This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece and Rome. There was no movement for abolition in these societies, nor a vigorous debate, such as occurred in antebellum America, but this does not imply that slavery was accepted without question. Dr Garns[...]

As technologies for electronic texts develop into ever more sophisticated engines for capturing different kinds of information, radical changes are underway in the way we write, transmit and read texts. In this thought-provoking work, Peter Shillingsburg considers the potentials and pitfalls, the en[...]

Culled from the pages of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, one of the most popular Star Wars magazines in the field today, comes this exciting new short-story collection. Here are stories from such award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors as Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole and Kathy T[...]

Every 25,000 years our Solar System completes one orbit around Alcione, the central sun of the Pleiades, a constellation at a distance of approximately 400 light years from our Sun. In 1961 science discovered a photon belt which encircles the Pleiades at a right angle to its orbital planes. Our Sun,[...]

Compiled by the great Russian novelist and once banned by Lenin, this classic daybook features inspirational and moral wisdom from the world's most sacred texts, as well as the works of Cicero, Rousseau, Emerson, Gogol, and other great thinkers. 30,000 first printing.[...]

In this beautifully realized study, Peter Schfer investigates the origins of a female manifestation of God in Jewish mysticism. The search itself is a fascinating exploration of the idea of a feminine divinity. And Schfer's surprising but persuasive conclusions yield deeper understanding of the comp[...]

In this fascinating study, Peter Vergo revels how music and painting drew on each other for inspiration and stimulation during the emergence and development of modernism.[...]

Delta bluesmen, a peanut vendor, a matinee cowboy, a professional wrestler, a manic deejay - these were the intersections where cultures collided in Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1950s. It Came from Memphis documents through firsthand accounts how an audience of white teenagers, caught in the middle of[...]

This new textbook provides a concise but comprehensive guide to quantitative research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students in all of the social sciences, as well as established researchers. Presented in an interesting and original way, it offers all you need to know about social surve[...]