The Secret Agent (1907) is a compelling tale of espionage and terrorism set in Edwardian London. This new edition is based on a painstaking comparison of the original manuscript of the work.[...]

The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad offers a wide-ranging introduction to the fiction of Joseph Conrad, one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Through a series of essays by leading Conrad scholars aimed at both students and the general reader, the volume stimulates an i[...]

Joseph Conrad is one of the most intriguing and important modernist novelists. His writing continues to preoccupy twenty-first-century readers. This introduction by a leading scholar is aimed at students coming to Conrad's work for the first time. The rise of postcolonial studies has inspired intere[...]

Resource Economics, first published in 2010, is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts (Chapter 1), shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve simple dynamic allocation pro[...]

Ian Watt (1917?1999) has long been acknowledged as one of the finest of post-War literary critics. The Rise of the Novel (1957) is still the landmark account of the way in which realist fiction developed in the eighteenth century and Watt?s work on Conrad has been enormously influential. Conrad in t[...]

Resource Economics, first published in 2010, is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts (Chapter 1), shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve simple dynamic allocation pro[...]

The goal of strategic organizational communication has been to provide a unified description of the incredibly diverse array of ideas that make up the rapidly expanding field of organizational communication.[...]

Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf, as chief of the Austro-Hungarian general staff, was the foremost proponent of preventive war as the means of solving both the foreign and domestic problems of the multinational Habsburg Monarchy in one grand action. The combination of Conrad's insistence on war and Serbi[...]

First published in 1991, Gavin Young's hugely acclaimed "In Search of Conrad" was joint winner of the 1992 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. 'Part mariner's log and part detective story, ["In Search of Conrad"] brilliantly evokes the Far Eastern landscapes fixed forever in our imaginations by Conrad's [...]

* Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English * Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact * Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text * Uses over 3000 examples of real, corpus English to illu[...]

The most supportive, easy-to-use and focussed literature guides to help your students understand the texts they are studying at GCSE and A Level[...]

Prisons Will Not Protect You takes a critical stance against the prison industrial complex and the systems of inequality and violence perpetuated by hate crime legislation. This archival anthology introduces the history of this legislative solution and interrogates the gay community's unquestioned l[...]