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This volume provides a wide and varied account of the history of the book during the medieval and early modern period, up to the Union of the Parliaments in 1707.

This book presents a selection of the most important scholarship on Augustus and the contribution he made to the development of the Roman state in the early imperial period.

An innovative insight to the everyday lives of Muslims in Britain, focusing on the intersection of race, place and identities. It gathers a range of reflections on how Muslims in Britain negotiate their everyday lives, manage experiences of racism and exclusion, and develop local networks and global connections.

This is a study of the contribution of psychoanalysis to an understanding of social and political issues.

Deleuze and Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of thirteen new essays that focus on the relationship between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the performing arts.

This is a vivid account of what their gods meant to the Romans from archaic times to late antiquity, and of the rites and rituals connected with them.

This authoritative guide introduces the key figures in contemporary critical theory for the beginning student. The critical theory covered includes: semiotics and discourse analysis; structuralism and post-structuralism; ideology critique; deconstruction; feminism; and queer theory.

This is an issue of our quarterly journal Hume Papers on Public Policy - the journal of the David Hume Institute.

This exciting collection of new work proposes a major paradigm shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism.

Explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre's mid-20th century popularization and influence on contemporary global media.

Across three lectures, the Rt Hon. The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry discusses and analyses the legal and constitutional issues arising from the Disruption of the Church of Scotland in 1843 when the majority of leading ministers left the Church of Scotland to set up the Free Church.

This Special Issue of the journal Paragraph proposes a new reading of the College de France Lectures of Roland Barthes.

This collection is comprised of ten of Hogg's poems which, in very different ways, explore the visionary and supernatural, and the writer's portrayal of them - echoing the subject and title of Shakespeare's famous play.

This book draws together authors respected in six traditions to explore in parallel the ethical foundations for Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths. Each section introduces a different religion and asks specific, topical questions, set in a wider context.

A topical and accessible introductory guide to the workings of the UK's Westminster Parliament, in both theory and practice.

The most extensive and detailed analysis of the reporting of the Spanish Civil War ever undertaken.

An introduction to and overview of the debates and questions emerging regarding Islam and modernity. Key issues are selected to give readers an understanding of the complexity of the phenomenon, an historical perspective, and access to several manifestations of modernity in Muslim life.

A Special Publication of the journal Archives of Natural History to coincide with the bicentenary of Darwin's birth.

A collection of distinctive new essays that explore the dynamic cultural, intellectual and social processes that shaped literary writing in the Renaissance.

Considers the possibilities for active citizenship within areas of broad concern in UK politics: young people and justice; parliaments with the people; women and equality; integrating immigrants; multiculturalism; schools; community; social inclusion and poverty; Europe; nationalisms and Britishness.

This combined anthology and guide aims to bring to the student the very best of cutting-edge work on important topics in the field. The anthology is comprised of six sections, each of which opens with a substantive introductory essay followed by a selection of influential writings by philosophers of religion:

Offers geographical perspectives on the condition of the United States at the outset of the 21st century. The book compares the American ideals of liberty, equality, individual opportunity, and social improvement with the contemporary condition of the regions, states and localities.

An interdisciplinary study of the interface between ethical ideals and worldly demands.

This volume explores the use of violence in the construction of Islamic public and private spheres. It contributes to the growing interest in the vital question of Muslim attitudes towards violence.

This book aims to open up Deleuze's relevance to those working in history, the history of ideas, science studies, evolutionary psychology, history of philosophy and interdisciplinary projects inflected by historical problems.

This collection of original critical essays launches an ambitious, long-term project marking out a new period and style in twentieth-century literary history.

A single-volume reference companion to the multi-disciplinary field of business discourse.

This book brings together discussions on the uses and problems of the media - both traditional and modern - in Africa, mostly Eastern Africa, in the current construction of national, class, gender, and individual identities in subject to new economic and political pressures and influences as part of the world-wide process of globalization.

A single-volume reference work which offers an overview of some of the principal ideas about language that have been developed in linguistics and in the philosophy of language.

This history uses a regional basis to examine large-scale issues through specific local and regional events.