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Focusing on the public affairs of America, Michael Heale introduces the reader to the major changes which governed life in the sixties.

In this, the first account of Argyll's archaeology written for a general audience, a team of specialists traces the history of the area through its monuments.

This new edition, thoughtfully introduced, extensively annotated and featuring a reading list and Hogg chronology, presents Altrive Tales as a major achievement by one of Scotland's finest storytellers.

This book provides a stimulating discussion of, and introduction to, just war theory.

A wide-ranging analysis of modern South Korean cinema.

Sir Samuel Brittan expounds an individualist vision of liberalism which welcomes some of the New Labour policy initiatives, but rejects its communitarian rhetoric as well as its authoritarian echoes on the Right.

This textbook introduction to current feminist theories maps the development of feminist thought and suggests future directions.

Specially compiled for students, this invaluable reader gathers key statements from political thinkers, explained and contextualised with editorial commentaries. Arranged into four sections - Traditional Affirmations of Democracy, Key Concepts, Critiques of Democracy and Contemporary Issues it covers democratic thinking in a remarkably broad way.

P. J. Rhodes's reader focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy and introduces some of the best British, American, German and French scholarship on its origins, theory and practice.

The classic introduction to Islamic law, tracing its development from its origins, through the medieval period, to its place in modern Islam.

The 3 Estaites is - by common consent - Scotland's greatest play. First performed in Cupar, Fife in June 1552, it is the earliest Scottish play to have survived.

This compelling and timely study of Arabic culture, language, history, and nationalism by distinguished Arabic linguist Yasir Suleiman allows English-speaking audiences an inside view of key issues in understanding the Arab world.

Kant's third Critique, the Critique of Judgement, is regarded as one of the most influential books in the history of aesthetics. This book is designed as a reader's guide for students trying to work their way, step-by-step, through Kant's text.

The novel is set in Orkney and Shetland in 1689, and for the northern isles the 'Glorious Revolution' actually means the beginning of the cultural dominance of Scotland and the advent of English power.

An illustrated and highly entertaining history of the road to the establishment of Scotland's new parliament.

Unique subject guide to over 20,000 Scots words.

100 short essays offer an opportunity to penetrate behind the statistical surveys and explore the rich complexity of changing identity from a varied range of opinion.

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the concept of prperty, taking into account current debates about gender, slavery and colonialism, and introducing property as a contested concept in debates between thinkers, across ideologies and in political practice.

The Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind presents an original and compelling new model of 'the postmodern mind'

This multi-genre anthology brings together a wide selection of women's published writing from the Early Modern period.

This book represents a major step towards a truly holistic landscape history.

This book addresses the theme of global sustainable development across two dimensions.

Basing his work strongly on documentary and archaeological sources, Alfred Smyth covers traditional topics in a thoroughly unconventional manner.

This textbook offers students an interdisciplinary and theoretically informed understanding of the cultural processes of Americanisation.

These three volumes comprise a new history of Scotland's first parliament from the first surviving official records in the thirteenth century to its final dissolution in 1707.

This Reader is an important addition to the available literature; it offers an anthology of key texts across a broad range of themes by eight Existentialist philosophers: Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jose Ortega y Gasset, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Completes a trilogy that aims to revolutionise our understanding of what it is to be a human being without recourse to theology and supernatural explanations on the one hand or scientism and naturalistic explanations on the other.

This highly acclaimed survey provides a thoughtful and concise account of all aspects of Islam in history.

This book is about how we have treated nature in some of the most valued landscapes in Europe. Combining social and cultural history with ecology and geography, T.C. Smout has written an environmental history that is both profound and accessible.

This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French.