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This highly original synthesis is a clear and stimulating assessment of nineteenth-century British women. In so doing, it presents a positive but nuanced interpretation of women's roles within their own families and communities, as well as stressing women's enormous contribution to the making of contemporary British culture and society.

All arts and sciences, in their own way, ultimately try to come to grips with reality. Over the decades spanned by John Hick's life, in the course of this grappling (reminiscent of Jacob's nocturnal encounter with the angel) philosophy became analytic, theology dialogical and religion comparative along one line of development.

Steven Davis uses a sample of 25 effective leaders drawn from a wide historical universe to determine that the paradigm of effective leadership consists of strong direction, acute sensitivity to followers' needs and sustained energy in pursuing this direction.

Marriage features to a greater or lesser extent in virtually every play Shakespeare wrote - as the festive end of comedy, as the link across the cycles of the history plays, as a marker of the difference between his own society and that depicted in the Roman plays, and, all too often, as the starting-point for the tragedies.

'Green-Revolution' technologies have transformed the countryside of many less developed countries. It provides an integrated view of the effects of 'Green Revolution' technologies on economic growth and returns, distribution of income and resources, stability of agricultural production and returns and their sustainability in Bangladesh.

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are increasingly recognised as playing a significant role in the health sector in developing countries.

In the Early Modern period, massive emigration, along with political contention between the Court and the City, reshaped London's social topography and human landscape.

Ebenezer Howard is recognised as a pioneer of town planning throughout the industrialised world; This is the first comprehensive study of Howard's theories, which the author traces back to their origins in English puritan dissent and forward to Howard's attempt to build his new society in microcosm at Letchworth and Welwyn.

This book provides a description as well as a critique of these various Jewish religious groups and offers an alternative model of Judaism based on an assessment of the nature of contemporary Jewish life.

The novel of adultery is a nineteenth-century form about the experience of women, produced almost exclusively by men. The opening chapter defines the terms 'adultery' and 'novel of adultery', and discusses how the form arose in Continental Europe, but failed to appear in Britain.

This book is a seminal contribution to decision making theory through its study of management decision making in six Beijing state enterprises during the period 1985 to 1989, when the government adopted decentralization as the key to reforming state industries.

There have been several biographies of George Eliot but this is the first study to focus on her intellectual development.

The New European Security Disorder presents a clear and comprehensive overview of the main actors, institutions and changes in European security since the end of the Cold War.

The scholars provide an overview as well as their insights of how NAFTA impacts on macroeconomic issues, national perspectives and bilateral issues, cross-border and industry-specific issues and the environment.

In a wide-ranging and compelling account of the life of metrical and free verse in the twentieth century, poet and critic Jon Silkin deepens our understanding of the way poetry works on us.

Providing an introduction to major topics in macroeconomic theory, this book offers the reader three keys for comparing different models. The first key is a mathematical reformulation of Say's Law. The second and third keys deal with the circulation of money and the labour market respectively.

This book takes a fresh look at two of the most controversial topics in Hobbes's philosophy: morality and sovereignty. The author defends the moral theory through an examination of the various alternatives, and the theory of sovereignty by testing it against historical experience.

The book investigates issues of policy design in open economies. One of the substantive contributions of the research is that policy evaluation should take into account, among other things, the implications of different rules for foreign wealth and the exchange rate.

The barriers erected by patriarchal, racist, classist and homophobic knowledge between mothers and daughters are explored. Women's writing is used to explore the existing and potential connection and cooperation between mothers and daughters, emphasising the importance of social context for an understanding of mother-daughter relationships.

During the 1980s, poverty became a major issue of debate in the countries of the E.C. It then brings together the latest evidence on the changing patterns of poverty in the Community countries during the 1970s and 1980s and concludes by examining the likely effects on poverty of the Single European Market.

In this study, Erik Levi explores the ambiguous relationship between music and politics during one of the darkest periods of recent cultural history. Utilizing material drawn from contemporary documents, journals and newspapers, he traces the place of music in the Third Reich.

First published in 1968, this standard text on Italian nineteenth-century history is reissued, with a new preface, in hardcover and paperback, to meet a continuing demand.

Nietzsche's work has greatly influenced twentieth-century ideas and culture, but four European writers may be regarded as particularly 'Nietzschean'. Keith May discusses parallels between Nietzsche and these four authors, emphasizing order of rank in Yeats;

Far from being social, orthodox or merely anecdotal, modern Arabic fiction is in fact significant and radical in the world context of modern fiction, as this book shows. It includes an introduction to and critique of the short story as well as a selection of Arabic short stories, chosen and translated by the author.

'Pheby's volume is especially to be welcomed as a clear and critical introduction to a large, complex and confusing methodological literature...It is recommended for all students of economics however experienced.

Since World War II, the United States has done much to support economic, political, and social development in the Third World.

The book '... should be assured of the attention of the many on both sides of the Atlantic who are fascinated by this subject.' John Hick