Both the English Civil War and the French Revolution produced in England an outpouring of literature reflecting intense belief in the arrival of a better world, and new philosophies of the relationship between mind, language and cosmos. Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism is the first book to[...]

In Paradise Lost (1667), Milton produced the most magnificent poetic account ever written of the biblical Fall of man. In this wide-ranging study, William Poole presents a comprehensive analysis of the origin, evolution, and contemporary discussion of the Fall, and the way seventeenth-century author[...]

In Milton and the Ends of Time, a team of leading international scholars addresses Milton's treatment of millennial and apocalyptic ideas, topics of major importance in the religious and philosophical thought of his day. The subject has wide-ranging ramifications for the interpretation of Milton's p[...]

Few early modern poets engaged more fully with their historical circumstances than John Milton. A pamphleteer, government employee, and writer of occasional verse, Milton did not retreat from public life even after his political hopes were dashed by the Restoration. This volume investigates the vari[...]

An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton?s work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting i[...]

This book proposes and tests a theory of motivated political reasoning: when citizens think about political leaders, groups, and issues, their prior feelings spontaneously bias how information is encoded, retrieved, evaluated, and acted upon.[...]

The long-awited, first OFFICIAL guide to the online gaming sensation, Minecraft
You're alone in a mysterious new world, full of hidden dangers. You have only minutes to find food and shelter before darkness falls and the monsters come looking for you. What do you do?This official handbook might [...]

Revised edition with the most up to date stats, info, and sixteen pages of brand-new material
Updated versions of Minecraft's four bestselling handbooks are available in a stunning, gold-foiled boxed set This ultimate collection includes the Essential Handbook, Redstone Handbook, Combat Handb[...]

Gathers classic short stories by such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, and Anton Chekhov[...]

Today, interpreting data is a critical decision-making factor for businesses and organizations. If your job requires you to manage and analyze all kinds of data, turn to "Head First Data Analysis," where youll quickly learn how to collect and organize data, sort the distractions from the truth, find[...]