Max Boyle was hoping for a quiet life after the rough-and-tumble of World War II, but "my life with Professor Stubbs had been nothing more than one damned murder after another, and even in between murders I'd had no peace." As the professor/amateur detective's assistant, Max is inevitably drawn into[...]

Professor Leibera s exuberant but incisive book illuminates the inquirya s beginnings in Plato, in the physiology and psychology of Descartes, in the formal work of Russell and Godel, and in Wittgensteina s critique of folk psychology.[...]

Victorian demons provides the first extensive exploration of largely middle-class masculinities in crisis at the fin de siecle. It analyses how ostensibly controlling models of masculinity became demonised in a variety of literary and medical contexts, revealing the period to be much more ideologica[...]

Although curriculum is central to the schooling process, debates about it are rarely well informed. Over the past ten years there has been a dearth of books that have informed the debate by examining curriculum in a broader context, beyond the National Curriculum. Ross, in this refreshing re-examina[...]

Having true international appeal, James Baldwin was as well known in Istanbul and Paris as he was in Harlem. His reputation was made on incendiary and eloquent essays written and published to mass acclaim in the late 1950s and early 1960s as well as a trio of early novels dealing with racism, sexual[...]

Hailed as "the indispensable critic" by "The New York Review of Books, "Harold Bloom delivers a definitive yet personal book on the American writers who created our national literature. Focusing on twelve writers whose works make up what Bloom calls the American Sublime--Walt Whitman, Herman Melvill[...]

"Going Lean" sets aside the notion that efficient operations and powerful innovations are only possible when business is steady and demand is growing. Instead, companies must learn that sudden shifts or unpredictable conditions need not undermine their results. Led by a new breed of companies -Toyot[...]