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 American Revolution and the Civil War bracket roughly eight decades of formative change in a republic created in 1776 by a gesture that was both rhetorical and performative. The subsequent construction of U.S. national identity influenced virtually all art forms, especially prose fiction, until[...]
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 [...]
This volume covers all 572 species of birds known to occur within the 7100 islands that make up the Philippines. Many are now endangered, due to high levels of habitat destruction. The book gives detailed information on plumage, voice, range, distribution, status and habitat.[...]
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[...]
Robert Dallek's masterful John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life was a number one national bestseller, and it remains the most widely read one-volume biography of the 35th President. Now, in this marvelous short biography of John F. Kennedy, Dallek achieves a miracle of compression, capturing in a sma[...]
Kennedy and Gioia's Literature features the authors' collective poetic voice which brings personal warmth and a human perspective to the discussion of literature from fables to poetweets, adding to students' interest in the readings[...]
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[...]
Deals with Bullfighting. This title unpeels the layers and explains the mechanics before dissecting them with surgical precision. It focuses on the fact that a man faces his death while a crowd looks on.[...]
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.[...]
Takes place on a railway platform, with a couple waiting for a train that never comes, and opens out into the husband's shocking admission of years of deceit, and a devastating portrait of a failed marriage, a failed man.[...]
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[...]
An eye-opening account timed for the 50th anniversary of JFK's "We choose to go to the moon" speech.
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[...]
Despite growing interest in the cultural industries and the iconic status of the web designer, surprisingly little academic attention has been paid to the work of people who make websites. This book fills that gap, offering a detailed analysis of the work practices and working conditions of web desi[...]
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[...]
This volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (1793-1815) were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland. These conflicts have been described as the first modern or 'total' war with far-reaching consequences for military and civilian society and th[...]
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[...]