published in 1985, explores the reasons for the long survival of ...
The Romances of Alexander
1st Edition
November 01, 2025
No figure from classical antiquity exerted as firm or constant grip on the medieval imagination as Alexander the Great. Then, as now, Alexander evoked radically different responses. Twentieth century historians have offered interpretations of Alexander that range from the visionary idealist to the ...
Understanding the Swedish Model
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan-Erik Lane
November 01, 2025
Originally published in 1991 this book examines the practical ‘Swedish Model’ which impressed an international audience because it seemed successful in terms of resolving social problems by means of public sector programmes, while at the same time stimulating a high rate of growth in the economy. ...
Vivisection in Historical Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicolaas A. Rupke
November 01, 2025
The debate about vivisection is over 150 years old yet until this book was published in 1987 there had been few studies of the historical context of the vivisection controversy. This book provides that context. It places the often vehement arguments of pro- and anti-vivisectionists in the wider ...
1900-1930: The Context of English Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Bell
October 31, 2025
First published in 1980, 1900-1930 situates English literature firmly within its political, historical, and cultural landscape. This comprehensive volume explores the complementary philosophical developments that defined this transformative period. Michael Bell and Cyril Barrett examine how ...
Feeling and Reason in the Arts
1st Edition
By David Best
October 31, 2025
First published in 1985, Feeling and Reason in the Arts raises an important question-how can a central role for the arts, and in particular the arts in education, be justified? The arts and the artistic judgments are often expressions of individual feeling and value, and it is a common belief that ...