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This volume contains nine British Academy lectures delivered during 1991, and 19 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.

This collection of fifteen essays on biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts, language, and culture is dedicated to Professor Kevin James Cathcart. Contributions to the volume reflect Professor Cathcart's own philological focus and wide-ranging interests in the fields of biblical studies, Semitic philology, and the ancient Near East.

These decodable non-fiction titles provide extra practice for children learning to read. Topics include baboons, light and shadow. The clear design introduces children to non-fiction features including captions, labels and diagrams.

The volume offers the first-ever synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe.

Paul of Venice, who lived from 1369/72 to 1429, had a varied and successful career as a leader of his religious Order, as a diplomat for the Council of Venice, and as an academic. His most successful work was the Logica Parva , but his most substantial treatise was the Logica Magna .

The second of two Chichester volumes presenting Latin Acta, numbered 189 to 344, produced in the diocese during the second half of the 13th century. Bishops John Climping, Stephen Bersted and Gilbert of St Leofard are represented.

Part of text with translation from Paul of Venice's lengthy and elaborate work on logic, written in the 1390s.

Latin text edition of the 14th century product of the philsophers known as the Oxford Calculators - a sophisma being a paradoxical sentence which brings an abstract issue into focus.

Part of a series dedicated to the publication of major archaeological research, this volume continues the story of the late Dame Kathleen Kenyon's 1961-67 excavations of ancient Jerusalem. It describes the stratigraphy, architecture and objects recovered.

A critical edition of the charters from the great Hospitaller cartulary of 1442 that provides a wealth of evidence for the study of both the Hospitallers and Templars in the 12th to 14th centuries. Some 230 documents, indices and a substantial introduction.

People often refer to the 'United Nations' but without specifying which specific parts are responsible for success or failure. This book explores supportive the non-state actors that are essential players in developing global policies and norms, alongside the traditional categories of member states (first UN) and staff (second UN).

This book establishes a novel behavioural theory of economic development to illustrate that differences in human behaviour across cities and regions, both individually and collectively, are a significant deep-rooted cause of uneven development within and across nations.

Whites and Reds illuminates the ideas, controversies, political alliances, technologies, business practices, international networks, growers, vintners, connoisseurs, and consumers who shaped the history of wine in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union over more than two centuries.

Volume V of the definitive scholarly edition of the Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189.

This issue of History of Universities XXXIII/2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.

This book is about the reshaping of women's lives, loves and dreams. It tells the story of how expectations and emotional landscapes have shifted since 1950, when marriage was a major determinant of female life chances and teenage girls dreamed of Mr Right and happy endings.

A critical edition of John Fisher's Treatise on the Penitential Psalms, sermons delivered in 1507-1508 to the household of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of King Henry VII.

Volume IV of the definitive scholarly edition of the Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189.

Volume III of the definitive scholarly edition of the Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189.

Volume II of the definitive scholarly edition of the Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189.

Volume I of the definitive scholarly edition of the Letters and Charters of Henry II, King of England 1154-1189.

A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.

This volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes - compounds consisting of a main verb and a quasi-auxiliary - in Asian languages. Leading specialists offer an in-depth analysis of the diachrony and geographical distribution of these constructions in a wide range of Asian languages.

Everybody worries and that's OK. A fun way of exploring and coping with worries.

Coral reefs are among the most biodiverse of ecosystems. Here, Charles Sheppard tells the fascinating story of how and where coral reefs are formed and the variety of marine life they support. He highlights the severe threats they face due to climate change, pollution, and over-exploitation, and the ongoing conservation efforts to save them.