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In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as 'idolatry', or false religion. This study calls attention to the importance of the idolatry issue during the Reformation.

Eminent linguist Professor Stephen Anderson offers discussion of the implications of his own original position for issues in language change, language typology, and the computational analysis of word structure.

The Missa Solemnis is a document of extraordinary richness from the last decades of Beethoven's creative life. In this compendious and accessible guide, William Drabkin considers the work as a musical expression of the most celebrated text of the Roman Catholic faith and as an example from a tradition of Mass settings in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Austria.

Ecological Experiments stresses the importance of field experiments, where variables are manipulated in order to collect data on specific hypotheses, as opposed to the more passive observational method. It introduces a series of ecological questions which can be addressed experimentally and details the minimum requirements of experimental design.

This book addresses one of the major theoretical issues that underlies, implicitly or explicitly, some recurrent controversies in macroeconomics - namely, whether a competitive monetary economy has built-in mechanisms that are strong enough to remove excess demands and supplies on all markets, through an automatic adjustment of the price system.

A study of "Don Quixote" in the context of Cervantes' life and literary career, and of the book's cultural and social background. It focuses primarily on the central problems of Cervantine comedy, the use of burlesque, the presentation of characters and the elusive irony.

In this book Professor Peggy Sanday provides a ground-breaking examination of power and dominance in male-female relationships. By using cross-cultural research on over 150 tribal societies, the author systematically establishes the full range of variation in male and female power roles and suggests a theoretical framework for explaining this variation.

The evolution of British public policy through the industrial revolution, the Victorian age and the inter-war years to 1939 is an essential element of British history. Sydney Checkland's treatment, first published in 1983, looks at it as a totality, embodying the economic aspects, together with social and welfare provisions and the patterns of ideas affecting both.

This work is concerned with the use of fiscal and monetary policies to overcome three major obstacles to development commonly faced by less developed countries: inadequate investment; misallocation of investment resources; and inflation and balance of payments deficits.

In many areas of the world destruction of natural resources and the rapid growth of populaton are among the most important problems facing individuals and governments. This book, first published in 1976, utilises the tools of social anthropology and population studies to examine the causes and consequences of populations growth.

This study deals with the behaviour of polymers at surfaces and interfaces. Topics covered include the nature and properties of the surface of a polymer melt, the structure of interfaces between different polymers and between polymers and non-polymers, the molecular basis of adhesion and the properties of polymers at liquid surfaces.

A thorough and precise account of all the major areas of English grammar.

A rewarding study of four of Chekhov's major plays.

This 1999 archaeological study considers traditional assumptions about social relationships in Greek households during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. It focuses on the domestic organisation of individual households, gender relations, and their links with outsiders and with the wider social structures of the city state, and how these changed with time.

This book uncovers an endemic link between micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of Archaeological Survey of India to the manufacture of archaeological knowledge wielded in the making of political and religious identity by Indian state and summoned as indelible evidence in the juridical adjudication in the highest Indian courts.

A concise survey of essential topics in geophysical data processing for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in geophysics, environmental science, and engineering. With real-life scenarios and datasets, it shows how data processing techniques can be applied to real-world problems using detailed examples, illustrations, and exercises.

A rigorous yet accessible textbook covering both fundamental and advanced optimization topics. Covering both gradient-based and gradient-free algorithms, derivative computation, and numerous visualizations, examples and problems, it is ideal for graduate courses on optimization in aerospace, civil, and mechanical engineering departments.

Why should we care how cities matter? What difference does it make to how we understand our daily lives or, for those of us who are academics, to what we research and how we teach? This Element examines these questions.

A collection of essays by Alexander Rosenberg, discussing how Darwinian mechanisms account for human values, the character of social institutions, and the justification of our claims to knowledge in the sciences.

This major contribution to Ottoman history is now published in paperback in two volumes: the original single hardback volume (1994) has been widely acclaimed as a landmark in the study of one of the most enduring and influential empires of modern times.

This book analyses the underlying structure and dynamic forces which have shaped the international trade in arms from the development of military technologies in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to the twentieth- century revolutions in weaponry.

From 1260 to 1323, the Mamluk state in Egypt and Syria was at war with the Ilkhanid Mongols based in Persia. This is a comprehensive study of the political and military aspects of the early years of the war, from the battle of 'Ayn Jalut in 1260 to the battle of Homs in 1281.

Marxism this book argues, is still the most effective way of understanding capitalism. Ellen Meiksins Wood reformulates the Marxist theory of history while exploring the historical particularity of capitalism as a system of social relations. Then, tracing democracy from antiquity to the present, she examines its ambiguous relationship with capitalism.

This textbook for engineering students provides an introduction to design for function. This second edition has been extensively revised, with more examples and a new chapter with actual design case studies to illustrate key ideas. In addition, many exercises have been added to help reinforce important points in the text.

The second, fully-updated edition of this textbook describes mass spectrometry techniques as applied to an enormous range of scientific endeavours. Requiring no previous knowledge of mass spectrometry, it is an ideal undergraduate to postgraduate level textbook, and will also be of considerable interest to research workers.

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of the Western tradition, yet early critics rejected it as cryptic and eccentric, the product of a deaf and ageing composer. Nicholas Cook charts this dramatic transformation.

This work gives an appraisal of the relevance of philosophy to the problems of environmental degradation. The aim of the author is to encourage readers to seek a system which supports deep ecological principles, or an ecosophy, by reassessing the relationship between man and nature.

In Architecture of Mughal India Catherine Asher presents the first comprehensive study of Mughal architectural achievements. The work is lavishly illustrated and will be widely read by students and specialists of South Asian history and architecture as well as by anyone interested in the magnificent buildings of the Mughal empire.

The book provides an extensive theoretical treatment of whistler-mode propagation, instabilities and damping in a hot, anisotropic and collisionless plasma. Most of the results are original and have never been published in a monograph on a similar subject before.

The corpus of Palaiologan romances consists of about a dozen works of imaginative fiction from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries which narrate the trials and tribulations of aristocratic young lovers. This volume brings together leading scholars of Byzantine literature to examine the corpus afresh and aims to be the definitive work on the subject, suitable for scholars and students of all levels. It offers interdisciplinary and transnational approaches which demonstrate the aesthetic and cultural value of these works in their own right and their centrality to the medieval and early modern Greek, European and Mediterranean literary traditions. From a historical perspective, the volume also emphasizes how the romances represent a turning point in the history of Greek letters: they are a repository of both ancient and medieval oral poetic and novelistic traditions and yet are often considered the earliest works of Modern Greek literature.