Based on careful study of the Greek text and informed by the best modern scholarship, the second edition of this highly acclaimed translation offers the most faithful English version ever published of "On Rhetoric". Updated in light of recent scholarship, the new edition features a revised introduct[...]

The first dictionary of its kind available in New Zealand and the only dictionary any New Zealander will ever need. With over 100,000 definitions, including over 12,000 New Zealand entries and a wide range of encyclopedic information, it is the most extensive, authorative, and accessible dictionary [...]

Our understanding of the physical universe underwent a revolution in the early twentieth century - evolving from the classical physics of Newton, Galileo, and Maxwell to the modern physics of relativity and quantum mechanics. The dominant figure in this revolutionary change was Albert Einstein. In a[...]

Single-Case Designs for Educational Research provides up-to-date, in-depth information about the use of single-case experimental designs in educational research across a range of educational settings and students. Each chapter reviews state-of-the-art content in a writing style that is accessible to[...]

Offers readers and aspiring writers everything they need to know about the complexities of researching, writing and publishing fiction. This book ends with the transcript of the author's celebrated one-person show about writing and language that she has performed round the world to huge acclaim.[...]

Mitchell provides students with a comprehensive introduction to Kennedy's work, placing her fiction and non-fiction in a clear historical and theoretical context. Its importance is considered in terms of contemporary Scottish identity and relevance to key issues in contemporary culture and theory. I[...]

British children were mobilised for total war in 1914-18. It dominated their school experience and they enjoyed it as a source of entertainment. Their support was believed to be vital for Britain's present and future but their participation was motivated by a desire to remain connected to their abse[...]

Illness was ubiquitous in early modern society. Health was constantly threatened and medicine often proved powerless. Based on his analysis of contemporary autobiographical writing, of thousands of letters which the sick and their relatives sent to physicians of the time and of a wide range of other[...]

The first, pioneering edition of Global Sociology put global issues at the heart if the sociological discussion. A lot has changed in the world since then: recessions and revolutions, social media and new migration networks have developed as causes and symptoms of an increasingly global society. Thi[...]