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This textbook makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. In more than 40 essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume positions Scottish literature within the broadest possible cultural framework, from history, politics and economics to new creative technologies, ecology and the media.

This book provides a survey of the debate about the relationship between law and society in the Roman world.

Volume 1 of this history ended with the chief and his followers dead on Flodden field. Volume 2 describes the Clan's recovery.

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 study of new directions and territories for cultural studies, including the status of cultural theory within cultural studies.

This exceptional biography, Præterita is perhaps the best-loved of all the fruits of Ruskin's many-sided and tormented genius.

This collection of essays considers the work of Professor Sir Thomas Smith QC (1915--1988) and, through that work, the development of Scots law as a mixed legal system.

This book explores the longer term issues of Islamic capital accumulation and its contribution to the development of Muslim societies in the East and West.

This book, based on thirty-three of the presentations, constitutes the most fundamental reinterpretation of the period for 30 years.

This book takes a number of detailed case studies and uses them to investigate the limitations of Anglo-US theoretical models and critical paradigms in the study of Asian Cinema.

Gender in Scottish History offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700, viewing some of the main themes with a gendered perspective.

This volume presents a collection of Reid's published and unpublished work on 'the culture of the mind', including his important essay on Aristotle's logic, which was corrupted in older editions and is now restored to Reid's favoured edition.

This volume records more than 400 new flowering plant species, much new information about the richness and interest of the Turkish flora and its importance as a centre of diversity.

This anthology brings together 26 readings from the classic works of German Idealist philosophy. The four towering figures - Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Schelling - are given extensive coverage, while the work of Schiller is also included.

In this original and provocative book, Ben Gove unpicks the root assumptions and contradictions which contribute to dominant punitive notions of promiscuous sex and desire.

This seminal study, from one of Britain's most eminent landscape historians, takes a chronological tour through British parks and gardens since Roman times.

An introductory survey of the important debates about key issues in the cultural history of the contemporary American West.

Timothy Chappell surveys the central topics in philosophy, providing an historical and philosophical map of the major themes.

Takes the student step-by-step through the intellectual problems of Medieval thought, explaining the principal lines of argument from Augustine of Hippos to the sixteenth century.

This book sets out to deal with the concept by investigating the major works of those grammarians who have contributed most in theoretical terms to its development and elaboration in the Arabic Grammatical Tradition.

Brings together, for the first time, a significant number of Reid's manuscript papers on natural history, physiology and materialist metaphysics.

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:

The influential readings collected for this volume reflect not just the textual and discursive nature of colonial and postcolonial discourse in relation to gender, but also the material effects of the postcolonial condition and practices developed in relation to it.

Through the distinguished contributions of people like President Yeltsin's adviser, Colonel-General Dmitri Volkogonov, and the German historian Professor Klaus-Jurgen Muller, this book challenges the official Soviet historiography and offers the first truly global picture of the Second World War in Russia.

Charts the history of the outdoor movement from its late Victorian origins to its present status.

The first book to consider the debate between two of the most prominent philosophers and social theorists of the 20th century: Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas.

This collection of text extracts provides an invaluable resource for working directly with non-literary informal English of the Early Modern period.

This book provides a formidable yet comprehensive overview of the life and works of this Scottish-born medieval philosopher theologian.

The aim of the Reader is to introduce students to the changing ways in which politics, culture, environment and economics are being thought about and how individuals relate to the fast-moving global, political, cultural, economic and environmental agendas.

Written against a backdrop of recent bloody conflicts, this book brings together case studies and legal analysis of the steps that the United Nations, NATO and other organisations have taken to build pluralist and independent media in the wake of massive human rights violations.