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Novelist, religious convert, political poet and sometime Jacobite spy, Barker wrote prolifically on a remarkable variety of subjects. "A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies" (1723) and "The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen" (1726) achieved immense popularity upon first appearance.

Rachel Speght (1597-?) was the first Englishwoman to identify herself as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This study discusses both her tract, "A Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617) and her volume of poetry, "Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed" (1612).

This volume continues the examination of issues of life and death which F.M. Kamm began in 'Morality, Mortality,' Volume I (1993). Kamm continues her development of a non-consequentialist ethical theory and its application to practical ethical problems.

The relation between history and memory has become an object of increasing attention among historians and literary critics. Through a team of leading scholars, this volume offers a complex picture of the dynamic ways in which an African-American historical identity constantly invents and transmits itself in books, art, performance, and oral documents.

In this study of rescue homes for women in the American West, Pascoe explores the relationships between women reformers and their male opponents, and between the reformers and the women they sought to reform, raising provocative questions about historians' understanding of the dynamics of social feminism, social control and intercultural relations.

Using the Principles and Parameters framework, Henry analyses various syntactic constructions in Belfast English, and compares them with their Standard English counterparts to gain insight into both English syntax and general syntactic theory. The study will also make linguistic data on Belfast English readily available for the first time.

One of America's foremost experimental biologists comments on issues of science, technology, society, philosophy and the arts in a series of light essays aimed at the general reader.

This volume collects together Simon Blackburn's influential essays on `quasi-realism', a position he first introduced in 1980 and which has become a distinctive and much discussed option in metaphysics and ethics.

The authors chart the early developmental stages in children's growing awareness and understanding of mind. More than 12,000 conversations by children between the ages of one and a half and six have been recorded, allowing a comprehensive picture of the first and crucial steps in development of a theory of mind.

This book proposes an innovative theory of measurement - Population-Guided Estimation - that connects natural, psychological, and social scientific inquiry.

Using Philadelphia as a case study, this title explores the history of day care from the perspective of families who used it, tracing day care's transformation from a charity for poor single mothers in the early 20th century to a culturally accepted social need for ordinary families - and a potential responsibility of government - by the 1950s.

Phillip Cary argues that Augustine invented the concept of the self as a private inner space - a space into which one can enter and in which one can find God. This study pinpoints what was new about his philosophy of inwardness and situates it within a narrative of his intellectual development and relationship to the Platonist tradition.

This ethical study examines the concepts of quality and inequality and addresses the question: how can we judge between different types of inequality? The author examines inequality as applied to individuals and groups, and the standard measures in inequality employed by economists and others.

Offering a new economic perspective to organizational studies, this work shows that decision-makers in firms respond to economic factors that affect both the structure of the individual firm and the structure of the industry within which the organization operates.

James Russell traces the the early interaction of Mediterranean Christianity with Northern European culture, and takes a close look at the ways in which Christianity changed in order to win the allegiance of the Germanic and Anglo-Saxon peoples.

Lachmann offers a new explanation for the origins of nation-states and capitalist markets in early modern Europe. Comparing European regions and cities from the 12th to the 18th centuries, he shows how conflict among elites made the winners become capitalists to defend their privileges from rivals.

The first biography of David from a purely historical perspective reveals not a hero but a holy terrorist and a ruthless despot.

This study aims to uncover the political significance of black women's domestic fiction in the post-Reconstruction period. The author's cultural analysis draws upon a range of texts including works by Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, Katherine Tillman and Zora Neale.

A treatise which defines a new theory on the nature and value of privacy, centred on the concept of intimacy.

Bloomfield presents a clear and accessible argument in favour of moral realism- the theory that moral values exist independently. Bloomfield develops an ontology for morality that models the property of being morally good on the property of being physically healthy.

In this text, John L. Esposito clearly and carefully explains the teachings of Islam - the Quran, the example of the Prophet, Islamic law - about jihad or holy war, the use of violence and terrorism. He chronicles the rise of extremist groups and examines their frightening worldview and tactics.

This work aims to provide a complete theory of the emotional processes, explaining how different emotions are elicited and expressed, and how the emotional range of individuals develops over their lifetime.

This study explores the broad influence of computers and television on the evolution of the American legal process. The author asserts that the electronic media have an increasingly powerful impact on all facets of American law - its methods, values and societal role.

A ground-breaking extended essay, presenting an evolutionary biological perspective to human infectious disease.

From images of the 19th- and 20th-century stereotypical Jew in literature, this book goes on to explore the unexpected parallels and ironic reversals between a cultural dispensation that had ambivalent responses to Jews and Jews who became exponents of that very tradition.

A people-centred book designed to aid singers and voice teachers to discover and decipher the innovative repertoire of the 20th century, this title familiarizes the reader with new notation systems employed by some contemporary composers and suggests rehearsal techniques and vocal exercises that should help singers prepare to tackle the repertoire.

This text looks at the unique tradition of Okinawa, where women lead the official mainstream religion of the society. It explores the intersection between religion and gender. The author sees the absence of male dominance as part of a broader absence of hierarchical ideologies.

These essays analyse strategies that have been used to influence tobacco use, e.g. taxation, regulation of advertising, regulation of indoor smoking, control of youth access to cigarettes and more, and sets them against scientific findings about tobacco and the changing cultural and political setting against which policy decisions are being made.