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One of the most important and influential philosophers of the last 30 years, John Searle has been concerned with a single overarching question: how can we have a unified and theoretically satisfactory account of ourselves and of our relations to other people and to the natural world?

A challenging and fascinating enquiry into the genesis of alphabetic writing.

Paperback edition of well written, highly recommended undergraduate fluid mechanics text.

A unified, up-to-date account of circular data-handling techniques, useful throughout science.

Why was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theatre in the Renaissance? This question prompts Stephen Orgel's exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. At once provocative and witty, lucid and stylish, Impersonations reshapes our understanding of Renaissance theatre and culture.

This graduate textbook is in three parts: the first deals with phenomenological aspects of superconductivity; the second with the microscopic theory of uniform superconductors; and the third with the microscopic theory of non-uniform superconductors.

The goals of this book are twofold: first to present a coherent and systematic treatment of the foundations; secondly to present algorithmic solutions to problems that are simple to state but which nevertheless are applicable in practical situations. The prerequisites for using the book are few, which will make it ideal for teaching advanced courses in computational geometry.

Elim Papadakis asks whether Australian political institutions have been, and could become more, responsive to environmental concerns. The book includes detailed analysis of the major parties' environmental policies, and also tackles broader theoretical issues around the relationship between government and social change.

This volume discusses the role of humans in transforming the coastal landscape and details the many ways beaches and dunes are eliminated, altered and replaced. It is aimed at practising coastal engineers, research scientists and developers but will also be useful as a reference for graduates and advanced undergraduates.

This is the first-ever historical analysis of the origins and development of the legend of Remus and Romulus and the foundation of Rome, offering important insights into the nature of pre-imperial Rome and the ways in which myths could be created and elaborated in a non-literate society.

Islamic law entitles women to inherit property and to manage their own income. This book examines under what circumstances they claim property rights and when they are prevented from doing so.

In this important new work, Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change.

This edited volume demonstrates the most useful data analysis methods with examples, exercises and case-studies, for students and researchers in ecology and biostatistics. Chapters clearly explain data collection, regression analysis, calibration, ordination, cluster analysis and spatial analysis.

Concise, introductory textbook examining human reproduction. It covers the physiology of the human reproductive system, the production of gametes, fertilisation, pregnancy, birth, lactation and contraception. Issues such as infertility, abortion and embryo research are discussed with careful consideration of the moral and ethical issues involved.

This book proposes a radical alternative to dominant views of the evolution of language, and in particular the origins of syntax. The authors draw on evidence from areas such as primatology, anthropology, and linguistics, to present a groundbreaking account of the notion that language emerged through visible bodily action.

This carefully revised and corrected second edition of a classic book, with a specially written preface and a new appendix, meets the demand for one of the foremost studies of the twentieth century's best-known poet.

In this new edition Brian Charlesworth provides a comprehensive review of the theories and methods used to study age-structured populations.

Roger Lass offers a critical survey of the foundations of the art of historical linguistics, and its interaction with its subject matter, language change, taking as his background some of the major philosophical issues which arise from these considerations.

This widely acclaimed account of the role of counterfactuals in explanation deploys extended examples from both history and modern times. Its conclusions cast doubt on existing assumptions about the nature and place of theory, and indeed of the possibility of knowledge itself, in the human sciences.

Within both the social and environmental sciences, much of the data collected is within a spatial context and requires statistical analysis for interpretation. This book describes the methods available, including data description, map interpolation, and exploratory and explanatory analyses.

Helps both students and professionals to understand the physical systems at work in the Earth's crust and at its surface, through a working knowledge of mechanics and its application to the earth and environmental sciences. There are many worked examples.

This study uses conversation analysis and rhetorical structure analysis to look at the distribution of pronouns and full noun phrases in three different genres of English. It considers the hierarchical structure of text and the significance of social, interactional and affective factors for text organisation.

This book describes how a confused decision maker, who wishes to make a reasonable and responsible choice among alternatives, can systematically probe their thoughts and feelings in order to make the critically important trade-offs between incommensurable objectives.

This book provides a detailed examination of the writings of Chinua Achebe, Africa's best-known and most widely-read author, shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize.

Owen-Smith's account of the ecology of the largest land mammals (elephants, rhinos, hippos and giraffes) emphasises the constraints resulting from their body size. Many important questions are raised. For example, why have these once abundant and widely distributed animals all but gone extinct?

This study deals with the twistor treatment of linear and non-linear partial differential equations. The authors develop the mathematical background, go on to discuss Yang Mills fields and gravitational fields in classical language and finish by solving a number of field-theoretic problems.

Fluid flow turbulence is a phenomenon of great importance in many fields of engineering and science.

An innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom analyzes and discusses the role it plays in his moral philosophy and psychology and considers in detail the critical literature on the subject.

Carol Gould offers a fundamental reconsideration of the theory of democracy, arguing that democratic decision-making should apply not only to politics. It should also apply to economic and social life. Reformulating basic conceptions of property, authority, economic justice and human rights, the author suggests a number of ways these concepts adapt in social institutions.

Rivalry constructs a theory of business enterprise and of rivalry supported by evidence on entrepreneurship, innovation, advertising, all examined with their historical, political or organisational concerns.