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This monograph is a study of the work of British author A.

This book tells the story of the Rev.

This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793.

This Palgrave Pivot provides a concise history of the development of sociology in Greece.

This book investigates how desires to transform our bodies can bring utopia to the present, and how utopian practices often lead to distinctly dystopian or anti-utopian outcomes.

This book offers new perspectives on the origins and development of John Ruskin's political thought.

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge.

It was not so long ago that the dominant picture of Kant's practical philosophy was forma-listic, focusing almost exclusively on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason.

This book retrieves from the archives people, places and perspectives normally overlooked to tell an original and expansive history of the Qatar Peninsula, paying close attention to landscape and the natural world.

This book explores the intersections between nineteenth-century social reform movements in the United States.

This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts.

This book explains why narrating the recent past is always challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught in the nineteenth century.

This book examines how left-wing political and cultural movements in Western Europe have considered Jews in the last two hundred years.

This book examines the global circulation of Marxism seen from one of its most highly charged sites: Calcutta in India.

This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Lawrence L.

This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common.

This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics.

This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism.

This book reveals the sense in which our postmodern societies are characterized by the obscene absence of the intellectual.

This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

This book explores the relationship between Queen Caroline, one of the most enigmatic characters in Regency England, and Sir William Gell, the leading classical scholar of his day.

Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress.

The 1997 Asian financial crisis hit the region and became a defining moment for Asia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

The Asia and Pacific region experienced continued growth.

This book is a history of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development bank established 50 years ago to serve Asia and the Pacific.

When the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in 1966, the Asia and Pacific region was undergoing a process of deep change.

This collection brings together different philosophical points of view discussing two important aspects of human life, namely love and friendship, within the broad context of comparative philosophy.

Eve Tignol investigates the impact of collective grief on Muslim community formation in north India from 1857 to the 1940s.

This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel''s Logic, the foundational work of his philosophical system.

"e;A fascinating, exciting story.

A philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question.

The complete guide to our closest living relative, drawing on thirty years of primate observation.

Two major works by the founder of English political thought made accessible to the student.

Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions.

What is the meaning of "e;adventure"e; as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes?

What is the meaning of "e;adventure"e; as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes?

This book attempts to delve into the connection between imagination and politics, and examines the many expectations and fears engendered by the Irish home rule debate.

In a narrative that extends from fin de siecle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "e;pure sound.

An Asset-Based Thinker's look back at the lessons learned from a lifetime in marketing to help guide, motivate, and inspire the industry's next generation of responsible leaders.

Genau das will Marianne nicht: als frischgebackene Rentnerin nicht mehr arbeiten.

Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity.

This book provides extensive, comprehensive biographical information on one of technology's most important innovators-Steve Jobs.

The cofounder of Microsoft, Bill Gates helped transform society by ushering in the era of ubiquitous personal computing.

"e;A fascinating, exciting story.

A philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question.

Ehrlich reveals how the East India Company used its commitment to knowledge to justify its commercial and political power.

"e;The Richest Man in Babylon"e; is a timeless guide to achieving financial success and building wealth.