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Written in a colloquial style, this book is designed for the general reader, exploring seventeenth-century cultural history through the lens of Pullman's trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. It discusses Renaissance language, literature, science, and religion as well as seventeenth-century hieroglyphics and atomic physics.

Nâzim Hikmet is Turkey's best-known poet and one of their most recognizable historical figures. James H. Meyer situates Nâzim's fascinating international life story within the context of his border-crossing generation of Turkish communist contemporaries, addressing changing attitudes in the 20th century toward borders and the people who cross them.

At a time when the Battle of Hastings and Magna Carta have become common currency in political debate, this study of the role played by the Norman Conquest in English history between the eleventh and the seventeenth centuries is both timely and relevant.

Some of the most exciting, and innovative, legal scholarship over the past few decades has been driven by historical curiosity. This Handbook offers a fascinating compendium of methodological studies from the field of legal history.

The Second Edition of the Oxford Handbook of Diabetes Nursing serves as an update for contemporaneous, holistic and gold standards of care in diabetes. Written by experienced diabetes practitioners, the focus is on diabetes care across all settings to include primary, community and inpatient diabetes care.

The first comprehensive history of 'English' as an academic discipline in Britain, covering the development of the subject from its late-eighteenth-century beginnings up to the 1960s.

This book draws on the author's research on Deliberative Polling to chart a unique path to fixing democracy's many problems. It suggests empowering democratic reform that would strengthen rather than replace our current institutions.