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An essential point of reference for advanced students and researchers interested in ancient Greek poetry or religion. It contains a new text of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, an English translation, detailed commentary on points of interest, and an introductory discussion of the poem's origin and significance.

Queer Kinship after Wilde investigates the afterlife of the Decadent Movement's ideas about kinship, desire, and the family during the modernist period within a global context. Drawing on archival materials, including diaries, correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and photograph albums, it tells the story of individuals with ties to late-Victorian Decadence and Oscar Wilde who turned to the fin-de-siecle past for inspiration as they attempted to operate outside the heteronormative boundaries restricting the practice of marriage and the family. These post-Victorian Decadents and Decadent modernists engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration in pursuit of different models of connection that might facilitate their disentanglement from conventional sexual and gender ideals. Queer Kinship after Wilde attends to the successes and failures that resulted from these experiments, the new approaches to affiliation inflected by a cosmopolitan or global perspective that occurred within these networks as well as the practices marked by Decadence's troubling patterns of Orientalism and racial fetishism.

This Element provides an overview of the different roles of placebos and a survey of significant studies, critically examines the concept of placebo offering a new definition that avoids the pitfalls of other attempts and highlights some impending challenges for placebo studies.

This Element introduces thaumaturgy, the art of making wonder, encompasses everything from magic lanterns to puppets to fireworks, and deliberately mingling the spheres of commercial entertainment, art, and religion. It also suggests a new form of historiography-media ecology.

Connecting metrical stress theory to music, attention and timing, this book provides a comprehensive conceptual framework and an up-to-date toolkit for the formal analysis of stress and accent in natural language, from a range of perspectives. It is essential reading for advanced students and academic researchers in phonetics and phonology.

A History of Mexican Poetry provides a global understanding of Mexican poetry, its institutions and its main authors for students and scholars in any discipline connected to the subject.

Democracy around the world is in crisis. Can political psychology shed light on what is going on? Using an accessible and attractive format, this book presents expert contributions from five continents and cutting-edge research to give invaluable insights on politicians, political institutions and ourselves as would-be citizens of democracies.