This carefully--structured reader presents a survey of the whole body of Williamsa existing work, providing existing readers with a new perspective on his writings, and new readers with the opportunity to explore his ideas in depth.[...]

A century after Queen Victoria's death, debate still rages surrounding her relationship with her gillie, John Brown. Were they ever married? What was the extraordinary hold he had over her? This biography aims to shed new light on these questions and to discover the truth behind Brown's hold on his [...]

Criminological theory texts typically follow a conventional format. Diverse writings are neatly packaged into schools of thought, which are given clear labels and conveyed a chapter at a time, with topics like control theory in one chapter and strain theory in another. The Oxford Handbook of Crimin[...]

Achieve success in your physics course by making the most of what Physics For Scientists And Engineers has to offer. From a host of in-text features to a range of outstanding technology resources, you'll have everything you need to understand the natural forces and principles of physics. Throughout [...]

Achieve success in your physics course by making the most of what Physics for Scientists and Engineers has to offer. From a host of in-text features to a range of outstanding technology resources, you'll have everything you need to understand the natural forces and principles of physics. Throughout [...]

Pivotal to the transformation of higher education in the 21st Century is the nature of pedagogy and its role in advancing the aims of various stakeholders. This book brings together pre-eminent scholars from Australia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and the USA to critically assess teaching and le[...]

Gaining a Competitive Advantage. Human Resource Management Gaining a Competitive Advantage has been developed to teach students how to face and meet a variety of challenges within their organizations and how to gain a competitive advantage for their companies. This new Global Edition has been develo[...]

From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and the relationship between mathematics and music has fascinated generations. This collection of illustrated papers presents the link between these two subjects in a manner that is suitable for students of both subjects, as well a[...]

This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controve[...]

On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both fro[...]